Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-05-19

le1t beasts Of burden. However attractive
may be the sinful offers of the world though
r.ca and luxurious as the provision of the
KING table, we must be willing to ref1ss
them if nothing be left us but plain pulse,
On, how we waut the faith and courage OF q
Daniel AMI a Paul, but how we dread the
hot atm osphere of trial in which their
eraces ripensd, The richest fruits of re-
igion grow in tue SUI try tropics of trial II
you want pearls, you must dive for them il
you want gold, you must dig for it. The
richest parts Of California AMI Australia are
under ground. Depend upon it, if no prun
ing, no fruit; no climbing, no elevation; no
battle no victory; no cross, no crown. Had
there been no Nebuchadnezzar, there would
have been no Daniel. Even SO it has been in
all ages. The flames that have flashed up
from the stake have been SO many ilumina-
lions OF Chrstia n triumph.
When God would make a great light of
truth and holiness in the world, he often
takes great prosecutions and with them
strikes fire. The DEVILS hate is Gods glory.
Had it not been for the prosecutions of EN-
peror Valerian, the world would not have
known o. the courage of Cyprian, and if
the tyranny of Diecletian had never been
known, the triumphant grace would not have
been seen which made Macmillan, when
sentenced TO death, exclaimi ''God be
praised Had not the bandits of Piedmont
pursued the Waldenses through the valley
OF the Alps, and the iufuriate decree put to
massacre the Albigenses Of France, the world
would have had fewer Illustrations of Chris.
tisu neroism. Be Joseph before Pharaoh
ss Paul before Felix. Be Daniel before
Darius
Again let the story of Daniel teach us the
beauty of that youthful character which re-
mains unblemished and upright when away
from home. Had Daniel, on arriving in
Babylon, plunged into every excess. his
frfa lam. lo,v
OF it. His dissipation and pronunciation OF
religion would not have cast one sorrow on
the family hearth where he had lived or the
old family Bible which he used to read. But,
though far away from home, he knew that
Gods eye watched him and that was
enough. 1t is not every young man who
maintains the same character when absent
that was maintained at home.
Frederick watching his fathers sheep
among the hills or thrashing rye in the harn
is far different from Frederick on the Stock
Exchange. How often does the kind, retir-
ing spirit become bold effrontery and the
accommodating, self sacrificing disposition
once exhibited among brothers and sisters
becomes cold and unresponsive selfshness,
and economy, wastefulness and open handed
charity, tight listed stingness, and the
keeping OF good hours is changed to mid.
night revelry.
probably address young men now, dis
tant from their fathers house, and others
who, still under the parental roof look for
ward to time when they will depart alone
to conflict with the world and among stran-
gers be called to build up characters for
themselves. Happy for you, oh, young
man. if you shall, like Joseph, be the same
when living with wicked Pharaoh as with
pious Jacob. or Daniel as pure in Babylon as
in Jerusalem. There is no passage in mans
life of more thrilling interest than the day
in which he leaves home and goes off to seek
his fortune. The novelty and romance con-
nected with the departure may keep the
young man from any poignant sorrow, but
parents, who have seen the destruction
among strangers of those who were con-
sidered promising youths, cannot help feel
ing that this step is full of momentous i'm
portance. Before the youth left home all his
conduct was under affectionate guardian
ship.
Outbursts of folly, carelessness and i'm
propriety of manner and looseness of speech
were kindly reprovei, and although the re-
straint seemed sometimes too severe yet
hours of sober reflection have convinced
him that it was salutary and righteous. But
behold how the scene changes. The father,
through the interceeaing OF metropolitan
friends has secured the son a place in some
bank or store or office Schoolmates, on the
night before his departure come to take
their farewell of the young adventurer.
lHttt iuci HlllZ ilS UdkcS d ldSt Wdlk dTOuuu
the old place, and going past some loved spot
sly tear may start, but no one sees it. The
trunk is on the carriage, and after warm
goodby away they speed over the hills. Set
down amid excitements and among COM
panlons not overscrupuiouS as to their words
or deeds, temptations troop around the
stranger. The morning comes, but no fami-
~ altar and the Sabbath, but no real quiet,
and perhaps at the sanctuary the faces are
all strange and no one cares whe Their he
goes to church or whether he does not go.
Long winter evenings arrive, and how shall
they be spent? On mis- way home from his
place of business he saw flaming placards
announcing rare performances and that this
was positively the last night.
AT the door of his cherries boarding
house no one greets him. and the evening
meal is insipid, for no one cares whether he
eats or Goes not eat. The room in the third
story that evening seems doleful and repel-
ling. A book snatched up from the stand
proves to be dull, for no sister is There to
look over with him. In despair he rushes
out, reckless as to where he goes, il only he
can see something to make him stop think
ing. That night may be the turning poiutin
his history. Oncs within the fatal circle of
sin, and the soul has no power to repel it. On
that dark sea he is launched, where the
CLEAN of joy is only the fash of the pit and
the roar of laughter is only the creaking of
In many country churchyard is now
the grave of some youthful spirit that went
away 1.-THE and bounding, but came home
diseased and crushed and blasted to disgrace
the sepulcher of his fathers. Yet this exc
dus must be made. As from far distant hills
rivers find their way through tunnels to
great cities, SO from far distant points of the
country it is necessary that stream of I'M
corrupted population shall pour into our
great thoroughfares to keep them pure and
manage the traffic of the world Multitudes
of such are constantly making their depar-
ture from home.
Tomorrow morning all of the thorough
fares leading toward The great cities OF our
land, on steamboat and rail car, there will
be young advepturers for the first speeding
away from their homes in order to try their
fortune in town. The Lord stretch forth
His arm for the deliverance of these Daniels
away down in Babylon. Wherever your
lot may be cast, in far inland town or in
some great seaport, maintain in your absence
the same principles of morals and religion
which may have been instilled by parental
solicitude.
And while you may feel in your heart and
life the advantages OF early religious culture,
forget not those TO whom you are chiefly in
debted, and pray that as age comes upon
them and the night of death begins to fall
in their pathway, the hope OF heaven may
beam through the darkness. lustrous and
steady as the evening star. The Lord for
bid that bv our conduct we should ever bring