The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-04-19

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this world and the destiny for the worlt
to come, and will make five Inaccurate
prophesies out of five hundred. All thi,
makes me solicitous in regard to young
men, and want to make them nervous in
| regard to the construction of unpay abls
debts. give you a paragraph of my OWL
experiences:
My first settlement as pastor was in q
village. My salary was $500 and q par.
| sonage. The amount seemed enormous te
me. said to myself: What! all this FOL
| one year" was afraid Of getting world.
ly under so much prosperity! Iresolved
to invite the congregation to my house in
groups of twenty five each. We began
and as they were the best congregation in
all the world, and we felt that nothing
was too good for them. We piled all the
Injuries on the table. never completed
the undertaking. At the end of six
months l was in financial despair.
found what every young man finds in
time to save himself or too late, that you
must measure the size of a mans body be-
fore you begin to cut the cloth for his
coat
Now he is dead and you say: 'Of course
they will let him alone" O, mol Now
they are watchful to see whether there
are any unnecessary expenses at the OBJ
sequies, to see whether there is any USE
less handle on the casket to see whether
there is any surplus plat on 1.-THE shroud.
to see whether the hearse is costly 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 ram
sack the bereft household, the books, 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 it.
When q young man wilfully and Of
choice having the comforts Of life. goes
into the contraction Of payable debts he
knows not into what he goes. The credit
ors get after the debtor; the PACK Of
hounds in full cry and alas! for the REIN
deer. They jingle his doorbell before he
gets up in the morning, they jingle his
doorbell after he has gone to bed at night
They meet him as he comes of his front
steps. They send him postal card. or q
letter, in curtest style, telling him to pay
up. They attach his goods. They want
cash, or note at thirty days, or a note on
demand. They call him q knave. They
say he lies. They want him disciplined
at the church. They want him turned out
of the bank. They come to him from this
side, and from that side, and from behind,
and from above, and from beneath, and
he is insulted and gibbeted, and sued, and
sworn at, until he gets the nervous dys-
pepsia, gets neuralgia, gets liver COM
plant, gets heart disease, gets convulsive
disorder, gets consumption.
Second-But think more young men
are slaughtered through irreligion. Take
away a 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 to destroy
the young mans morals take the Bible
away. How will you do that? Well, you
will caricature his reverence for the
Scriptures, you will take all those Incl.
dents Of the Bible which can be made
mirth of-Jonah's whale, Samson's foxes,
Adams rib-then you will caricature &c.
centric Christians or inconsistent Chris
tains. then you will pass off as your own
Christianity which are as old as Tom
Paine. as old as Voltaire. old as sin. Now
you have captured his Bible and you have
taken his strongest fortress; the way is
comparatively clear and all the gates of
his soul are set open in invitation to the
sins of earth and the sorrow Of death, that
they may come in and drive the stake for
their encampment
A steamer fifteen hundred miles from
shore, with broken rudder and lost COM
pass, and hulk leaking fifty gallons an
hour is better off than young man when
you have robbed him of his Bible. Have
you ever noticed how des picably mean it
is to take away the worlds Bible without
a substitutes? 1t is meaner than
to come to a sick man and steal his me Ii
cine, meaner than to come to a cripple
and steal his crutch, meansr than to come
to a pauper and steal his crust meaner
than to come to poor man and burn his
house down. 1t is the worst of all lar
cenies to steal the Bible, which has been
the crutch and medicine and food to so
many. What a generous and magnani-
nous business infidelity has gone into
This splitting up Of lifeboats and taking
away Of fire escapes and extinguishing of
light houses.
l come out and say to such people,
What are you doing all this for?" 60"
hey say, lust for fun" 1t is such fun to
see Christians try to hold on to their
BiblesI Many of them have lost loved
ones and have been told that there is a
and it is such fun to tell them
here will be no resurrection! Many be-
ieve that Christ came to carry the bur-
lens and heal the wounds Of the world,
md it 10 such fun to tell them they will
nave to be their own savior! Think of
20 down a thousand feet underneath it
md you will find yourself at the top of
light Of stairs q hundred miles long;
70 to the bottom Of the stairs and
7ou will find q ladder thou.
and miles long; then 60 to the
DOT Of the ladder and look of preci.
,ice half as far as from here to China and
7ou will find the headquarters of the
neanness that would rob this world OF its
My comfort in life, its only peace in
leath and its only hope for Immortality.
Slaughter young mans faith in God and
here is not much more left to slaughter.
Now, what has become of the slaugh- |
cred: Well, some of them are In their |
ather's or mothers house broken down in |
iealth, waiting to die; others are in the
lospital; others are in Greenwood, or |
ather their bodies are, for their souls |
ave gone on to retIibution. Not much |
prospect for Q young man who started life |
With good health and good education, and |
Christian example set him, and oppor-
unitiss Of usefulness, who gathered all |
is treasures and put them in one boz and |
hen dropped it into the sea.
Now, how is this wholesale slaughter to |
% stopped? There is not person in the |
ouse but is interested in that question.
young man, arm yourself The object Of /