News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-12-17

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country merchant departs so impressed
with the straightforwardness of that
young man that he will come again
and again, every spring and autumn,
unless interfered with.
The young man has been now in that
establishment five years. He unrolls
the goods on the counter. He says to
the customer, Now those are the best
goods we have in our establishment; :"
they have better on the next shelf. lie
saws, eve are selling these goods less
than cost" they are making twenty per
cent. He says, 'There is nothing like
them in all the city," there are fifty
shops that want to sell the same thing.
He saws, ''Now, that is a durable
article, it will wash" yes, it will wash
| out.
The sale is made, the goods are wrap
ped up, the country merchant goes off
feeling that he has an equivalent for his
money, and the sharp clerk goes into
the private room of the counting house,
and he says, ''Well, got rid of those
goods at last | really thought we never
would sell them; told him we were
selling them less than cost, and he
thought he was getting a good bargain;
got rid of them at last" And the head
of the firm says, THAT'S well done;
splendidly done!"
Meanwhile God had recorded eight
lies-four lies against the young man,
four lies against his employer, for l I'M
dertake to say that the employer is re
sponsible for all the iniquities of his
clerks, and all the iniquities of those
who are clerks of these clerks, down to
the tenth generation, if those employ
ers inculcated iniquitOus and damning
principles
l stand before young men this morn
ing who are under this pressure. l say,
come out of it. ''Oh!" you say, Il
can't; l have my widowed mother to
support, and if man loses a situation
now he can 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 do2" 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 u.s." And l tell you no
young man ever permanently suffered
by such course of conduct.
In PHILADELPHIA in q drug shop q
young man said to his employer, Il
want to please you, really, and l am
willing to sell medicines on Sunday;
but can't sell this patent shoe black
ing 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 willing
to sell medicines, but not shoe black
ing" ''Well, then, go! 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 for
tune. 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, Il can't
wash the wagon on Sunday morning; |
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"
II can't do it," the man said. They |
parted. The Lord looked after him,
grandly looked after him. He is worth |
today hundred fold more than his |
employer 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 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 Egyp- |
tan court, they are Pauls amid the
wild beasts of Ephesus. | preach to |
encourage them. Lay hold of God and |
be faithful.
THE PERLLS OF SELF RIGHTEOUSNESS.
There is a mistake we make about |
young men. We put them in two
elasses-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 may be re-
claimed. 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 misfor-
tune, 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 sis
ter, going home to the young compan-
ion to whom only little while ago, in
the presence of a brilliant assemblage,
flashing lights and orange blossoms,
and censer5 swinging in the air, they
promised fidelity and purity and kind
ness 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 COM
ing. want that will SILVER 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 omnipotent elo-
quence: "Give me back my husband!
Give me back my protectors Give Inc
back my all! Him of the kind heart
and gentle words and the manly brow
give him back to mel" And then
the wretches, obese and filthy, will
push back their matted locks, and they
will say: 'Put her outl Put her outr'
Oh, self righteous man, without God
you are in peril! Seek after him to-
day. Amid the ten thousand tempta-
tions of life there is no safety for man
without God
But | may be addressing some who
have gone astray, and SO | assault that
other proposition that the dissolute
cannot be reclaimed. Perhaps you
have only gone a little astray. While
/ speak are you troubled? Is there
voice within you saying, 'What did
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