The national leader., 1889-04-27

| any regard Tor your own convenience.
you had better remove 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 the trouble of being dunnedl And
let me say that if you find that this
pictures your own photograph. instead
Of being in church
YOU OUGHT TO BE IN THE PENITEN-
TIARYl
No wonder that so many of our mer-
chants 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 apples which make them
sick, the physician who attends their
distress, and the undertaken who fits
them out for departure from the neigh
borhood where they owe everybody,
when they pay the debt Of nature, the
only debt they eUer do pGyl
Now our young men are coming up
in this depraved state Of commercial
ethics, and am solicitous about them.
I want to warn 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 results.
There is a law which controls even those
THINGS THAT SEEM HAPHAZARD.
I have been told by those who have OBJ
served that it is possible to calculate
Just how many letters will be sent to
the Dead Letter Office every year
through misdirection; that it is possible
to calculate just how many letters will
be detained for lack of postage stamps
through the fOrgetfulness of the send
ers; and that it is possible to tell just
how many people will fall in the streets
by slipping on orange peel. In other
words, there are no accidents, The
most insignificant event you ever heard
of is the link between two eternities-
the eternity of the past and the
eternity of the future. Head the
right way, and you Will come out at
the right goal.
Bring me young man and tell me
what his physical health is, and what
his mental calibre. and what his habits,
and l 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
the five hundred. All this makes me
solicitouS In regard to young men, and
| want to make them nervous in re-
gard to the contradiction or unpayable
debts. give you paragraph from
MY OWN EXPERIENCE.
My flrst settlement as pastor was in
village. My salary was $500 and a
parsonage. The amount seemed enor-
nous to me. l said to myself, "Whatl
all this for one yearp' was afraid of
getting worldly under so much pros
perity! / resolved to invite all the con-
gregation to my house in groups of
twenty-five each. We began, and as
they were the best congregation in all
the world, and we felt nothing was too
good for them, we piled all the luxu-
ries OH the table. l never completed
the undertaking. At the end of six
months 1 was in financial despair. ]
found, what every young man learns in
time to save himself, or too late, that
you must measure the size of mans
body before you begin to cut the cloth
for his coat.
When young man wilfully and of
choice. having the comforts of life,
goes into the contraction Of unpayable
debts, he knows not into what he goes.
The creditors get after the debtor. the
pack of
HOUNDS IN FULL CRY,
and alas! for the reindeer. They jingle
his door-bell before he gets up in the
morning, they jingle his door-bell after
he has gone to bed at night. They
meet him as he comes off his front
steps. They send him postal card, or
a letter, in curtest style, telling him to
pay up. They attach his goods. They
want cash, or note at thirty days, or
a note on demand. They call him a
knave. They say he lies. They want
him disciplined at the church. They
want him turned out of the bank.
They come at him from this side, and
from that side. and from before, and
from behind, and from above, and from
beneath, and he is insulted and glib
beted, and sued, and dunned. and
sworn at, until he gets the nervous
dyspepsia, gets neuralgia, gets liver
complaint, gets heart disease, gets con-
vulsive disorder, gets consumption.
Now he Is dead, and you say: "Of
course they will let him alonep" On,
no! Now they are watchful to see
whether there are any unnecessary ex-
penses at the obsequies, to see whether
there is any useless handle on the cas-
ket, to see whether there is any surplus
| piait on tho ChrOrd IN Goa whathor tha
hearse Is costly or cheap. to see
whether the flowers sent to the casket
have been bought by the family or do
mated, to see in whose name the deed
to the grave is made out. Then they