The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1889-04-10

1 FIRMLY refuse them admittance. Have few
family portraits on the wall, II you brought
them with You from your country home.
Have Bible on thestand. II you can afford
itand you can play on one, have an instru
mepto Of music, harp or flute, or cornet, OF
melodeon, or violin, or piano Every morn.
/ ing before you leave that room, pray
Every night after you come home 10 tha,
room, pray. Mako that home your Gibral
tar, your Sebastopol, your Mount Zion. Lei
no bad book or newspaper come into that
room, any more than you would allow O
cobra TO coil on your table.
Take care Of yourself Nobody else will
take care Of you. Your help will not como
up two or three or four flights OF stairs;
your help will come through tho roof,
down from Heaven, from that God who In
the six thousand years Of the worlds his
tory never betrayed young man who tried
10 be good and Christian. Lot me say In
regard TO your adverse worldly circum.
stances, In passing, that you are on level
now with those who are finally to succeed.
Mark my words, young man, and think Of
It thirty years from now. You win find
those who thirty years from now are the
millionaires OF the country, who are the
orators Of the country, who are the poets
Of the country, who are the strong
merchants OF the country, who are the great
philanthropists OF the country--mightiest
In church and state-are this morning on n
level with you, not an inch above, and you
In straitened circumstances now.
Herschel earned his living by playing o
violin at parties, and In the interstices Of the
play he would 90 out and look up at the
midnight heavens, the fields Of his immor-
tai conquests. Geor Stephenson rose
from being the foreman Of a colliery TO be
the most renowned Of the worlds engineers
No outfit no capital TO start with Young
man, 60 down 10 the Mercantile library, and
get some books and read Of what wonderful
mechanism God gave you In your hand, in
your foot IN your eye, in yourear, and then
ask some doctorto take you into the dissect-
ing room and Illustrate 10 you what you
have read about, and never again commit
the blasphemy Of saying you have no capital
70 start with. Equippedl Why, the poor
est young man In this house 10 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.
I am not 80 much anxious about you, young
man, because you have 30 little 10 do with,
Is am anxious about you because you have
90 much 10 risk and lose or gain.
There 10 no class OF persons that 80 stir
my sympathies as young men In great cities.
Not quite enough salary 10 live on, and all
the temptations that come from that deficit
.nvi.ou On eii manu-, " u'inh, anu 'sen eA
hausted nervous system seeming 70 demand
stimulus Their religion caricatured by the
most Of the clerks In the store and most Of
the operatives in the factory. The rapids
~ temptat,on and death r,isbino against
a.. vo,',,, mo-. 60, ,,,i,as ,ha honr "a ha
NesyorAs .au .no, w e"u ~
10 iran ooat neadeu up stream, Win notn-
ing but broken OAK oar 70 work with. Un-
less Almighty God help them they Will 90
under.
Ali when toll Won 10 take care OF YOUR
self Won misunderstood me IN Won thought I
mea,t Won are IN denend unon human reao-
mtion. which NAV be dissolved In the foam
IN the wine cnn Or NAV be blown ont with
The first gust Of temptation. Here IA the
helmet the swori Of lord God Almighty.
CIothe vonrsen In that nanonlv and Won
shail moi he INIT To confusion. Sin pays well
neitber n this world nor the uext. bnt rieht
thinking and rioht helievino and rieht act-
Inc win take Won in safety through this life
and In transport through the next.
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y, A. rs,h, 90 heln NJ. y rhat nraver
r. y,arrart 1o,, reache3 the ear ~ IA and
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hnr.' : hnnared r,sr ,gho have found ont.
= s,horsanS vnvns man narhana Who have
sn.,.sS ss.s a. 10, ,hino "a ia AZ var aasv
~ ,oSnu Az ,ven,,a vss "rS ~ harJ n AZ riSht
90, a iss2sr oniv one nara0ranh Of which
shsIi reaS. aHaying moved around aome-
what / have ran aoross MANY Young men OF
inielIieence ardent strivers after that will
o,-the1wisn fortune. and OF one Of these I
~ twan,v'thrae or four years who came 10
Naw Vnyk ,vhera he had aeouaintanoes.
,,i,h haralr snSIscIent N keen him a ooupie
~ waahs Ha had been tepderiy reared.
nerbans 4 abonh sav TOO tenderly. and was
pot nsad to ssrning MA own living. and
fonnd h az tremaiy difiicult 10 ret any posi-
,ion Tho, hs was canahle of filling. After
r,anv vain et,orta IN this direction he found
himself on Sunday evening IN P-ooklyn,
near vour church with about three dollars
an ~ his ANAL capital Proytience seempd
n ieaa him to yonr door. and he dotermined
~ % in and hear won, - = --'-'--''- I
.Ha told M, MIA VoIno N hear Won that
nIght was nndoubtedly the turning point Ia
his Hfe. for when he went into YOUR church
he felt desperate but while listening 10 y ur
disconrae bis hetter natpre got tho ,.iastery,
I trnIv helIeve from what this Young man
toId ma that vonr sounding the depths Il
his heart that night aione brought him back
u his Cjod whom he was 40 near ieaying.n
y Ths I scbo that a of multitudes IN the
house am moi preaobine an abstraction,
but great reality. OIL friendless young