Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-12-07
ABSALON

fathers heart. He wanted to get hi
fathers throne before the decease OF the
father. He wanted to get it Immediately
he got an army. He started out in
great insurrecrou. David, the father
sits at the Palace waiting for the news o.
the battle to come, not 30 anxious sbouI
whether Absalom's hosts won the day, or
whether his own hosts won the day, as he
is anxious about the safety Of his boy
The father in him mightier than the king
While he sits there watching and walt
lug for the coming of q messenger from
the battlefield he sees the dust rising 10
the highway, and long before the messen
ger comes up, bringing the swift dispatch.
David cries out to him: "Is Absslom alive
Is Absslom dead? Is the boy wounded
Tell me uuickly-is the young man Aoss-
lon safeY' But as the messenger had
no very decisive intelligence to
give, he stood aside. There David Sal
waiting for another messenger, after o
while he saw the dust rising on the high
way and long before the messenger had
come up, David shouted to him again
shouts to this one as he had to the other
Have you heard anything from my boy
Ia he wounded2 Is he sliveR Is he dead
Is the young man Absalon SafeT
Alas! He was not safe. Absslom nd
ing on q muls-the mesnest animal in all
the world on which to ride, the hardest al
the bit and the stiifest at the neck-Abss'
lom riding on a mule had gone under
tree branch and his hair had caught on
the tree branch; and the mule, true TO lie
characteristics, had gone on, he not able
TO stop it, and Absslom was suspended,
and so he died. With an awful negative
the words of my text were answered lis
the young man Absslon safeY No, he
was not safe. Destroyed for this life, de-
stroyed for the life to come.
want to utter q few words this morn
ing in regard to
tbs SAFETY OF YOUNG MEN,
indeed of all men. While men may gel
along tolerably well without the religion
| of Christ in some circumstances OF hte
there are three or four turning points
where q man must have God or perish, OF
if he does not come to such crisis as that,
to such an extreme as that, he must have
| God or make q mistake that will last for
ever. propose this morning to speak to
you of three or four of these turning points
in life.
The Grst turning point is the choics oi
an occupation or profession. 1t is q very
serious time when a young man comes
from school or the college, aud has com
pleted his education, or has received al
the education from the schools he will re
ceive, and says: But what shall l say
For what occupation. for what profession
am I prepared" Mechanics will spreac
before him hundred different occupations
Professional life will spread before hin
seven or eight esllings. Indeed, perhsp
in all there may be Eve hundred diffsren
cslliugs and occupations. For only on,
of those Eve hundred is he fitted aud pre-
pared. If he does not have divine drec
tion, four hundred and ninety-niue chances
10 one be will get IN the wrong business
In other words, the most tremendous crisi
in q mans lite, or one of the most tremen
dous, is the time when he chooses his occs
patton or profession, and he needs God +
tell him how to choose.
knew o nan who started in Commercial
life
VITA BRIGHT PROSPECTS.
he crossed over from commercial life int
the medical profession. He went fromtf
general msiical profession into speci6
surgery. he went from surgery into th
ministry. Then he passed from the minis
tr7 into surgery, and so his life has been {
complete vacillation. How much better
would have bsen if that man could have &c
the right profession or occupation Q
the startl He was particularly quali6s
for surgery, and believe if he had gon
before God aud asked for His direction b
would have received it, and instead of e
inV from one occupation to another, msH
,, ing his life mistake, he would have gor
on to great usefulness and success.
You ask your father what you had bestl
do. he will give one kind Of advice,
will advise you one style Of occupation {
profession. Your mother will give yc
other advice, your sister other advic
While you will be in doubt as to Nheth
. YOU have physical endurance for this.
mental acumen for that, or tact for son
Q other business. At such time one nee,
10 20 to God. God built your body, 81
|, I be knows what is your physical endurauc
God constructed your mind, and he kno'
for what occupation you have particul
u adaptation. Go to Him and ask the que
"a ton: Lord, what wilt thou have me to do
. meet many young men in this hou
this morning who have not perhaps, thC
+ oughly decided upon the work Of oecuE
of ton for which the Lord has fitted thel
n Before you leave the house to-day ask Cox
d direction, that you may make no mistaI
a Blunder here and you blander forey,
q You know 8 great many men who ha
a been ruined for two worlds because th
t got in the wrong business.
70 ASoTHER IMPORTANT PASS
in ones life, turning point in ones b
q tory, Is the time when he establishes
70 own home. When man builds bis hon
IN he builds for eternity. il ii not spaszi
70 that afaanaug in life Is so often nat
Y of merriment and Of joke, when it decd
ae % nush for this world and the world
u GOMEZ do net put the case too stronl
Y; when ! say that when Q man marries
ID nArriss for heaven or for hell Oh. bu
ne not your home on earth upon the spar
e; of bright eye or the Aolor Of o fair che<
20 The time VIII ooms in your history WI
- YOU vid want in your bone not pet OF
10, Ant heroine. and you will aud 1
Syn -naGs0s, hqt % .4smendC
Dr. reality; and coming homv 49, N -
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