Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-12-24
lniqu,tOus and damning Princ,-

stand before young men this morning
who are under this pressure. ! say, come
out Of it. "Ohr' you say, 81 can't; have
my widowed mother 70 support, and If
man loses a situation now he can't get
another one" | say, come out of it. Go
home to your mother and say to her,
Mother, can't stay in that shop and be
upright; what shall / doi" aud il she is
worthy of you she will say, Come out of
1t, 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 u.s." And tell you no young
man ever permanently suffered by such a
course of conduct.
In Philadelphia, in 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 blacking on Sunday" "Well,"
said the head man, 'you will have to do it,
| or else you will have to go away" The
young man said, 81 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 him. He is worth
today hundred fold more than his en-
ployer ever was or ever will be, and he
saved his SOUL Young men, it is safe to
do right. There are young men in this
house today who, under this storm of
temptation, 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. l 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 dissolute.
The moral are safe. The dissolute cannot
be reclaimed. l 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 a
J little while ago, in the presence of 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 outcry, but she will staggel
back from the door as he comes in, aud
in her look there will be the prophecy
+ of woes that are coming, want that will
l shiver in need of fire, hunger that will
: cry in vain for bread, cruelties thai
will not leave the heart when they have
crushed it, but pinch it again and stat
| it again, until some night she will oper
, the door of the place where her companion
t was ruined, and she will fling out her arm
t from under her ragged shawl and say
, with almost omnipotent eloquence: "Giv'
e me back my husbandl Give me back my
/ protectorl Give me back my ALL Him o
D the kind heart and gentle words and th,
J, manly brow--give him back to mel' A {
3 then the wretches, obese and filthy, will
push back their matted locks and the!
will say: "Put her outl Put her outr' Oh
Q self righteous man, without God you ar
] in peril. Seek after him today. Amid th'
9 ten thousands temptations of life there il
: no safety for man without God.
. But may be addressing some who hav
a gone astray, and so | assault that othe
t proposition that the dissolute cannot be re
q claimed. Perhaps you have only gone
o little astray. While | speak are yol
t troubledS Is there voice within you say
t ing: what did you do that for? Why diC
you go therea What did you mean b,
9 that?" Is there a memory in your sou
e that makes you tremble? God only know
e all our hearts. Yea, if you have gone so la
;. as to commit iniquities and have gon
n through the whole catalogue, invite yol
e back this hour. The Lord waits for you
9 let thy heart cheer thee in the days of th
J youth; but know thou that for all thes
8 things God will bring thee into iude
u ment."
n Come home, young man, to your father
l. God. Come home, young man, to you
1, mothers God. Obi l wish that all th
/, batteries of he Gospel could today be ur
8 limbered against all those influences whic
Q are taking down 80 many of our youn
3 men. would like to blow trumpet G
(. warning, and recruit until this whole AT
l. dience would march out on crusad
against the evils Of society, But let non
10 of us be disheartened.
& Oh, Christian workers, my heart is hig
s, with hope. The dark horizon is bloomin
It into the morning of which prophets spoke
y and of which poets have dreamed, and
d which painters have sketched. The world
n bridal hour advances The mountains wi
D .iss the morning radiant and effulgeni
a and all the waves of the sea will becom
:. the crystal keys of great organ, on whic
IL the fingers Of everlasting joy shall play tn
y grand march of q world redeemed. lr
u stead of the thorn there shall come up tn
ir tree, and instead OF the briar there sha
come up the myrtle tree, and the mour
"a tains and the hills shall break forth int
III clap their handsi
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