The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-05-13

source OF much OF tho Indebtedness and
sin of the world.
know there arc exceptions to il some.
times From bright and beautiful
Christian home husband or a son will go
out TO die. Oh, how long you had that
boy in your prayersl lie does not know
how many sleepless nights you have spent
over him. He does not understand how
many tears you have shed for his way
wardness. Oh, IL is hard, after you have
toled for a child, and given him every adj
vantage and every kindness, TO have him
pay you back in ingrattude! As one
Sabbath morning q father came to the foot
of the pulpit as stepped out OF it, and
said, 20 my son, my son, my SON!
There is many young man proud oil his
mother, who would strike into the dust
any man who would insult her, who is at
this moment himself, by his evil doing
and his bad habits, sharpening dagger to
plunge through that mothers heart. A
telegram brought him from aiar. lilo went
bloated and Scared into the room and he
stood by the liioess form OF his mother.
lIor hair gray; 1t had turned gray in
sorrow. Those eyes had wept Hoods OF
tears over his wandering. Thatstill white
hand had done him many q loving kind
ness and had written many loving invl-
tation and good counsel. lie had broken
her old heart He came into the room
and threw himself on tho casket and
sobbed outright; Mother motherl' but
those lips that had kissed him in infancy
and uttered so many kind words spake
not; they were sealed Rather than have
such memory come on my soul, ! would
prefer 10 have roll over on mo the Alps
aud the lIimalaya.
But while sometimes there aro sons who
turn out very badly coming from good
homes, | want to tell you for your cncour-
agcmont il Is q great exception. Yet an
unhappy aud undisciplined home is tho
poisonous caldron from which vast null
lilude drink their death.
9, | remark that another caldron OF
iniquity is an indolcnt life. All the rall
trains down the Hudson River yesterday,
all the rail trains ON the pennsylvania
| Route, all the trains on the Long Island
! Road brought TO these cities young men
| 10 begin commercial life. Some OF them
are here this morning ] doubt not. DO
| Won know what one of your great tempta.
lions is going 20 boz II * the example OF
indolont people in our cities. They arc IN
all ou- cities. They dress boltor than
some who are industrious. They have
| Access 10 all plnccs oi amusement plenty
OF money, and yet idle. They hang
around our great hotels-tho Fllth Ave-
nue., tho Windsor, the Brunswick, the
SluyVesant the Gilscy llOuso-all our
beautiful hotels, you find them around
there any day men who do nothing,
never earn anything, yet well dressed,
having plenty Why should walk?
Why should you work. Why drudge
and toll in bank and shop aud Office, or ON
the scallolng or by the anvil, when
these men got along 30 well aud do not
work.
Some Of them hang around the city halls
OF our great cities, toothpick in thcll
mouth, waiting Tor some crumb To lall
from tho Oficr-holdcr's table. some OF
them hang around the city hall for the
city van bringing criminals from the
slation-hodscs. They stand here and glOat
over it-really enjoy the disgrace aud sui.
itring Oi those poor creatures rs they get
out Of the city van and 90 into the courts.
Where do they get their money? That
IL what YOU ask. That is what ! ask.
Only four ways Of getting money -only
four. by inheritance, 10y earning II, 10y
begging il, 10y stealing IT, and there are
vast multitude among MS who got their
living not los inheritance, nor by earning
| Il, nor by begging 1t. | do not Ike 10 TAX,
the responsibility Of saying how they ~
! iu
Now, these men arc constant tcmptn
iion. Why should ! toll aud wear myself
out iu the bank, or the oilicc. o. the store,
or the shop, or the iactoryl These men
have nothing 10 do. They get along d
great deal better Aud that h the temp
iu,ion under which great many young
men fall. They begin Ia consurt viii
those men, these idIvrs, and they 90 down
the same awful sleeps. The number %
| men la our cities VINO are trying 10 go
/ their living boy their wits and 10y slight q
| hand b. all the time increasing.
A New York merchant saw n younl
| man, one Of biz clerks. la half disguise
going into q very low place Of amusement
The merchant said tD himsclE 81 mus
look out for that clerk; hc is going la haI
company and going iu bad places. ! mus
look out ior him. A few months pas,c
on, and one morning the merchant cu
tered his storc. and this clerk oi whom
have been speaking came up in assume
cunsirrnutiun aud said. ooh, sir, the stor
ha. been on iiw | have put out the iir'
but there are a great many goods lost; "
have had great crowd ol people comm
aud going" Then the merchant took III
clcrl by the collar aud slid. 81 have ha
, enough OF this, YOU cannot deceive mi
whore arr those goods you stplcf' III
/ Young man instantly confessed his villain
f, q the numbers Of people iu these gre
! cities Who are trying To get their llyii
!. not honestly Aud they are nigh
] tcmpiation 10 the industrious young mi
who cnunot understand H. While tie
others have - easy they have IL
!, hard. lluuiius ni uilcn time was to
" thai be- could have just o. much grJui
ag be- cuuld pillow around boz ono day.
r hooked up The oxen 60 the pillow and
IA cut very large cIrrl0 and ploWcd until
7. came Go Che tJmU point where be- Htaric
" and ull that property was bis. but hn
I, tn tril YOU today tia. Just sp much tina
"A cinl, just 30 much moral, just ~ mu
spiritual possession YOU viii hayo as y
compass with your own Industries, o.
. Just No much ns from the morning oi go
y. lie to the evening oi your ltic YOU G
=. pillow around with your oNn hard wol
T. Go 10 the ant, thou s'ugmrd. coua,
her NAYS and be- wise ono of thc m
~ awful callrons Of death today is au iu.
a, lent life Thank God that you have
y, work.
n, o Onco moro rcmafk that the lr
nm shop j. "a great clllron ct iniguily in ,
ht time. Aulchluls said that the vine bl
io three grapes ,ho hut va, pleasure
In next was dunkrnnr.s, aud thu next u
ip IJy Every saloon above ground or uu'
ii Fuuud is n i0uptin OF iniqu,ty. 10 a.
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