The Forrest City times., 1891-12-18


 ssc,an. and Blackstone the lawyer. and Bsccs inc phiIcsopher, and Harvey the physician and John Milton tho poet Ask then what inndelity has ever done u IHft the fourteen hundred millions of the race out Of barbarism Ask them when mn delity ever instituted sanitary eommlssion, and before yoa leave their society once ano forever tell them they have insulted tne men. .s ! ory of your Christian father, and spit upon tne death bed Of your mother, and with swine snout rooted up the grave Of your sisser "ns died believing in the Lord Jesus.
 Young man, hold on to your bible. Itis tns best book you ever owned It will tell you no" to dress: how to bargain, how to walk, now 70 act how to live how to die. Glorious biDiel whether on parchment or paper, fin octave or euodecimo, on the center-table Of the craving room. Of in the counting-ro Of the banker Glorious tiblei Light 70 ouI | feet and lamp to our path. Hold on 70 lt' The second class Of insidious temptations tna' coties upon our young men is led on by the ois honest empl yer. Every commercial establish nent is a school In nine cases out of ten, the principles of the employer become the prlneF pies of the employee l ask the oider me-. chants to bear me out in these statements. H. when you were just starting in life, in eommer cial life. you were told that honesty was no. marketable, that trough you might sell all the goods in the shop, you must not '
 to exercise all industry and tact you were not to sell your eonscience--n you were taught that gains gotten oy sin were combustibie, and at the mo ment of ingnition would be blown on by the breath of God until all the splendlo estate would vanish into white ashes sea tered ln the whirlwind-then that instruction has peer to you a precaution anda help ever since ineie are hundreds of commercial establishments ID our great cities which are educating class oi young men who will be the honor or the iano, and there are other establishments wnich are educating young men to be nothing but rnarpers What chance is there for young man who was taught in an establishment that 1t is right to lie if it is smart and that French label IS all that is necessary to make thing French, and that you ought always to be honest when " pays, and that it is wrong 10 steal unless you do it well; Suppose, now young man lus. starting in life, enters place of that kino where there are ten young men, all drilled ID the infamous practices of the establish ment He is ready to be taught The young man has no theory of commercial ethics. Where is he to get his theory He will get the theory from his employers. One day ne pushes his wit little beyond what the establishment demands of him, and he feeces customer un- til the clerk is on the verge Of being seized by the law What is done in the establishments He is not arraigued The head of the estao- lishment says to him: "Now, be careful; De careful, young man, you might be eaGsLt put really that was splendidly done; you will get along in the world, warrant you" Then tnat young man goes up until he becomes head clerk He has found there Is premium on in- iquity.
 One morning the employer comes to the es- tablishment He goes into the counting room and throws up his hands and shouts, why tbe safe has been robbedln What is the mat ter? Nothing nothing; only the clerk who mas been practising good while on customers IS practictng a little on the employer NO new principle introduced into that establishment IL is poor rule that will not work both ways You must never steal unless you can do it we'll He did it we'll I am not talking an abstrsc- tion: I am talking a terrible and crushing fact
 But may be addressing some who have gone astray. and so assault ' t other proposition that the desolute cannot reclaimed. Per haps you have only gone little agtray. Wnile speak are you troubiedl Is there voice within you saying, What did you do that for' Why did you go there? What did you mean by thatf Is ihe,e memory in your soul that makes you trcmble? God only knows all our hearts Yea if you have gone so far as to com init iniquities. and have gone through the the whole catalogue, I invite you back this hour, The Lord waits for you tRejoicei 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 judgment Come home, young man. to your fathers God. Come home, young man. 10 your mothers God. ol I wish that all the batteries of the gospel could to-day be unlimbered against all those influences which are taking down so many Of our young men. I would like to blow trumpet Of warn ing and recruit until this whole audience would march out on crusade against the evils Of society But let none of us be dis heartencd O. Christian workers, my heart Is high with hope. The dark hori- zon is blooming into the morning of which prophets spoke, and of which poets have dreamed, and Of which painters have sketched- The worlds bridal hour advances. The mount tains will kiss the morning radiant and e1ui- gent, and 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 in stead of the briar there shall come up the myrtle tree and the mountains and the hills shall break forth into singing, and all the trees If ttc vxa,d sh+tlt ,tfy, 'ff a e. t~ rig'