The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-12-17

their branches They are Daniels ir
Babylon, they are Josepils In the Egyp
tian court, they are Pauls AMID the
wild beasts of Ephesus. I preach II
encourage them. Lay hold Of God and
be faithful.
THE PERI.s or SELF RIGHTEOUSNESS
There is a mistake we make about
young men. We put them Ia two
ciasSes-the one class Is moral, tbs
other Is diseolute. The moral are safe.
The dissolute cannot be reclaimed.
deny both propositions. Tie moral
are not safe unless they have laid hold
Of God, AMI the dissolute may be re
claimed. / suppose there are sell
righteous men in this house who feel nc
need OF God, and viii not seek after
him, and they will go cut in the
world and they will be tempted, and
they will be flung down by inisfor-
tune, and they viii GO down, down,
down, until some night you viii see
them going home hooting, raving,
shouting b!asphemy-going home to
their mother, going home to their SIS
ter, going home TO the young compar-
ion to whom only little while ago, ia
the presence of brilliant assemblage,
flashing lights and orange blossoms,
and censers 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, bat
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 shiver in need of
fire, hunger that will cry ir 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 viii open the door Of
the place where her companion was
ruined, and sho will fling out her
arm from under her ragged shawl
and say, with almost omnipotent elo
quence: "Give Inc back my husband!
Give me back my protector! Give ne
back my all Him of the kind heart
and gentle words and the manly brow
give him back to met" And then
the wretches, obese ard filthy, will
push back their matted locks, and they
will say: Put her QUIT Put her outr'
Oh, self righteous man, without God
you are in peril! Seek after him to-
day. Amid the ten thousand tempta-
tons of life there is no safety for a man
without God
But I may be addressing some who
have gone astray, and so assault that
other proposition that the dissoIute
cannot be reclaimed. Perhaps you
have only gone a little astray. While
L speak are you troubled? Is there a
voice within you saying, WHAT did
you do that for2 Why did you go
there2 What did you mean by that?"
Is there memory in your soul that
makes you tremble2 God only knows
all our hearts. Yea, if you have gone
so far as to commit iniquities, and have
gone through the SAole catalogue, I
invite you back this hour. The Lord
waits for you. Rejoice! oh, 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 judgment.
Come home, young man, to your IA
theirs God. Come home, young man,
to your mothers God. Oh, l wish that
all the batteries of the Gospel could to-
day be numbered against all those in
fuences which are taking down so many
of our young men. l would like to
blow trumpet of warning and recruit
until this whole audience would march
out on a crusade against the evils Of So
ciety. But let none of us be disheart
ened.
Oh, Christian workers, my heart is
high with hope. The dark horizon is
blooming into the morning OF which
prophets spoke, and of which poets
have dreamed, and of which painters
have sketche3 The worlds brida, hour
advances The mountains will kin the
morning radiant and effulgent. ard all
the waves of the sea will become the
crystal keys of a great organ, on which
the fingers of everlasting Joy shall play
the grand march of a world redeemed
Instead of the thorn there shall come
up the fir tree, and instead of the briar
there shall come up the myrtle tree,
and the mountains and the hills shall
break forth into singing, and all the
ts.'es of the wood shall clap their
handsl