The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-08-15
COUNSEL TO YOUNG MEN.
Rev. DIR. Charles II. Parihurst Admon
ishes Them to Fight Sin.

Rev. DR.. Charles II. Parihurst Admon-
ishes Them to Fight Sin.
There is only one means by which
man can become thoroughly qualified to
fulfill the functions to which he is divine
ly ordained. He must put himself in
that spot, body, mind and estate, in
which Christ put himself In the dis
rharge of the commission with which
God the Father loaded him. We might
ns well stop before we begin if we are
not prepared to be thorough at this point.
There is great deal about Christ that
Is mysterious, that we know nothing
about and never shall; but here is some
thing that is clear, that Christ came
into this world from heaven alamo with
a purpose, and that the fires of that pur-
pose consumed him to ashes, and that
that purpose-all done up in q single
word--was none other than the attempt,
burning and all engrossing, to take this
world as it was arr make it into what
it was MOTTO clean 1t, to beautify it, to
make it over from O damnable world
into blessed world. That was the thing
he came for. And to be Christian is
consciously to inherit, and to possess as
our own, the purpose by which he was
inspired and swept onward. There is
just enough in that to match young
mans mettle, be he tho divine young
man Of Nazareth or the human young
, man Of New York. Young friend. if a
purpose of life so searching, so thorough,
SO broad and so long doesn't take hold
of you and make your blood beat quicker
and your nerves Jingle, God have mercy
upon you'll
Just let me earnestly caution you right
here against the mistake of attempting
. to roll off the responsibility Of all this
; upon the shoulders of the clergy. Before
,, God it is my business to do this, and be-
fore the same God it is your business to
, do this. 1t is your business and mine,
! not because we are this, that or the
, other, but because we are Christians.
i. The difference between lay1nan's obi.
| cations to this corrupt world and a
clergyman's obligations to this corrupt
world is not in the faintest degree mat.
ter of difference in the quality of our OBJ.
legations or the strcnuousness of them
J. but only au affair of difference in the
:. method by which diversity of endow
\ ment, circumstance or occupation make:
i it wise for us to meet our obligations
. For man calling himself Christian Il
pay his minister SO much year for try
i ing to make the world better, and thei
d leaving it at that and letting the worlt
go to the devil, so far as his own effort
:, are concerned, is as wicked as it is mean
/ and you young fellows, with the fervi,
,. spirit Of vigorous manhood in you, yor
know it.
AS followers of Christ and as cooper
ant with him in the effort 10 get wicked
n ness out of the world you will maintain
steady consciousness of the sin that
d in the world, and will keep yourself wei
q i'll hand to do that sin steady battle. ]
tho pressure of circumstances and tn
% times makes itself felt within you, b
70 sure not TO let your enthusiasm wor
=, itself OF i'll any kind of frothy efferve.
"A conce. Make earnest with it, Make
business of it. Take hold of the worlt
nc take hold of this state, take hold of tn
10, city i'll some matter of fact and calcula
ing way that shall point in the directio
III of some positive result or other. Mai
r up your mind carefully, conscientiousl,
,n prayerfully what you will try to do an
10 how you will try to do it, and then 6
es along about it. Do not be concerned
=, secure the appreciation of Thomas, Ricl
ard or Henry. Keep clean conscienC
and an open road between your ow
heart and God, and bid goodby to VIII
Ito people think of you or say about you.-