The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-12-25

| 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. / say,
come out of it. ''Ol' you say. 81 can't;
have my widowed mother, to support,
and if a man loses situation now he
can't get another one" say. come out
of it Go home to your mother and say
to her: Mother, I can't stay in that
shop and be upright; what shall do?"
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 l tell you no young man ever
permanently suffered by such course
of conduct
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 / preach to
encourage them Lay hold of God and
be faithful.
There is mistake we make about
young men. We put them in two
classes The one class is p2oral, the
other is dissolute. The moral are safe.
The dissolute cannot be reclaimed. I
deny both propositions The moral are
not safe unless they have laid hold of
God, and the dissolute can be re-
claimed. I 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, aud
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, g2ipg 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 GEN.
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,
obese and filthy, will push back their
matted locks, and they will say, put
her out! Put her out!''
o. self righteous man, without God,
you are in peril Seek after him to.
day. Amid the 10000 temptations of
life there is no safety for man without
God.
But may be addressing some who
have gone astray, and 50 l assault that !
other proposition that the dissolute can !
not be reclaimed. Perhaps you have
only gone a littla astray. While
speak are you troubled? Is there /
voice within you saying: What did you |
do that for? Why did you go there7 |
What did you mean by that?' Is there
a memory in your soul that makes you ,
tremble? God only knows all our
hearts. Yea, if you have gone so far as
to commit iniquities and have gone
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 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. o! 1 wish
LnaL all Ine batteries OF Lne ROSpel
could to-day be unlim bered against all
those influences which are taking down
SO many of our young men. would
ike to blow a trumpet of warning, and
recruit until this whole audience would
march out against the evils of society.
But let none of us be d;sheartened. o!
Christian workers, my heart is high
with hope. The horizon is blooming
nto the morning of which prophets
spoke, and of which poets have
dreamed, and of which painters have
iketched. the worlds bridal hour ad-
'ances The mountains will kiss the
radiant and effulgent, and all
he waves of the sea will become the
crystal keys of a great organ, on which
The fingers of everlasting joy shall play
he grand march of a world redeemed
Instead of thorn there shall come up
he fir tree, and instead of the briar
here shall come up the myrtle tree,
md the mountains and the hills shall
oreak forth into singing, and all the
rees of the wood shall clap their hands,
LynchIDg Sparrow.
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