The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1895-07-18

never been eullt. nor the railroaus
constructed, but everything points
\ that way, and the thing viii be
| done as sure as you live. Well the
man goes on, stopping at no fraud
or outrage. In his splendid equi-
page he dashes past, while the
honest laborer looks up and wipes
the sweat from his brow, ana ho.
says, 81 wonder where that man.
got all his money! After awhile
the bubble bursts Creditors rush
in. The law clutches, but finds
nothing in its grasp. The men
who were swindled say: ~ don't
know how I could have ever been
deceived BY that man." and the
pictorials, in handsome wood-cuts,
set forth the hero who In ten years
had genius enough to fail for
$150, 000i .#@=
And this is the process by which
many have been tempted through
Limitation of capital to rush into
Ilabayrinths from which they could
not be extricated. ] would not
want to block up any of the av-
Eenues for honest accumulation
that open before young men. On
the contrary. / would like to cheer
them on, and rejoice when they
reach the goal; but when there are
such multitudes Of men going to
ruin for this life and the life that
lie to come, through wrong notions
of what are lawful spheres of en-
terprise, it is the duty of the
Church of God, and the ministers
of religion, and the friends of all
young men, to utter a plain, en-
phatic, .unmistakable protest.
These are the influences that drown
men in destruction and perdition.
Again, a great many business
men are tempted to overanxiety
and care. You know that nearly
all commercial businesses are over
done in this day. Smitten with
the love of quick gain, our cities
are crowded with men resolved to
be rich at all hazards. They do
not care how money comes, if it
only comes. Our best merchants
are thrown into competition with
men of more means and less con-
science, and if an opportunity of
accumulation be neglected one
hour, some one else picks it up.
From January to December the
struggle goes on. Night gives no
quiet to limbs tossing in restless
ness, nor to a brain that will not
stop thinking. The dreams are
narrowed by imaginary loss, and
flushed with imaginary gains.
Even the Sabbath can not dam
back the tide of anxiety, for this
wave of worldliness dashes clear
over the churches, and leaves its
foam on Bibles and prayer-books.
Men who are living on salaries, or
by the cultivation of the soil, can
not understand the wear and tear
of the body and mind to which
our merchants are subjected, when
they donot know that their liveli-
hood aud their business honor are
dependent upon the uncertainties
of the next hour. This excitement
of the brain, this corroding care Of
the heart, this strain Of effort that
Iexhausts the spirit, sends d great
lmanyof our best men, in middle
life, into the grave. Their life
dashed out against money sales.
They 70 with their store on their
backs. They trudge like camels3
sweating, from Aleppo to Damas-.
cus. They make their life d cru
cifixion. Standing behind desks
and counters, banished from the
fresh air, weighed down by dark
ening cares, they are 50 many sui-.
cides. Obi ! wish ! could, today
rub out some Of those lines OIL
care; that j could lift some Of
the burdens from the heart; that ~
could give relaxation to some Of
these worn muscles. 1t is time for
you to begin to take it a little cas-
Ter, Do your best and then trust
God for the rest. Do not fret. God
manages all the affairs Of your life,
and he manages them for the
best. Consider the lilIies-they
always have robes. Behold the
fowls of the air--they ALWAYS have