The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-08

violin at parties, and in the ilterstices of
the play he would so out and look up at
the midnight heavens, the fields of his i'm
mortal conquests. George Stephenson rose
from being the foreman in a 'lliery to be
the most renowned Of the worlds engineers.
No outfit, no capital to start with Young
man, go down 10 the Nero lntile library and
get some books and read of what wonder
full mechanism God gave you in your
hand, in your foot, in your eye, in your ear,
and then ask some doctor to take you into
the dISsecting room and illustrate to you
what you have read about, and never again
commit the bllsphemy of saying you have
no capital to start with. Equipped Why,
the poorest young man in this house is
equipped as only the God of the whole uni
verse could afford to equip him.
Then his body--a very poor AFFAIR
compared with his wonderful soul--oh, that
Is what makes me solicitous. | am not SO
much anxious about you. young man, be-
cause you have SO little to do with, rs am
anxious about you because you have much
to risk and lose or gain.
There is no class of persons that SO stir
my sympathies as young men in great
cities. Not quite enough salary to live on,
aud all the temptations that come from that
deficit. Invited on all hands to drink, aud
their exhausted nervous system seeming to
demand stimulus. Their religion carica-
and most of the operatives in the factory.
The rapids of temptation and death rushing
against that young man forty miles the
hour, and be in u frail boat headed up
stream, with nothing but a broken oar to
work with. Unless Almighty God help
them they will go under.
All! when told you to take care of your
self you misunderstood me if you thought l
| meant you are to depend upon human reso-
luton, which may be dissolved in the foam
OF the wine cup, or may be blown out with
the fir gust of temptation. Here is the
| helmet, the sword of Lord God Almighty
Clothe yourself in that panoply ~and you
Shall not be put to confusion. Sin pays
we'll neither in this world nor the next, but
right thiaking and right believing and right
acting will take you in safety through this
life ID in transport through the next.
never shall forget prayer ] heard a
| young man make some fifteen years ago
| 1t was very short prayer, but it was a
tremendous prayer: "Oh Lord, help u.s.
We find it so cay TO do wrong, and so hard
to do right. Lord, help u.s." .hat prayer,
| warrant you, reached the ear of God, and
reached his heart. And there ara in this
house hundred men WAC have found oIt
"a thou and young men, perhaps, who
have found out that very thing. 1t is 50
very easy to do wrong and so hard to do
| right.
| I got a letter, only one paragraph OF
which I shall read Having moved around
somewhat | have run across many young
men of intelligence, ardent striverS after that
will-o'-the- wisp, fortune, and of one of
these | would speak. He was young E ng-
lishman Of % or "a years, who cams to
New York, where he had acquaintance IS,
with barely sufficient to keep him
cou le of weeks He had
been tenderly reared. perhaps =!
should say too tenderly, and was not used
to earning his living. and found it extreme
" difficult TO get any position that he was
capable of filling. After may vain efforts
in this direction he found himself on Sun
| day evening in Brooklyn. near your church,
| with about three dollars left of his small
capital. Providence seemed to lead him to
your door, and ne determined to 60 III and
| hear you.
He told me his going to hear YOU that
| night was undoubtedly the turning point
| in his life, for when he went into your
church he felt desperate, but while listen
| Ing to your discourse his better nature got
the mastery. l truly believe from what
this young man told me that your sounding
the depths of his heart that might, alone
brought him back to his God whom he was
so near leaving"
TAKE THE RIGHT ROAD AND KEEP TO IT.
The echo, that is, of multitudes in the
house. l am not preaching an abstraction,
but great reality. Oh! friendless young
man, oh! prodigal young man, Ohl broken
hearted young man. discouraged young
man, wounded young man, L commend
you to Christ this dav, the best
friend a man ever had. He mee.s you
this morning. You have come here for
this blessing. Despise not that emotion
rising in your soul; it is divinely lifted.
Look into the face Of Christ. Lift one
prayer to your fathers God, t. your
mothers God, and get the pardoning bless
| ing. Now, lille speak, you are at the
forks Of the road, and this is the right road =,
and that is the wrong road, and / see you
start on the right road.
| o 10 Sabbath morning, at the close Of my
service, saw a gold watch of the world
renowned and deeply lamented violinist
| Ole Bull. You remember he died in his
island home Off the coast of Norway. That
| gold watch he had wound up day after day
through his illness, and then he said to his
companion: "Now l want to wind this
watch as long as can, and then when am
gone want you to keep it wound up until
it gets to my friend DR.. Doremus, in New
| York, and then he will keep it wound up
until his life is done, apd then ] want the
watch to go to his young son, my especial
| favorite."
The great musician, who more than any
other artist had made the violin speak and
sing aud weep and laugh and triumph-for
l. seemed when he drew the bow across
the strings as il all earth and heaven
trembled in delighted sympathy-the great
musician, in a room looking off upon the
sea, and surrounded by his favorite in
struments of music, closed his eyes in
death. While all the world was mourn
ing at bis departure, sixteen crowded
steamers fell into line Of funeral procession
to carry his body to the main land. There
were fifty thousand Of his countrymen
gathered in an amphitheater Of the hills
waiting to hear the eulogium, and it was
said when the great orator of the day with
stentorian voice began TO speak, the fifty
thousand people on the hillside burst into
tears.
Oil that was the close of a life that had
done so much TO make the world happy.
But have to tell you, young man, il you
live right and die right, that was a tame
scene compared with that which will greet
you when from the galaries Of heaven the
one hundred and forty and four thousand
shall accord with CHRIST in CRYING,
well done, thou good and faithful SER
want"
And the influences that on earth you put
in motion will go down from generation to
generation, the influences you wound up
handed to your children, aud their infiu-
ences wound up aud handed to their chill
dren until watch and clock are no moro
needed TO mark the progress, because timo
itself shall be no longer.