The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1889-04-13
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duct always lead out to certain Sue
ceSses.
There is 4 Law which controls even
those things which seem haphazard.
have been told by those who have OBJ |
served that it is possible to calculate.
just how many letters will be sent 10
the Dead Letter Office every year
through nisdirection that it is posi-
BILE to calculate just how many letters
will be detained for lack of postage
stamps, through the forgetfnlness of
the serders, 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 10 the link be-
tween two eternities--ihe 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 young man and tell me
what his physical health is, and what
his mental calibsr, and what his habits,
and I will tell you what will be his les
tiny for this world, and his destiny for
the world to come, aud l will not make
five inaccurate prophecies out of the
I've hundred. All this makes me soli
citous in regard TO young men. and
want 10 make them nervous in regard
to the contraction of unpayable debts.
l give You a paragraph from my own
experience.
| My frs. settlement as pastor was in o
village. My salary was $500 AMI a
parsonage. TIE amount seemed cnor-
nous to me. said to myself, 'Whatl
all this for one year," Iwas afraid OF
getting worldly under SO much pros
Iperity! resolved to invite all The
congregation to my house in groups OF
twenty. five each. We began, and as
they we're the best congregation ia al
the world, and we felt nothing was toe
good for them, We piled all the Injuries
on the t&ble. l never completed the
Undertaking. At the end Of six months
]Iwas in financial despair. I found
what every young man learns in time
to save himself, or, too late, that YOU
must measure the size OF a mans body
/ before you begin 10 cut the cloth FOL
4 hie coat.
When . young man willfElly and Of
choice, having the comforts of life
goes into the contraction of unpayab
debts, he knows not into what he goes
The creditors get after the debtor, tho
pack of hounds in full cry, and alas
for the reindeer. They jingle his door.
bell before he gets up in the morning
they jingle his door-bell after he has
gone to bed at night. They meet lin
! IS he comes off his front steps. They
send him postal card or a letter, in
curtest style, telling him to pay up.
They attach his goods. They wanI
on demand. They call him knave.
They say he lies. They want him dis.
ciplined at the church. They want
him turned out Of the bank. They
coue at him from this side, and from
that sidc, and from before, and from
behind, and from shove and from
beneath, and he is insulted aid glib
beted, and sued and lunnsd, nnt
sworn at, until he gets the nervoil:
dyspepsia, gets neuralgia, gets liver
complaint, gets heart disease, gets
convulsive disorder, gets consumption
| Now he is dead, and you say: 90
} course they will let him alone.'' Oh
no! Now they are watcbful to sec
whether there arc any unnecessary ex
penses at the obsequies to see whether
there is any useless handle on the cas-
ket; to see whether there is any surplus
plait on the shrond to see whether th'
hcarse is costly or cltesp; TO see whethe
the flowers sent 10 the taaket have beer
bought by the family CT donated Il
see in whose name tue deed to til,
grave is made out. Then they ransacl
the bereft household, the books, til,
: pictures, the carpets, the chars, tn
sofa, the piano, the mattress, tn
pillow on which lie dies. Cursed b.
, debt! For the sake OF your own hap
piness, for the sake Of your goo
morals, for the sake of your immorls
soul, for Gods sake, young man, a
far as possible, keep out Of it.
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