Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-04-18

equipped as only the God of the whole uni
verse could afford TO equip him. Then his
body-a very poor affair compared with his
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 OF gain.
There Is no class of pershs 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 system seeming to de
mand 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 frail boat headed up stream
with nothing but broken oar TO work with
Unless Almighty God help them they will
90 under.
self you misunderstood me if you thought /
meant you are to depend upon human resolu-
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 tine
helmet, the sword of Lord God Al
mighty. Clothe yourself in that panoply and
you shall not be put to confusion. Sin pays
well neither in this world nor the next, bat
right thinking and right believing and right
acting will take you in safety through this
life and in transport through the next
never shall forget prayer 1 heard
young man make some fifteen years ago. It
was very short prayer, but ii was a tremend-
Gus prayer; 'Oh Lord help ms. We find it
so very easy TO do wrong and so hard to do
right Lord, helpus That prayer, warrant
you, reached the ear Of God, and reached
His heart And there are in this house a
hundred men who have found out-a thou
ot.l yl, ha.r
out that very thing. 1t is so very easy to do
wrong, and SO hard 10 do right
got letter, only one paragraph of which
l shall read: Having moved around some
what have run across many young men of
intelligence, ardent strivers after that will-o'-
the wisp, fortune, and of one OF these ! would
speak. He was a young Englishman of
twenty-three or four years, who came to
New York, where he had acquaintance,
with barely sufficient TO keep him
couple of weeks. He had
been tondcrly reared; perhaps / should
say too tenderly, and was not used to earning
his living, and found it extremely difficult to
get any position that he was capable of fill
ing. After many vain efforts in this direc-
tion he found himself on Sunday evening in
Brooklyn, near your church, with about
three dollars left of his small capital. Provi-
dence seemed to lead him to your door. and
he determined to go in and hear You.
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 tho 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.
The echo that is, of multitudos in the
house / am not preaching an abstraction,
but great reality. Oh friendless young
man. Oh prodigal young man, OH broken
hearted young man, discouraged young rnnn,
wounded young man, | commend you to
Christ this day, the best friend a man
ever had. He meets you this
S G blessing 6sDsp h no S So%s mo asGS r rG
ing in your soul; il is divinely lifted. Look
into the face of Christ. Lift one prayer to
your fathers God, to your mothers God and
get the pnrdoning blessing Now, while l
speak, You are at the 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 the close Of
my service, / saw a gold watch of the
world renowned and deeply lamonted
violinist Ole Bull You remember he died
in his island home off the coast OF Norway.
That gold watch he had wound up day after
day through his illness, and then he said TO
his companion: Now | want to wind this
watch - AplS Us fshis anu Nuci "utl 4 kAtiA
gone | want YOU TO keep il wound up until il
gets to my friend, DR.. Doremus in Now
York, and then he win keep il wound up until
his life is done, and then | want the watch to
go 20 his younger son, my especial faVorite."
The great musician, who more than any
other artist had made the violin speak and
sing aud weep and laugh and triumph-for
it seemed when he drew the bow across tho
strings as il all the earth and heaven
tTembled in delighted sympathy-the great
musician, in a room looking off upon the sea-
and surrounded by his favorite instruments
of music, closed his eyes in death
While all the world was mourning
at his departure, sixteen crowded steam
ers fell into line of funeral procession to carry
his body 10 the main land. There We're fifty
thousand Of his countrymen gathered in an
nmphitheatre Of the hills waiting TO hear the
culogium, and it was said when the great
orator of the day with stentorian voice be-
gan 10 speak, the fifty thousand people ON the
hillsides burst into tears.
Oh that Tas tho close of a life that had
done so much TO make the world happy. But
have to tell you, young man, II you live
right and die right, that was tame scene
compared with that which will greet you
when from the galleries of heaven the one
,lurdrcd 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 go down from generation TO gem
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.
THE new crop of babies shows that
there has been change of administra-
ton. W. J. Dennis, of Baltimore, is
in receipt of the following note from
Private Secretary Halford an the
of his duties am directed by
the President to thank you for the re-
spect you evidence in naming your in
FAINT son Benjamin Harrison Dennis
and to express the hope that he may
be a comfort to his parents and an
honor to his country"
THE Connecticut Legislature has
passed law providing that no person
shall sell rive or deliver To any minor !