Christopher Smith
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315 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Jul
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It is the winter months that ruin morally and forever many of our young men.
We sit in the house on a winter's night, and hear the storm raging on the outside, and imagine the helpless crafts driven on the coast, but if our ears were only good enough we could on any winter night hear the crash of a hundred moral shipwrecks.
Many who came last September to town by the first of March will have been blasted.
It only takes one winter to ruin a young man.
When the long winter evenings have come, many of our young men will improve them in forming a more intimate acquaintance with books, contracting higher social friendships, and strengthening and enobling their characters.
But not so with all
I will show you, before I get through, that at this season of the year temptations are especially rampant, and my counsel is look out how you spend your winter nights.
I remark, first that there is no season of the year in which vicious allurements are so active as
In warm weather places of dissipation win their tamest triumphs.
People do not feel like going in the hot nights of summer among the blazing gaslights or breathing the feet air of assemblages, and
The receipts of the grog shops in a December night are three times what they are in any night in July or August.
I doubt not there are larger audiences in the casinos in winter than in the summer weather.
Iniquity plies a more profitable trade.
December, January, and February are harvest months for the devil.
The playbills of the low entertainments then are more charming, the acting is more exquisite, the enthusiasm of the spectators more bewitching.
Many a young man who makes out to keep right the rest of the year capsizes now.
When he came to town in the autumn, his eye was bright, his cheek rosy, his step elastic.
But before spring, as you pass him, you will say to your friend, What is the matter with that young man?
The fact is that one winter of dissipation has done the work of ruin.
This is the season for parties, and if they are of the right kind, our social nature is improved and our spirits cheered up.
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