The Brookhaven leader., 1891-12-24

BILE article, IL will wash" yes, il will
wash out The sale Is made, the goods
| are wrapped up, the country merchant
goes off feeling that he has an equiva.
lent 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 would never sell them;
told him we were selling them less
than cost; and he thought he was get
ting good bargain; got rid of them at
last" And the head of the firm
says: That's well done, splendid
ly done?" Meanwhile, God had record
ed eight lies-four lies against the
young man, four lies against his EN-
ployer; for 1 undertake to say that the
employer is responsible for all the iniq-
uities of his clerks, and all the iniquities
of those who are clerks of those clerks,
down to the tenth generation, il those
employers inculcated ubiquitous and
damning principles.
stand before young men this morn
ing who are under this pressure. l say
come out of it. "Ohr' you say; II can't;
have my widowed mother TO support,
and il a man loses q situation now he
can't get another one." say come
out of it. Go home to your mother and
say to her: Mother. l can't stay in
that shop and be upright; what shall
DOE" and il 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 fatherless; He will take
care of u.s." And l tell you no young
man ever permanently suffered by such
a course of conduct. In Philadelphia,
in drug shop, n young man said to
his employer: 81 want to please
you, really, and I am willing to sell
medicines on Sunday, but can't
sell this patent shoe backing on
Sunday" WELL" said the head
man, you will have to do it, or you
will have to go away" 1.-THE young
man said: II can't do it; am willing
to sell medicines, but not shoe-black-
ing" "Well, then, go! Go now"
The young man went away. TheL 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 fortune in the future. A man
said to his employer: II can't wash
the wagon on Sunday morning; am
willing to wash it on Saturday after
noon; but, sir, you will please excuse
me, l can't wash the wagon on
Sunday morning" His employer
said: You must wash it; my car
riage comes in every Saturday night.
and you have got to wash it on Sunday
morning" 81 can't do it," the man
said. They parted. The Lord looked
after him, grandly looked after him.
He is worth to-day hundred fold more
than his employer ever will be, and he
saved his soul. Young men, it is safe
to do right.
There is n 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 can not be reclaimed. l
deny both propositions. The moral are
not safe unless they have laid hold of
God, and the dissolpte may be re-
claimed. I 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 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
little while ago, in the presence of a
brilliant assemblage, flashing lights
and orange blossoms. and censers swing
ing 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 staggcr back from the door as he
comes in, and in her look there will be
! the prophecy of woes that are coming;
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 again, and stab it again,
until some night she will open
the door of the place where her com.
panion was ruined, and she will fling
out her arm from under her ragged
shawl and say, with almost omnipotent
elequence: "Give me back my husband
Give me back my protector! Give me
back my all! Him of the kind heart
and gentle words, and the manly brow
give him back to mer' And then the
vretches, obese and filthy, will push
back their matted locks, and they will
say: Put her out! Put her out" Oil
self-righteous man, without God you
are in peril. Seek after Him to-day.
Amid the ten thousand temptations of
life there is no safety for man with
out God.
But l may be addressing some who
have gone astray, and so l assault that
other proposition that the dissolute can
not be reclaimed. Perhaps you have
only gone little astrav. While speak
are you troubled? Is there a voice
within you saying: what did you do
that for? Why did you go there? 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
through the whole catalogue, in.
vite 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
thv vOuth. but know thOu that for all