Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-10-07
YOUNG MEN In CITIES.
Or. TALMAGE breaches RE-.
GARDiNG TEMPTATIONS
TO BE MET.
A Typical Case Quoted and
Commented on at Length.
Shares Which Encircle the Lonesome
Youth in the Great Centers Resist
ance Becoming Feebler Uutil
the Fall Is Complete
Success Crowns Integrity Examples of
all Kinds to Be Found Ohrist's
Wounds the Only Guides.
Special 10 The Kansas Cuy Times,

Special 10 The Kansas City Times,
hymn at the Brooklyn tabernacle to-day be.
gins;
| Amazing grace-how sweet the sound
| That saved a wretch like me-
| ionce vas lost but am found;
| Was blind, but now / see
After expoundng passage Of the scrip
lures the Rev. 7. Dewitt Talmage, ID. D., took
for his text Proverbs w., 26I ponder the path
of thy feet" and preched the following ser
mon on the subject: 1.-TWO Young Men Who
| Came To Live in the Cityt''
II was Monday September 90 at a country
derot Two young men are to take the cars
Tor the city. Father brought them in a wagon
with two trunks. The evening before at the
| old home was rather sad time The neigh
oors had gathered in to say good-by. Indeed
all the Sunday afternoon there had been a
strollng that way from adjoining farms, for it
was generally known that the two boys were
| going to the city to live, and the whole neigh
borhood was interested, some hoping they
would do well and Others, without saying any
thing hoping for them city failure.
| LEAVING FOR A CITY LIFE.
Sitting on the fence talking over the matter
the neighbors would iuterard their converse
ton about the wheat crop of last summer, and
The apple crop yet to be gathered, with re-
marks about city prospects of Edward and
! Nicholas, for those were the names OF the two
| young men-Edward IL and Nicholas 10; but
Edward, although two years younger, being a
| little quicker to learn, knew as much as Mich
| olas. They were both brown-faced and
hearty, and had gone through all the curri-
| culum OF hearty sports by which muscle is
| developed and the chest flled out.
! Father and mother on Monday morning had
| both resolved to go to the depot with the boys,
but the mother at the last moment backed
out, and she said that somehow she felt quite
weak that morning, and had no appetite for
day or two, and so concluded to say goodbye
ht the front door of the old place. Where she
went and what she did after the wagon left
| leave other mothers to guess. The breakfast
| things stood almost till noon before they were
| cleared away. But little was said on the way
| 20 the railroad station. As the locomotive
whistle was heard coming around the curve
She father put out his hand-somcwhat knot
ted at the knucklcs and one Of the Joints
suhencd years ago by wound from scythe
and said: "Good-by, Edward; good bye
Nicholas! Take good care of yourselves and
write as soon as you get there, and let us
be anxious to hear"
THE ARRIVAL IL GOTHAM.
Landed in the city they sought out with
considerable inquiry Of policemen on street
corners and in questioning of car drivers the
commercial establishments to which they
Scre destined, 50 far apart that thereafter
hey seldom saw each other, for il is astonish-
ne how far apart two persons can be in a
isige city, especially if their habits are differ
cut Practically a hundred miles from Bowl
MS eileen to anal street, or from Atlantic
iyenuc to Fulton.
Edward, being the youngest we must look
aiter hun first. He never was in SO large
store III all his life. Such intermnable
shelves, such SkilIful limitations of real men
md women to display goods on, such agility
OF cash boys, such immense stocks Of goods
END whole community of employees. His
head Is confused as he seemed dropped like a
people IN the great ocean of business life
Have you seen that greenhorn from the
countryF whispered young man to young man.
"lle is in such and such a Department We
will 1--we to break him in some night" Ed
ward stands at his new place all day so home
sick that any moment he could have cried
Cud II his pride had not suppressed every
tnlng. Here and there tear he carelessly
Dashed on as though it were from influenza
o. cold in the head. But some of You know
how young man feels when set down in a
city OF strangers, thereafter to fight his own
tatties, and no one near by seeming to care
whether he lives or dies The center Of a
desert, a months journey to the first settle
ment Is not much more solitary
LED OFF INTO TEMPTATION.
