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

has in the six thousand wears of the
worlds history never betrayed q young
man who tried to be good and Christian.
Let me say in regard to your adverse
worldly circumstances, IN passing, that
you are on q level now with those who ara
finally to succeed. Mark my words,
young man, and think of it thirty years
from now. You will find that those who
thirty years from now are millionaires Of
this country, who are the orators of the
country, who are the poets Of the country,
who are the strong merchants of the
country, who are the great philanthro-
pists of the country-mightiest in Church
and State-are this morning on level
| with you, not an incn above you, and in
Strengthened circumstances now.
| Herschel earned his living by playing .
violin at parties aud in the interstices Of
the play he would go out and look up at
the midnight heavens, the fields of his inn
mortal conquests. George Stephenson
rose from being the foreman in q colliery
to be the most renowned Of the worlds
engineers. No outfit, no capital to start
With Young man, go down to the Mer-
camille Library and get some books and
| read of what wonderful mechanism God
| gave you in your hand, in your foot, in
your eye, in your ear, and then ask some
| doctor to take you into the dissecting room
| and illustrate to you what you have read
| about and never again commit the BIAS
phemy Of saying you have no capital to
start with. Equipped! Why, the poorest
young man in this house is equipped as
only the God of the whole universe could
afford to equip him. Then his body-a
very poor affair compared to his wonder.
full soul-O. that is what makes me solicit
| tous l am not so anxious about you,
young man, because you have so little to
| do with, as am anxious about you because
you have so much to risk and lose or gain.
There Is no class Of persons that so stir
my sympathies as young men in great
cities. Not quite enough salary to live on,
and all the temptations that come from
that deficit Invited on all hands to drink,
and their exhausted nervous system seem.
| ing to demand stimulus Their religion
caricatured by the most of the clerks in
the store and most of the operatives in the
factory. The rapids of temptation and
death rushing against that young man
forty miles an hour, and he in frail boat
headed up stream, with nothing but .
broken oar to work with. Unless Almighty
God help them they will 60 under.
All! when l told you to take care Of
yourself you misunderstood me if you
thought / meant you are to depend upon
human resolution, which may be dissolved
in the foam Of the wine cup, or may be
blown out with the first gust of tempta-
ton. Here is the helmet, the sword of the
Lord God Almighty. Clothe yourself in
that panoply and you shall not be put to
confusion. Sin pays we'll neither in this
world nor the next, but right thinking and
right believing and right acting will take
you in safety through this life and in
transport through the next
never shall forget a prayer heard q
young man make some fifteen years ago.
1t was a very short prayer, but it was Q
tremendous prayer: 20, Lord, help us.
We find it so very easy to do wrong and
so hard to do right Lord, help u.s." That
prayer, I'll warrant you, reached the ear
of God and reached his heart. And there
are in this house hundred men who have
found out-a thousand young men, per-
haps who have found out that very thing.
1t is so very easy to do wrong and SO hard
to do right.
l got a letter, only one paragraph Of
which l will read: Having moved around
much have run across many young men
OF intelligence, ardent strivers after that
will-o'-the-wisp, fortune, and of one of
these l would speak. He was a young
Englishman of twenty-three or twenty
four years, who came to New York, where |
he had acquaintance, with barely enough
to keep him a couple of weeks. He had
been tenderly raised; perhaps l should |
say too tenderly, and was not used to
earning his living, and found it extremely |
difficult to get any position that he was |
capable Of filling. After many vain ef- |
forts in this direction he found himself on |
Sunday evening in Brooklyn near your |
church with about 50 left of his small cap
ital. Providence seemed to lead him to |
your door, and he determined to 60 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 church
he felt desperate, but while listening to
your discourse his better nature got the
mastery. 1 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 no
was so near leaving"
The echo, that is, Of multitudes in the
house. am not preaching an abstraction,
but q great reality. o! friendlsss young
man. o! prodigal young man. o! broken
hearted young man, commend you to
Christ this day, the best friend man ever
had. He meets you this morning. Yon
have come here for this blessing. Despise
not that emotion rising in your soul; it il
divinely lifted. Look into the face of
Christ Lift one prayer to your fathers
God, to your mothers God, and get the
pardoning blessing. Now, while speak,
you are at the forks of the road, and this
is the right road and that il the wrong
road, and see you start on the right road.
One Sabbath morning. at the close Of
my service, I saw q gold watch Of tbs
world-renownedand deeply-lamented vio-
linist Ole Bull You remember he died
in his island home of the coast of Nor
way. That gold watch he had wound mp
day after day through his illness, and
then he said to his companions: Nov !
want to wind this watch. a. long - can,
and then whom am gone want you to
keep it wound up until il gets TO my
friend, DR.. Doremus, in New York, and
then he will keep it wound up until his
life Is done, and then / want the watch to
60 to his young son, my especial favorits."
The great musician, who, more than any
other artist has made the violin speak
and sing and weep and laugh and triumph
for it seemed when he drew the
bow across the strings a il all earth and
hea, en- trembled in delightful sympathy
the great musician, in q room looking Oh
upon the sea, and surrounded BY his
instruments Of music, elouded his
eyes in death. While all the world was
at his departure, sixteen
steamers fell into line Of funeral
procession to carry his body to the main
and There were fifty thousand Of his