Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-12-15

willing TO sell medicines on Sunday
but can't sell this patent shoe black
ing on Sunday" 'Well, r said the head
man. ''you will have to do it or else
you will have to go away" The youne
rnan said II can't do it. am willing
to sell medicines. bot not ehoe 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 h;s for
tune. God honored him. by the
course he took he saved his soul as
well us his fortunes in the future.
A man said to bis 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 mcrning.' y
II can't do ft," the man said. They
DtAIbtu. iC iOOAGu AlltT Illtlt
grandly looked after him. lie is worth
today a 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 aud deeper
their roots and spreading out broader
their branches. They arc 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
THE PERILS OF SELF RIGHTEOUSNESS.
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. i
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 nc
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 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 outcry, but
she will stazger back from the door as
lie 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 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 Inc back my husband !
Give me back my protectorl 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 wretches, obese and filthy, will
push back their matted locks, and they
will say: "Put her out 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 a 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
HlNoh CIV lOu NibAOlCuE 10 lllCIG a
voice within you saying, What did
you do that fori Why did you go
therel What did you mean by thatp
Is there memory in your soul that
makes you trembe; God only knows
all our hearts. Yea, if you have gone
SO far as to commit iniquitiea, and have
gone through the whole catalogue, l
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 fa-
TIERS God. Come home, young man,
TO your mothers God Oh, | wish that
all the batteries Of the Gospel could to-
day be unlinI6ered against all those in
tiuences which are taking down so many
o. our young men. ] would like To
blow trumpet of warning and recruit
until this whole audience would march
out on crusade against the evils Of So
eiety, But let none of rs 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 sketehed. The worlds bridal hour
advances. The mount lns will kiss the
morning radiant and eglulgent, and all