The national leader., 1889-04-27

your ear, and then ask some doctor TO
take you into the dissecting room and
illustrate to yoa what you have read
about, and never again commit the
blasphemy Of saying you have no
CAPITAL TO START WITH.
Equipped Why, the poorest young
man In this house Is equipped as only
the God of the whole universe could
afford to equip him. Then his body-a
very poor affair compared with his
wonderful soul-oh, that is what makes
me solicitous. l am not so much anx-
ious about you, young man. because
you have 80 little to do with, as I am
anxious about you because you have
much to risk, and lose or gain.
There is no class or persons that so
stir my sympathles as young men In
great cities. Not quits enough salary
to live on, and all the tsEptations that
come from that deficit. Invited on all
hands to drink, and heir exhausted
nervous system seeming to demand
stimulus. Their religbn caricatured
by the most of the clel Ks in the store
and most of the operators in the fac
tory.
THE RAPIDS OF TEMPTATION
and death rushing against that young
man forty miles an hoEf, and he in
frail boat headed up stream, with moth
ing but a broken car TO work with.
Unless Almighty God ht r them they
will 90 under. Ahl when told you
to take care of yourself y u misunder-
stood me if you thought ! meant you
are to depend upon human resolution,
which may be dissolved in the foam of
the wine cup, or may bF blown out
with the first gust of temptation. Here
Is the helmet, the sword VI the Lord
God Almighty. Clothe you. self In that
panoply, and you shall not be put to
confusion. Sin pays we'll neither in
this world nor the next, but right
thinking, and right believing, and act
ing will take you in safety through
this life, and in transport through the
next.
never shall forget a prayer L heard
young man make some fifteen years
ago. 1t was very short prayer. but
it was a tremendous prayer: "Oh
Lord, help us. We find 1t so very
easy to do wrong, and so hard to do
right. Lord, help us.'' That prayer.
l warrant you, reached the ear of God,
and reached His heart. And there are
In this house hundred men who have
found out-a 1000 young men, perhaps,
who have found out-that very thing.
It is so easy to do wrong, and so hard
to do right.
l got a letter, only one paragraph of
which I shall read: "Having moved
around somewhat l have run across
many young men of intelligence. ar
dent strivers after that will-o'-the-
wisp, fortune, and of one of these I
would speak. He was
YOUNG ENGLIsHMAN
of twenty three or four years, who
came to New York, where he had ac-
quaintances, with barely sufficient to
keep him a couple of weeks. He had
been tenderly reared; perhaps should
say too tenderly. and was not used to
earning his living, and found 1t ex-
tremely difficult to get any position
that he was capable of filling. After
many vain efforts in this direction he
found himself one Sunday evening in
Brooklyn, near your church, with about
three dollars left of his small capital.
Providence seemed to lead him to your
door, and he determined to go in and
hear you.
HE told me his going to hecr you
that night was undoubtedly the turn
ang-poant IN his life, for when he went
into your church he felt desperate, but
while listening to your discourse his
better nature got the mastery. 1 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 multitudes in
the house. 1 am not preaching an alb
straction. but
GREAT REALITY.
Obi friendless young man, Oil prodi>
gal young man, Ohl broken-hearted
young man, discouraged young
man, wounded young man, 1 COM
mend you 10 Christ this day, the
best friend man ever had. He meets
you this morning. You have come
here for this blessing. Despise not that
emotion rising in your soul; it is di-
vinely lifted. Look into the face OF
Christ. Lift one prayer to your faith
er's God, to your mothers God, and
get the pardoning blessing. Now,
while speak, you are at the forks of
the road.
One Sabbath morning, at the close
of my service. saw gold watch of
the world-renowned and deeply la
mented violinist Ole Bull. You re-
member 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 COM
panion, Nov 1 want to wind this
watch as long as can, and then when