Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-07-28
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reformed. Among the fourteen hun
bred million of the race not m in
stance. Go home today, open your
desk, take out letter paper, stamp and
envelope, and then write a letter some
thing like this
My old companions; | start this
day for heaven. Cntil am persuaded
you will join me IA tins, farewell
YOU MusrRENuJNCEoSEO THE OTHER
Then sign your name, and send tue
letter with the first post Give up
your bad companions, or give up
heaven. Il Is not ten bad companions
that destroy a man. nor live bad ON
panions. nor three bad compositions,
but one What vdauCr is there for
that young uau lsaw a.ongt'!c street,
four ur i've Young !l.u with him
hating ln front Of q .rog shop, uTg.
ing him ip 60 an. Doe urlri'ar. vlJ-
leutly ~ sting. Unul after 81 while
they lorecd lam ID 90 ms II was a
summer night. and the door was left
open, and | saw the process. They
held him fast. and they put the cup 10
his lips, and they forced down the
strong drink What chance Is there
for such a young mani
counsel you also seek Christian ad-
vice. Every Christian man Is bound
10 help you. First of all, seek God,
then seek Christian counsel. Gather
up all the energies Of body, mind and
soul, and, appealing 10 God for sue
cess, declare this day everlasting war
against all drinking habits, all gam
bling practices, all houses of sin. Half
and-half work will amount TO nothing;
it must be a Waterloo. Shrink back
nov and you are lost. Push on and
you are saved. A Spartan general fell
AT the very moment of victory. but he
dipped his finger in his own blood and
wrote on a rock near which he was
dying, Sparta has conquered
Though your struggle to get rid of sin
may seem to be almost a death strug-
gle, 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 il would be
for some of these young mon TO send
home 10 their parents. They go TO
the postoffice every day or two TO see
whether there are any letters from
you. How anxious they ere 10 hear.
SEND THE GOOD NEW HOME.
Some one said TO a Grecian general.
"What was thS proudest moment in
your lifel' He thought a moment,
and said. The proudest moment in
my life was when sent word home to
my parents that | had gained the vic
tory" And the proudest and most
brilliant moment in your life will be
the moment when you a send word
TO your parents that you have con-
quered your evil habits 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 wiz
60 around the place where they used
to watch you and find them gone from
the house. and gone b'om the field,
and gone from the neighborhood. Cry
as loud tor forgiveness as you may
over the mound in the c~hurchyard,
they viii 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 t.
you had never thrust a pang through
their dear old hearts. God pity the
poor young man who has brought
disgrace on his fathers name. God
pity the young nan who has broken
his mothers heart! Better if he had
never been born-better if, i'm the first
hour of his life, instead Of being laid
against the warm bosom Of maternal
tenderness, he had been coilined and
~sepulchercd. There is no balm power.
full enough to heal the heart of one
who has brought parents TO n SORROW
full grave, and who wanders about
through the dismal cemetery, rending
the hair, aud wrlnGng the hands, and
crying, 'NlJther, mother Oh, that
today 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 aud yOpr mo
thers God be your God iorevcr'