Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-12-19

the goods on the counter. lie says to
the customer, Now those are the best
goods we have in our estab lishment
We are selling these goods at lass
than cost" they are making twenty
per cent lie says: "There is nothing
like them in oil the city," there are
fifty shops that want to sell the same
thing. He says: "Now, that is dur
able article, II will WASN'T" yes, 1t will
wash out The sale is made, the goods
are wrapped up, the country merchant
goes off feeling that he has an equiva-
lent for his money and the sharp clerk
goes into the private room OF the count
ing house and he says: swell, l got
rid of those goods at last; really
thought we would never sell them; I
told him we were selling the m less
than cost; and he thought he was get
ting good bargain; got rid of them ut
last"
And the head OF the firm says:
THAT'S we'll done; splendidly done"
Meanwhile. God had recorded eight
lies-four lies against the young man.
four lies against the employer, for I
undertake to say that the employer is
responsible for all the iniquities Of his
clerks, and all the iniquities Of those
who are clerks OF these clerks. down to
the tenth generation, II those employ
ers inculcated iniquitous and damning
principles.
Young men, it is safe to do right
There are young men in this house to.
day who, under this storm OF tempta-
ton, are striking deeper and deeper
their roots, and spreading out broader
their branches They are Daniels in
Babylon. they are Josephs in the
Egyptian court, they are Pauls amid the
wild beasts of Ephesus. 1 preach TO
encourage them. Lay hold Of God and
be faithful.
There is q mistake we make about
young men. We put them in two
classes. The one class is moral, the
other is dissolute. 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 can be re-
claimed. 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 into the
world and they will be tempted, and
they will be flung down by misfortune.
and they will go down, down, down,
until some morning you will see them
going home hooting, raving, shouting
blasphemy-going home to their
mother, going home to their
sister going home to their
young companion to whom,
only little while ago. in the presence
of brilliant assemblage, flashing
lights and orange blossoms, and cen.
sers swinging in the air, they promised
fidelity and purity. and kindness per-
petual. As that man reaches the door
she will open it not with an outcry,
but she will stagger back from the
door as he comes in, and in her look
there will be the prophesy of woes that
are coming; want that will shiver in
need of fire; hunger that will cry In
vain for bread, cruelties that will not
leave the heart when they have crushed
it. but pinch it again, and stab it again,
until some night she will open 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 oinnipotent eloquence,
give me back my husband! Give me
back nv 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 wretched,
fobese and filthy, will push back their
matted locks, and they will say, put
her out! Put her Quit"
o! self righteous man, without God'
YOU are in peril. Seek after him to-
dav. Amid the 10000 temptations OF
life there is no safety for man without
God.
But may hs addressing some who
have gone astray, and so ] assault. that
other proposition that the dissolute car
not be reclaimed. Perhaps you have
only gone a littla astraY. While
speak are you troubled? Is there
voice within you saying: what did yOr
do that forP Why did you 60 there
What did you mean by that?" Isther'
a memory in your soul that makes yor
treInble? God only knows all oul
hearts. Yea, II you have gone so for al
to commit iniquities and have gon'
through the whole catalogue, invite
you back this hour. The Lord waits
for you. Rejoice! D, young man, II
thy youth, and let thy heart chez
thee in the days OF thy youth
but know thou that for all thes'
! things Col will bring thee into judg
ment." Come home, young man, u
your fathers God Come home. youul
man, to your mothers God. OF wisl
that all the batteries OF the gospe
could to-day DO unlimbered against al
q a. Al Linz AnVIyV