Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-11-15
SLAUGHTERED.
Young Men of the Present Day, Behold
Your Destroyers.
Special 10 the Register.
NEw YORK, November IA.

SptClul W lic nc8Asicf.
NEw YORK, November IA.
The usual large congregation gathered
ut the BROOKLYN Tabernacle this morning
To hear the Rev DR.. Talmage preach one
of his most interesting sermons. The
opening hymn was:
"My soul be on thy guard,
len thousand foes arise.
The hosts OF sin are pressing hsrd
/ To draw thee from the skies.
The following is the sermon rerbdtim:
Subject: slaughter of Young Men,"
Text: Proverbs vii .2-"As an OK to the
slaughter"
There is nothing in the voice or man
ner OF the butcher to indicate TO the OK
that there is death ahead. The OK
thinks it is on the way to the pasture
field OF clover, where he will all day
reyel in the herbaceous luxuriances.
But after awhile group OF men and
boys close in around him, aud with
sticks aud stones and shouts drive him
through Il bars and into n door where
he Is tied, and with well aimed blow the
axe fells him, and so his expectation OF
the redolent pasture field is disappolnt-
ed. So many young man is driven on
BY temptation toward what he supposes
paradisica, enjoymeuts. But after
awhile influences Of darker hue and
swarthier arm close in about him for his
destruction, and he finds that instead OF
making an excursion in Il garden he
had been going as an OK to the slaughter.
When young men are ruined We are
apt to blame them when We ought more
yehemently TO blame their destroyer5.
Society 3 augnters
great many young men Win the pe-
hest: "YOu must keep up appearances.
IL makes no difference what Your salary
Is, YOU must dress IA well as Others,
give as costly entertainments, smoke as
expensive cigars. wine and brandy as
many friends, aud live in as fashionable
a boarding house. Ii YOU cannot do
tins on your salary borrow II, make q
wrong entry or take IN occasional bill
out oi the bundle Of bank bills. You
will be able To pay il some future
time. You will have to cover 1t up
only for q few months or year.
BY this process hundred
thousand young men have been saugh-
tered Suppose you borrow. There are
a thousand circumstances in which it is
right to borrow. There are few men
who have not some time been Obliged to
borrow money. The largest estates have
been built upon borrowed dollar. But
there are two kinds OF borrowed money
-money borrowed To start or keep up
legitimate enterprise, and money boz
rowed to get things that you may ds
without. The first kind is honorable,
The Second Blasting.
III you have money enough oi your
own to buy a plain yet respectable coat
and YOU borrow money for dandy 5
outfit, you are one revolution oi the
wheel on the down grade. To borrow
for the necessities NAV be well, to hoi-
row for the luxuries tips over your pros
poets the wrong way. The Bible says
the borrower is servant to the lender.
Ii is a bad sign when you 90 down some
other street u avoid meeting some man
10 whom YOU owe money. III young
men knew the despotism ot being IN
debt, more OF them would Keep out OF
it. What did it DO for Lord Bacon with
a mind towering above the centuries?
Reduced him TO take bribes and convict
himself before all the ages as criminal.
What did il do tor Walter Scott? Broke
his heart at Abbottsiord, and kept him
writing till his hand gave out in
paralysis Ia keep the sheritis away
from his pictures and statuary.
Better If in its highest sense he
had observed the words he had chlseled
over his kitchen fireplace at Abbp,ts.
ford: Waste not wan. not What
did it DO
For Roberts BurrsP
Put him To hard drinking and to begging
for pounds and sEillings To pay Tor a
volunteers uniform. What did 1t do Tor
Lord Byron and his mother? She died
i'm A ii, from rage at reading the upaol-
srerer's bills. William Pitt, able 10
manage the finances of Eagland, could
not manage his own and Was III constant
mortiica,ion, and after his death par
lament voted S2D0. .OOO to pay his debts,
although his annual salary had been at
least $4,000.
The trouble il that men DO not un.
derstand the ethics Of debt, and that 1t
Won borrow money or make purchases
with no prospects OF meeting your obli-
cations, YOU steal just that amount. III
I buy sugars and coffees and l:Ieats at
corner grocery with NJ possibility OF
compensation am more dishonest than
II I went i'm while the grocer was looS-
inc the other way i illed my pockets
With the groceries and ran oil with
ham. la the one case take his time
in waiting on me and the time of his
messenger in taking the articles to my
house.
I take none OF his time IN the purchase
and carry the things home myself, so
saving him the trouble. In other words
the sneak thief is not so bad as the con-
tractor of debts, which he knows he can
not pay. Yet it is vel. known fact
in our cities that there are
families who move every spring so as to
get into a new neighborhood, OF grocer
les, meat shops, and apothecaries. They
owe everything within quarter OF
mile around where they now live, and
they will next spring 20 clear over TO
another part Of the city so as to lind
new lot Of victims. For the next three
months after you, the honest family,
have moved into your new house there
will be knock every day ty some dis
appointed baker, or butcher, or dry
goods dealer, or paper carrier, to know
where your predecessor has gone You
don't know. Ii was so arranged that
YOU should not know. Meanwhile your
distinguished predecessor has begun his
rayases in another neighborhood. Al
The wagons OF people who have things
10 sell have called on the new neighbor,
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