Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-09-27
PONDER OVER THY PATH.
REV. TALM AGE TAKES 4 SUB
JECT FROM THE FARM.

dearIs az the Sftu
BROOKLYN, Sept. 26.-The opening
hymn at the Brooklyn Tabernacle to-day
begins:
Amazing Grace-how sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me!
once was lost. bur now am found;
Was bind, but now see.
After eXpounding a passage Of the
scriptures, the Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage,
d. D.. took for his text Proverbs iv., %:
sPonder the path OF thy feet" and
preached the following sermon on the sub
ject, ''Two Young Men Who Came to
Live in the City,
1t was Monday, Sept. 20, at country
depot. Two young men are to take the
cars Tor the city. Father brought them
dn wagon with two trunks. The even
ing before at the old home was rather a
sad time. The neighhors had gathered
IN to say goodbye. Indeed, all the sun
dav afternoon there had been a strolling
that way from adjoining farms, for it was
Kenerally known that the two boys the
next morning were going to the city
10 live, and the whole neIghbor-
hood was interested, some hoping that
they would do well and others, without
saying anything, hoping for them city
lover the matter the neighbOrs would
tfnterlard their converssti ton about the
wheat crop of last summer, and the APP
Ele crop yet to he gathered, with the re-
marks about the city prospects of Edward
and Nicholas. for those were the names
OF the two young men-Edward II, and
Nicholas 19-but Edward, although two
years Younger, being little quicker TO
tearn, knew as much as Nicholas. They
u hrnNrn.tapp1
bad gone through all the curriculum of
hearty sports by which muscle is deyel-
Qped and the chest filed out.
Father and mother on Monday morning
b ad both resolved to 60 10 the depot with
EIe boys, but the molner at the last mo-
u,ent backed out, and she said that some
how she felt quite weak that morning. and
had no appetite tor day or two, and so
concluded to say goodbye at the front
Hoor of the old place. Where she went
and what she did after the wagon left |
nsave other mothers to guess. The break
{ ist things stood almost till noon before
Riley were clear ed away. But little was
said or the way to the railroad station.
q s the locomotive whistle was heard COM
Big around the curve, the father put out
bis hand-somewhat knotted at the
knuckles and one OF the joints stitfened
years ago by wound from a scythe-and
said: Goodbye. Edward; goodbye,
Nicholas Take good care of yourselves.
and write as soon as you get there, and let
ia know how they treat you. Your mother
EIll be anxious to hear"
Landed in the city they sought out, with
considerable inquiry OF policemen on
Bareet corners and questioning of car
drivers, the two commercial establish
inents to which they were destined so far
apart that thereafter they seldom saw
each other, for ii is astonishing how far
apart two persons can be in a large city,
especially II their habits are different.
Practically hundred miles from Bowl
ing Green to Canal street, or from At
hantic avenue to Fulton.
Edward, being the youngest, we must
Hook after him first. He never was in so
large store in all his life. Such inter-
lmlnable shelves, such skiIlful imitation
of real men and women to display goods
ON, such agility of cash boys, such i'm
.mense stock of goods, and whole COM
immunity of employees. His head is con-
fused as he seems dropped like a pebble
IN the great ocean of business life. "Have
you seen that greenhorn from the coun-
sJv?' whispers young man to young man.
s'He is in such and such a department.
We will have 10 break him In some
night"
Edward stands at his new place all day
20 hOmesick. that any moment be could
pressed everything. Here and there a
lear he careIessly dashed off as though it
we're from Influenza or a cold in the head.
But some OF you know how young man
feels when set down in a city of strangers,
thereafter to fight his own battles, and no
one near by seeming TO care whether he
lives or dies. The centre OF desert, a
months journey to the first settlement, is
not. much more solitary.
n hn
closing has come there are two or three
NuDg men who side up to Edward and
ask him how ne likes the city, and where
he expects to 90 that night, and If he
wonld like them to show him the sights.
be thanks t1em, and says he snail have
TO take some evenings for unpacsing and
making arrangements, as he had just ar
rived, but says that after a while he will
be glad to accept their company, After
spending two or three evenings in bis
boarding house room, walking up and
down. looking at the bare wall or en- old
chrome hung there at the time that reli-
gious newspapers by such prizes ad-
vanced their subscription lists, and alter
an hour toying with the match box,
and ever and anon examining his atch
TO see il IL is time 10 retire-aud II seem
that 10 O'Clock at night or even 3 O'Clock
will never come-he resolves to accept
tbe char eroning OF his new friends at the
store.
The following night they are all out to.
gether. Although his salary is not large,
be is quite flush with pocket money,
which the old folks gave him alter saving
by for some time. He cannot be mean,
and these friends are doing all this for his
pleasure, and so he pays the bills. Al
the door of places of enchantmeut, 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
30 farm life or village life, is daZed and
enchanted With the glitter OF spectacular
ain. Plain and blunt iniquily Edward
would have Immediately repulsed, but
Sin accompanied by bewitchIng orchestra
sin amid gilded pillars and gorgeous up.
holsiery; sin arrayed in all the attrac.
tions that the powers of darkness in com
bination can arrange TO magnetic q
young man, 10 very different from sin in
Its loatbsome and disgusting shape.
Bur after "A 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" In.
deed, one OF the business firm one night
from his private box, in which he ap
plauded a play, in which attitudes and
pbraseology occurred, which, If taken ~
uttered In his own parlOr would have
caused him to shoot or stab the actor on
the spot, from this high-priced box sect