West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-04-18
YOUNG MAN. BEWARE.
AS AN OK To THE SLAUGHTER.
Dr. Do Witt Taimage Preaohes in
st. Louis

TKxr: as an or TO the slaughter w.
Proverbs vii, 81.
There is nothing in the voice or manner of
tho butcher TO indicate TO tho OK that there
IL death ahead. Tho OK thinks he Is going ON
TO rich pasture field of clover, where ali day
long he will revel IN tho herbaccons luxtiri-
nnce; but after n while the men and the boys
close in upon him with sticks and stones and
shouting, and drive him through bars and
into doorway, where be is fastened and
with well aimed stroke the AK fells
him; and SO the anticipation OF the redolent
pasture field is completely disappointed. So
many young man has been driven ON by
temptation TO what he thought would be
paradisiacal enjoyment; but after a while in
huences with darker hue and swarthier erm
close in upon him, and he finds that instead
OF making an excursion into garden he has
been driven us an OK to the Slaughter
1. We. arc apt 10 blame young men for
being destroyed when we ought TO blame tho
influences that destroy them Society
siaughters great many young men by the
pehest; You must keep up appearances;
Wnatever be your salary, you must dress as
wei as others, you must wine and brandy rs
many friends, you must smoke as costly
cigars, you must give as expensive entertain
ments, and you must live I'm as fashionable q
boarding house. If you haven't the money,
borrow. IL you can't borrow make false
entry, or substract here and thero a bill from
bundle OF bank bills you viii only have TO
make the deception a little while; in n few
months, or in a year or two you can make
all right. Nobody will be hurt by it; nobody
viii be tho wiser You yourself will not bo
damaged" BY that awful process hundred
thousand men have been slaughtered for
Time and slaughtered for eternity.
suppose you borrow. There Is nothing
wrong about borrowing money There Is
hardly man in the house but has sometimes
borrowed money. Vast estates has been built
ON borrowed dollar But there are two
Kinds OF borrowed money. Money borrowed
-.
Up legitimate enterprise and expense
and money borrowed 10 get that which
you can do without. Tho first
IS right, the other is wrong. II you have
money enough of your own TO buy coat,
however plain, and then you borrow money
Tor dandy's outfit, you have taken the first
revolution OF the wheel down grade. Borrow
Tor the necessities; that may be well. Borrow
Tor the luxuries; that tips your prospects over
In the wrong direction.
The Bible distinctly sa-s the borrower is
servant of the lender It is a bad state of
Things when you have to go down some other
street 20 escape meeting some ono whom YOU
owe. III young men knew what is the despot-
out OF it. What did debt do for
Lord Bacon, with mind towering
ABOVE the centuriesi IL induced him
20 take brides and convict himself
as criminal before all ages. What did debt
do for Walter Scott9 Broken hearted at
Abbotsford. Kept him writing until his
hand gave out in paralysis TO keep the sheriff
away from his pictures and statuary Better
Tor hun II he had minded the maxim which
s nc 1aa cniseied over the fireplace at Abbots-
ford: Waste not, want notn
The trouble is, my friends the people do
not understand the ethics of going In debt
and that II you purchase goods with no ex,
Pectation OF paying for them, or go into
oeDss winch you cannot meet you steal just
80 much money. II go into a grocer's store.
and buy sugars and coffees and meats, with
no capacity to pay for them and no inten-
1on OF paying for them, am more
wlshonest than if go into
face is turned the other way fill nv pockets
with the articles of merchandise and carry
OH ham. In the one case take the mer-
chants time, and take the time Of his mes
senger to transfer the goods to my house.
wnlie IN the other case take none of the
time OF the merchant, and wait upon my
sell, and transfer the goods without anv
trouble to him. In other words n sneak
thief Is not so bad as a man who contracts
Tor debts he never expects to nav.
Het in all our cities there are families TINT
move every May day TO get into proximity To
other grocers and meat shops and apotheco-
rles. They owe everybody within hnif a mile
OK where they now live, and next MAY they
wlh move into a distant part OF tina
city, finding a new lot of victims
!m.eanwhile you, the honest family In
the new house, are bothered dav bv
day by the knocking at the door Of
disappointed bakers, and butchers, and dry
You are asked where your predecessor is
you DO not know. 1t was arranged Won
should not know. Meanwhile your predeces
sor has gone to some distant part of the CITY.
hnn tne people who have anything to sell
nave sent their wagons and stoned
there TO solicit the valuable custom III the
new neighbor, and he, the new neighbor.
with great complacency and with an air OF
astluence orders the finest steaks and the
nsghess priced sugars, and the best OF tho
canned nuits, and, perhaps all the news
papers And the debts win keep on accumu-
iatng until he gets his goods on the Roth ~
next April in the furniture cart.
NOW, let me say, if there are any such per-
sons IN tne house, II you have any regard for
your own conveniences, you had better re-
move to some greatly distant part Of the citv.
II Is too bad that, having had all The tronhle
OF consuming the goods. vou should also have
the trouble Of being dunnedi And let me sav
snfe II you find that this pictures your own
instead OF being in church you
osgnJ TO be in the penitentiarv No wonder
anat 50 many Of our merchants fail in bushes
1ney are swindled into bankruptcy bv fbeee
wandering Arabs, these nomads Of CITY life
. a,aey eheat the grocer out Of the green APP
who attends their distress and tie ,nJo-.
t.fkef who fits them out for departure from
the nelghborhood whore they owe evervbodv
"hen they pay the debt Of nature the onJv
debt they ever do paw
NO" our young men are coming up in tl,is
deprayed state Of commercial ethics and I
nm soiicitOus about them. i want fo svorn
tnem against being slaughtered ON tho sborn
stuees or oeDt You want many things Won
nave not my young friends. You shnii have
ti,l ~ you have patience and honesty and
5Inussstiy. certain lines Of conduct always
ita1 out - certain successes
. There Is law which controls oven tbcso
sh,,nRs tnat seem haphazard i have been
toid ~ those who have observed that h e.
Po.slbio y calculate Just how many letter
VII pe sent - the Dead Letter office every
ysef thrOugh misdirection: that It IA No.
.lDie - calculate just how many -
,efe VII Dc detained Tor lack III 49,
ago slomps through the f0rVeffiinoe5 -
ne aeuders. and that 10 is possible H. foIi fut
now many people will fan in the sfreofe h.,
fiPpin8 90 an orange peel. In other vyordg
mere are no accidents. Tho moqt fnsi0nfG,
totJ event you ever heard Of IA tho Iink -
s"een Two etefuities-the eternity Of tie f,o.gf
ma tho eternity Of The future. Head the
1ght way, young man, and you win co,roe
out az The right goal
Dfin8 fne p young man and ten me vybot
,ls physical health Us and whit III. roerfeI
-lipef, nnn what his habits and xiii Ell
you what wiz De- hig destiny for fiis e,@.rId
~ his destiny for the world b. como o1.df
VII not mako Eve inaccurate rrouho,.i,. 80
oi the I'VE hundred Am 0is fosfoe ~
.ohfitlou8 in regord to y0ung mon sr,i
want 70 make them nnrvofta fr 1919 - "a /