St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1897-09-18

the door. meet them face to face
and kindly yet firmly refuse
them admittance. Have . few
family portraits on the wall, If you
brought them with you from your
country home. Have Bible ON the
stand. II zen can afford it and can
play one, have IN instrument Of music
harp. or Aute, or cornet, Or melo-
deon, or violin, or piano. Every morn
ing before You leave that room pray.
Every night after you come home in
that room pray. Make that room your
Gibraltar. your Sebastopol, your Mount
Zion. Let no bad book or newspaper
come into that room any more than
you would allow . cobra to coil on
your table.
Take care Of yourself. Nobody else
will take care Of you. Your help will
not come up two. Or three, or four
flights of stairs; your help will come
through the roof, down from Heaven.
from that God who in 5000 years of
the worlds history never betrayed .
young man who tried to be good
and = Christian. Let me say in re-
gard to your adverse worldly circum-.
stances. in passing, that you are
ON . level now with those who
are finally to succeed. Mark my words,
young man, and think of it thirty
years from now. You will find that
those who thirty years from now
are the millionaircs Of this country,
who arc the orators of the country,
who are the poets of the country. who
are the strong merchants of the cOun-
try. who are the great philanthropists
of the country-mightiest in church
and state-are this morning on level
with you, not m inch above, and you
in Strengthened circumstances now.
An! when told you to take care OF
yourself, you misunderstood me if you
thought l meant you are to depend
upon human resolution, which may be
dissolved in the foam of the wine cup.
or may be blown out with the first
gust Of temptation. Here is the helmet,
the sword Of the Lord God Almighty.
Clothc yourself in that pauoply, and
you shall not be put to confusion. Sin
pays we'll neither in this world nor the
next, but right thinking, and right be-
lieving, and right acting will take you
in safety through this life and in trans
port through the next
I.shall never forget prayer heard
. young man make some Is years ago.
It was very short prayer, but was =
tremendous prayer: 'Oh, Lord, help
US We find it very easy to do wrong
and 20 hard to do right, Lord help us.'
That prayer, I warrant you, reached
the ear Of God, aud reachs His hear /
Aud there are = hundred men who
have found out-a thousand Young
men. perhaps, who have found out that
very thing. It is 50 very easy to do
wrong. and 50 hard to do right. got
. letter one day, only one paragraph,
which shall read:
'.lIaving moved around somewhat, /
have run across many young men of in
telligence. ardent strivers after that
will-o'-the-wisp-fortune-and of one
of these would speak. He was .
young Englishman of Is or "a years,
who came to New York, where
he had no acquaintances, with
barely sufficient 10 keep him q
couple of weeks. He had been
tenderly reared. perhaps should say
too tenderly, aud was not used to
earning his living, and found it ex-
trcmely difficult to get any position
that he was capable Of filling. After
many vain efforts in this direction he
found himself on Sunday evening in
Brooklyn near your church with about
81 left of his small capital. Providence
10 20 ~ nd
he determined to 60 in and hear you.
He told me his going to hear You
that night was undoubtedly the turn
ing point in his life, for when he went
into your church he felt desperate. but
while listening to your discourse his
better nature got the mastery. truly
believe from what this young man
told me that your sounding the depths
of his heart that night alone brought
him back to his God whom he was SO
near leaving
That is the echo of multitujes. am
not preaching IN abstraction. but y
great reality. o! friendless young
man. o! prodigal young man. o!
broken-hearted young man, l COM
mend to you Christ this day, the
best friend : man ever had.
He meets you this morning. Despisc
not that emotion rising in your soul;
it is divinely lifted. Look into the
face of Christ Lift one prayer to your
fathers God, to your mothers God. and
this morning get the pardoning bless
ing. Now, while speak, you are 1T
the forks Of the road, and this is the
right road, and that is the wrong read,
and see you start on the right road.
One Sabbath morning. 1T the close of
the service, saw = gold watch of the
world-renowned and desply-lameuted
violinist, ole Bull. You remember he
died in his island home OF the coast OF
Norway. That gold watch he had
wound up day after day through his
last illness, and then he said to his
companion: '.Now, want to wind this
watch rs long Is can, and then when
am gone want you to keep it wound
up until 1t goes to my friend, DR..
Doremus, in Now York, and then he
will keep it wound mp until his life il
done, and then want the watch to go
10 his young son, my especial favorite."
The great musician who more than
any other artist had made the violin
speak and sing and weep and laugh
and triumph-for it seemed when he
drew the bow across the strings Is if
Ill earth and Heaven shivered in de-
lighted sympathy-tAe great mu-
stefan, in . room looking OF
upon the sea, and surrounded by
his favorite instruments Of mu-
sic, closed his eyes in death. While all
the world was mourning 1t his depart