But that evening as the hour for closing has
come there are two or three Young men who
sldle up to Edward and ask him how he likes
the city, and where he expects to go that
night, and If he would like them to show him
| the sights. He thanks them and says he shall
| have to take some evenings for unpacking and
making arrangements, as he had Just arrived
| but says that after awhile he will be glad to
accept their company. After spending two or
| three evenings in his boarding house room,
| walking up and down, looking at the bare wall
| or an old chrome hung there at the time that
religious newspapers by such prices advanced
their subscription lists, and after an hour toy
| ing with the match box and ev and anon ex-
aiming his watch to see If it Is time to retire
and it seems that 10 o'clock at night or even
. O'Clock will never come-he resolves to &C
| cept the chaperoning of his new friends at the
| store.
The following night they are all out 30
| gether. Although his salary Is not large he
| /: quite flush with pocket money, which the
Old folks gave him after saving by for some
| time He can not be mean and these friends
| are doing all for his pleasure and SO he pays
| the bills. At the door of places of enchant-
ment his companions can not find the change
and they accidentally fall behind just as the
| ticket office is approached, or they say they
will make it all right and will themselves pay
the next time Edward, accustomed to farm
| life, or village life, is dazed and enchanted
with the glitter of spectacular sin. Plain and
blunt iniquity Edward would have immediate
lie repulsed, but sin accompanied by bewitch-
ing orchestra sin amid gilded pillars and
gorgeous upholstery, sin arrayed In all the at
fractions that the powers of darkness in com
onatlon can arrange to magnetic young
man, is very different from sin in its loath-
some and disgusting shape
RESISTING THE FIRST IMPULSES.
But after few nights being very late out
he says: II must stop Ny purse won't stand
this. My health won't stand this My reputa-
ton won't stand this.n Indeed, one OF the
business firm one night from his private box
In which he applauded a play, in which atti-
tudes and phraseology occurred which II
taken or uttered in his own parlor would have
caused him to shoot or stab the actor on the
spot-from this high priced box sees in a
cheaper place the new clerk Of his store, and
is led to ask questions about his habits and
wonders how, on the salary the house pays
him, he can do as he does. Edward, to re-
cover his physical yigor and his finances
stopped while and spent a few more even
lngs examining the chrome on the wall and
counting the matches in the match box, or
goes down into the boarding house parlor to
Lear the gossip about the other boarders or a
discourse on the insufiiciencv of the table
fare considering the price paid-the criticism
severe in proportion as the fault finder pays
little or Is resolved 10 leave unccremoniously
and pay nothing at all.
"Confound it!n cried the Young man, II can
not stand this life any longer, and Unjust go
3ut anu see the world" The same young men
aud others Of now larger acquaintance are
'sadv TO escort him. There is never any
Nack Of such guidance. II man wants to 20
:he whole round of sin, he can find plenty TO
take him, whole regiment who know the
way
RESULTS OF RECKLESS LIVING.
But after awhile Edwards money Is all
gone. He has received his salary again and
again, but it was spent before he got 1t, Dor
rowing little here and little there. What
shall be do now. Why, he has seen in his
rounds OF the gambling tables men who put
down a dollar and took up ten, put down a
hundred and took up a thousand Why no:
he. To reconstruct his finances he takes a
hand and wins; is so pleased he takes another
hand and wins; is In frenzy OF delight and
Ghes another hand-and loses all
When he first came TO the city Edward wa.
disposed to keep Sunday in quetness, reading
little aud going occasionally TO hear a ser.
mon. Now Sunday is day Of carousal He
70 - full of intOxcants by IL o'clock In the day
he staggers into one Of the licensed rum holes
II the city.
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