The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1889-04-13

your Mount LIO--. Let 40 uoc oOOA "a
newspaper come into that room any more
than you would allow cobra 10 coll on
your table.
Take caro- Of yourself Nobody else
will take care Of you. Your help vii! not
come up two or three or four flights OF
stairs; your help will come through the
roof, down from Heaven, from that God
who in the six thousand years OF the
worlds history never betrayed a young
man who tried to be good and Christian.
Let me say in regard to your adverse
worldly circumstances, in passing. thai
YOU are on level now with those who are
finally to succeed. Mark my words,
young man, and think of it thirty years
from now. You will find that those VINO
thirty wears from now are milliolaires OF
this country, who are the orators OF the
country, who are the poets of the country,
who are the strong merchants or the
country, who are the great philanthropists
Of the country-mightiest in Church ana
State-are this morning on level with
you, not an inch above, and you IN
Strengthened circumstances now.
Herschel earned his living b. playing a
violin at parties, and in the iuterstces OF
the play he would go out and look up at
the midnight heavens, the fields OF his
| immortal conquests. George Stephe nson
rose from being the foreman in a colllery
| to be the most renowned of the worlds
| engineers. No outfit, no capital to start
with! Young man, 60 down 10 the Mer-
! camille Library and get some books ana
! read of what wonderful 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 dissectlng
room and illustrate to you what you have
read about, and never again commit the
bias phemy Of saying you have no capltai
to start with. Equipped! Why, the poor
est young man In this house Is equipped
as only the God of the whole universe
could afford to equip him. Then his BODY
"a very poor affair compared with MS
! wonderful soul-oh, that is what makes
me solicitous. | am not so much anxious
about you, young man, because you have
so little TO do with, as 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, and all the temptations that come
from that deficit. Invited on all hands to
drink, and their exhausted nervous sys-
TEN seeming to demand stimulus. Their
religion caricatured By the most OF th'
clerks in the store and most OF the opera
tives in the factory. The rapids or temp
tation and death rushing against thai
young man forty miles the hour, and he
in a frail boat headed up stream, will
nothing but broken oar TO work with.
Unless Almighty God help them they will
go under.
All. when | told you to take care OF
yourself you misunderstood me II you
thought me ant you are to depend upon
human resolution, which may be dis
solved in the foam of the wine cup, or
NAV be blown out with the first gust o;
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 well
neither in this world nor the next, but
right thinking, and right believing, and
right acting will take you in safety
through this life and in transport through
the next.
Inever shall forget prayer l heard 9
young man make some fifteen years ago
Ii was very short prayer, but 1t was
tremendous prayer: "Oh, Lord help US
We find it SO very easy to dong wrona
and SO hard to do right. Lord, help u.s.
That prayer, warrant you, reached the
ear of God, aud reached his heart. And
there are in this house hundred mel
who have found out-a thousand young
men, perhaps, who have found out iha
very thing. 1t is so very easy to do wrong
and so hard to do right.
got q letter, only one paragraph o.
, which l shall read: "Having moved
, around somewhat, l have run acros:
many young men Of Intelligence, arden
{ striyers after that will 90 the -wisp, fort
, une, and Of one Of these l would speak
He was young Englishman OF twenty
i three or twenty-four years, who came 4
New York, where he had acquaintance
, with barely sufficient to keep him cOupl
1 of weeks. He had been tenderly reared
. perhaps | should say too tenderly-an'
S was not used to earning his own living
I and found it extremely difficult to get an
r position that he was capable OF filling
S After many vain efforts in this directio
= he found himself, on Sunday evening, i
Il Brooklyn, near your church, with abou
!, three dollars left of his small capital
d Providence seemed to lead him to you
f door, and he determined to go in and hca
s you.
d "He told me his going to hear you tha
a night was undoubtedly the turning poir
: in his life, for when he went into you
p church he felt desperate, but while listen
= ing to your discourse his better natur
got the mastery. l truly believe, froI
4: what this young man told me, that you
- sounding the depths Of his heart tha
0 night alone brought him back to his Go
r whom he was so near leaving"
d The echo, that is, OF multitudes in th
a house. | am not preaching an abstrac
Il ton, but a great reality. Oh! friendles
y young man, oh! prodigal young man, OF
o broken-hearted young man, discourage
Is young man, wounded young man, l con
IL mend you to Christ this day, the be'
n friend man ever had. He meets you tn
u morning. You have come here for thi
d blessing. Despise not that emotion risin
= in your soul; it is divinely lifted. Loo
IS into the face OF Christ. Lift one praye
u to your fathers God, to your mother
:; God, and get the pardoning blessing
K Now, while l speak, you are at the forl
% of the road, and that is the wrong roa'
5 and see you start on the right road.
d One Sabbath morning, at the close
9 my service, l saw a gold watch OF 4
i world renowned and deeply lamente
n violinist Ole Bull. You remember
to died in his island home off the coast
Norway. That gold watch he had wour
l. up day after day through his illness. al
l. then he said to his companion: "Now,
n want to wind this watch as long as ca
,e and then when l am gone want you
,r keep it wound up until it gets to my frien
Is DR.. Doremus, in New York, and then
n will keep it wound up until his life
Re done, and then want the watch to go
n, his young son, my especial favorite."