Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1886-01-15
TALM ADGE.

II is n tremendous pass in life when n
man comes 10 his fret great success. You
get into the cars some evening. Every
body that looks nt you knows there has
something glad happened. You sit in the
ear, your face illuminated, and young
lady comes in. There is no place for her
to sit, and you can get ap in great cheer
and insist On her taking your place and
with great courtesy she says, "Thank you,''
and sits down. You say nothing to any
body but it is evident from your manner
and appearance that great good fortune
has come unto yon. Now that is crisis
in your life. At such time the ques,ion
will arise "In what enterprise shall 1
invest2 What shall be the house will
live IN What shall be the library ?
What shall be my wardrobe2 What sha II
do with my money?7
AT that point hundreds OF men make a
mistake.
Some go into dissipation. Some take
on great arrogance, trying to make every
body feel how small they are; whole cara
vans OF camels going through the needle's y
eye of their meanness. They walk
through the streets with an air as much
as to say: "Get out of the way here
comes three hundred thousand dollars ~
That is the crisis IN life where 30 man,
fail, because they have no God to direct
them.
There are men who before their success
are kind, and amiable, and genial and Use.
| full, who, after their saccesa, are arrogant
and unbearable and unchristian. Here is
| young man who was once very useful
in society, but great success comes, and
| he gets into his equipage and he drives on
| and faster he goes eight miles the hour,
twenty miles the hour, one hundred miles
the hour, faster and faster, until in his last
moments he rolIses up to see that he is
drawn by thefery hoofs of eternal disaster
till they come rackelting down on the
pavement OF hell. ., young man or man
| in middle life. you want God in your sue
cess, your first great success.
Another tremendous pass in life is wlen
We get our drst sorrow. 1t would be fool-
isil for me to talk to young men of this
1 day az though their lives were going to be
\ smooth all the way. You might as well
start sea captain in vessel without a
carpenter, and without any tools, aud cor
dage. That would do very we'll while the
sea was smooth, but when the chip geta
caught in the teeth Of northeastcr and
the waves dash clear over the hurricane
deck, then the captain cries oui "Where
\ is the carpenter? Where are tho tools
Where are the rope-?" The young men
| of to-day would understand that misrel'-
resented the matter, il told them their
life WAS always TO he amooth. They know
be,,er. They know from what they see o
the lives OF others that life can not always
be smooth. Many men Came home from
the late war without scratch or a brnise
but in the conflict of life IL ia not so W,
all get wounded-wounded in Tho head
IN the hands, in the feet, in the heart
Lite is conflict. The Bible over anf
over again states that. Paul states II, and
he writes himself rs IN wnr with th'
world. war with the flesh, and war Will
the devil, and war all the way through
Now, how are you going TO meet the lirs
, trouble That is the question. Slow M
how yOn are to meet your first trouble ant
I will show you how TO meet all the resl
!, 1t ia the first blow that sends n man I,
drinking to drown his troubles, that knock
the hre out Of him so that he spends th
rest OF his life cowed down.