The Progress., 1897-08-21

only hope for Immortality. .ls- -htc, a
young mans faith in Sod, and lhc,.t. is
not much more left TO slaughter.
Now, what has become of tho slaughter
ed: Well, some of them are III their fl
Tiers or mothers house, broken down in
health, waiting o die. OTHERS are in the
hospital others are in the cCJnptarv or
rather their bodies are, for their souls hay G
gone on to rer-iisQtion. Not much pros
pect for young inan who started life with
good health ana good education and "a
Christian exa12ll I, SET him and opportunity
ST usefulness. vi gathered all his treas
ares and Tut 1hc,l in one box and then
dropped il j:stn - sea.
a We ,ou Fer Dee nse.
Now. how il Z : Wholesale slaughter to
t1 storrld? ! t,ro i rot person Who is
not Interested IN 1ist question. The oh
ject Of my sermon is 10 put a weapon in
s.rH Of yc::r L.,nGs for your OWE rieteg Sc
ait not for lt.I:Ilg Mems Christian asso-
Citations to TrC.Ct-r you or churches 10 pro
tccr yea. Appealing TO God for help, take
s.rc Of yourself
First. have a rnoln somewhere that you
ray, call your own. Whether it DC the back
parlur q II fashionable boarding house or
3 room in tie fourth story Of ii cheap lodg-
ing, care not Only have that one room
your fortress. Let not the dissipateT OF
pnclcan step over the threshold. II they
come Up the long l!iCht Of stairs and KNOCK
at the door, meet them face to face and
kindly yet firmly refuse them ad:uiltancc.
Have q few family portraits on the wall,
II you brought them with you from Your
country home. Have n Bible on the
stand. If you can afford it and can ) lag
Oh one have an Instrument of music
harp or flute or cornet or 1nelodeor or VIC
lin or piano. Every morning before you
leave that room pray. Every night after
you come honas in that room pray. Make
that room your Gibraltar, your Sevastopol,
your Mount Zion. Let 10 bad book or
newspaper come into that room any more
than you would allow a cobra to coil on
your table.
Take care of yourself. Nobody else will
take care of you. Your help viii 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
the 6, 900 years of the world s history never
betrayed q young man who tried to he
good and Christian. Let me say in re
gard to your adverse worldly circuIn-
stances in passing that you are on "A Jewel
now with those who are finally to succeed.
Marx my words, young man, and think Of
1t 30 years from now. You will find that
those who 30 years from now are the mil
bonaires OF this country, who are the or
aturs OF the country, who are the poets Of
bdo WHO are Inc SIIpng merchants
OF the country, who are the great philan-
thropists OF the country-Inightiest IL
church and state--are this morning on a
level with you, not an inch above, and you
In stra1tened c1rcu1n stances now
Herschel earned his living by playing n
violin at parties, and in the interstices of
the play be would go out and look up at
the midnight heavens, the fields of his i'm
mortal conquests- George Stephenson rose
I in .f,11j I.S
the most Hnowped of the worlds engi-
oeers No outfit no capital TO start with
\ Dung man, 60 down to the library and
get some books and read of what wonder
ful mechanism God gave you in your
hand, In your foot, in your eye, in your
ear, and then ask some doctor to take you
into the disseCting room and illustrate TO
you what you have read about, and never
again commit the hlasphemy of saying
you have no capital to start with Equip
ped Why, the poorest young man is
equipped as only the God of the whole