The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-06-21
REV. DR.. TALMAGE.
HHE BROOKLYN DIvINE's SUN
DAY SERMON.
Subject: 1.-THE Slaughter" preached
at ST. Louis, No.

@NDJoCe' me slaughter" preached
at st. Louis, No.
Proverbs vii, 81.
mere Is nothing in the voice or manner Of
me butcher 10 indicate to the OK that there
: ueath ahead. The OK thinks he is going on
% rleh pasture field of clover, where all day
long ne viii revel in the herbaceous luxuri-
unoe; DUB after 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 he is fastened. and
with well aimed stroke the ak fells
nm; and so the anticipation of the redolent
pasture held IS completely disappointed So
many young man has been driven on by
teinptatlon to what he thought would be
paradisiaeal enjoyment; but after a while in
uuenceS with darker hue and swarthier arm
close In upon him, and he finds that instead
oI Ilaklng an excursion into a garden he hag
been driven ''as an OK TO the slaughter
l. We are apt to blame young men for
beng destroyed when we ought to blame the
influences that destroy them. Society
siaughteIs a great many young men by the
behest: ''You must keep up appearances;
Whatever be your salary, you must dress as
well as others, you must wine and brandy as
many friends, you mast smoke as costly
cigars, you must give as expensive entertain
ments, and you must live in as fashionable
boarding house. If you haven't the money,
borrow. If you can't borrow make false
entry, or substract here and there bill from
bundle of bank bills; you viii only have to
make the deception a little while; in few
months, or in year or two, you can make
all right. Nobody will be hurt by it; nobody
Will he the wiser. You yourself will not be
damaged" By that awful process hundred
thousand men have been slaughtered for
time and slaughtered for eternity.
! SuppnSa-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 ars two
kinds Of borrowed money Money borrowed
for the purpose of starting or keeping
/ up legitimate enterprise and expense
and money borrowed TO get that which
/ you can do without. The first
IS right the other is wrong. If you have
| money enough of your own to buy a coat
] however plain, and then you borrow money
| for dandy's outfit, you have taken the first
revolution of the wheel down grade. Borrow
I for the necessities; that may be well Borrow
for the Injuries; that tips your prospects over
! in the wrong direction.
The Bible distinctly says the borrower is
servant of the lender 1t is a bad state of
things when you have to go down some other
street to escape meeting some one whom you
owe. If young men knew what is thedespot-
! ism of being in debt more of them would keep
out of it. What did debt DO for
Lord Bacon, with a mind towering
above the centuriesg 1t induced him
to take hribes and convict himself
as a criminal before all ages What did debt
do for Walter Scott Broken hearted at
Abb0tsford Kept him writing until his
hand gave out IN paralysis to keep the sheriff
away from his pictures and statuary. Better
for him if he had minded the maxim which
he had chiseled over the fireplace at Abbots-
ford; Waste not, want not.n
The trouble is, my friends, the people do
not understand the ethics Of going in debt,
and that if you purchase goods with no eX-
pectation OF paying for them, or 20 into
debts which you cannot meet you steal Just
so much money. If go into a grocer's store,
and buy sugars and coffees and meats, with
no capacity to pay for them and no inten-
ton of paying for them, l am more
dishonest than if go into
the store, and when the grocer's
with the articles Of merchandise and carry
of ham. In the one case l take the mer-
chants time, and l take the time of-his mes
senger to transfer the goods to my house,
while in the other case / take none Of the
time Of the merchant, and / wait upon my
self, aud I transfer the goods without any
trouble to him. In other words, n sneak
for debts he never expects to pay.
Yet in all our cities there are families that
move every May day to get into proximity to
other grocers and meat shops and apotheca-
ries. They owe everybody within half a mile
Of where they now live and next May they
VIII move into q distant part of the
city, finding a new lot of victims
the new house. are bothered day by
day hV the knaclziTlg- at the door-of
disappointed bakers, aud butchers, and dry
goods dealers and newspaper carriers, and
you are asked where your predecessor is.
You do not know. 1t was arranged you
should not know. Meanwhile your predeces-
scr has gone to some distant part of the city,
and the people who have anything to sell
have sent their wagons and stopped
there to solicit the valuable custom of the
new neighbor, and he, the new neighbor,
with great complacency and with an air OF
athuence, orders the finest steaks and the
highest priced sugars, and the best Of the
canned fruits, and, perhaps all the news
papers. And the debts viii keep on accumu-
lating until he gets his goods on the Both of
next April in the furniture cart.
Vow, let me say, if there are any such per
sp the house, il you have any regard for |
Own cOnveniences, you had better re-
n / regae greatly distant part of the city. /
:; ut having had all the trouble 4
IL ever dorle goods, you should also have /
Mt GRACE sng dunnedl ana let me say
Siooo' that this pictures your own /
e. the life sad of being in church you
tihe penitentiary. No wonder |
ne Is thesof our merchants fail in business.
l. .indled into bankruptcy by these /
! m ing S.Arabs, these nomads Of city life.
nd ! cheat the grocer out of the green aI-
which make them sick the physician
attends their distress, and the under
hr who fits them out for departure from
-. neighborbood where they owe everybody
IN they pay the debt of nature, the only
IS t they ever do payl
low our young men are coming mp in this
1epraved state JI commercial ethics and L
am solicitous about them. / want TO warn
hem against being slaughtered on the sharp
edges Of debt You want many things you
have not, my young friends. You shall have
hem if you have patience and honesty and
industry Certain lines Of conduct always
cad out 70 certain successes.
There is a law which controls even those
hings that seem haphazard. have been
old by those who have observed that it is
lossible to calculate Just how many letters
vii be sent to the Dead Letter Office every
ear through instruction; that it is pos
ihle to calculate just how many let
ers will be detained for lack of post
&c stamps through the forgetfulness of
he senders, and that il is possible TO tell Just
Ow many people viii fall in the streets by
Tipping on an orange peel. In other words,
here are no accidents. The most insignifi-
ant event you ever heard Of is the link be
TesD tyo eUerIiities-the eternity Of the past
nj the eternity Of the future Head the
ght way, young man, and you will come
ut at the right goal
Bring me young man and tell me what
is physical health is, and what his mental
AMER, and wnat his habits, and viii tell
GU what viii be his destiny for this world.
nd his destiny for the world 20 come and l
al not make five inaccurate prophecies out
I the FIVE hundred. All this makes me
oicitlous in regard 10 young men, and !
9ant to make them nervous in regard to the
contraction Of unpayable debts. I give ,
ou paragraph from my own experience
My iIrst settlement as pastor was in a vii
age. Ny salary was $500 and a parsonage.
he amount seemed enormous to me- said
o myself; What all this for one yearg' l
vas afraid Of getting worldly under 50 much
l resolved to invite all the con-
regation to my house in groups of twenty
We each. We began, and as they we're the best
in all the world, and we !
cit nothing was too good for them, we piled
Ii the Injuries on the table / never com
leted the undertaking. At the end Of six .
months l was in financial despair. 1 found
What every young man learns in time to save
imself, or too late, that you must measure
he size of a mans body before you begin to