Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-12-14

do?" and if she is worthy Of you she
will saw, "Come out of it, my son-we
will Just throw ourselves on him VINO
hath promised to be the God OF the
widow and the fatherless; he VIII take
care of u.s." And tell you no young
man ever permanently suffered by such
a course OF conduct. In Philadelphia,
in a drug shop, young man said TO MS
employer: 81 want to please you,
really, and l am willing to sell medi-
cines on Sunday, but 1 can't sell this
patent shoe-blacking on Sunday:
t'Well," said the head man, you VIII
have to do it, or else you will have to go
away" The young man said;
"I CAN'T DO IT.
lam willing to sell medicines, but not
shoe backing. swell, then, go! 10
now" The young man went away.
The Lord looked after him. The hum
dreds of thousands of dollars he won in
this world were the smallest part OF MS
fortune. God honored him. BY the
course he took he saved his soul, as
we'll as his fortunes in the future. A
man said to his employer: IL can't
wash the wagon on Sunday morning; L
am willing to wash it on Saturday after
noon, 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," the man
said. They parted. The Lord looked
after him. He is worth to-day hun
dred-fold more than his employer ever
was or ever will be, and he saved bis
soul. 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 sinking deeper and deeper
their roots, and spreading out broader
their branches. They are Daniels in
Babylon, they are Josephs in the Egyp-
tian court, they are Pauls amid the
wild beasts of Ephesus. [ preach to
encourage them. Lay hold Of God and
be faithful.
THERE IS A 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 re-
claimed. 1 deny both propositions. The
moral are not safe unless they have laid
hold of God, and the dissolute may be
reclaimed. l suppose there are self
righteous 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 60 down, down, down, until some
night you will see them going home
hooting, raving, shouting plasphemy-
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 brilliant as
semblage, flashing lights and
ence.
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, and in her look there will be
the prophecy Of woes that are coming;
want that will shiver in need of fire,
hanger 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 ding out her
arm from under her ragged shall and
say, with almost omnipotent eloqu-
'GIvE ME BACK MY HUSBAND
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 mei' And then the
wretcheS, obese and filthy, will push
back their matted locks, and they will
say, "Put her out! Put her Quit" Oh!
self-righteous man, without God you are
in peril. Seek after him to-day. Amid
the ten thousand temptations of life
there is no safety for man without
God.
But may be addressing some who
have gone astray, and so l assault that
other proposition that the dissolute can
not be reclaimed. Perhaps yop have
only gone little astray. While l speak
are you troubled? Is there a voice within
you saying, "What did you do
that for? Why did you 90
there? What did you mean
by that?" Is there a memory in your
soul that makes you tremble? God only
knows our hearts. Yea, il 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. "RejoIce! O, young man.
in thy youth, and let thy heart cheer
thee in the days Of thy youth; but know
thou for all these things God will bring
thee into judgment"
COME HOME, YOUNG MAN,
to your fathers God. Come home.
young man, to your mothers God. o.
wish that ali the batteries of the Cos
pei could to-day be numbered against
all those influences which are taking
down so many Of our Young men. I
would like to blow trumpet of warn
ing and recruit until this whole audience
would march out on crusade
against the evils of society.
But let none OF us be dis
heartened. OIL Christian workers. nv
heart is high with hope. The dark
horizon is blooming into the morning of
which prophets spoke, and of which