Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-04-08
TO THE SLAUGHTER.
INFLUENCES THAT DIRECTLY DESTROY OUR
YOUNG MIN.
Society Much TO Bams-Its Behest Keep Up Ap-
pearances Gods Helmet and Sword-Take the
Right Road and Keep to It-Rsy. Dr.. Tai
mage's Discourse at St. Louis.
Special Telegram to the Register.

ard his text, Proverbs, vii 21: Gas an OK
to the slaughter" The eloquent preacher
said:
There is nothing in the voice or manner
Of the butcher to indicate to the OK that
there is death ahead. The OK thinks he is
going on to a rich pasture field of clover,
where all day long he will revel in the
herbaceOus luxuriancej but after while
the men and the boys close in upon him
with sticks and stones and shouting, and
drive him bars and into a doorway, where
he Is fastened, and with a we'll aimed
stroke the axe fells him; and so the antici-
patton Of the rsdolent pasture field is COM
pletely disappointed, So many a young
man has been driven on by temptation to
what he thought would be psradisiscal
Enjoyment; but after a while Influences
with darker hue and swarthier arm close
IN upon him, and he finds that instead of
making an excursion into garden he has
been driven 'as an OK to the slaughter. "
YOUNG MEN DESTROYED.
We are apt to blame young men for
beirg destroyed Shen we ought to blame
the influences that destroy them. Society
slsughtars a great many Young men by the
behest; you must keep up Appearances
whatever be your salary, you must dress
as we'll as Others, you must wine aud
brandy rs many friends, you must smoke
as costly cigars, you must give as expen-
sive entertainments, ard you must live in
rs fashionable a boarding house II you
haven't the money, borrow. II you can't
borrow, make false entry, or subtract
here and there 81 bill from bundle of bank
bills; you will only have TO make the de-
ceptiou little while little while; ia a
few months, OF in year OF two, you can
make all right Nobody will be hurt by
it: nobody will be the wiser. You your
self will not be damsged" BY that awful
process hundred thousand men have
been slaughtered for time and slaughtered
| for eternity.
Suppose you borrow. There is nothing
wrong about borrowing money. There Is
| hardly q man in the house but has some
times borrowed money. Vast estates have
been built on borrowed dollar But
there are two kinds Of borrowed money.
Money borrowed for the purpose of start
iug oI keeping up legitimate enterprise
and expense, aud money borrowed to get
that which you csn do without. The frst
is right, the other is wrong. II ycu have
money enough of your own to buy coat,
however plain, and then you borrow
money for daudy's outfit, yOa have taken
the fret revolution of the wheel down
grade. Borrow for the necessities; that
nav we'll Borrow for the luXuries; that
tins yOur prospects over in the wrong di-
rsction.
4 SERVANT OF THE LENDER.
The Bible distinctly says the borrower
is servant Of the lender. It is bad state
of things when you have to 20 down some
other street 10 escape meeting some one
whom YOU owe. Ii yOurg men knew
what is the despOtism of being in debt,
more of them would keep out of II. What
did debt do for Lord Bacon, with mind
towering above the centuries? IL induced
him 10 take bribes. and convict himself aS
A criminal before oil eyes. What did debt
90 for Walter Scott, broken hearted at
Ahbotsforo2 Kept him writing until bis
hand gave Cut in paralysis, 20 keep the
sheriff away from his pictures and status
~. Better Tor him if be hsd minded the
maxim which he hsd chiseled over the
freplscs at Abb0tsford: Waste not, want
not. -
The trouble Is, my friends, the people DO
no. understand the ethics ofgoing IN debt,
and that it You purchase goods with no eX-
mediation Of pay ing for them, OF 20 INTO
debts which yOU cannot meet you stesl
inst 80 much money. II 20 into gro
cer's store and I buy sugars and coifees ard
meats with no capacity to pay for them
and 70 intention of paying for them, am
more dishonest than if 60 into the store,
and when the grOcer's face is turned the
other way fill my pockets with the ar-
ticles of merchandise and carry off o ham.
In fire one case take the merchants time
and take the time Of his messenger TO
transfer the goods to my house, while IN
tbe other case take none of the time OF
the merchant, aud wait upon myself, and
T transfer the goods without any trouble to
him In other words, a sneak thief is not
40 bad as q man who contracts tor deots lie
never expects to pay.
A WEAPON OF DEFENSE.
Yourr man, arm yourself. The object
Of NV asrmon is TO put a weapon IN each
Of vonr hands for your own defense. Wait
Uoi for Young Men g Christian associations
- protect YOU, or churches to protect you.
4nneal to God for help, take care OF your
self. -l. .bot 20,
- ooll vour own. Whether it be the back
~o~lor of s fashionable boarding house, OF
y room in the fourth story OF cheap lodg-
mo care not. Only have that one room
- fortress. Let not the dissipator or
y0cIean step over the threshold. II they
oor,e mn the long flight of stairs and knock
- ,l,e door. meet them face to face and
L;,5Iv vet firmly refuse them admlt'ance'
IT-,.s 8 fsW family portraits o. the wall,
e,,,,, h-onqht them with you from your
.yy,S,try home. Have o Bible on the stand.
~ can afford it and you can play on
- bave an instrument OF muslc-harp
"a 80 or cornet. or melodisn, OF violin,
y, -,s a;sD0 Every morning before you leave
- ~ roon, DraT. Every night alter you
,o,,a home in that room, pray. AlaSe tne'
.oo-o vour Gibraltar, your sebastoPoi,
- - Aio1nt Zion. Let no bad book OF
~. o',-,,.s,,sr come into that room, any more
49,. l,o1 1vould allow cobra 10 coil on
YOUR table. - ho5ua1so u;lI
an esrs Of YOU. Your help will not come
~n 1,aV TO or three or four flights OF stairs ;
uP 'TS bsln will come through the root,
- ~ rom heaven, from that God who IN
tbo s;T thousand years Of the worlds MS
/ 80, mover betrayed a young man VINO
! tr;sd tn be good and a Christian. Let me
80 :, ragsrd to your adverse worldly CIR
o,,,otanees. .. in passiug, that you are on
| Ie,-aI now with thcss who are hnaily 10
.,,ooss5 80 Marx my words, young man.
onJ think OF it thirty years from now.
~ ~ will find that those who thirty years
F,on, nos are the milliousires OF this coun-
~ ~ are the orators Of the country,
~ are the poets of the country, VINO are
| -, .sro,g merchants of the country, who
are the great philanthroPists oi tns couu
trv-mightiest 10 church and state are
| tbis morning on Level with yon' not an
men above aud ycu in Strengthened CIT
cumstancas BOw.
MUCH TO RISK
uerscbal earned his living by pisy ing
O. violin at parties. and in the lnters'lces 0.
the play he would 90 ont am loSH - ;o,.
tbe midnight heavens, the fields cl MS IL,
mortal conc uests. George Stepn1G,sor J,,'.-
rose from being the foreman 2i Gyilie.J
=, Ia the most renowned Of the WORLDS Gu
,;,e.rs No outfit, no capital 10 sSaI'
1;tbi Young man, 90 down 30 the 'le,
csuti;s library and get some ooOno ;"n7 Cod