Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-11-15

Ia such tip-top fun to tell them every
man must be his own savior" Ny
hearers think of the basest, meanest
thing that you ever heard OF, and then
90 down a thousand feet beneath that
and there you will find yourselves at the
head OF q stairs hundred miles long,
and having descended to the bottom oil
that stairs you will find ladder thou.
sand miles long; take that down TO its
foot and then look off precipice hall
as deep as from here to China, and you
will find the headquarters OF the mean
ness that would rob the world OF its
only hope OF Immortality. Slaughter q
young mans religious belief and there
Is not much more left to slaughter.
Where are those who have been
slaughtered9 MANY OF them are at
their fathers or mothers house. Bro.
ken down in health and morals, waiting
to die. Others in hospitals. Others are
in Greenwood, or rather their bodies
are, for their souls went into retribu-
ton. Not very brilliant prospects
In the Next World ,
| for Young men, who in this world had
good health to start with and good edu-
cation and good example set them and a
good opening before them, but who
put all their Jewels in one box and
dropped it into the sea.
Now, how shall this slaughter OF young
men be stopped? Young men, arm your
selves. My one object in this sermon
is to put a weapon in each OF your
hands for self defence. Don't wait for
| churches or Young Mems Christian
Associations to protect you. BY the
help OF God take care OF yourselves.
First have room somewhere. Wheth-
er in the back parlor OF fashionable
boardirg z house, or in the fourth story
Of cheap lodging l don't care. Make
that room one OF your fortresses. Let
no ditsipa' ed or unclean men cross that
| threshold. II such persons come to
| the door, tell them courteou sly
that it will be impossible for you
| to admit them. Hang few family pic
lures on your wall If you have them.
Put Bible on the stand. II you can
afford a musical instrument and can
play on one, have 1t there-harp or flute
or concertine or cornet or melOdeOn or
piano. Pray before YOU start of in the
morning. Pray when you come back at
night. Have
Few Choice Friends
better than yourself whom you can oc-
casionally invite to come there. Make
that room your Gibraltar, your Sebasto-
pol, your Mount Z:on. Let no bad book
or newspaper come in any more than
YOU would have cobra coiled under
81, 10 n al
will take care OF you, take care OF your.
self. Your help will not come up your
three or four flights OF stairs, but down
through the roof, down from Heaven,
down from the God who in the 5000
years of the worlds existence has never
betrayed a Young man trying to be good
and christian. As to your adverse
worldly circumstances remember you are
on level with most people who will
finally succeed Those who start at the
top are apt to go to the foot.
You Start at the Foot
and may 60 TO the top. Herschel made
his living by playing.a violin ut parties,
but in the interstices OF the playing he
went out to look at the heavens, the
fell on which he made his immortal
couQ uests. Quentin Matsys, as a hard
working blacksmith, sought the hand OF
a painters daughter, and was refused.
But, not dsheartened, he resolved to
excel as a painter and succeeded, and so
won the hand OF art and the hand OF the
painters daughter. George Stevenson
from being the foreman OF coliery came
to be the most famous OF the worlds en-.
gineers. Almost all those who died at
the top were born at the foot.
No Capital TO Start With.
Go to Mercantile Library and get
some books and read what a wonderful
mechanism you have in your right hand
and your loot ana your eye and your
ear, and then ask some doctor to take
YOU into dissecting room for the
illustration OF what you have
read ami never again be guilty OF the
blaspheIny OF saying yon have no capi-
tai TO start with. Equipped as no one
but the creator of the universe could af-
ford to equip you. But all this mechan-
ism OF the body squalid as compared
with your more wonderful soul. This
makes me the more s)lcitous. My anX.
iety is not because you have SO much to
risk and lose. There is no class OF peo-
pie that so excite my sympathy as the
yonng men IN great cities, not quite
enough salary 10 live on and all the
temptations that come from that deficit
Invited on all hands g. drink, while
their exhausted nervous system seems
to demand stimulants. Their religious
principles caricatured by most OF the
clerks in the store, or death operatives
in the the factory
The Rapids Of Temptation
sweeping against them at the rate oil III
miles an hour, and they in boat try
ing to head up stream, and only one
broken oar to work with. Unless AL
mighty God help them, they must all
20 under. When | said, Protect your
selves" proposed for You nothing So
weak as mere human resolution, which
NAV dissolve in the foam OF the wine
cup or be blown out in the first gust OF
temptation. But here are the helmet.
the shield. the sworl OF the Omnipotent
All offered. This moment clothe your.
self with that panoply. Sin pays nelth-
er in this world or the next, while right
thinking, right believing and right act
ing will take you in safety through this
life, and in prosperity through the next.
Last Sabbath at the close Of nv SER
mon | saw the gold watch OF the world
renowned and much lamented violinist,
Ole Bull. He died last summer in hs
island home off the coast Of Norway.
He wound up his watch day by day
during his illness, saying to his com.
panion: "I want 10 wind il as long rs
/ can, and then you wind it and keep 1t
going till il gets to my friend, DIR.
poremus. in New York, aud then he
must keep 1t wonnd mn till his lie is
done and the watch passes to his youig
son, my especial iavoriie."
Then the Great Musician,
who as no other artist, had so oil-n
made the violin speak and sing and
weep and laugh al d triumph for a. he
drew the bow across the strings 1t
seemed a, ii earth and heaven must
shv.r in delighted sympathy-that
man, in sight OF his instruments OF
music, and IN room looking off upon
the STA closed his eyes in death. While
all the world was mourning at his de-
psrture, sixteen crowded steamers
formed in line OF funeral procession TO
tlke his body to the mainland. Fifty
thousand OF ms countrymen were gatn-