Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-09

fering has been dug the marble for the
worlds greatest temples of wisdom and pal
aces of power.
Show me a man, who, refusing many of
the frivolities of gossiping youths, can see
| more to attract his attention i'll the pages of
a treatise or a history, than in the flash of
| bright eyes, or the airy step of those who
| find more skill in their heels than their
| heads and will show you man who Will
| yet master languages and sway very scep-
| ter over his fellows. Many an education
which is now considered complete is made
| up OF a smattering OF newspapers and the
/ last page of a fashion magazine. The parlor
and the drawing room cannot educate us.
| They may give us outward adornments of
manner, but getting valuable knowledge is
| like sweltering at forge, bellows in one
hand and hammer in the other-like digging
ledge amid the constant bang OF blasted rock.
Especially is 1t true that no growth in grace
| Is possible unless, like Daniel, we are willing
to TAX up the cross, however heavy it may
be and rough with nails. Passions har-
messed and yoked make excellent beasts OF
burden.
Daniel Did Not Need Watching.
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
friends in Jerusalem would never have
heard of it. His dissipation and renuncia-
tion of religion would not have cast one sor-
row on the family hearth where he had
lived or the old family Bible which he used
to read. But, although far way 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
IL %n1,;, Ia, fl,
among the hills or threshing rye in the barn
is far different from Frederick on the Stock
Exchange. How often does the kind, retir-
ing spirit become bold efTrontery. and the
accommodating, self-sacrifcing disposition
once exhibited among brothers and sisters,
becomes a cold and unresponsive selfish.
ness, and economy, wastefulness, and
opened-handed charity, tight-fisted stingi-
ness, and the keeping OF good hours is
changed into midnight revelry,
There is no passage in a mans life Of more
thrilling interest than the day in which he
leaves home and goes off to seek his for.
tune. The novelty and romance connected
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 considered
promising youths, cannot help FEELING that
this step is full OF momentous Importance.
Before the youth lett homo all his conduct
was under affectionate guardianship. Out
bursts of folly, careleSsness, and impropri-
ETY. of manner, and looseness of speech,
were kindly reproved.
From Guardianship to Independence.
But behold, how the scene changes The
father. through the interceding of metropol-
itan friends has secured the son place in
some bank or store or office. Schoolmates
on the night before his departure come to
take their farewell of the young adventurer.
That morning he takes last walk around
the old place, and going past some loved
spot, q sly tear may start but no one sees 1t.
The trunk is on the carriage, and after a
warm goodby, away they speed over the |
hills.
Set down amid excitements and among |
not prescriptions as to their |
words or deeds, temptations troop around |
the stranger. The morning comes, but no |
family altar, ana the Sabbath, but no real |
quiet, and perhaps at the sanctuary the |
faces are all strange and no one cares |
whether he goes to church or whether he |
does not go. Long winter evenings
arrive, and how shall they be spent?
On his way home from his place of busi- /
ness he saw flaming placards announcing
rare performances and that this was posi-
lively the last night. At the door of his
cneerless boarding house no one greets him.
and the evening meal is insipfd, for no one
cares whether he eats or does not eat The
room in the third story that evening seems |
dole eful and repelling. A book snatched up
from tue stand proves to be dull, for no
sister is there to look over with him. In de-
spair he rushes out reckless as to where he
goes if only ne can see something that will \
make him stop thinking. That night may
be the turning point in his history. Once
within he fatal circle of sin and the soul
has no power to repel 1t.
The Continual Exodus of Young Blood
In many a 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 dis
grace the sepulchre of his fathers. Yet this
exodus must be made. As from far distant
ills, rivers find their way through tunnels
O great cities, so from far distant points of
he country it is necessary that a stream of
population shall pour into our
.reat thoroughiares to keep them pure and
manage the traffic of the world. Multitudes
" such are constantly making their depart
Ire from home.
The Lord stretch forth His arm for the de-
iverance OF these Daniels away down in
Babylon. Wherever your lot may be cast
n lar inland town or in some great seaport
MAINTAIN in your absence the same princi- |
lies of morals and religion which may have |
,een instilled by parental solicitude. And |
While you may feel in your heart and life
he advantages of early religious culture |
orget not those to whom you are chiefly |
Indebted: and pray that age comes upon |
hem and the night of death begins to fall on |
heir pathway, the hope OF heaven nay |
eam through the darkness, lustrous and |
teady as the evening star.