Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-12-14

inculcated iniquitous and damning princi-
pies.
/ stand before young men this morning
who are under this pressure say, come
out Of it. "Ohl" you say, II can't; have
my widowed mother to support, and if a
man loses situation now he can't get
another one" l say, come out Of it, Go
! home to your mother and say to her,
Mother, can't stay in that shop and he
/ upright; what shall l dor" and If she is
worthy of you she will say. "Come out OF
| it, my son-we will just throw ourselves
on him who hath promised to be the God
of the widow and the fatherless; he will
take care of us" And tell you no young
man ever permanently suffered by such a
course of conduct.
In Philadelphia, in 4 drug shop, young
man said to his employer, 81 want to
| please you, really, and | am willing to sell
medicines on Sunday, but can't sell this
patent shoe backing on Sunday" "Well p"
said the head man, "you will have to do it,
or else you will have to go away" The
/ young man said, Il can't do it; am will
ing to sell medicines, but not shoe black
ing" "Well, then, gol Go now" The
young man went away. The Lord looked
after him. The hundreds of thousands of
dollars he won in this world were the
smallest part of his fortune. God honored
him. BY the course he took he saved his
soul as well as his fortunes in the future.
A man said to his employer, 81 can't
wash the wagon on Sunday morning; am
willing to wash it on Saturday afternoon,
but, sir you will please excuse me, can't
wash the wagon on Sunday morning."
His employer said, You must wash it; my
carriage comes in every Saturday night,
and you have got to wash IT, on Sunday
morning" 81 can't do it," tie man said.
They parted. The Lord looked after him
-grandly looked after MIN. Tie is worth
today a hundred fold more than his EN-
ployer ever was or ever will be, and he
saved his soul. Young men, it is safe tc
do right There are young men in this
house today who, under this storm OF
temptation, de striking deeper and deeper
their roots and spreading out broader theii
branches. They are Daniels in Babylon
they are Josephs in the Egyptian court,
they are Pauls amid the wild beasts Of
Ephesus. / preach to encourage them
Lay hold of God and be faithful.
UNTENABLE PROPOSITIONS.
There is a mistake we make about young
men. We put them in two classes; the
one class is moral, the other is absolute.
The moral are safe. The dissolute cannot
be reclaimed | deny both propositions.
The moral are not safe unless they have
laid hold of God, and the dissolute may be
reclaimed. suppose there are self right
eous men in this house who feel no need of
God, and will not seek after him, and they
will go out in the world, and they will be
tempted, and they will be flung down by
misfortune, and they will go down, down,
down, until some night you will see them
going home hooting, raving, shouting
blasphemy-going home to their mother,
going home to their sister, going home
to the young companion to whom, only
little while ago, in the presence of a bril-
liant assemblage, flashing lights and
orange blossoms, and censers swinging in
the air, they promised fidelity and purity
and kindness perpetual. AS that man
reaches the door, she will open it, not
with an cutlery, but she will stagger
back from the door as he comes in, aud
in her look there will be the prophecy
of woes that are coming, want that win
SILVER in need of fire, hunger that will
cry in vain for bread, crueties that
will not leave the heart when they have
crushed it, but pinch it again and stab
the door of the place where her companion
was ruined, and she will fling out her arm
from under her ragged shawl and say,
with almost omnipotent eloquence: "Give
me back my husbandl Give me back my
protector Give me back my ALL Him of
the kind heart and gentle words and the
manly brow-give him back to mel" And
then the wrntches, obese and filthy, will
push back their matted locks and they
will say; Put her out Put her outp OH
self righteous man, without God you are
in peril. Seek after him today. Amid the
ten thousands temptations of life there is
no safety for n man without God.
But | may be addressing some who have
gone astray, and so assault that other
proposition that the dissolute cannot be re-
claimed. Perhaps you have only gone
little astray While | speak are you
troubledY Is there voice within you say
ing: "What did you do that for? Why did
you go there? What did you mean by
that?" Is there IA memory in your soul
that makes you trembeY God only knows
all our hearts. Yea, if you have gone so far
as to commit iniquities and have gone
through the whole catalogue, invite you
back this hour. The Lord waits for you.
"Rejoicel o young man in thy youth, and
let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy
youth; but know thou that for all these
things God will bring thee into judg
ment."
Come home young man, to your fathers
God. Come home, young man, to your
mothers God. Obi | wish that all the
batteries of the Gospel could today be I'M
limbered against all those influences which
are taking down SO many of our young
men. | would like to blow a trumpet of
warming and recruit until this whole au-
dience would march out on crusade
against the evils of society But let none
Of us be disheartened,
Oh, Christian workers, my heart is high
with hope. The dark horizon is blooming
into the morning of which prophets spoke,
and of which poets have dreamed, and of
which painters have sketched. The worlds
bridal hour advances. The mountains will
lss the morning radiant and efTulgent,
and all the waves of the sea will become
the crystal keys of great organ, on which
the fingers of Everlasting JOY shall play the
grand march of world redeemed. In
stead of the thorn there shall come up the
fir tree and instead OF the briar there shall
come up the myrtle tree, and the noun
tains and the hills shall break forth into
singing, and all the trees of the wood shall
clap their handsl
GOOD ADvICE.-The editor of the
West Branch, Iowa, Record gives his
readere some good advice owe have
used Chamberain's Cough Remedy in