Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-08

temptation. Here is the helmet, the sword OF
Lord God Almighty. Clothe yourself IN that
panoply and you shall not be put to confusion
Sin pays well neither in this world nor the next,
but right thinking and right believing ana
right acting will take you In safety through
this life and in transports through the next
Inever shall forget prayer heard young
man make some 10 years ago. 1t was very
short prayer. but was tremendous prayer:
"Oh, Lord, help u.s. We find it so very easy to
! do wrong and so hard to dc right. Lord, help
u.s." That prayer, warrant you, reached the
ear of God, and reached his heart. And there
are in this house 100 men who have found out
1000 young men, perhaps. who have found out
that very thing. It is SO very easy to do wrong
and
so HARD TO DO RIGHT.
got letter. only one paragraph of which I
shall read "Having moved around somewhat
have run across many young men of inteli-
gence ardent strivers after that will-o the-wisp,
fortune and of one of these would speak. He
was young Englishman of % or "a years. who
came to New York, where he had acqualnt.
ances, with barely sufficient to keep him a
couple of weeks. He had been tenderly reared;
perhaps should say too tenderly. and was not
used to earning his living, and found it ex-
tremely difficult to get any position that he was
capable of filling. After many vain efforts In
this direction he found himself on Sunday
evening in Brooklyn. near your church, with
about s. left of his small capital. Providence
seemed TO lead him to your door, and he deter
mined to go In and hear you.
He told me his going to hear you that night
was undoubtedly the turning point in his life,
for when he went into your church he felt des-
perate, but while listening to your discourse his
better nature got the mastery. l truly believe
from what this young man told me that your
sounding the depths OF his heart that night
alone brought him back to his God whom he
was so near leaving"
The echo, that is of multitudes in the house.
am not preaching an abstraction, but a great
reality. Oh! fr1endless young man, Oh! prodl-
gal young man, Oh! broken hearted young man,
discouraged young man, wounded young man,
l commend you to Christ this day. the best
friend a man ever had. He meets you this
evening. You have come here for this bless
soul; it is divinely lifted. Look into tho face of
Christ. Lift one prayer to your fathers God,
to your mothers God, and get the pardoning
blessing. Now, while 1 speak. you are at the
and that is the wrong road, and see you
START ON THE RIGHT ROAD.
One Sabbath morning. at the close Of my
service, saw a gold watch of the world re-
nowned and deeply lamented violinist. Ole Bull.
You remember he died in his island home off
the coast of Norway. That gold watch he had
wound up day after day through his illness,
and then he said to his companion, "Now I
want to wind this watch as long as can, and
then when am gone 1 want you to keep 1t
wound up until it gets to my friend, Dr.. Dore-
mus, in New York, and then he will keep 1t
wound up until his life is done, and then want
the watch to go to his young son, my especial
favorite.
The great musician, who more than any other
artist had made the violin speak and sing and
weep and laugh and triumph-for it seemed
when he drew the bow across the strings as If
all earth and heaven trembled in delighted
sympathy-the great musician, in a room look
ing off upon the sea, and surrounded by his IA
vorite instruments of music, closed his eyes in
death. While all the world was mourning at
his departure, l6 crowded steamers fell into
line of funeral procession to carry his body to
the main land. There were $1,000 of his coun-
trymen gathered in an amphitheater of the
hills, waiting to hear the eulogium. and it was
said when the great orator of the day with
stentorian voice began to speak. the $1,000 peo-
pie on the hillsides burst into tears.
Obi that was the close of life that had done
so much to make the world happy. But have
to tell you, young man, if you live right and
die right, that was tame scene compared with
that which will greet you when from the gal
leries of heaven the one hundred and forty and
four thousand shall accord with Christ in
crying. "Well done, thou good and faithful
servant"
And the influences that on earth you put in
motion will go down from generation to gen.
Grafton, the influences you wound up handed
to your children, :and their influences wound
up and handed to their children until watch
and clock are no more needed to mark the
progress, because time itself shall be no longer.