The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1889-04-12

| the ROOuS, you Snpulu also nave TN
trouble Of being dunnedl And let M
say that if you find that this picture
your own photograph, instead OF being
in church you ought to be in the pen
itentiary! No wonder that so many
of our merchants fail in business
They are swindled into bankruptcy
by these wandering Arabs, these no
MAIDS of city life. They cheat tn,
grocer out of the green apples which
make them sick, the physician who
attends their distress, and the under
taker who fits them out for departure
from the neighborhood where they
owe everybody when they pay thu
debt of nature, the only debt they
ever do pay
"NErTHER BORROWER NOR A LEN
DER BE-"
Now our young men are coming ur
in this depraved state of commercial
ethics. and am solicitous about
them. want to warn them against
being slaughtered on the sharp edges
OF debt. You want many things you
have not, my young friends. You
shall have them if you have patience
and honesty and industry. Certain
lines OF conduct always lead out ia
certain successes.
There is law which controls even
those things that seem haphazard.
have been told by those who have OBJ
served that it is possible to calculate
just how many letters will be sent to
the Dead Letter office every year
through instruction; that it is posi-
BILE to calculate just how many letters
will be detained for lack of postage
stamps through the forgetfulness Of
the senders, and that it is possible to
tell just how many people will fall in
the streets by slipping on an orange
peel. In other words, there are no
accidents. The most insignificant
event you ever heard of is the link be-
tween two eternities-the eternity of
the past and the eternity of the future.
Head the right way, young man, and
you will come out at the right goal.
Bring me young man and tell me
what his physical health is, and what
his mental caliber, and what his habits,
and I will tell you what will be his
destiny for this world, and his destiny
for the world to come, and will not
make five inaccurate prophecies out of
the five hundred. All this makes me
solicitous in regard to young men,
and l want to make them nervous in
regard to the contraction of unpayable
debts. l give you paragraph from
my own experience.
DR. TALMAGE HAS BEEN THERE HIMSELF.
My first settlement as pastor was in
a village. My salary was $500 and
parsonage The amount seemed enor-
nous to me. I said to myself, "What!
all this for one year?" l was afraid
of getting worldly under so much
l resolved to invite all
the congregation to my house in
groups of twenty-five each. We be-
gan, and as they were the best con-
in all the world, and we
felt nothing was too good for them,
we piled all the luxuries on the table.
| never completed the undertaking.
At the end of six. months / was IN,
financial despair. I found what every
young man learns in time to save
or too late, that you must |
measure the size of a mans body be-
fore you begin to cut the cloth for his
coat.
When young man willfully and of
choice, having the comforts of life,
goes into the contraction of unpayable
1ebts he knows not into what he goes.
The creditors get after the debtor, the
pack Of hounds in full cry, and alas!
'Or the reindeer. They Jingle his door,
oell before he gets up in the morning,
hey jingle his doorbell after he has
gone to bed at night. They meet him
Is he comes off his front steps They
'end him a postal card, or a letter, in
:urtest style, telling him to pay up.
They attach his goods. They want
lash, or note at thirty days, or a note
IN demand. They call him a knave.
They say he lies. They want him dis
'iplined at the church. They want
linn turned out of the bank. They
.ome at him from this side, and from
hat side, and from before, and from
behind, and from above, and from be-
heath, and he is insulted and gibbeted,
md sued, and dunned, and sworn at,
Until he gets the nervous dyspepsia,
,ets neuralgia, gets liver complaint,
,ets heart disease, gets convulsive dis
rider, gets consumption.
Now he is dead, and you say: "Of
curse they will let him alone" Oh,
lol Now they are watchful to see
whether there are any unnecessary ex-
lenses at the obsequies, to see whether
here is any useless handle on the cas-
,et, to see whether there is any sur
'lus plat on the shroud, to see wheth-
r the hearse is costly or cheap, to see
whether the flowers sent to the casket
ave been bought by the family or
to see in whose name the
ICED to the grave is made out. Then
hey ransack the bereft household. the
ooks, the pictures, the carpets, the
hairs, the sofa, the piano, the mat
resses, the pillow on which he dies. /:
>ursed be debit For the sake of your [
wn happiness, for the sake of your
God morals, for the sake of your i'm
Mortal soul, for Gods sake, young
nan, as far as possible, keep out of it. {
II. But l think more young men ,
re slaughtered through irreligion.
AXE away young mans religion and ,
GU make him the prey of evil. We
II know that the Bible is the only
erfect system of morals Now if you $