The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-10-13
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
A Discourse to Young Men About
20 Enter City Life.

lasn Careers OF Two Young Men-Through
adienrss and Dissipation to Death
by Industry to Wealth and
Honor-An Earnest Appeal.
Esv. r. Dewitt Talmage, in recent
harmon at the Brooklyn Tabernacle took
Jar his text:
Ponder the path OF thy feet.-lProv. tx. 90,
and preached the following sermon ON the
subject:
1.-TWO young men who came to live in
she city"
II was on Monday, September 20. at
depot. Two young men are to
rake the cars for the city. Father brought
them in a wagon with two tru'k ks. The
evening before at the old home was sad
sSne. The neighbors had gathered in to
sag good-by. Indeed, all the. Sunday af-
aeruson there had been strclling that
way from adjoining farms, for it was gen.
crafty known that the two boys the next
Me,udnG were going to tine city to live,
and the whole ueighborhood was inter.
s.sted .some hoping they would do we'll and
others, without saying anything, hoping
f'~aem city failure. Sitting on the fence
talking over the matter the neighbors
", old in'eiiard their conversation about
ta,e wheat crop Of last summer. and the
apple crop yet to be gathered. with re-
nsn,ks al out the city prospects Of Edward
aad Nicholas. for those were the names Of
the two young men-Edward seventeen,
and Nicholas nineteen; but Edward. al.
fhsuSl, two years younger. being q little
4siokv to learn. knew as much Is Nieho-
las. They were both brown-faced and
hearty, and had gone through all the cur.
vic~am Of hearty sports, by which muscle
is Developed and the chest filed out.
Landed in the city. they sought out
with considerable inquiry Of policemen on
street corners and questioning Of csr-driv-
ers 10 two commercial establishments to
weRioh they were destined, so far apart
that thereafter they seldom saw each
Other, for is astonishing how far apart
two persons can be in a large city, espe.
ci'.aiy II their habits are different. Prac-
dca1y hundred miles from Bowling
Green to Canal street, or from Atlantic
aveaue to fulton. tl- 30
Edward, being the youngest, We must
lcs,k sitter him first. He never was in SO
iarge a store in all his life. Such inter.
psiRs1bie shelves, such skillful imitation of
real men and women to display goods on,
such agility Of cash boys, such immense
xteok Of goods, and whole community Of
eMPaoyesf His head is confused as he
seems dropped like pebble in the great
sscesA of business life. t..
"Haye you ssen that greenhorn from the
ceunty" whispers young man to young
man- HE is in such and such depart.
invent. We will have to break him in some
night"
Edward stands at his new place all day
50 homesick that at any moment he could
have cried aloud il his pride had not sup
pressed every thing. Here and there q
s.ar be carelessly dashed of as though it
wsxe from influenza or cold in the head.
Bat some of you know how young man
sedas when set down In city of strangers,
Nsereafter to fight his own battles, and no
sns sear Ivy seeming to care whether he
Ewes Or dies. The center Of . desert, a
moAtA's journey to the first settlement, is
not much more solitary.
Bat that evening, as the hour for closing
has como, there are two or three young
,ven xho sidie up to Edward and ask him
hs~ he Hikes the city. and where he ex-
peoAn 70 go that night, and II he would
Ike them to show him the sights. He
II anks them, and says he shall have to
taks some evenings for unpacking
sld making arrangements. as he had
Just srrived. bat says that after awhile he
VII Be glad 10 accept their company. A.
tsr spending two or three evenings in his
bsarding -house room, walking up and
down, looking at the bare wall or an old
chrome hung there at the time that relig.
oss newspapers by such prizes advanced
their Subscription lists, and after an hour
SoViag with the match box and ever and
.anoa examining his watch to see II it Il
tfms to retire-and it seems that ter
.>'clock at night or even nine o'clock, will
never come--he resolves to accept the
chaperoning Of his new friends at the
store.
Tho following night they are all out to.
Sether. Although his salary is not arge
= he Il quite Hush with pocket money, which
~ old folks gave him after saving by fol
sssne time He can not be mean, and
eAsss friends are doing all this for hi
y,,easure, and 90 he pays the bills. At tn
door Of places Of enchantment his com
pArissrs can not end the change, and they
accidentally fall behind just as the ticke
dice is approached. or they say they
will make 1t all right, and will themselves
pay the next time. Edward, accustomed
70 farm life o. village life, is daxed and
-schanted with the glitter Of spectacular
ssn. PLATA and blunt iniquity Edwart
would have Immediately repulsed, but sir
ss.cuupanied By bswitching orchestra
,sn amid gilded pillars and gorgeous up
sesstsry; sin asrayed ia all the attrac'
sicns that tue powers Of darkness in com
Ssnation can arrange 10 magaetiss ,
young man, is very different from sin Il
sis toathsome and disgusting shape.
The same young men and Others Of {
growing acquaintance ever ready - %
.s,se< him. There 10 never any lack Of sucl
guidance. II msa wants TO 20 tho Who'll
~und Of sin, he can ind plent!
70 take him, . whole regiment VI
AAo~ the way. But after swhil
Bd~ard's money IA all gone. Hs hes -
.ueaved his salary again and again, bat
vas spent before hs got II, borrowing
At4le here and little there. Whst shsl
N do nows Why, he hes seen In ri
.,,unds of the gambling tahlea men Nh