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

Ie rlBnb Why, young u1oiA7 e1AN% - |
come out at the right goa|
Bring mo a young man ana ten me
WHIT his physical health is, and What ms
mental caliber, and what his habits, ana
1 will tell YOU what will be his destiny
for this world, and his destiny Ior the
world to come, and 1 Will not make n10
inaccurate prophesies out OF the nVe nun
dred. All this makes me solicitous IN
regard to young men, and want 10 Hie.A0
them nervous in regard to the contraetloh
Of unpayable debts. 1 give you para
graph from my own experience.
My first settlement as pastor was IN d /
village. My salary was eight huhoreo
dollars and a parsonage. Inc aLhounU
seemed enormous to me. SAID 10 my
self: ''Whatl all this for one Year,"
was afraid of getting worldly under 50
much prosperity 1 resolved to invite ali
the congregation to my house in groups
| of twenty five each. We began, and as
/ they were the best congregation In the
/ world, and we felt nothing was too good
/ for them, we piled all the tuxuries on the
/ table. 1 never completed the undertaK-
4 ing At the end of six months l was IN
/ financial despair. l found what every
young man learns in time to save him.
self, or too late, that you must measure
| the size OF a mans body before you Degln
to cut the cloth for his coat.
When n young man wilfully and OF
choice having the comforts of life, goes
into the contraction of unpayabie debts
he knows not into what he goes. The cred
itors get after the debtor, the pack OF
hounds in full cry, and alas! for the REIN
deer. They Jingle his door bell before he
gets up in the morning, they jingle ms
door bell after he has gone to bed at
night They meet him as he comes on MS
front steps. They send him postal caro-
or letter, in curtest style, telling him TO
pay ND. They attach his goods. They
want cash, or a note at thirty days, or
note on demand. They call him knave.
They say he lies. They want him dis
ciplined at the church. They want him
turned out of the bank. They come at
him from this side, and from that sloe,
and from before, and from behlno, ana
from above, and from beneath, and he is
insulted and gibbeted, and sued, and
, dunned, and sworn at, until he gets the
( nervous dyspepsia, gets neuralgia, gets
, liver complaint, gets heart disease, gets
convulsive disorder, gets consumption.
Now he is dead, and you say; "Ot
course they will let him alone" Oh, no
I Now they are watchful to see whether
there are any unnecessary expenses a.
the obseuuies, to see whether there is any
| useless handle on the caSket, to see
I whether there is any surplus plait on the
shroud, to see whether the hearse Is cost
, ly or cheap, to see whether the flowers
! sent to the casket have been bought by
the family or donated, to see in whose
name the deed to the grave is made out
= Then they ransack the bereft household
\ the books, the pictures, the carpets, th'
II ! chairs the piano, the mattresses, the pill
| low on which he dies. Cursed be debt
X. For the sake of your own happiness, TO
. the sake of your good morals, for the SAX
a OF your immortal soul, for Gods sake
young man, as far as possible, keep ou
II Of it.
"a .. But I think more young men ar
. slaughtered through irreligion. Tax
"a away young mans religion and yo
a. make him the prey of evil. We all know
~ that the Bible is the only perfect syster
~ Of morals. Now if you want to destro
10 the young mans morals take his B1ol
70 away. How will you do that? Well yo
n will caricature his reverence for I'll
10 Scriptures, you will take all those Incl
at dents OF the Bible which can be mad
.is mirth of-Jonah's whale, SamsOn's foxe
be Adams rib-then you will caricature e'
~ centric Christians or inconsistent Chris
he tians then you will pass off as your oW
e. all those hackneyed arguments again
~ Christianity which are as old as To
Paine, as old as Voltaire, as old as si
,1e Now you have captured his Bible, and yC
in have taken his strongest fortress; Il
itb way is comparatively clear, and all Il
20 ! gates of his soul are set open in lnvltati'
on to the sins OF earth and the sorrows
, n death, that they may come in and dri
Of the stake for their encampment.
,av A steamer fifteen hundred miles fro
FOR shore with broken rudder and lost COZ
ro pass, and hulk leaking fifty gallons t
zoe hour, is better off than a young man VIII
cts YOU have robbed him of his Bi BILE. Ha
rrv YOU ever noticed how despicably men II
the to take away the worlds Bible withC
OF proposing a substitute? 1t is mean
to than to come to a sick man and steal
,Le medicine, meaner than to come to a CT
/ I pie and steal nls crutch, meaner th
the come to a pauper and steal his cru
In meaner than to come to poor man q
,od | Iurn his house down. 1t is the worse
YER all larcenies to steal the Bible, which
been the crutch and medicine and Il
lies and eternal home to so manyI Wha
OK generous and magnanimOus business
,ns fidelity has gone into! This splitting
odv Of life-boats and taking away of fire
i've, capes and eXtinguishing lighthouses.
lis come out and l say to such peoI
of s'What are you doing all this for!" 20
am they say, 'just for fun" 1t is such fun
2 bv see Christians try to hold on to Il
ap- Biblesl Many of them have lost 10
lrv- ones, and have been told that there j
ers. resurrection, and it is such fun to
ssor them there viii be no resurrecuonl M
,ped of them have believed that Christ cam
your carry the burdens aud to heal the wOu
part / of the world, and it is such fun to
any | them they will have to be their
and ! Saviourl Think of the meanest thing
bleU ever heard of; then go down thous
the feet underneath it, and you viii find "
oncv self at the top of a stairs hundred m
the long;go to che bottom of the stairs, and
iced will find a ladder thousand miles lC
uits then go to the foot of the ladder aud
And of a precipice half as far as from her
until China, and you viii find the heOdquar
pril of the meanness that would rob this W
of its only comfort in life, its only D,
such in death aud its only hope for immor
v re- ty. Slaughter a young mans faitl
! had God, and there is not much more lei
slant slaughter.
bav- Now, what has become Of the sla
2 the tered? Well, some of them are in thei
ouble theirs or mothers house broken dow
lat if health, waiting to die; others il
boto- / hospital: others are in Greenwood
you rather, their bodies are TOT their
Won have gone on 10 retributOn. Not /
nil in prospect for a young man who started
bank with good health, and good educa
these and a Christian example set him, an,
3 gro portunity of usefulness, who gathere
made his treasures and put them in one
tends and then dropped it it into the sea.
: who Now, how is this Wholesale slaught
a the be stoppedg There is not a person
body house but is interested in that que,
,, the Young man, arm yourself. The obj
nv sermon is to put weapon in ea
M in your hands for your own defense
thicss not for Young Mems Chrlstlah ass
want tons to protect you or churches 10
ltered tect you. Appealing to God for help
want care Of yourself.
young First have room somewhere th'
u have can call your own. Mhether II 2
Ger back parlor of a fashionable boar
out to house or a room in the fourth stor.
cheap lodging, care not Only hav
n-nr nrn room, rnrlr fnrtress Let not th