The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1895-11-27

or moral principle. A manufacturer
gave this as his experience. He said:
~ owned factory on the Lehigh.
Everything prospered. | kept the Sab
bath, and everything went on well.
But one Sabbath morning / bethought
myself of new shuttle, and thought
[ would invent that shuttle before sun
set and refused all food and drink
until had completed that shuttle. BY
sundown had completed it. The next
day, Monday showed to my workmen
and friends this new shuttle. They all |
congratulated me on my great success
put that shuttle into play. / enlarged |
my business; but, sir, that Sundays |
work cost me $4,000 From that day |
everything went wrong. | failed in
business, and | lost my mill" o, my
friends, keep the Lords day. You may
think it old-fogy advice, but I give it
to you now: Remember the Sabbath
day and keep it holy. Six days shalt
thou labor and do all thy work; but
the seventh is the Sabbath of the Lord
thy God; in it thou shalt not do any
work" A man said that he would
prove that all this was fallacy, and
so he said: II shall raise a Sunday
crop" And he plowed the field on the
Sabbath, and then he put in the seed
on the Sabbath, and he cultivated the
ground on the Sabbath. When the
harvest was ripe he reapcd it on the
Sabbath, and he carried it into the
NOV on the Sabbath, and then he
stood out defiant to his Christian neigh
bors and said: There, that is my
Sunday crop, anG it is all garnered." "
After while storm came up, and
great darkness, and the lightnings of
hcarcn struck the barn and away went
his Sunday crop.
There is another safeguard that l
want to present. l have saved it until
the last because l want it to be the
more emphatic. The great safeguard
for every young man is the Christian
religion Nothing can take the place
of it. You may have gracefulncss
enough to put to the blush Lord Ches-
terfeld, you may have foreign Ian
guages dropping from your tongue, you
may discuss laws and literature, you
may have pen of unequaled polish
and power, you may have SO much
business tact that you can get the larg-
est salary in banking house, you may
be as sharp as Herod and as strong as
Samson, and with as long locks as
those which hung Absalom, and yet
you have no safety against tempta-
ton. Some OF you look forward to life
with great espondency. know it, l
see it in your faces from time to time.
You say: 'All the occupations and
pro 'essons are full, and there's no
chance for me-" On. V III ~ lnll, cheer
up, | will tell you hoS You can make
yopr fortune. Seei; i.sS the king lon
of God and His righteousness, and AL
other things will be added. l know
you do not want to be mean in this
matter. You will not drink the brim.
ming cup Of life, and then pour the
dregs on Gods altar. To generous
Saviour you will not act like that; you
have not the heart to act like that
That is not manly. That is not honor.
able, That is not brave. Your great
want is a new heart and in the name
of the Lord Jesus Christ | tell you Sc
to-day, and the blessed Spirit presses
through the solemnities of this hour tc
put the cup of life to your thirsty lips
Oh! thrust it not back. Mercy presents
: it--bleeding mercy, long-sutfering mer
cy. Despise all other friendships, Prov
, recreant to all other bargains, bu
despise Gods love for your dying sou
do not do that. There comes crisi
1 in mans life, and the trouble is h
does not know it is the crisis. got
letter in which a man says to me:
81 start out now to preach the gospe
: of righteousness and temperance to tn
people. Do you remember me? an
D the man who appeared at the close o
the service when you were worshipinj
in the chapel after you came fror
Philadelphia. Do you remember at tn
U close of the service man coming u
a to you all a-tremble with conviction
and crying out for mercy, and tellin
S you he had very bad business, an
, ne thought he would change it? Tha
was the turning point in my history
gave up my bad business. gave m
o heart to God, and the desire to serv
}. Him has grown upon me all thes
u years, until now woe is unto me if
: preach not the gospel"
i That Sunday night was the turnin
g point of that young mans history
S This very Sabbath hour viii be tn
G turning point in the history of a hur
i dred young men, in this house. Go
S help us. / once stood on an anniveI
t sary platform with Clergyman VIII
d told this marvellous story. He said:
Thirty years ago two young me
j. started out to attend Park theatel
:: New York, to see play which mad
, religion ridiculous and hypocritica
|, They had been brought in Christia
II families. They started for the theate
c to see that vile play, and their earl
y convictions came back to them. The
;. felt it was not right to go, but sti
q they went. They came to the door {
d the theater One of the young me
o stopped and started for home, but II
y turned and came up to the door, bu
|, had not the courage to go in. II
d again started for home, al.l wen
e home. The other young man wen
l. in. He won't from one degree {
/ temptation to another. Caught in th
g whirl of frivolity and sin, he san
e lower and lower. He lost his bushes
y position. He lost his morals. He 10;
his soul. He died dreadful death, nc