Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-08-31
DANGERS OF INCIDENCE.
An Earnest and Timely Appeal by Rev.
t. Dewitt TalmAge, ID. ID.

t. Dewitt TalmAge, ID. ID.
Another cauldron Of Iiniquity is an
indolent life, All the rail trains down
the Hudson river yesterday, all the
rail trains on the Pennsylvania route,
all the trains on the Long Island road
brought to these cities young men to
begin commercial life. Some Of them
are here this morning, l doubt not. Do
you know what one of your great.
temptations is going to beP 1t is the
example OF indolent people in our
cities. They are in all our cities.
They dress better than those who are
industrious. They have access to all
places of amusement-plenty of money,
and yet idle. They hang around our
great notes.-the Fifth Avenue, the
Windsor, the Brunswick, the Stuy-
vesant the Gilsey House-all our
beautiful hotels, you find them around
there any day-men who do nothing.
never earn any thing, yet well dressed,
having plenty. Why should l walkP
Why should you work? Why drudge
and toll in bank and shop and office,
ORION the scaffolding, or by the anvil,
when these men get along so well and
do not workP
Some Of them hang around the city
halls Of our great cities toothpick in
their mouth, waiting fer some crumb
to fall from the office-holder's table.
Some of them hang around the city
hall for the city van bringing GRIM
inals from the station houses They
stand there and gloat over it-really
enjoy the disgrace and suffering of
those poor creatures as they get out of
the city van and go into the courts.
Where do they get their money! That
is what you ask. That is what ask.
Only four ways of getting moneY-only
four; by inheritance, by earning it, by
begging it, by stealing it; and there are
vast multitude among us who get
their living not by inheritance, nor by
earning it, nor by begging it. do not
like to take the responsibility of saying
how they get it!
Now, these men are a constant
temptation. Why should l toll and
wear myself out in the bank, or the
Office, or the store, or the shop, or
the factoryP These men have moth
ing to do They get along a
great deal better. And that is the
temptation under which great many
young man fall They began to con-
sort with these men, these idlers, and
they go down the same awful sleeps.
The number of men in our cities who
are trying to get their living by their
wits and by sleight of hand is all the
time increasing. A New York mer-
chant saw young man, one of his
clerks, in half disguise, going into a
very low place of amusement The
merchant said to himself: II must
look out for that clerk; he is going in
bad places; must look out for him. y
A few months passed on, and one
morning the merchant entered his
store, and his clerk of whom / have
been speaking came up in assumed
CONSERVATION and said: "Oh, sir, the
store has been on fire; have put out
the fire. but there are great many
goods lost; we have had great crowc
CT people coming and going" Their
tho r1Nnuphont tool Tho nlo,,ly hty fhf
collar and said: II have had enough
of this; you can not deceive me; where
are those goods you stoleP" Tn,
young man instantly confessed his vii
lainy.
Oh, the numbers of people in thes
great cities who are trying to get thei
living not honestly! And they are
mighty temptation to the industriou
young man who can not understand il
While these others have it so easy the
t have it so hard. Horatius of olde
5 time was told that he could have jus
as much ground as he could ploN
o. around with yoke of oxen in one day
3 He hooked up the oxen to the pillow
5 and he cut a very large circle an
4 plowed until he came to the same poin
where he started, and all that propert
1 was his, But have to tell you to-da
, that just so much financial, just S
Y much moral, just so much spirituf
l possessions you will have as you con
: pass with your own industries, an
: just so much as from the morning c
your life to the evening of your lii
you can pillow around with your ow
hard work. go to the ant, thou slug
e gard; consider her ways and be wise.
u One of the most awful cauldrons {
s death to-day is an indolent life. Than
God that you have to work.-T. d,
q Witt Talmage.
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