The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-04-19

han you would allow COBRA 10 coll on
your table.
Take care of yourself. Nobody else
will take care Of you. Your help Will not
come up two or three or four flights OF
stairs; your help will come through tne
roof, down from Heaven, from that zoo
who in the six thousand years or the
worlds history never betrayed young
man who tried to be good and Chrlstlan'
Let me say in regard to your adverse
worldly circumstances, in passing, that
Won are on a level now with those who are
finally to succeed. Mark my Words'
Young man, and think of it thirty years
from now. You will find that those VINO
thirty years from now are mllllonalres OF
this country, who are the orators OF the
country, who are the poets of the country
who are the strong merchants OF Ine
country, who are the great philanthroplst rs
of the country-mightiest in Church ana
State-are this morning on level WIN /
you, not an inch above, and you IL
straightened circumstances now.
Herschel earned his living by playing
violin at parties, and in the 1ntersuces OF
the play he would go out and look up az
the midnight heavens, the fields OF ms
immortal cOnquests. George Stephe nson
rose from being the foreman IN colIlery
to be the most renowned of the worlds
engineers. No outfit, no capital 20 start
with! Young man, go down to the Mer-
camille Library and get some books ana
read of what wonderful mechanism OO0
gave you in your hand, in your 1ooI III
your eye, in your ear, and then ask SONS
doctor to take you into the dlssect1hg
room and illustrate to you what you have
read about, and never again commit the
blasphemy of saying you have no capital
to start with Equipped! Why, the poor
! est young man IN this house is equipped
! as only the God of the whole universe
could afford to equip him. Then ms Dooy
"A very poor affair compared with ms
wonderful sOul-oh, that is what MAKES
me solicitous. 1 am not so much anxious
| about YOU. Young man, because you have
so little to do with, as I am anxious ABOUT
Won because YOU have much to risk and
| lose OF gain.
There is no class of persons that so stir
my sympathies as young men IN great
cities Not quite enough salary to i've
on, and all the temptations tha1 COME
from that deficit. Invited on all hands 10
drink. and their exhausted nervous sys-
tenn seeming to demand stimulus. Their
religion caricatured by the most OF the
clerks in the store and most of the opera
tives in the factory. The rapids OF temp
tation and death rushing against tnat
Young man forty miles the hour, and ne
in a frail boat headed up stream, with
nothing but a broken oar to work with.
Unless Almighty God help them GSy Will
go under.
All! when I told you to take care Of
yourself you misunderstood me II you
thought me ant you are to depend upon
human resolution, which may De as
solved in the foam of the wine cup, OF
may be blown out with the hrst gust OF
, temptation. Here is the helmet, the
sword of Lord God Almighty. Clothe
t Yourself in that panOply, and you shall
not be put to confusion. Sin pays well
, | Deither in this world nor the next but
Q right thinking, and right believing, anc
i right acting will take you In sarety
? through this life and in transport through
4 the next
Y Inever shall forget prayer 1 heard I
3 vounp man make some fifteen years ago
Il 1t was very short prayer, but it was
q tremendous prayer: "Oh, Lord help US
= We find it so very easy to dong Wroni
o and SO hard to do right. Lord, help US
5, That prayer, warrant you, reacned Tn
: ear of God, and reached his heart. An
i there are in this house hundred me
n who have found Out-a thousand youn
Il men. perhaps, who have found out tina
N very thing. 1t is so very easy to do wrong
4. and so hard to do right.
u got a letter, only one paragraph c
le which I shall read: Shaving move
le around somewhat, 1 nave run acros
N many young men of intelligence, ardeI
OF | EtTlTerS aLbbE AndL WIFI wv ~ -
7e me. and OF one Of these would speal
He was a young Englishman OF twenty
m three or twenty-four years, who came
n New York, where he had acquaintance
no ! with barely sufficient to keep him coup
an of weeks, He had been tenderly reared
We perhaps I should say too tenderIy-aI
is was not used to earning his own hvln
Mt and found it extremely difficult to get al
er position that he was capable or Min
lis After many vain efforts in this direeti'
D. he found himself, on Sunday evening,
an BROOKLYN, near your church, with apo
St three dollars left of his small capit'
nd providence seemed to lead him to 20
Of door, and he determined to go in and he
las you. ,.. =,
,od 'eHe told me his going to hear you tn
a night was undoubtedly the turning pol
in in his life, for when he went into yo
mn church he felt desperate, but while llste
as ing to your discourse his better natU
got the mastery. l truly believe, fr'
le: what this young man told me, that 20
J. - sounding the depths Of his heart Il
/ TO night alone brought him back to his
cir whom he was so near leaving"
red The echo, that is, of multitudes In
) a house. l am not preaching an abstr
tell ton, but a great reality. Oh! fr1endl
INV young man, oh prOdigal young man,
, to broken-hearted young man, discoural
nds Young man, wounded young man, L co
tell mend you to Christ this day, the b
,wn friend man ever had. He meets you
you morning. You have come mere IoF
and blessing. Despise not that emotion rls
,ur- in your soul; it is divinely lifted. l.
lies into the face of Christ. Lift one pra
YOU to your fathers God, to your mothe
NO: God, and get the pardoning bless1
ook Now, while 1 speak, yo1 are at the 70
Q to of the road, and that is the wrong re
ters and see you start on the right road.
orld One Sabbath morning, at the clos
,ace my service, l saw gold watch OF
ALI world renowned and deeply lamen
in violinist Ole Bull. You remember
{ 10 died in his island home of the coas
Norway. That gold watch he had wo
1gh- up day after day through his Illness,
IA then he said to his companion: 'No
!, in want to wind this watch as long as I
the and then when 1 am gone want yO
or keep it wound up until it gets to my fri'
.ou1s Dr. Doremus, in New York, and the
ouch will keep it wound up until his Iii
life done, and then 1 want the watch to g
ton. his young son, my especial favorite."
~, The great musician, who more than
a an other artist had made the violin speak
bo~ sing and weep and laugh and trium
for it seemed when he drew the
4. across the strings as il all the earth
49,, Heaven trembled in delighted symp
49,, the great musician, in a room loo
,ct of of upon the sea, and surrounded b.
ch OF taVorl'e lnSti - "a
Wait eyes IN oea1. le L.I-t,7rs e. rt siv 81
ocia- - n,ars felI iY,fr1 line Of f11T
pro- I Drocession ~ carry his body to the ]
take land. There were fifty thousand Of
countrymen gathered in an amphitht
4 Won of the hills waiting to hear the eulOg
e the ana y was salu Wnen tne sea- sea- ~ SsI ..
ding we Wv 5ft, tbo11Srd 0eonIe -
of a b5IIsi5es hurst into tears.
e that OH that wns the close Of a life
e dis | had done so much to make the world