Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-04-26

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TExT: AS an op to the slaughter
Proverbs vii, 81.
There is nothing in the voice or manner OF
the butcher to indicate to the OK that there
Is death ahead. The OK thinks he is going on
70 q rlch pasture field of clover, where all day
tong he will Tevel in the herbaceous luxuri-
ance; but after a while the men and the boys
close In upon him with sticks and stones and
shouting and drive him through bars and
into doorway, where no is fastened. and
With a well aimed stroke the ak fes
him. and so the anticipation Of the redolent
pasture field is completely disappointed. So
many young man has been driven on by
temptation to what he thought would be
parad1siacal enjoyment; but after while IL
urenceS With darker hue and swartbier arm
close in upon him, and he finds that instead
OF making an excursion into q garden he has
Ocen driven ''as an OK to the slaughter"
L We arc apt to blame young men for
being destroyed when We ought 20 blame the
influences that destroy them. Society
siaughters great many young men by the
beheSt: You must keep up appearances;
whatever be your salary, you must dress as
well as others, you must wine and brandy as
many friends, you must smoke as costly
cigars, you must give as expensive cntertaiE-
rtants, and you must live in as fashionable q
boarding house If you haven't the money
borrow. II you can't borrow mako false
entry, or subshact here and there q bill from
bundle of bank bills; you will only have TO
make the deception littlo whie in a few
months or in a year or two, you can make
all right. Nobody will be hurt by it; nobody
viii be the wiser You yourself will not DO
damaged" By that awful process hundred
thousand men have been slaughtered for
time and slaughtered for eternity.
Suppose you borrow. There is nothing
wrong about borrowing money There 5
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borrowed money. Vast estates has been built
on a borrowed dollar. But there arc two
Kinds Of borrowed money. Money borrowed
for the purpose of starting or keeping
up legitimate enterprise and expense
Ax5 money borrowed to get that which
you can do without The first
Is right, the other is wrong II you have
money enough of your own to buy q coat
however plain and then you borrow money
for dandy's outfit, you have taken the first
revolution of the wheel down grade. Borrow
for the necessities; that may be well. Borrow
IN the wrong direction.
The Bible distinctly says the borrower is
servant of the lender. 1t is a bad state Of
things when you have to go down some other
street to escape meeting some one whom you
hWe. If young men knew what is the despot-
Ism Of being in debt more of them would keep
out of it. What did debt do for
Lord Bacon, with mind towering
above the centuries? 1t induced him
10 take brides and convict himself
as a criminal before oil ages What did debt
do for Walter Scott? Broken hearted at
Abbotsford. Kept him writing until his
hand gave out in paralysis to keep the sheriff
away from his pictures and statuary. Better
for him if he had minded the maxim which
ke-had chiseled over the fireplace at Abbot5-
tord: 'Waste not, want not"
The trouble is my friends, the people do
nnk i1o1 cLonI thn oth IF IN, Jal,E
and that if you purchase goods with no ex-
pectation of paying for them, or 60 into
debts which you cannot meet, you steal just
8omuch money. II go into grocer's store,
and buy sugars and coffees and meats with
% capacity to pay for them and no inten-
the store, and when the grocer's
face is turned the other way fill my pockets
with the articles Of merchandise and carry
of ham. In the one case | take the MGR
chants time, and I take the time of his mes
senger to transfer the goods to my house,
while In the other case / take none of the
time Of the merchant, and l wait upon my
seR and l transfer the goods without any
trouble to him. In other words q sneak
thief is not so bad as man who contracts
for debts he never expects to pay.
Yet In all our cities there are families that
move every May day to get into proximity to
other grocers and meat shops and apotheca-
RES. They owe everybody within half milo
of where they now live, and next May they
Will move into a distant part of the
city, finding a new lot Of victims
the new house. are bothered day by
day by the knocking at the door Of
disappointed bakers, and butchers, and dry
goods dealers, and newspaper carriers, and
you are asked where your predecessor is.
You do not know. 1t was arranged you
should not know. Meanwhile your predeees-
sor has gone to some distant part of the city,
and the people who have anything to sell
have sent their wagons and stopped
there to solicit the valuable custom of the
new neighbor, and he the new neighbor,
with great complQcency and with an air Of
affuence, orders the finest steaks and the
highest priced sugars, and the best of the
ahned fruits, and, perhaps, all the news
papers. And the debts will keep On accumu-
lating until he gets his goods on the 30th of
naxt April in the furniture cart
Now, let me say, if there are any such per-
sons in the house, if you have any regard for
your own convcnienCes, you had better re-
move to some greatly distant part of the city.
1t is too bad that, having had all the trouble
of consuming the goods, YOU should also have
Gne trouble or De1ng dunnedI And let me SAY
that ii you lind that this pictures your own
photograph, instead of being in church you
onght to be in the penitcntiary. No wonder
that so many Of our merchants fail in business
They are swindled into bankruptcy by these
wandering Arabs, these nomads Of city life.
They Cheat the grocer out Of the green ap-
pies which mako them sick, the physician
who attends their Distress and the under
taker who fits them out for departure from
the neighborhood where they owe everybody
when they pay the debt of nature, the only
debt they ever do pay!
NOW our young men are coming I'D in this
depraYCd state Of commercial ethics, and
al aFY1f b,
them against being slaughtered on the sharp
edges OF debt. You want many things you
have not, my young friends. You shall have
them If you have patience and honesty and
industry. Certain lines Of conduct always
lead out to certain successes.
There is a law which controls even those
things that seem haphazard. | have been
told by those who have observed that it is
possible to calculate just how many letters
will be sent to the Dead Letter office every
year through misdirecion; that it is pos
sible to calculate lust how MANY let
ters will be detained for lack of post
age stamps through the forgetfulness Of
the senders, and that it is possible to tell iuN
how many people will fall i'll the streets by
slipping ON an orange peel. III other words,
there are no accidents. The most insignif-
cant event you ever heard OF is tho link be-
tween two eterniJios-thc eternity of the past
and the eternity Of the future. Head the
right way, young man, and you will come
out at the right goal
Bring mo young man and tell NE what
his physical health is, and what bis mental
caGber, and what his habits and will tell
you what will be his destiny for this world.
and his destiny for the world to come, and
will not make five inaccurate prophecies out
Of tho five hundred al this makes me
soicltious in regard to young men, and
want to make them nervous in regard to the
contraction Of unpayahle debts give
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