The Indiana State sentinel., 1880-03-31

when he leaves home to make his fortune.
The novelty and the romance OF the thing
may keep him from any keen sorrow, but the
old people who have seen the destruction Of
so many who started with high hope, can
not help but be anxious. As long as he was
in his fathers house his waywardness was
kindly chided, and, although sometimes he
thought the restraint rather bitter and
rather severe, in his calmer moments
he acknowledged it was salutarv and
righteous. Through the influence of metro
politan friends the father has obtained situ-
alton for his son in the city. The comrades
of the young man come the night before his
departure to bid farewell to the adventUrer.
The morning of his going away he walks
around the place to take last look at things,
perhaps comes upon some object that starts
tear, some old familiar place, but no one
sees the tear. The trunk is put upon the
wagon, the young man is off for the city. He
is set down amid eXcitements and amid assO-
ciates who are not over careful about their
words and thoughts and actions Morning
comes. No family altar. Sabbath comes.
No rural quiet. The sanctuary comes, but
all the faces strange, and no one cares
whether he comes to church or does not come.
On his way home from the store he sees a
amusement. He has no greeting at the door
of the clearinghouse. He has no appetite
for the food. No one cares whether he eats
or does not eat-rather he would not eat; it
is cheaperl After the tea he goes into the
parlor, takes up a book, finds it dull
no sister to look over it with him;
goes up stairs to his room in third
story, finds it cold and uninvit-
ing and in despair he rushes ou., caring for
nothing but to get something to make him
stop thinking. He is caught in the first whirl
of sin. He has started out on the dark sea
where the CLEAN of joy is the flashing of
the pit, and the laughter is the creaikng of
the gate of the lost. OH how many graves
there are in the country churchyard which,
if they could speak, would tell ofyoung men
who went off with high hopes and came back
blasted and crushed to disgrace the sepulchre
of their fathers. And yet this exodus must
go on. As from distant hills the rivers are
poured down through tunnels to slake the
thirst of our great cities, so from distant
country places the streams of incorrupt pop
ulatiOn must pour down to purify our great
cities. Tomorrow morning on all the
thoroughfares, in every steamboat, and in
every rail-car will be young men going
forth to seek their fortune in our great
towns Lord, God of Daniel, help them
to be faithful in Babylon as they
were at Jerusalem. Forget not in the
great seaports the moral and religious
principles inculcated by parental solicitude
and if to-day, oh, my young friend, seated in
the house of God, you feel the advantage of
early Christian culture, forget not those to
whom you are most indebted, and pray God
that as old age comes upon them and the
shadow of death, the hope of Heaven may
beam through the darkness. God forbid that
any of us, through our misconduct, should
bring disgrace upon a fathers name, or prove
recreant to the love of a mother. The poet
made no exaggeration when he exclaimed:
Glow sharper than a serpents tooth it is TO have
a thsnkless childl'
Oil that Ged would help you as parents
and as young people to take to heart the les
sons of this important subject, and if we shall
learn that there is danger of being carried
into captivity, and that early impressions are
almost ineffaceable, and that there is some
thing beautiful in Christian sobriety, and
that there is great attractiveness in piety
away from home-then it will be to you and
TO me matter of everlasting congratulation
that'Daniel ever became college student at