Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-05-24

s,fo2r ~, Nos 100 late: Are my children
v;tI on' When the earth shall melt
s,si, , ier'ent heat, and the mountains
o,, ~ oiaAe. and the seas shall blaze,
dren be safe? Will YOUR children he
sale5 Unhappy and undisciplined homes
"le sne source of much of wretchedness
and sin of the world.
Know there are exceptions to it
s s.'I ct, From bright and beauti-
.u :,, christian home husband or son
WIZ go out to die. On, how long YOU
nsa that boy in your prayers! He does
not know how many sleepless nights Won
sae spent over him. He does not I'M
eerstano now many tears you have shed
1or MS waywardness. Oh, it is hard.
! a!eer you have toiled for child, and
gwen him every advantage and ever,
:nlnuness, to have him pay you back in
ingratltude! AS one Sabbath morning a
Iat a. came to the foot of the pulpit as
stepped out of it, and said 20 my
son. my son, my son! There is many a
young man proud of his mother. who
would strike into the dust any man who
would insult her, who is at this moment
himself, by his evil doing and his bad
naolts, sharpening q dagger to plunge
through that mothers heart. Ateleeram
brought him from afar. He went bloated
and scared into the room and he stood
by the lifeless form of his mother.
Her gray hair; it had turned gray in
sorrow. Those eyes had wept floods of
tears over his wandering. That still
white hand had done him many a kind
ness and had written many a loving in
vitation and good counsel. He had
broken her old heart. He came into the
room and threw himself on the casket
and ne sobbcd outright: Mother,
mother!" but those lips that had kissed
him in infancy and uttered so many
kind words spake not; they were sealed.
Rather than have such memory come
on my soul, I would prefer to have roll
over on me the Alps and the Himalayas.
But while sometimes there are sons
who turn out very badly coming from
good homes, want to tell you for your
encouragement it is a great exception.
Yet an unhappy and undisciplined home
is the poisonous caldlon from which a
vast multitude drink their death.
II. remark that another caldron of
iniquity is an indolent life. 1.-THE rail
trains down the Hudson River yester-
day, all the rail trains on the Pennsyl-
vania route, all the trains on the Long
young men to begin commercial life.
Some of them are here this morning, 1
doubt not. Do you know what one of
your great temptations is going to be?
1t is the example of indolent people in
our cities. They are in all our cities.
They dress better than some who are in
dustrious. 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 Stuyvesant.
the Gilsey house-all our beautiful
hotels, you find them around there any
day-men who do nothing, never earn
anything, vet we'll dressed, having
plenty. Why should 1 walk? Why
should you work? Why drudge and toll
in bank and shop and Office, or on the
scatfolding, or by the anvil, when these
men get along so we'll and do not
work?
Some of them hang around the city
halls of our great cities, toothpick in
their mouth, waiting for some crumb to
fall from the Office holders table. Some
of them hang around the city hall for
the city van bringing criminals 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 amongus who
get their living not by inheritance, mol
by earning it, nor by begging it. dc
not like to take the responsibility OF
saying how they get it!
Now, these men are a constant temp
tation. Why should toll and veal
myself out in the bank, or the Office, OF
the store, or the shop, or the factory:
These men have nothing to do. They
get along great deal better. And that
is the temptation under which great
many young men fall. They begin tc
consort with these men, these idlers
and they go down to the same awful
sleeps. The number of men in gu,
cities who are trying to get their living
by their wits>and by sleight of hand is
all the time increasing.
A New York merchant saw young
man, one of his clerks, in half disguise,
going into very low place of amuse-
ment. The merchant said to himself:
Il must look out for that clerk; he is
going in bad company and going in bad
places; must look out for him." A few
months passed on, and one morning the
merchant entered his store, and this
clerk of whom l have been speaking
came up in assumed CONSERVATION and
said "Oh, sir, the store has been on
fire; l have put out the fire, but there
are great many goods lost; We have
had great crowd Of people coming and
going" Then the merchant took the
clerk by the collar and said: Il have
had enough of this; you cannot deceive
me; where are those goods you stole?'
The young man instantly confessed his
villainy.
o the numbers of people in these
great cities who are trying to get thei1
living not honestly! And they are 9
mighty temptation to the industrious
young man who cannot understand it.
While these others have it SO easy they
have it so hard. Horatius of olden time
was told that he could have just as much
ground as he could pillow around with 9
yoke of oxen in one day. He hooked
up the oxen to the pillow and and he
cut very large circle and plowed until
he came to the same point where he
started, and all that property was his
But have to tell you to-day that Just sc
much financial, just SO much moral, just
SO much spiritual possession you will
have as YOU compass with your own IN