The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-11-27

S1''e0N~A W|"~" pearance that could
l. DH" rALMASh' not he seen with
the natural eye. So the old minister
prayed that the young minister might
see them also. and the prayer was an
swered, and the Lord opened. the eyes
of the young man, and he also saw the
fiery procession, looking somewhat, l
suppose, like the Adirondacks or the
Aiieghanies in autunnal resplendence.
Many young men, standing among
the most tremendous realities, have
their eyes half smut or entirely closed.
May God grant that my sermon may
open wide your eyes to your safety,
your opportunity, uni your destiny!
a mighty defense for a young man
is good home Some of nv hearers
look back with tenIer satisfaction to
their early home. 1t may have been
rude and rustic, hidden among the
hills, and architsct or upholsterer
never planned or adorned it. But all
the fresco on princely walls never
looked 80 enticIng tn you rs those
rOngh-hewn rafters. You can think OF
no park or arbOr of trees planted on
fashionable country seat 30 attractive
as the plain brook that ran in front OF
the old farm house and sang under the
weeping willows. No barred gateway,
adorned with statue of brOnza, and
swung open by oOsequious porter in
full dress, has half the glory of the OLD
swing gate. Many of you have a sec
ond dwelling place, your adoDte home.
that also is sacred forever. There you
built the first family altar. There
your children were :orn. Ali those
trees you planted. That ro m is
solemn, because once in it, over the
hot pillow. tapped the wing OF death.
Under that roof you expect, when yonr
work is done, TO lie down and die. You
try with many words to tell the excel
lency of the place. hut you fail. There
is only one word in the language that
can describe your meaning. 1t is home
Now, declare it, That young man is
comparatively safe who goes into the
world with charm like this upon him.
The memory of parental solicitude.
watching, planning and praying, will
be 70 him a shield and a shelter
never knew a man faithful both to his
early and adopted home. who at the
same time was given over to any gross
form of dissipation or wiclkeduess.
lie who seeks his enjoyment chiefly
from outside association. rather than
from the more quiet and unpresuming
pleasures of which have spoken, may
be suspected to be on the broad road
to ruin. Absalom despised his fathers
~ l. &c !; - o9 -,
and his death of shame. If you seem
unnecessarily isolated from your kim
dred and former associates, is there
not some room that you can call your
own? Into it gather books and pic
lures Have portrait over the man
tel Make ungodly mirth stand back
from the threshold. Consecrate some
spot with the knee of prayer. By the
memory of other days, fathers coun-
sci, and mothers love, and sisters
call it home.
Another defense for Young man is |
industrious habits. Many young men,
in starting upon life in this age, ex- |
pect to make their way through the |
world bv the use of their wits rather |
than the toll of their hands A boy |
now goes to the CITY and fails twice be- |
fore he is as old as his father was when
he first saw the spires of the great |
town. Sitting in some office, rented
at $1,000 year, he is waiting for the
bank to declare its dividend, or goes
into the market expecting before night
TO be made rich by the rushing up nf
the stocks. But luck seemed so dull
he resolved on some other tack. Per-
haps he borrowed from his employers
money drawer, and forgets to put il
hack, or for merely the purpose of i'm
proving his penmanship, makes a copy
plate of merchants signature. Ne-er
mind: all is right in trade. In some
lark night there NAV come in
MS dreams a wise of the PEN
,entiary; but it soou vanishes.
In a short time he will be ready To
retire from the busy world, and amid
MS focxs and herds cultivate the do
nestle virtues Then those young
men who once were his schoolmates,
md knew no better that to engage in
honest work, will come with Their OK
cams to draw him logs, and with their
or " MS SoSSAS"
This i no fancy picture. 1t is every
lay lif-. 1 should not wonder if there
we're some rotten beams in that beau
.iful palace. / should not wonder If
lire sickness should smite through the
young man, or if Col should pour into
lis cup of life a draught that would
hrili him with unbearab bic agony; il
lis children should become ~ him a
living curse. making his home pest
md IA disgrace. ] should not wonder
( he goes TO a miserable grave. and
Beyond it into the gnashing of teeth. {
rhe way OF the ungodly shall perish
Do not get the fatal idea that you
Ire a genius. an that, therefore, there
S no need of close application. 1t is
lere where multitudes fail. The curse
# the age is the peniuses; men with
self-cOnceit and egOtism, and