The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-04-19
EVIL INFLUENCES.
Dr.. Talmage Discourses on the
Temptations Of Young Men.
The Evil OF Reckless BorrOwing-A Picture
of City Life-The Day of Reckoning
Sure to Come-How to Remedy
the Evil.

Rev. 7. Dewitt Talmage in a recen
sermon at ST. Louis took for his subjec
"The Slaug hter," and his text Proverb.
vii. 81: AS an OK to the slaughter" II,
said:
There is nothing in the voics or in
the manner of the butcher to indicate
to the OK that there is death ahead.
The OK thinks he is going on to rich
pasture field of clover, where all day long
he will revel in the herbaceous luxuri-
ance; but after awhile the men and the
boys close in upon him with sticks and
stones and shouting, and drive him
through bars and into doorway, where
he Is fastened, and with a well aimed
stroke the axe fells him; and so the an.
ticipation of the redolent pasture field is
completely disappointed. So many q
young man has been driven on by tempta.
ton to what he thought would be para
disaical enjoyment; but after awhile in.
fuences with darker hue and swarthier
arm close in upon him, and he finds that
instead of making an excursion into a
garden he has been driven "as an OK to
the slaughter" ...
First-We are apt to blame young men
for being destroyed when we ought to
blame the influences that destroy them.
Society slaughters a great many young
men by the behest: "You must keep up
appearances; whatever be your salary
you must dress as we'll as others, you
must wine and brandy as many friends,
you must smoke as costly cigars, you must
give as expensive entertainments, and you
must live in as fashionable a boarding
house. Ii you haven't the money, borrow.
IL you can't borrow make false entry, or
subtract here and there bill from a bum
die of bank bills; you will only have to
make the deception a little while; in few
months, or in year or two, you can make
all right. Nobody will be hurt by it; no.
body will be the wiser. You yourself will
not be damaged" By that awful process
a hundred thousand men have been
for time and slaughtered for
eternity.
Suppose you borrow money. There is
nothing wrong about borrowing money.
There is hardly a man in the house but
has sometimes borrowed money. Vast es-
tates have been built on borrowed dollar.
But there are two kinds of borrowed
Money borrowed for the purpose
of starting or keeping up legitimate enter
prise and expense, and 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 coat, however plain, and then you
borrow money for a dandy's outfit you
have taken the first revolution of the
wheel down grade. Borrow for the lux
tips your prospects over in the
wrong direction.
The Bible distinctly says the borrower
Is servant of the lender. 1t is a bad state
Vt things when you have to go down some
other street to escape meeting some one
whom you owe. II young men knew what
is the despotism of being in debt more of
them would keep out of it What did debt
do for Lord Bacon, with a mind towering
above the centuries? 1t induced him to
lake brides and convict himself as a Grim.
inal before all the ages. What did debt do
Tor Walter Scott? Broken. hearted at Alb
Kept him writing until his hand
gave out in paralysis to keep the sheriff
AWAY from his pictures and statuary.
Better for him il he had minded the maxim
which he had chiseled over the fireplace at
A bbotsfOrd, "Waste not, want not"
The trouble is, my friends, the people do
not understand the ethics of going in debt,
md that If you purchase goods with no
of paying for them, or go into
iebts which you can not meet, you steal
Just SO much money. Ii go into a gro
GERS store and l buy sugars and coffees
and meats with no capacity to pay for
hem and no intention of paying for them,
am more dishonest than if go into the
'tore, and when the grocer's face is turned
he other way, l fill my pockets with the
articles of merchandise and carry of a
lam. In the one case take the merchants
time, and the time of his messenger to
ransfer the goods to my house. while in
he other case take none of the time of
he merchant and l wait upon myself,
md l transfer the goods without any
rouble to him. In other words, a sneak
hef is not so bad as a man who contracts
or debts he never expects to pay.
Yet in all our cities there are families
hat move every May day to get into prox-
nifty to other grocers and meatshops and
pothecaries. They owe everybody within
alf mile of where they now live, and
ext May they will move into a distant
art Of the city, finding a new lot of VIC
inns. Meanwhile you, the honest family
n the new house, are bothered day by day
y the knocking at the door of disap-
ointed bakers and butchers and dry
'oods dealers and newspaper carriers, and
'ou are asked where your predecessor is
on do not know. 1t was arranged you
hould not know. Meanwhile your pre-
ecessor has gone to some distant part of
be city, and the people who have any
hing to sell have sent their wagons and
topped there to solicit the valuable"
ustom Of the new neighbor, and he, the
lew neighbor, with great complacency
nd with an air Of affluence, orders the
nest steaks and the highest priced sugars,
nd the best Of the canned fruits, and per.
Till keep on accommodating until he gets
is goods on April 80 in the furniture cart
hey cheat the grocer out Of the green |
pples which makes them sick, the physi. |
ian who attends their distress, and the |
who fits them out for departure !
'om the neighborhood where they pay
,e debt of nature. the only debt they ever |
o pay!
Now, let me say, II there are any such in |
,e house, if you have any regard for your |
wn convenience, you had better remove |
} some greatly distant part of the city. |
is too bad that, having had all the
ouble Of consuming the goods, you
,ould also have the trouble Of being |
anned! And let me say that il you find |
lat this pictures your photograph, instead
being in church you ought to be in the
No wonder that SO many of |
II merchants fail in business. They are |
vindled into bankruptcy by these wan
sring Arabs, these nomads Of city life.
Now our young men are coming up in
lis depraved state Of commercial ethics,
nd am solicitous about them. want
warn them against being slaughtered
l the sharp edges Of debt You want
any things you have not my young
lends. You shall have them IL you have