West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-04-18

never shall corget prayer heard q
young man mako some fifteen years ago. IL
was very short prayer, but IL was a tremepd.
Gus prayer: "Oh Lord help ms. We find IL
50 very easy TO do wrong and so hard 20 do
right. Lord, help u.s." That prayer. warrant
you, reached the ear OF God, and reached
His heart And there are I'm this houss a
hundred men who have found out-a thou
sand young men, perhaps, who have found
out that very thing. II Is so very easy 10 do
wrong, and 50 hard to do right.
got letter, only one paragraph OF which
1 shall read: Having moved around some
, wal nave run across many young men OF
intelligence, ardent strivers after that will-o'.
tho wisp. fortune, and OF one of these would
speak He was young Englishman OF
twenty-three or four years who came 70
New York, where he had acquaintance,
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been tenderly reared perhaps I should
say TOO tenderly, and was not used TO earning
ms living, and found IL extremely difficult TO
get any position that he was capable of fill
ing. After many vain efforts In this dircc-
ton he found himself on Sunday evening in
brooklyn, near your church, with about
three dollars left of his small capital Proyi-
dence seemed 20 lead him TO your door, and
ne determined to go in and hear YOU
Ho told me his going to hear you that
night was undoubtedly One turning point In
ms me Tor when he went into your church
ne felt desperate, but while listening To your
discourse his better nature got the mastery
1 truly believe from what this young man
toiu me that your sounding the depths OF his
near. tnat night alono brought him back to
ms ood whom he was so near leaving"
Tho echo, that is, of multitudes In the
house. L am not preaching an abstraction.
but a great reality. OH friendless young
man, OIL prodigal young man. Oh broken
hearted young man, discouraged young man.
wounded young man, / commend you to
christ this day, the best friend a man
n Al
morning. You have come here for
this blessing. Despise not that emotion ris.
ing in your soul; IL Is divinely lifted. Look
INTO the face Of Christ. Lift one prayer to
get tho pardoning blessing. Now, while /
speak, you are at the forks of tho road, and
This Is the right road, and that Is tho wrong
road, and see you start ON the right read
One sabbath morning, at the close of
my service L saw a gold watch Of tho
world renowned and deeply lamented
violinist Ole Bull. You remember no died
IN his island home Off the coast Of Norway.
That gold watch he had wound up day inter
day through his illness, and then he said to
his companions: Now want TO wind this
watch ms long as / can, and then when am
gone L want you TO keep it wound up until IL
gets TO my friend, DIR. Doremus. in New
York, and then he will keep il wound up until
ms me is done, and then want the watch TO
go 70 his younger son, my especial favoriten
Tho great musician, who more than anv
other artist had made the violin speak and
sing and weep and hugh and triumph-for
1t seemed when he drew the bow across the
strings as If all the earth and heaven
trembled in delighted sympathy-the great
musician, in room looking off upon the sea.
and surrounded by his favorite instruments
of music, closed his eyes in death.
While all the world was mourning
Mt his departure, sixteen crowded steam,
ers tell into line of funeral procession to carry
his body to the main land. There were fifty
thousand Of his countrymen gathered in an
amphitheatre of the hills waiting to hear the
eulogium, and it was said when the great
orator of the day with stentorian voice be-
gan TO speak, the fifty thousand people on the
hillsides burst into tears.
Oil that was the close of a life that had
done so much TO mako the world happy But
L have to tell you, young man, IL you live
right and die right, that was a tame scene
compared with that which will greet YOU
when from the galleries 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 viii go down from generation to gem
Grafton, the influences you wound up handed
TO your children, and their influences wound
up and handed 10 their children until watch
and clock are no more needed TO mark the
progress, because time itself shall be no
longer