Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-05-13
&eadiug fur the Sabbath.
CONDUCTED BY
REV. ROBERT LATHAM.
WHAT CAN A. YOUNG MAN DO?

What can young man do9 Do? He has
immense power for evil and for good. He can
ruin his health; he can debase his intellect; he
can murder his conscience-he can deaden and
destroy it.; he can deteriorate his moral taste
and his moral feelings; he can fill his mind
with gross and debasing imagery, and his
mouth with impurity and lust; he can become
sensual and disgusting in his habits; he can
lose the confidence of society; he can lose his
situation; he can be cast off upon the world as
a thingthat cannot be trusted; he can become
c>ntemptible; he can break his fathers heart;
he can make anguish come down like dark
cloud and press upon the brow Of his mother,
and upon the countenances of his sisters. A
young man can do all this-can act so that his
very friends shall never wish to hear his name,
and shall only secretly in their hearts follow
him with their anxieties and their prayers.
What can young man do? Do? He can
''cleanse his way according to Gods word.
He can seek to understand the Scriptures; to
love the Saviour; to love Gods word; to save
his soul alive. He can flee to the fountain of
reconciliation; he can become holy man; he
can be a virtuOus citizen; he may be the pride
of his family; he can take his young brothers
and lead them forward in life; he can extend
the influence of Christian pastor; he can be
his right hand in efforts to d0-goOd; he can
take an interest in all the great movements OF
the day; he can die ahappy man, with his chill
dren and his grandchildren around his bed;
and pass from the dissolution OF the tabernacle
upon earth, to an Inheritance on high. He
can do all that; young man can do it all.
Only let him "take heed to his way'' accord
ing to Gods word. Let him begin to medi-
tate upon this word as the rule of the divine
government; he will soon see the necessity of
that mediatorial andrestorative process which
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fountain opened for sin and uncleanness. ="
Let him then 60 on from time to time, putting
away everything that he feels to be wrong,
trying to conquer every bad babit, and to regu-
late his conduct by Gods word; and he will be
led to rejoice in the sanctifying Spirit, who
shall carry on this work. But it is no use pre-
tending to desire the pardon of sin and recon-
ciliatiOn by the blood of Christ, if you do not
put away every evil thing, and seek to "cleanse
your way'' according to Gods word. The two
things must advance together-the putting
away of everything practically wrong, and the
seeking after that truth which is according to
Gods Word
Pray to God daily and fervently for wisdom
and strength that you may resist all tempta-
ton, and that you may do all his will. He
promises to ''give his Holy Spirit to all them
that ask him. and he will give him to you.
Then may you confidently hope to live safe
and happy and useful life OH earth, and when
life is done, to receive from the hand of Christ
an unfading crown,
"Ahn' some one, perhaps, says "it is too
late! If had only known all this and acted
on it ten or twenty years ago.. T should have
been happy man; but my life has all been
wasted" Oh! do not despair. There is hope
| for you STILL The blood of the Lord Jesus
Christ can cleanse away your guilt, and his
Holy Spirit can renew even your heart; if you
will only 60 to him believing, he will not cast IS,
will save you, even ''to the uttermost. -
| CentrnL Christian AGrocate.