The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-10-22

is that a man surrenders to sin when liz
could have all the Of almighti
ness at one beck of invitation and prayel
wheel to the front and fight the battle fol
him. What is annoying to me with the
young man is that lie surrenders-body
mind, soul, home, pedigree, time and cter
nifty, while yet Oh his side are all the pray.
ers of a Christian ancestry and all super.
nal forces cherubic, seraphic, atchangelic,
deific. There is a great deal of talk now
about the abdication of Alexander, of Bull
garia; but oh, what a paltry throne that
was for a king to descend as compared
with the abdieation which that young man,
or middle aged man, or old man makes
when he turns his back upon a throne of
heaven and a throne of glorious opportu-
nifty and tramps off into ignominy, and
everlasting exile. \ blind man cannot
reign on the throne of Persia, so that il the
reigning monarch has an ambitious friend
who is struggling for the throne he has his
eyes ~eXtinguishcd, for il is an established
law for all time in Persia that no blind
man can come to the crown. And that
suggests to me just the difference between
what sin does with a man and what divine
grace does with him. Sin blinds him to
Shut him off a throne. Divine grace illu-
mines him to prepare him for a coronation.
Why this sermon? Because / see so many
young men being destroyed by city life.
Every September and October there is a
large numbe: Of them coming to the cities.
Many of them have no idea as to wha they
are coming to, and among the vast multi
tude of young men in these cities | believe
New York and Brooklyn every year damn
at least a thousand. They are shoveled off
and ont with no more conjunction than a
coal HEAVIER scoops the anthracite into the
coal cellar. What with the wine cup and
the gamblers dice aud the scarlet enchan-
tress, without the grace of God a young
man is not safe ten minutes. There is a
great deal oftalk about which is the worst
city. Some say New York, some say Chi
cage, soine say st. Louis, some say New
Orleans. What | have 10 say is that you
cannot make much comparison between
the infinite. We have a great MILL of de-
struetion and it is running day and night.
1t is grinding its grist every hour. The
ground around a cider mill is not SO satu-
rated with the beverage as the ground
around this great soul destroying mil, is
saturated with the blood of victims. Ma
ehinery running day and night. Give ms a
chance and We could grind out 500 a day.
We have enough machinery and enough
men to run the machinery, and We say to
the villages and ~neighborloods of Long
Island Send on more men and women"
ami We say to Westchester and Ulster
counties and all the other counties of the
State of New York, '.Send on more men
and women Let them come down under
this grinding wheel, put them into the
hopper, the homesteads. the family Bibles.
the wardrobes; put them in. Grind ON and
grind OH. Give us more material for this
great mill, wet with tears and %sulpburous
with woe and trembling with the earth
quakcs Of an incensed God, which, if our
cities do not repent, will cover us up as
quick and as deep as in August, 70, Nesu-
yius ayalanched H~erculaneum.