The herald., 1893-07-03

own free will, and they are those
against which the youth should be
warned and helped in his endeavors to
rerist their temptation.
Let us take the lives of Jacob and
Esan, it is hard to tell which of these
two young men Hinned the most and
which was the more to blame for the
transactions into which they entered and
whether their mother was not worse in
her sin than either of them.
suppose che thought the end justi-
fed the means, but she was mistaken
che sorrowed all her days in consequence
OF that one rash act. The ends If wrong
never justifies the means. Never do
wrong in order that good will follow, no
greater mistake was ever made. Do
right even if the heavens fail, if it cost
money, position, life, everything, do
right. Jacob stole a blessing which
rightfully belonged to his elder brother
and lied to his aged father as a conse.
quence OF the action. What was the re-
suit? Jacob fled from home and for
many years was a wanderer. l don't
believe his mother ever saw him again
and che carried the burden OF her sin. at
the end of life long sorrow, to the
grave. Jacob had stone for pillow.
You all know what that is. When one
OF as have done wrong, much better for
US were it real stone under our head
that the troublesome Coincidence which
is far worse.
Why are young men 80 loath to accept
the advice OF their elders? Wky does
youth not heed the wisdom of age and
take advantage of its experience, and
learn to avoid the evils and snares and
the dangers which line life's pathway
should think young man would
hang on the words OF those who have
passed down the ages before him, that
he would closely study their lives, their
struggles, their victories and their de-
feats, and as result 30 gauge his life
that he would escape the evils and
profit by the formers experience.
Above all things be something. 1t is
not the avocation you choose which will
determine what you are. 1t is the pro-
ticiency you show in whatever line of
business or action you follow. DON'T be
Jack-of-all-trades and master Of none,
but take one single line and keep ham,
mering away at 1t until you are so
thoroughly conversant with it that yor
become an authority and are referred to
and looked up to by the rest
of mankind as knowing all that
there ia to know about that one parti-
cular thing. This can only be done in
youth. Jacob in his dealings with Esau
made his mistake early in life, and we
see how long his life was embittered
by it. 1 don't believe Jacob was con-
verted until the night he wrestled with
the angel. Don't liken yourself to
him before that time, you can do the
same, taking for pattern any wicked
worldly man you may meet, but pattern
yourself after him when God had par
doned him and then make yourself like
the great, strong, good man he was
then.
You will find that in the experience
of iona, dissipation separates one from
God, and of Peter when he went out and
wept bitterly from remorse at what he
had done. Keep yourself close to God,
let nothing separate you. No calamity
can come to one whose heart is clean
and whose record is clean between him
self and his God.
The moral laws OF God are Just as
infinite and relentless as are hie physi-
cal laws. We are not narrowed in God,
he freely gives US everything the bounds
of The universe encloses, but we are
narrowed in ourselves. Let us ali 90
out from here this afternoon and say
that we zee the danger we are in and
that we will avoid it. There never was
a sin committed which was not the cause
OF following disaster. hope this
afternoon you will be able to say that
God helping me, life in Christ shall be
all in all for me-"
J. w. Henry, who has been a mission
f0v Tho look INT ha
islands, would preach next Sunday and
also exhibit number of curios he has
brought back from the island.