Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-04-06

this man was from Oregon, or from Mas
sachusetts, or from Minnesota, or from
New York. There was wounded soldier.
and the only question was how to take of
the rags the most gently and put on the
bandage. ana administer the cordial. And
when soul comes to God, He does not ask
where YOU came from or what your an
Pardon for all your guilt. Comfort for all
your troubles.
Then, also, I counsel YOU, il you want
to get back, to quit all your bad associa-
tons. One unholy intimacy will fill your
soul with moral distemper. In all ages of
the church there has not been nm instance
where man kept one evil associate and
reformed. Go home to-day, open Your desk,
take out letter paper, stamp, and envelope,
"NIY OLD CoMPANIcNs-I start this day
for Heaven. Until am persuaded you
will join me in this, farewell"
Then sign your name, and send the let
ter by the first post. Give up your bad
companions or give up Heaven. 1t is not
ten bad companions that destroy a man,
nor five bad companions, nor three bad
companions, nor two bad companions. but
one. What chance is there for that young
man saw along the street, four or FIVE
young men with him, hating in front of a
greg shop, urging him to go in, he resist
ing, violently resisting, until after awhile
they forced him to go in? 1t was sum-
mer night and the door was left open. and
saw the process. They held him fast,
and they put the cup to his lips, and they
forced down the strong drink. What
chance is there for such young man?
| ] counsel you, alse. to seek Christian
advice. Livery Christian man is bound to
help you. If you find no other human ear
/ will limo fo licfa To ctr 10,
me and will by every sympathy of my
heart and every PRAYER, and every toll of
my hand, stand beside You in the struggle
for reformation; and Us hope to have my
own sins forgiven and hope to be acquitted
at the judgment seat OF Christ, l will not
betray you. First of all, seek God, then
seek Christian counsel. Gather up all the
energies of body, mind, and soul, and. APP
pealing TO God for success, declare this
habits, all gaming practices, oil houses of
sin. Half and half work will amount TO
nothing; it must be Waterloo. Shrink
back now and you are lost. Push on and
you IRE saved. A Spartan General fell at
the Very moment of victory, but he dipped
his finger in his own blood and wrote on
rock near which he was dying: Sparta has
conquered" Though your struggle to
get rid of sin may seem to be almost
death struggle, you can dip your finger in
your own blood and write on the Rock OF
Ages: "Victory through our Lord Jesus
Christ" Oh! what glorious news it would
be for some OF these young men 10 send
home to their parents i'll the country. They
go to the postoffice every day or two to see
if there are any letters from you. How
anxious they are to heart Nothing would
please them half SO much as the news
you might send home to- morrow that you
had given your heart to God. know how
it is in the country. The night comes on.
which burst the trusses of hay The
horses, just having frisked up at nightfall,
STAND knee deep in the bright straw that
invites them to lie down and rest. The
perch of the howell is full of fowl, their
feet warm under the feathers. In the old
farm house at night no candle is lighted,
for the flames clap their hands about the
great backlog, and shake the shadow of the
group up and down the wall. Father and
mother sit there for half an hour, saving
nothing. l wonder what they are thinking
of. After while the father breaks the
silence and says: "Well, 1 wonder where
our boy is in town Tonight" and the
mother answers: SIN no bad place, war;
rant you; We always could trust him when
he was home, and since he has been away
there have been SO many PRAYERS offered
for him We can trust him STILL" Then at s
oclock-for they retire early in the coun-
try-at o'clock they kneel down and COM
mend you to that God who watches in the
country and in town, on the land and on
the sea.
Some one said to Grecian general:
What was the proudest moment of your
life:" He thought a moment, and then
said: "The proudest moment OF my life
was when I sent word home to my parents
that | had gained the victory" And the
proudest and most brilliant moment in
your life will be the moment when you
send word to your parents in the country
by the grace of God, and become eternal
victor. Oh! despise not parental anxiety.
The time will come when you will have
neither father nor mother, and you will go
around the place where they used to watch
you, and find them gone from the house,
and gone from the field, and gone from the
nelghborhood. Cry as loud for forgiveness
as you may over the mound in the church,
yard, they will not answer, Dead! Dead!
AND then you will take out the
white lock of hair that was cut from your
mothers brow just before they buried her,
and you will take the cane with which your
father used to walk, and you will think and
think, and wish that you had done just as
they wanted you to, and would give the
world if you had never thrust pang
through their dear old hearts. God pity
the young man who has brought disgrace on
his fathers name. God pity the young
man who has broken his mothers heart
Better if he had never been born--better
It. in the first hour of his life, instead of
being laid against the warm bosom of
maternal tenderness, he had been cof-
fined and sepnlchred. There is no balm
powerful enough to heal the heart of one
who has brought parents to sorrowful
grave, and who wanders about through the
dismal cemetery, rending the air and
wringing the hands, and crying: "Mother!
mother" Oh, that to-day, by all the
memories of the past, and by all the hopes
OF the future, you would yield your heart
to God. May Your fathers God and your
mothers God be your God forever.
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