Milford chronicle., 1889-04-12
with you, not an inch above, and you in
straitened circumstances now.

EVERY MAN Has NATURAL EQUIPMENT
Herschel earned his living by playing a vio-
lin at parties, and in the interstices Of the
play he would go out and look up at the mid
night heavens, the fields of his immortal CON
quests George Stephenson rose from being
the foreman in a colliery to be the most re-
nowned of the world's engineers. No Ooutit, no
capital to start With Young man. 60 down
to the Mercantile library and get some books
and 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 dissecting room and illus
trate to you what you have read about,
and never again commit the blasphemy Of
saying you have no capital to start with.
Equippedl Why, the poorest 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 his wonderful soul-Oh, that is what
makes me solicitous l am not so much anx-
ious about you, young man, because you
have so little to do with, as l am anxious
about you because you have so 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. In
vited on all hands to drink, and their ex-
hausted nervous system seeming to demand
stimulus Their religion caricatured by
the most of the clerks in the store and most
Of the operatives in the factory. The rapids
of temptation and death rushing against that
young man forty miles the hour, and he in a
frail boat headed up stream, with nothing
but a broken oar 20 work with. Unless Al
mighty God help them they win go under.
Ahl when told you to take care of your.
self you misunderstood me if you thought
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 first gust of temptation. Here is the he'll
met, the sword of the 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
viii take you in safety through this life and
In transport through the next.
l never shall forget a prayer l heard
young man make some fifteen years ago 1t
was very short prayer, but it was a tre-
mendous prayer: "Oh Lord, help US. We
find it so very easy to do wrong and so hard
to do right Lord, help us" That prayer, 1
warrant you, reached the ear Of God and
house hundred men who have found out
a thousand young men, perhaps, who have
found out that very thing 1t is SO very easy
to do wrong, and so hard to do right.
got "A letter, only one paragraph Of which
/ shall read; Having moved around some
what have run across many young men of
intelligence. ardent strvers after that will-o-
the-wisp, fortune, and ofone Of these would
speak. He was young Englishman Of twen-
ty-three or four years. who came to New York.
where he had acquaintances with barely
sufficient to keep him a couple of weeks. He
had been tenderly reared; perhaps | should
say too tenderly, and was not used to earn
ing his living, and found it extremely diff
cult to get any position that he was capable
of filling. After many vain efforts in this
direction he found himself on Sunday even
ing in Brooklyn, near your church, with about
three dollars left of his small capital. Provi-
dence seemed to lead him to your door, and
be determined to go in and hear you
"TIe 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 listening to your
discourse his better nature got the mastery.
| truly believe from what this young man
told me that your sounding the depths of his
heart that night 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 mutitudes in the house.
| am not preaching an abstraction but a
great reality OH friendless young man,
OH prodigal young man, Oil broken heart
ed young man, discouraged young man,
wounded young man, l commend you to
Christ this day, the best friend man ever
had He meets 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, to your
mothers God, and get the pardoning blessing.
Now, while speak, you are at tho forks Of
the road and this is the right road, and that
Is the wrong road, and see you start on the
right road.
One Sabbath morning, at tho close Of my
service, ! saw gold watch of the world re-
nowned and deeply lamented violinist Ole
Bull You remember he died in his island
home of the coast Of Norway. That gold
watch he had wound upday after day through
his last Illness and then he said to his compan-
ion, snow | 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
be will keep it wound up until his life is done,
and then | want the watch to SO to his young
sou, my especial favorite."
The great musician, who more than any
other artist had made the violin speak and
sing and weep and laugh and triumph-for
it seemed when he drew the bow across the
strings as if all earth and heaven trembled in
delighted sympathy-the great musician, in a
ho LODI
| by his favorite instruments Of music, closed
his eyes in death While all the world was
mourning at his 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
/ IN amphitheatre 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
hillsides burst into tears.
Oh! that was the close of n life that had
/ done so much TO make the world happy. But
have to tell you, young man, if you live
right and die right, that was tame scene
compared with that which win greet you
when from the galleries of heaven the one
hundred and forty and four thousand shall
accord with Christ in crying, "Well done,
thou good and faithful servant"
! And the influences that on earth you put in
motion will 60 down from generation to gen
Grafton, the influences you wound up
handed TO your children, and their influences
wound up and handed to their children until
watch and clock are no more needed to mark
the progress, because time itself shall be no
longer.
They tell Of a judge in Bennington, Vt,
who, having spoken Of huying safe, was in
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