The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-09-29

BRooKLYE, sept 2J.-The opening hymn
a. the Brooklyn Tabernacle to-day begins.
Amazing 1rlee- hov sweet the sound
Ihat sav.ti a wretch like me-
ofse. ras Don. hFit now aul found.
Was llinH- elt Cow see.
Aftet esr9aadiag "a passage Of tie Scrip
tures iE ROY. Dewitt Talmage, d D..
took s. t-s- Proverbs iv, -: Ponder
The p1i IS ty feet, and preached the fol-
ioEi1 va tac subject; Two Young
Men ..n tauc - Live IN the City,
Is rs- Monday, Spt. -, at u country
dcp ESQ Young meu are 30 take the cars
(oi .e Father brought them in
WHO tv1 TRUNKS. The evening before
az o. ha.le was rather a sad time Tbs
u-i 'e bod r4thered IN 10 say good by
lI. s'l bee sunday afternoon there had
t@.h r-FaiEng that way from al Joining
iarsn p. r was generally known that the
two boy 'ln Er.t morning were going 10 tho
city 20 live and the whole neigbb0rhood was
interested some hoping they would do wei
and Others, without saying anything, hoping
Tor them "a city failure. Sitting on the fence
talking over the matter the uezhbors would
interlard their conversation about the
wheat crop OF last summer and the apple
crop yet 10 Do gathered, with remarks about
the city prospects Of Edward ard Nicholas.
Tor those were tho names Of the two young
men Edward II, and Nicholas, 10: but
Edward although two years younger, being
a little quicker 90 learn, knew as much as
Nicholas. They We're both brown faced and
hearty, and had gone through all the cur
uculum Of hearty sports, by which muscle IS
developed and the chest filed out
Father and msther on Monday morning
had both resolved to 20 to the depot with the
boys, but the mother 1t the last moment
ls~ptrlI rr4 al a..
felt quite weak that morning and had no aE,-
petite for a day OF two, and so concluded To
say good by 40 the front door Of tie old place.
Where she went and what She did after tho
wagon left 1 leave other mothers to guess.
The breakfast things stood almost till noon
before they were cleared awav But little
was snid On the way % the railroad station
AS the locomotive whistle was heard COMING.
aroHrd the curve the fatler put ont his
hand, ,DeFshat Enotted at the bnuclles and
one Of tbo joints stiIencd years ago by
wound from scythc, and said: ~Good-bv.
Edwards gpJd-by. Methodist Take good care
ot yourselves and write as soon as you get
there and lct US know how they treat Won.
y our mother will be anxious 10 hear
landed in Vie city, they sought out with
considerable inquiry Of policemen on street
corners and questioning Of car drivers the
two CONNER 'i1l establishments TO which they
were dea.inft' so far apart that thereafter
they seldom aw each other, for it is astonisll-
ing how far apart two persons can be in a
large city, especially il their habits are diff
ierent practically, a hundred miles from
Bowling craen 30 Canal street or from At
lantic avenue to Fulton
Edward, being the youngest we must look
after him first. lie never was in so large n
store in all his life. Such interninahle
CD .l.sf
and women 10 display goods on, such agility
OF cash boys such immense stock Of goods.
and whole community Of employees His
head IS confused rs no seems dropped like n
pebble In the great ocean of business life
Have you seen the grcenhorn from the
country whispers young man 90 young man.
lie Is IN such and such a department. We
viii have To break him in some nightu
Edward stands at his new place all day so
homasicl; that my moment be could have
cried aloud if his pride had not suppressed
everything Here and there a tear he care
lessiy dashed OF though i. were from in
hueuza or cold in the head. But some of
you know how young man feels when set
down III q city Of strangers, thereafter to fight
has own battles and no one near by seeming !
90 care whether he lives or dies. The center |
OF desert, months journey to the first set |
uement, Is not much more solitary.
