The Monitor-register., 1897-08-20

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God who in the G,000 years OF the
worlds histc1y never betrayed young
man who tried to 10 good and Chris
tian. Let me say in regard to your ad-
verse worldly circumstances, in passing,
that you are Oh level now with those
who are finally to succeed. Mark my
words, young man, and think of it 80
years from now. You will find that
those who 80 years from now are the
millionaires of this country, who are the
orators of the country, who are the poets
of the country, who are the strong mer-
chants of the country, who are the great
philanthropists of the country-mighti-
est in church and state-are this morn
ing on a level with you, not an inch
above, and you in straitened circum-
stances now
Herschel earned his living by playing
a violin at parties, and in the inter
stices of the play he would go out and
look up at the midnight heavens, the
fields of his immortal conquests. George
Stephenson rose from being the foreman
in colliery 10 be the most renowned
of the worlds engineers. No outfit, no
capital to start with! Young man, go
down to the library and get some books
and read of what wonderful mechanism
God gave you i'll 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 blasphemy of saying
you have no capital to start with
Equipped! Why, the poorest young man
is equipped as only the God of the
whole universe could afford to equip
him Then his body--a very poor affair
compared with his wonderful soul-oh,
that is what makes me SOLICITORS l am
not SO much anxious about you, young
man, because you have so little to do
with as | am anxious about you be-
cause yen have SO much to risk and lose
or gain.
Young Men In Great Cities.
There is no class of persons that SO
stir ny sympathies as young men in
great cities. Not quite enough salary
to live on, and all the temptations that
come from that deficit Invited on all
hands to drink, and their exhausted
nervous system seeming to demand
stimulus. Their religion caricatured by
the most Of the clerks in the store and
most of the operatives in the factory.
The rapids Of temptation and death
rushing against that young man 40
miles the hour, and he in frail boat
headed up stream, with nothing but a
broken oar to work with. Unless Al
| mighty God help them they will go un-
der
All, when l 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 dis
| solved 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.
Clothe yourself in that panoply, 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
never shall forget prayer heard
young man make some g years ago.
1t was very short prayer, but it was
tremendous prayer: 80 Lord, help US /
We find it SO very easy to do wrong and
so hard to do right Lord, help usl
That prayer. warrant you, reached the
ear of God and reached his heart. And
there are 100 men who have found out
i, 900 young men, perhaps, who have
found out-that very thing. 1t is SO very
easy to do wrong and SO hard to do
right.
got letter one day, only one para
graph, which | shall read:
Having 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 a young
Englishman of 80 or "a years, who
came to New York. where he had no &C.
quaintances, with barely sufficient to
keep him couple of weeks He had
been tenderly reared, perhaps should
say too tenderly, and was not used to
earning his living and found it ex-
tremely 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 Brook
Ign, near your church, with about So
left of his small capital Providence
seemed to lead him to your door, and
he determined to go in and hear you
He told me his going to hear you
that night was undoubtedly the turning
point ill his life, for when he went into
your church he felt desperate, but while
listening to your discourse his better
nature got the mastery l 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.
A Great Reality.
That is the echo of multitudes. am
not preaching an abstraction, but
great reality o friendless young man,
o prodigal young man, o broken
hearted young man, discouraged youi
man, wounded young man, | commend
to you Christ this day. the best friend
a man ever hadl He meets you this
morning Despise not that emotion lis
ing i'll your soul; it is divinely liftt Il.
Look into the face of Christ. Lift one
prayer to your fathers God, to your
mothers God, and this morning get the
pardoning blessing Now, while
speak, you ale at the forks of the road,
and this is the right road, and that is
the wrong road, and see you start on
the right road.
One Sabbath morning at the close Of
the service saw gold watch of tie
world renowned and deeply lamentcd
vlollnist Ole Bull. You remember be
died in his island home off the coast Of
Norway That gold watch he had
wound up day after day through his
last illness. and then he said to his com.
panion. Now. l want to wind this
watch as long as can, and then when
| am gone want you to keep it wound
up until it goes to my friend, DR.. Dore-
mus, in New York, and then he will
keep it wound up until his life is done,
aud then want the watch to go to his
young son, my especial favorite. -
The great musician who more than
any other artist had made the violin
speak, aud sing, and weep, and laugh,