Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-04-18


months was in financial despair. / found
what every young man learns in time TO save
himself, or too late, that YOU must measurf.
the size Of a mans body before 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 unpovable debts he knows NOT
into what he goes. The creditors get after the
debtor. the pack of hounds in f1ll cry and
alas for the reindeer. They Jingle his door
bell before he gets up in the morning
they jingle his door bell after he has
gone to bed at night They meet him as he
comes off his front steps. They send him n
postal card, or letter. in curtest STYLE tell.
ing him TO pay up. They attach his goods.
They want cash, or note at thirty days or
a note on demand. They call him a lcnaye.
They say he lies. They want him dis
clpilned at the church They want
him turned out of the bank. They
come at him from this side, and from that
side, and from before, and from behind, and
from above, and from beneath and he is in
suited and gibbeted, and sued, and dunned.
and sworn at, until he gets the nervous dys-
pcpsia, gets neuralgia, gets liver complaint.
gets heart disease, gets convulsive disorder.
gets consumption.
Now he is dead, and YOU say; s.Of
course they will let him alone.n Oh. MOI
Now they are watchful to see whether there
are any unnecessary expenses at the
ODStHultc, 10 set 0ltlAtI There Is any useless
handle on the casket TO see whether there is
any surplus plait on the shroud, to sec
whether the hearse is costly or cheap to see
whether the flowers sent to the caslet have
been bought by the family or donated, TO see
in whose name the deed to the
grave is made out. Then they
ransack tho bereft household the bool,s
the pictures, the carpets, the chairs, the sofa
the piano, the mattresses, the pillow on which
he dies. Cursed be debt For the sake OF your
own happiness for the sake of your good
morals for the sake of your immortal soul,
for Gods sake, young man, as far as possible,
keep out of 1t.
tered through irreligion Take away young
mans religion and you make him the prey of
evil. We all know that the Bible is the
only perfect system of morals. Now if you
want 10 destroy the young mans morals take
his Bible away. How win YOU do that Well
you will caricature his reverence for the
Scriptures, you will take all those incidents of
the Bible which can be made mirth Of
Jonah's whale, Samson's foxes, Admins
rib-then you will caricature eccentric
Christians or inconsistent Christians,
then you sill pass Off as your own
all those haclneyed arguments against
Christianity which are as old rs Tom Paine,
as old as Voltaire, as old as sin. Now you
have captured his Biblf, and you have taken
his strongest fortress; the way is COM
paratively clear, and all the gates of his soul
are set open in invitation 10 the sins Of earth
and the sorrows OF death. that they may
come in and drive the stake for their en-
campment
A steamer 1900 miles from shore with
broker rudder and lost compass, and hulk
leaking fifty gallons the hour, is better off
than young man when you have robbed
him of his Bible Have you ever noticed how
despicably mean il is to take away the worlds
r,r.,pnzinor tftta Is
meaner than TO come TO a sick man and steal
his medicine, meaner than to come to
cripple and steal his erutch, meaner than to
come to pauper and steal his crust, meaner
than TO come to poor man and burn his house
down. 1t is the worst Of all larcenies to steal
the Bible, which has been the crutch and
medicine and food and eternal home to SO
many What a generous and magnanimous
business iniidelity has gone into2 This split
ting up Of life boats and taking away Of fire
escapes and extinguishing of lighthouses.
are v you doing oSs All tbi: forg doh% they saw
'iust for fun" II is such fun TO see
Christians try to hold on TO their Biblesl
Many OF them have lost loved ones, and have
been told that there is a resurrection, and Il
is such fun to tell them there will be
no resurrection Many Of them hive
burdens and 70 heal the wounds of the world,
and Il Is such fun to tell them they viii have
to be their own saviour Think OF the
meanest thing you ever heard Of; then go
down thousand feet underneath it, and you
win find yourself at the top Of a stairs hun
dred miles long; 20 20 the bottom Of the
stairs and you will find a ladder n
thousand miles long; then go to the
fotS of the ladder and look OF preci;
pice half as far as from here TO China, anu
you win find the headquarters OF the mean
ness that would rob this world OF its only
comfort in life, its only peace in death and
its only hope for immortality. Slaughter
Young mans faith in God, and there IS not
much more left to slaughter.
Now what has become of the slaughtercdg
Well some Of them are in their fathers or
mothers house broken down in health, wait
ing to die; others are in the hospital; others
nre in Greenwood, or, rather, their bodies are,
for their souls have gone on t. retrlbutlon- MOI
much prospect for young man VINO started
life with good health, and good education,
and Christian example set him, and oppor-
tunity of usefulness who gathered all ms
treasures and put them in one box and then
dropped it into the sea.
Nov. how is this wholesale slaughter to be
stoppedg There is not person In the house
but is interested in that question Young
man, arm yourself The object OF my ser
mon is TO put weapon in each Of your hands
for your own defense. Wait not for Young
Mems Christian Associations to protect You,
or churches to protect you. Appealing 70
God for help, take care of yourself
First, have a room somewhere that you can
call vour own. Whether it be the back par
Tor of a fashionable boarding house or
room in the fourth story of cheap lodging,
care not Only have that one room your
fortress Let not the dissipator or unciean
step over the threshold If they come
up the long flight of stairs ana
knock at the door. meet them lace TO lace
and kindly yet firmly refuse them admit
lance Have a few family portraits on tue
wall. If YOU brought them with you rom
your country home. Have a Bible on inc
stand. If you can afford it and you play on
one have an instrument of music-harp or
flute. or cornet or melodeon, or vloln,
or piano. Every morning before you
leave that room, pray. Every night aIter
Won come home in that room, pray. MAKE
that room your Gibraltar, your SebastapoL
vour Mount Zion Let no bad book or new ,sa,
paper come INTO that room, any more e i1
Won would allow a cobra to coil ON your Iaoie.
Take care of yourself. Nobody else WIZ t .laA
care of you Your help viii not come up W.
&c.,. afobfc of stairs. YOUR Qelp !