New-York tribune., 1871-04-25
THE PERILS OF YOUNG MEN.

A LECTURE BY THE REV. T. DEWITT TALMAGE.
An audience completely filling Association
Hall assembled at the regular monthly meeting of the
Young Mems Christian Association, last evening Accord
ing TO the reports Of the Committees ia new associate
members have been admitted during the past month,
and 20 have presented themselves for election as active
members $50 applications for employment have been
received from young men, and II merchants applca-
tions clerks have been filled At the conclusion OF
this business, the Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage said
There is only one class of young men who are safe
without any effort on our part They arc the sour
salowfaced young men, Satan would not know what to
do with them il ne had them. He would be afraid OF
their distug his kingdom with him. 1t the generous
yonng men, the largehearted, social young men, who
are i'm peril II is the young men who are starting In
lie with a magnificent cargo of hopes that want.
The young who are empty OF heart and NE need no
somebody treats them. They will never gamble, save
with elses money They are too mean to go to
perdition unless somebody pays the way Tor Them
Tonight there are upon all our railroads young men
coming into this city to make II ther nome Mhat sa
be the influence cast around them Let US LOOK a some
of the temptations which meet young man as he steps
sReptc tue not the outandon inde but the generous
liberal skeptic perhaps in the person OF his employer
Fpani' 20 with US to Coney Island SUNDAY NO,
always 70 TO church on Sunday go 10 church 90 you;
been taught TO-" "You believe the whole OF II then
believe that Jonah swallowed the whale, or that the
credible because if Jonah had stayed in there so long
he would have been digested believe III the hght Oh
e..
first laugh of the skeptic ~
Another of temptations comes from dishonest or
loose employers. What hope is there LOT % OOy WHO
learns the that lie eXcusaDe ougnt
70 he hones-when it pays that IL Is WRONG 70 chea, a
sharply that he is finally promoted 10 Dc head cerk
One morning the employer comes TO the store anu Ihus
that the safe has been broken open HAS the mean r
been No. and he will be there again. lie has
acted no new principle-t was taught in the store
There il class Of young men in New-fork ana BROOK
yn who are called "drunmeTs." They have "a legll-
business-there is lawful way to transact IT, and
an unlawful way. There members OF this class VINO
merchants from the West aud the country round
about through all the dregs of the city, showing them
tie Sights" introducing them into the casinos and hells
OF vice. There is private drawer In the
store where money is kept TO pay tho ex-
penses ofhese excursions The proprietor is perhaps
ing while his clerk Ia al work What will be the result
OF this dissipation to the cerkf Some day he Will come
into the store ragged and drunk, and then he viii be
called "a disgrace TO the establishment" and VIII be
kicked out Young Of this Association stand around
these clerks! Encourage them to be honest, and III
honesty leads them want, put hands into your
pockets and help them. Many young man commences
his dissipation in fashionable clubhouse and ends In
damnaton at the Five Points.
Iu regard the eyangcZat0n OF this city, IL s evil
dent that the churches are not doing thls work Inc
largest audiences that assemble not In the Churches
IN the Christian Association but in the temples OF
sin. The fact is want this world saved elegantly or
won't save 10 at all. III Will dress well No can
sit IN our pew his hands clean, he can take hold OF
psalmb0O We very precise about how We save
Here Is man up to his neck In the mire OF sin,
We look at him. and say: Isn't IL too bad ats drendfB
TO him there wish had pry; wish had my Old
clothes on" While we arc talking practical member
OF the Christian Association along and pulls the
citation not as rival Of the Church, but its advance
luard,