The Red Cloud chief., 1889-04-19

Bring ne q young man and teal N
what bis physical heath 10. and what b.
mental caIiber, and what bis habits. and
Will tell you wka; viii lie hi. destiny 70,
this world and the destiny for the worie
10 come, and ! will make dv- inaccurate
p~rophesies out Of Eve hundred All tn
makes me solicitous In regard - youns
men. ard ] want 70 make them nervoas IL
regard 20 the Construction o: unpayAbl'
debts give you . paragraph Of my Owl
experience:
Ny drst settlement a. pastor was in 8
village. Ny salary wAs SO and . par
sonaE-. The amount seemed enormous &c
me. sad 20 myself: What. all This 81
one y-ar." l vas afraid Of getting world
iy under SO mach prosperity! Iresolvel
TO invite the congregation TO nv house IN
groups OK twenty Ave each. We tesan,
and as shey were the best congregation in
all the world, and We felt that nothing
was too good for them ws piled all The
lasu.ies on the table. never completed
the undertaking. Al tn. end OF SIX
months | Was in financial despair. ]
found what every Young man fnds in
time to save himself or too late. that you
must measure the size Of q man. body be-
fore you begin to cot the Goth for bis
coat
Now be Is dead and you say: 'Of course
they VIII lei; him alone" o. no! Now
they are watchful TO see whether there
are any unnecessary expenses AZ the OBJ
seQuies, to see whether there is ANY use
less handle on the csske;. to see whether
there is any surplus plat on the .hroud
10 see whether the hears. 10 costly OF
cheap. TO see " neither the flowers sent 81
the casket have been bough, by the family
or dona,ei, TO see in whose came the deed
10 tn. grave is mad. oct. Then they ran
sack the berei, household, the books, the
pictures. the carpets, the chairs. the sofa.
the piano. the mattresses. the pillow on
which he dies. Cursed be debt! For the
sake Of your own happiness, for the sake
of your good morals, for the sake Of your
immortal soul. Tor Co.'s sake. young man,
IS Tar As possible keep out OF IL.
When . young man wiifu!ly and Of
hoice having the comforts Of Life. goes
into the contraction OF unpayable debts De
knows not INTO what he goes. The credit
ors Set after the debtor; the pac& Of
hounds in full cry and alas! for the REIN
deer. They jingle his doorbell before he
gets mp in the morning, they jingle hi.
doOrbell after he has one to bed at night.
They meet him IS he comes OF his front
steps. They send him a postal card. or .
letter. in curtest style, telling b N 10 pay
up They attach his goods. They van;
cash or . note at thirty days, or . note on
demand. They call HIM . knave. They
say he lies. They want him disciplined
At the church. They want him turned out
OF the bank. They come 10 him from this
side, and from that side. and from tehind.
and from above. and from beneath. and
he is insulted and gibbeted, and sued. and
sworn at, until he gets the nervous dy,-
pepsia, gets neuralgia, gets liver COM
plant gets heart dissa se, gets convuls.vs
disorder. gets consumption.
Second-bui | think NOR. young men
are slaughtered through irreligion. Take
away q young mans religion and you
make HIM the prey Of evil. W. all know
that tn. B.b. is the only perfect system
OF morals. Now IL YOU want ~ DESTROY
the young mans morals take tbs Bib
away. How will you do that. Well, you
VIII ~caricature his reverence for the
You Will take all those Incl.
dents Of the Bible which can he made
mirth os-Jonah's whale, Samson's foxes,
rib-then you will c~arica'ure &C.
centric Christians or Inconsistent Cars.
tains, then you will pass Oh a. your own
all those ~hackneyed arguments aEains,
Christianity which are AZ old rs Tom
Paine. rs Old - Voltaire. old as sin. Now
you have captured his Bible and you have
taken his strongest fortress; the way is
clear and all the gates Of
his soul are set open In invitation to the
sins Of earth and the sorrow of death. that
hey may come in and drive the stake for
heir encampment
A steamer fifteen hundred miles from
shore. with a broken rudicr and los; com.
PASS. and hulk leaking fifty gallons an
hour is better Oh than n young man when
you have robbed him of his Bible. Have
Tou ever noticed how desrlcsbly mean 3,
$ TO take away the world'- Bible ~i;bcu,
proposing a substitute. 1, is m-aner thar
% come TO a sick man and steal his me III
line, n,eaner than TO cone TO . cripple
steal his crutch, meaner than Co come !
% . pauper n steal his crust meaner
han 70 C me e. . poor man and burn hi, ,
rouse down. 1t 10 the worst % all lar |
'enies 10 steal the Bible, which has been
he crutcb and medicine and food 10 so
many. What . generous and magnani. |
nous business infdeiity has gone into.
This splitting up Of lifeboAts AMI taking
way Il fire scapes and extinnaishing OF |
houses
! come out and cay TO such people. !
What are you doing all this sors" o."
hey say, Just for fun" II u such fun to
80 Christians try to hold on to their
Bibles! Many Of them ave lost loved
mes and have been Told that there 10 .
ssurrection. and IL is such fun to tell them
will b no resurrection! Many be-
ieve that Christ came TO csTy the bur.
ems and heal the wounds Of the world,
nd 10 10 such fun % tell them they will
' to he their own savior! Think Of
he mean-s teinG you ever heard Of; tbsu
o down a thousand feet underneath IL
you will find yourself as the top Of Q
ight Of stairs . hundred miles long;
o to the bottom Of the sairs and
90 will Ind . ladder . thou.
and miles long; saea 20 70 the
Dot Of the ladder and look o6 Q prsei.
ice half - far a. from here to Chiaa and
On will dnd b headQuaSsers Of the
lean ness that would rob this world Of iss
My comfort in life. lie only pesos In
NJ its Only bops for imnortaity.
laughter ayoung mans faith in God and
ssre 10 not mech more left % sisuehsss.
Nov. What has become Of the ssaash.
ned. We'll, some Of them are IN shsis
or DotAer's hose hrokso down IN
saltA. waiting 70 die; eeAsu are In u
othsss ass II 0seeawooA OF
lfhss their bodies are fer their sosIs
ave goas o. to ret0bstioo. Not mach
roSpecs foe Q yoonG nan Who started life
it'll good health and good educassoa. asd
Chrisean sxanpls 80 hin, asd eppos.
lnitiss Of s~ssfalassA vho gaihsred Ill