Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-04-14


the city. II is too bad that, having
had all the trouble Of consuming
the goods, you should also have the
trouble of being dunnedl And let me
say that if you find that this pictures
your own photograph, instead of being
in church you ought to be IN the pen
itentiaryl No wonder that so many
of our merchants fail in business.
They are swindled INTO bankruptcy
by these wandering Arabs, these no
MAIDS Of city life. They cheat the
grocer out of the green apples which
make them sick, the physician who
attends their distress, and the under
taker who tits them out for departure
from the neighborhood where they
owe everybody when they pay the
debt of nature, the only debt they
ever do payl
NEITHER A BORROWER NOR 4 LEN
DER BE-"
Now u young men are coming up
in this depraved state of commercial
ethics, and | am solicitous about
them. l want 10 warn them against
being slaughtered on the sharp edges
of debt. You want many things YOU
have not, my young friends. You
shall have them if you have patience
and honesty and industry. Certain
lines of conduct always lead out to
rertain successes.
There is a law which controls even
those things that seem h%aphazard. l
have been told by those who have OBJ
served that it is possible 10 calculate
Just how many letters will be sent to
the Dead Letter Office every year
through instruction; hat it is posi-
bic to calculate just how many letters
will be detained for lack OF postage
stamps through the forgetfulness Of
the sendcrs, and that it is possible to
tell just how many people will fall in
the streets by slipping on an orange
peel. In other words, there are no
accidents. The most insignificant
event you ever heard of is the link be-
tween two eternities-the eternity of
the past and the eternity of the future.
Head the right way, young man, and
you will come out at the right goal.
Bring me a young man and tell me
what his physical health is, and what
his mental caliber, and what his habits,
and ! will tell you what will be his
destiny for this world, and his destiny
for the world 10 come, and | will not
make five inaccurate prophecies out of
the five hundred. All this makes Inc
solicitous in regard 10 young men.
and | want to make them nervous in
regard 10 the contraction of unpayable
debts. l give you a paragraph from
my own experience.
DR.. TALMAGE HAS BEEN THERE HIMSELF.
My first settlement as pastor was in
a village. Ny salary was $500 and a
parsonage. The amount seemed enor-
nous to me / said TO myself, What!
all this for one year, / was afraid
of getting worldly under SD much
prosperity | resolved To invite all
the congregation TO my house in
groups of twenty-five each. We be-
gan, and as they. were the best con
gregation in all the world, and we
felt nothing was too good for them,
we piled all the Injuries on the table.
| never completed the undertaking.
At the end of six months was in
financial despair. | found what every
young man learns in time 10 save
himself, or too late, that you must
measure the size of a mans body be-
fore you begin to cut the cloth for his
coat. a
When a young man willfully and of
choice, having the comforts of life,
goes into the contraction of %unpayable
debts he knows not into what he goes.
The creditors get after the debtor, the
pack Of hounds in full cry, and alasl
for the reindeer. They jingle his door
bell before he gets up i'll the morning,
they jingle his doorbell after he has
gone 10 bed at night. They meet him
as he comes off his front. steps. They
send him a postal card, or a letter, in
curtest style, telling him 10 pay up.
They attach his goods. They want
cash, or a note at thirty days, or anote
on demand. They call him a knave.
They say he lies. They want him dis
ciplined at the church. They want
him turned out of the bank. They
come at him from this side, and from
that side, aud from before, and from
behind, aud from above, and from be-
meath, and he is insulted and gibbetcd,
and sued, and dunncd, and sworn at.
until he gets the nervous dyspepsia.
gets neuralgia, gets liver complaint.
gets heart disease, gets convulsive dis
order, gets consumption.
Now he is dead, and you saw. "Of
course they will let him alone" Oh,
moi Now they are watchful 10 see
whether there are any unnecessary ex-
penses at the obsequies, 10 sec whether
there is any useless handle on the cas-
ket, 10 sec whether there is any sur.
plus plat on the shroud, 10 see wheth-
er the hearse is costly or cheap, 10 see
whether the flowers sent 10 the casket
have been bought by the family or
donated, TO see in whose name the
deed 10 the grave is made out. Then
they ransack the bereft household, the
books, the pictures, the carpets, the
chairs, the sofa, the piano, tho mat
t~resses, the pillow on which he dies.
Cursed be debt! For the sake of your
own happiness, for the sake Of your
good morals, for the sake of your inn
mortal soul, for Gods sake, young
man, as far as possible, keep out of it.
H. But | think more young men
are slaughtered through irreligion.
Take away q young mans religion and
you make him the prey of evil. We
all know that the Bible is the only
perfect system of morals. Now il you