The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1883-04-26
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men IN every community. Think no
that you can touch it lightly and yet
not be harmed. Multitudes of yonno
men have reasoned that way. anG
have gone down into drunkard's :
grave. 0 "touch not, taste not, han.
die not" for there is no absolute safe
ty except in totally abstaining from
it. The man of the future will not
be the tippling young man of TODAY
for he is already by successive steps
selling out his manhood, and intem-
perance will ere long work ruin upon
his brightest prospects in life. TIE
coming man will not be he who is es-
corted along the streets to-day sup
ported by policeman, but rather he
who can stand alone and walk alone
through twenty-five years in all the
sobriety and i'll all the glory of the
manhood God gave him. Would Won
be the men Of the future, be not the
slaves of passion to-day. Let not ap-
petites throw their chains around YOU.
lest they chain down your manhood
in the dust forever. The coming man
will be he who appreciates the value
Of good habits.
Then last Of all, but best of all. the
man Of the future will be he who ap-
preciates the vaIue Of religion-not the
young man who is always trying to
live as far away from Christ as posi-
be only so that he may still be within
seeing distance of the cross. but the
young man who seeks to live in very
close contact with the Savior now.
to-day, in the years of his early man
hood, accounting it the highest accom-
pllshment of earth to be child of
God. No young man in society is
strong enough to save himself. He
must put his trust in one who is
mighty to save and strong to deliv-
er." Personal union with the worlds
Redeemer clothes early manhood with
a power and glory, which is itself
permanent pledge of future influence,
OF future greatness, and of eternal
life. The Christian religion is itself
the fountain of all good principles in
life, and when a young man gets
Christ in his heart as an indwelling
Savior, good principles and good hab-
Its that put glory upon manhood and
make life sublime, will flow forth
freely in his life, as living waters that
spring up from the we'll of salvation
within.
The man Of the future will be he
who appreciates the value of time, the
value of money, the value of good
principles, the value of good habits,
the value of religion.
With the religion of Jesus in his
heart to regulate his life, he is destined
to win place high in the estimation
OF the best circles of society in this
world and the next. o that we might |
all see the value Of religion more
clearly than we have eyer seen it-that |
we might all feel our need of Christ |
more keenly than we have ever felt it |
that with our hearts melted in ten
derness before God, we might in glad
ness hail the message of the gospel |
Behold what manner of love the |
Father hath bestowed upon us that |
we should be called the sons of God"
Twenty-Five years to come! and we are
wondering If all the young men of
this congregation will be men of the
gospel stamp-men whom society will
honor, men whom God will approve.
One hundred years to come! and we
are wondering if all the young men
before us, will meet in that upper
church, where saved manhood is worth
more than angelhood