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

the EugtS, Argus, cuh, Lfutob <'W's'e
Times and Void; and the debts will &C
cumulate till they get their goods on TIT
furniture cart on the S0th day OF Apr
next.
ICounsel Suoh People.
il they have anv respect for their con
venience, tp move sufficient distanc'
off. II, for instance, you live In Souti
Brooklyn. move to the Eastern Distric
or Greenpoint; or, ii you live in these
central parts oil Brooklyn, move to Jer
sey CITY or New York. 1t is such
pity that You should have no
only the trouble of consuming
the articles but the additional trouble
OF being dunned. II YOU recognise thi'
picture as your own photograph, though
YOU may be seated in church, really the
place for you is the penitentiaiy. Nc
wonder that so many Of our merchants
fail. They are swindled into bankrupt
cy by these wandering Arabs, these
nomads of city life. They cheat the gro
Ger who sells the green apples that make
them sick, and the doctor who attends
them in their distress, and the under
taker who fits them for departure from
the neighborhood where they owe every
body when they paid the debt oil ma
ture, the only debt they ever do pay.
Amid such a depraved system ol
morals our
Yourg Men are Starting Out,
and cry a warning. There are thou
sand things you cannot afford nov, but
be patient. industrious, and honest and
you can afford them after awhile. Ger
tain lines Of good conduct lead to GER
tiin success. Great laws control those
things which seem haphazard. 1t is
possible, have been told by those max
ing observation, to tell just how many
letters will be sent TO the dead letter
office from being wrongly addressed,
and Just how many letters will acci'
dentally be put into the postoifce with
out stamps, and lust how many people
will in any city slip and fall by treading
on orange peelings. There are no accl'
dents. The smallest event that ever
happened is the connecting link between
two eternities, the eternity OF the past
and the eternity of the future. Head
the right way and you will come out at
the right goal. Bring me a young man
OF thirty years OF age, tell me his physi-
cal health, his mental calibre and his
habits and / will tell you his destiny,
and in thousand cases | will not
make five inaccurate prophecies.
Realizing This,
want TO make you nervous about the
contraction OF unnecessary debts.
Young man. take a paragraph OF my
own experience. My first pastoral set
tlement was in a village. My salary was
$50 and parsonage. The sum seemed
to me enormous. What! all that in one
year. was afraid OF getting worldly
under the prosperity. First OF all re-
solved ID entertain the whole congrega-
tion in groups OF twenty five people and
we began. They were the best cOngre-
CATION in all the world and, feeling moth
ing was too good for them We crowded
the table with luxuriance. But We never
got through with the undertaking. BY
the end OF six months was in financial
despair. Instead OF a profusion OF lux.
uriance We had a struggle to get the ne.
cessities and learned what every young
man learns either in time to save him
self or too late, that you must measure
the SIZE of the man before you begin to
cut the cloth for his coat. Every year
multtudes OF
Young Men are Slaughtered,
slaughtered on the sharp edges OF debt.
When creditors 90 after man like a
pack OF hounds in full cry, alas for the
reindeer. They jingle his bell before lie
gets up in the morning They jingle his
bell after he has retired at night. They
meet him as he comes down his front
steps. They send him letter or postal
card in curtest style, telling lin to pay
up. They attach his goods. They want
the cash or note at thirty days or a
note on demand. They call him
a knave. They tell him he
lies. They want him disciplined at the
church. They want him turned out OF
the bank. They came at him from this
side and from that side, from before and
from behind, and from above and from
beneath. And he is chased and scolded
and sued and denounced and dunned
and sworn at and gibbetted till he gets
nervous dyspepsia, gets neuralgia, gets
heart disease. gets liver complaint, gets
convulsive disorder, gets consumption.
He is dead now and surely they will let
him alone. No. No, No.
HIS Creditors Watch
tha, there is no unne, eSsary expense at
his obseauies, whether there are any
useless handles on the casket, whether
il is lined with muslin or silk, whether
the shrowds are in superfluous plests,
whether the flowers on the casket were
bought by the family or donated, wheth-
er the hearse is cheap or cnstly, and In
whose name the deed OF the grave is
made out. Then they ransack the be-
reit home, the books, the pictures, the
chairs, the piano, the mattresses, the
carpets. Cursed be debt, For the sake
OF your happiness, Tor the sake OF your
good morals, iorthe sake OF your soul. Tor
Gods sake, keep out of debt.
But | think more young men are
slaughtered through irreligion. II you
can only get his religion away from the
Young man YOU can make him the prey
Of all evil. We all know that the Bible
is the only perfect system oil morals.
Now TO
Destroy that YOUNG Man
YOU must first get ms Bible away from
him. First try to laugh him out OF his
reverence for the Scriptures. Take all
those incidents of Scripture that can be
made mirth of-Jonah's whale, Sanp-
sons foxes. Adam extracted rid. Then
csr;catura eccentric or inconsistent
Christians. Then pass off upon him as
original with Yourself those hackneyed
arguments agains, Christianity which
are a. old as sin. Now he has surren-
dered the Bible. and YOU have taken the
strongest fertilization. The rest OF the
work is comparatively easy. All the
gates OF his soul are now open, inviting
all the sins of earth and the sorrows OF
eternal death TO come in and drive the
stakes for their encampment. A steam
er 800 miles from shore, with her iud-
der broken and the compass lost and
the hulk leaking 30 gallons the hour, Is
better off than young mans morals
after he has cut loose from his Bible
Have YOU noticed how despicable q
work it is TO
Take Away q Mans Reliz zion
without offering him substitute. III is
meaner business than to come to a
sick uan and steal his medicines. to q
blind man and steal his dog, to cripple
and steal bis crutches, to i pauper ana
steal his crust. To a poor man and burn
down his home. 1t is the basest OF all
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