Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-10-09
Be Guided by the Torch Of Divine Truth.

BROOKLYN, Sept. &c, 18S6.-After
expounding a passage of the scriptures
the Rev. Il. Dewitt Talmage, ID,
took for his text, Proverbs iv, 26:
Ponder the path of thy feet"
He preached the following sermon
on the subject of
1.-TWO YOUNG MEN WHO CAME TO LIVE
IN II CITY"
1t was Monday September 20, at a
country depot. Two young men are
to take the cars for the city. Father
brought them in a wagon with two
trunks. The evening before at the old
home was rather a sad time. The
%neighbors had gathered in to say good
bye. Indeed, all the Sunday after
noon there had been q strOlling that
way from adjoining farms, for it was
generally known that the two boys
the next morning were going to the
city TO live, and the whole n~eighbor-
hood was interested, some hoping they
would do well and others,
without saying anything, hop
ing for them a city failure.
Sitting on the fence talking over the
matter the neighbors would interlard
their conversation about the wheat
crop of last summer, and the apple
crop yet to be gathered, with remarks
about the city prospects of
EDWARD AND NICHOLAS,
for those were the names of the two
young men-Edward, seventeen, and
Nicholas, nineteen; but Edward, al
though two years younger, being a lit
tie quicker to learn, knew as much as
Nicholas. They were both brown
faced and hearty, and had gone through
all the curriculum of hearty sports, by
which muscle is developed and the
chest filled out.
Landed in the city they sought out
with considerable inquiry of policemen
on street corners and questioning of
car-drivers, the two commercial estab-
lishments to which they were destined,
so far apart hat thereafter they seldom
saw each other, for it is astonishing
how far apart two persons can be in a
large city, especially if their habits are
different. Practically a hundred miles
from Bowling Green to Canal street, or
from Atlantic avenue to Fulton.
Edward, being the youngest, we must
look after him first. He never was in
so large a store in all his life. Such
interminable shelves, such skillful imi-
tation of real men and ome to dis
play goods on, such agility of cash
boys, such an immense stock of goods,
and a whole community of employees.
His head is confused as he seems drop
ped like a pebble in the great ocean of
business life. Have You seen
THAT GREEN-HoRN
from the countryP" whispers young
man to young man. ''He is in such
and such a department. We will have
to break him in some night"
Edward stands at his new place all
day so homesick, that any moment he
could have cried aloud if his pride had
not suppressed everything. Here and
there "a tear he carelessly dashed off
rs though it were from influenza or a
cold in the head. But some Of you
know how a young man feels when set
down in = city Of strangers, thereafter
to fight his w battles, and no one
near by seeming TO care whether he
lives or dies. The center of a desert,
n months journey to the first settlement,
is not much more solitary.
But that evening IA the hour for
closing has come there are two or
three young men who sidle mp to Ed
ward and ask him how he likes the
city, and where he expects to 90 that
night, and if he would like them to
show him the sights. He thanks them
and says he will have to take some
evenings for unpacking and making
arrangements, AS he had just arrived.
but says that after a while 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 prizes
advanced their subscription lists, and