St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-04-19

for the benefit of the young men. The
subject was: Joseph, the Tempted Prince,
or The Safeguards of Our Youth. Follow
ing is an extract:
Joseph is a wonderful character He
stands out in the earliest human history,
teaching us that man can be true to God
and TO himself in everyday life. Circum-
stances must not make US what we are: we
are to control our surroundings. No true
man ever lived who was not prosecuted; but
persecution, ridicule, storms, are Gods scav-
engers to purify the moral atmosphere of our
lives; they are the safety-valves of the moral
world. There is a divine compensation in all
life. If God permits the loss of mary ap-
parently needful things for your happiness
IL is only TO make you richer and enlarge your
possessions. If Joseph. for doing right, must
go 10 prison, God will make the prison a step
to the throne. Notice that everywhere .
Joseph's life we have proofs of a divine prov
idence over the good. You cannot account
for the Developments of the past, for the ex-
periences of the present, If you eliminate the
idea of Gods special supervision of his
children. In this we fnd an explanation for
many dark problems which otherwise are
enigmatical. BY this doctrine you silence a
thousand objections, destroy useless fears
and make bearable many strange
SORROWS AND BEREAvEMENTs.
Joseph was the object of family rebuffs, be
cause when only IL years old. he was inclined
life. This provoked the evil natures of his
brothers. Then, too, he was the favorite boy
Of the family. The petted boy is put in
danger of failing in life. In all this young
mans life we have important lessons, but
specially in the incident out of which this
text grows, when he rejects the blandiShme nts
of Potiphars' beautiful wife, and THE ground
of his rejection of her was that it was sin
against God.
The time comes when every young man is
thrown into the path of the tempter, and
when honor and dishonor will meet in deadly
conflict. 1t is your business. young men, 10
hedge yourselves up, and to determine TO be
at peace with virtue. In q thousand Sc
ductive forms will sin present itself TO you.
and all your principles and early teachings
will be severely taxed. We must all expect
TO be placed upon the scales, and our man
hood rises or falls just as we live. What.
then, is your hope of successfully resisting
the thousand evils which beset your daily
steps?
1T not to be wholly found in the teachings
of the cradle, however good and effective they
may be. Before the awful tide of sin which
sweeps in upon young mans soul, mothers
influence is powerless. You need only to look
about you to see that this is true Young
men are tempted TO believe that their parents
were too old-fashioned for these times-very
pious, but too strickland soon the teachings
of Sabbath schools, churches and homes are
relegated TO the dusty attic of WORKOUT faiths.
You need something else TO protect you from
this storm of evil which is about you. Your
friends, your relatives-society, the church.
your conscience, the law, cannot be your
safeguards. You must enthrone the over
mastering sense OF the terribleness of sin, OF
Gods relation to il, and of the fearful conse-
Quences connected with wrong-doing.
This is the only safeguard OF our youth
the sense Of Gods presence and salvation.