But that evening as the hour for closing |
has come there are two or three young men |
who Slide mp to Edward and ask him how he |
likes the city and where he expects to go that |
night, and II he would like them TO show him |
the sights. He thanks them and saws he shall |
have TO take some evenings for unDaclyino
and making arrangements, as he had lust ar |
rived, but says that after awhile he win be |
giad 70 accept their company. After SPEND
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ing Two or thrcc evenings in his boarding |
house ROOM walking up and down locking at /
the bare wall or an old chrome hung there at |
the tine that religious newspapers by such |
prizes advanced their substitution lists and /
after an boar toying with the match box and |
ever ana anon examining LIS watch to see if
IL IS time 10 retiro-aBd it seems that 10 |
O'Clock at night or even o'clock viii never
come he resolves to accept the chaperoninr
of his new friends at tho store.
The following night they are all out to-
gethcr Although his salary is not large, he
Is quite flnSt with pocket money, which the
Old folks gave him after saving by for some
time. He cannot be mean, and these friends
arc dong an this for his pleasure, and SO he
pays tha b.tl at the door of places of en-
chantmcnt his companions cannot find the
change ana they accidentally fan behind
just as ih ticket Office is approached. or they
say they Wa mako it all right, agd viii them
selves pay The next time. Edward. accus-
toned 81 farn life or village life, is dazed
and euchauted with the glitter of spectacular
sin. Plain aad blunt iniquity Edward would |
have Immediately repulscd hut sin accom-.
panied by bewitchiag orchestra; sin amid
gildod pillars and gorgeous upholstery; sin
arrayed in all the attractions that the powers
OF darkness II combination can arrange to
magnetic young man, is Very different
from sin in is loathsome and disgusting
shape
But after few nights, being very late out,
he says; II must stop. NY purse won't |
stand this ,fy health won't stand this. NV
reputation wOa' stand this Indeed. one OF
the business firm one night from his private
box-in which he opplaulel a play, in which
attitudes and Ihiasooloey occurred which. if
taken or uttered IA his own parlor, would
have caused han 20 shoot or stab the actor
on the spot-from this high-priced box secs
in a cheaper PLACE tlo new clerk of his store.
and is leSi to ass questions about his habits.
and wonders how, on the salary the house |
pays him, lac can do as he does. Edward, TO
recover his physical yigor and his finances,
stopped whl' and spent few more even
ings examining the chrome on the wall and
counting the matches in the match box, or goes
down into tbs boarding house parlor to hear
tho gossip about the other boartlers or a dis
course on Tie iasutiiciency of the table fare
considerig the price paid-the criticism Sc
we're il proportion rs the fault finder pays lit
tie or j. ieso.scd % leave unccre,noniouslv |
and pay Eoihiag at all.
"Cea-eu III. cried the Young man, u
cannot stand this life any longer, and 1 must
SO out and see the world" The&ame veung
men, and Others Of a now larger acquaintance,
are ready 10 escort him There is never any
lack of such guidance. II man wants TO 20
the whole round OF sin, he can find plenty to
bake him-a whole regiment who know the
way. But after awhile Edwards money is
all gone. he has received his salary again
and again, but it was spent before he got it
borrowing n little here and a little there
What shall he DO nowl Why, he has seen, in
his rounds Of the gambling tables, men who |
put down 81 and took up $40; put down 500 !
and took up 81, 900. Why not hel To recon- {
'truct his finances he takes a hand, and wins;
5 SO pleased he takes another hand, and wins; 1
Is In a frenzy of delight and takes another {
hand-and loses ALI ,
When he first came 20 the city Edward was
disposed TO keep Sunday I'm quietness, reading /
! little, and going occasionally TO hear SER
non Now, Sunday Is day of carousal He $
5 50 fun Of intoxicants by II o'clock in $
'Ac NAe ny St4GScfs INTO one OF the licensed T
rum holes of the city I
some morning, Edward his breath stencil i
.ui with rum, takes his place in the store. i
de Is not fit TO be there. He is listless, or Q
ally, or lmpeTtinent, or in some way incoua- 3
1etent. and a messenger comes to him and {
ays: : The firm desire to see you in their n
private Office .
The gentleman in the private Office saws: c
Edward, we win not need you any more. v
We owe you a little money for services since
Fe paid You last, aud here il IS q
what is the matter I, says the Young man. b