Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-09-27
COUNTRY YOUNG MEN.
TWO YOUNG MEN WHO CANE TO LIVE IN
THE CITY.
Dr.. Talnags Gives an Abstract Of the Life the Aver
age Country Young Men in the Gty-Ths
Saarss and Pitfalls That BeSet His
Path-His Salvation
Special Tslerdm to the REGISTER.


Amazing grace-how sweet the sound
That saves wretch like me!
once was lost, but now am found;
Was blind but now see."
After expounding a passage of the Scrip
lures, the Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage, d.
D., took for his text, Proverbs ~, 26:
Powder the path of the feet and preach
ed the following sermon on the subject:
1.-TWO Young Men Who Came to Live in
the 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 wag-
ON with two trunks. The evening before
at the old home was rather sad time,
The neighbOrs had gathered in to say good
bye. Indeed, all the Sunday afternoon
there had been strOlling that way from
adjoining farms, for it was generally
known that the two boys the next morn
ing were going to the city to live, and the
whole neighbOrhOod was interested, some
hoping they would do well and Others,
without saying anything, hoping for them
city failure. Sitting on the fence talk
ing over the matter, the neighbors would
interlard their conversation about the
wheat crop of last summer, and the apple
crop vet 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, although
two years younger, being q little quicker
to learn, knew rs much rs Nicholas. They
were both brOwn-iaced and hearty, and
had gone through all the curriculum OF
hearty sports, by which muscle is develop
ed and the chest filled out.
Father and mother on Monday morning
had both resolved to 90 the depot with the
bows, 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 a day or two, and so con-
cluded to say goodbye at the front door of
the old place. Where she went and what
she did after the wagon left | believe
leave mOtherst o guess. The breakfast
things stood almost till noon before they
were cleared way. But little was said
on the way to the railroad station. As
the locomotive whistle was heard coming
around the curves, the father put out his
hand-sOmewhat knUtted at the knuckles
and one of the joints stiffened years ago by
Il wound from a Scythe-and said: "Godd-
bye, Edward; goodbye, Nicholas! Take
good care of yourselves, and write as soon
rs you get there, and let us know how they
treat you. Your mother will be anxious
to hear"
LANDED IN THE CITY.
They sought out with considerable in
quiry of policemen on street corners and
questioning of car-drivers, the two COM
mercIal establishments to which they were
destined, so far apart that thereafter they
seldom saw each other, for it is astonish-
ing 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 IA store in all his life. Such INTERIM
Unable shelves, Snch skillful imitation OF
real men and women to display goods on,
such agility of cash boys, such immense
stock of goods, and whole community of
employees. His head is confused rs he
seems dropped like pebble in the great
ocean of business life. "Have you seen
that sreeu-hOrn from the country?' whis-
perS young man to young man. HE Is III
such and such department. We will
have to break him in some night"
Edward stands at his new place all day so
homeSick that every moment he could
have cried aloud ii his pride had not sup
pressed everything. Here and there Il
tear he carleSsly dashed OIL, rs though it
were from influenza or Il cold in the head.
But some young man feels when set down
i'm city of strangers, thereafter to fight
his own battles, and no one near by SEEM
ing to care whether he lives or dies. The
centre Ofa desert, a months journey to
the first settlement, Is not much more
solitary.
But that evening as the hour for closing
has come, there are two or three young
men who Sidle up to Edward and ask
him how he likes the city, and where he
expects to 20 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, rs he had just ar
rived, but says that after awhile he will
be glad to accept their company. Alter
spending two or three evenings in his
boarding house room, looking at the bare
wall or an old chIOmo hung there at the
time that religious newspapers by such
prizes advanced their subscription lists,
and after an hour toying with the match
box, and examining his watch to see If 1t
is time to retire-and it seems that ten
o'clock ut night, or even nine O'Clock, will
never cOme-he resolves TO accept the
chareroning.Of his new:.friends at the store.
The following night they are all out to-
gether. Although his salary is not large,
he is quite flush with pocket money,
which the old folks gave him after saving
by for some time. lie cannot be mean,
and these friends are doing all this for his
pleasure, and so he pays the bills. At
the door of places OF enchantment, his
companions cannot 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 Immediately repulsed, but sin
accompanied by bewitching orchestra; sin
amid gilded pillars and gorgeous uphOls-
terry; sin arrayed in all the attractions
that the power of darkness in combination
can arrange tOmagnetize young man, is
very different from sin in its lOathsOmean
disgusting shape.
But after few nights being very late
out he says.
81 MUST STOP"
"My purse won't stand this. My health
won't stand this. My reputation won't
stand this" Indeed one of the business
firm one night from his private box, in
which he applaQded play, in which at
titudes and phFassolOgy occurred, which
if taken or uttered in his ownparlOr would
have caused him to shoot or stab the ac-
tor on the spot-frOm this high-priced box
sees in cheaper place the new clerk of
his store, and is led to ask questions