Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1897-08-25

terry, or, rather, their bo.sis. aro 20,
their souls have gone on To r-etrjbution
Not muck prospect for a YOUNG WI,
started life with good health. ard ,-nod
education. and Christian examine -.
him, and opportunity OF usefulness
who gathered all his treasures and n,,t
them in one box, and then drcppcd /,
into the sea.
Now, how is this wholesale SLAUGHTER
To be stopped? There is not a person
who Is not interested in that question
The object of my sermon is To mt a
weapon in each of your hands for vour
own defense. Wait not for Young
Men Christian associations To protees
You, or churches to protect Won. An
Peahng To God for help. take care Of
yourself
First, have a room somewhere tina.
you can call your own. Whether il be
the back parlor OF a fashionable board
ing house or a room in the fourth floor
of cheap lodging. / care not. ONLY
have that one room your fortress Let
not the diSSipater or unclean stem over
the threshold. II they come up the
long Hight of stairs and knock at the
door, meet them face to face and
kindly yet firmly refuse them
abundance. Have few family
portraits on the wall, if you brought
them with you from your country
home. Have Bible on the stand. IL
you can afford il and can play ON one.
have an instrument of music-harp. or
flute, or cornct, or melodcon. or violin.
or piano. Every morning before Won
leave that room, pray. Every night
after YOU come home in that room.
pray. Make that room YOUR Gibraltar
your SebaStopol, your Mt. Zion. Let
no bad book or newspaper come into
that room any more tEan 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
nights of stairs; your help will come
through the roof, down from Heaven.
from that God who i'm the 5000 wears
OF the worlds history never BETRAYED
young man who tried 10 be
good and "a Christian Let me
say in regard TO your adverse
worldly circumstances, in passing. that
YOU are on "a 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
merchants of the country, who are the
greatest philanthropists of the conn
try, mightiest in church and state. are
this morning on "A level with you. not
an inch above, and you in strait,ned
circumstances now
Herschel earned his living by pla-ing
violin at parties, and in the inter
stices of the play he would 90 out and
look up at the midnight heavens. the
fields of his immortal conduests.
George Stephenson rose from being a
foreman in colliery 10 be the most re-
nowned 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 wonder
full mechanism God gave YOU in YOUR
hand, in your foot, in your eve, in your
ear and then ask some doctor to take
you into the dissccting room and Illus
trate TO You what you have read about.
and never again commit the blasphcmv
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 bodv-a very
poor affair compared with his wonder
ful soul-oh, that is what makes me So
licitous. ! am not so much anxious
about you, young man, becauce YOU
have so little to do with, as / an anx-
ious about you because you lave so
much TO risk, and lose or gain.
There is no class of persons that 50
stirs my 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 dcmanI,
stimulus. Their religion caricaturcd
by the most Of the clerks in the store,
and most Of the operatives in the fac
tory. The rapids Of temptation and
death rushing against that young man
40 miles the hour, and he in frail
boat headed mp stream. with nothing
but broken oar 10 work with Unless
Almighty God help them they viii 20
under.
An! when told you 20 take care OF
yourself you misunderstood me IL YOU
thought ! meant YOU are 10 depend up
on human resolution. which may be
dissolved in the foam Of the wine cup.
or may bc 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 bc put 90 confusion Sin
pays well neither in this world nor the
next. but right thi mixing and right be-
lieying and right acting will take you
in safety through thi S life and i'm trans
port through the next
WHATEVER may be said about tho
quality Of the ice cream i'm New York.
no fault can be found with the guam
tity Of supply or the number Of stations
for distribution. Ice cream dealers say
New York consumes about 50. 600 quarts
Of ice cream a day in hot weather.
That is a great deal Of ice cream. and
means =. ~ cubic feet of frozen mix
ture. II this quantity OF ice cream
were made into bricks and placed in a
continuous line, single file. they would
reach over six miles. As 90 the supply
stations or places where ice cream is
sold in this city, they number over
three thousand.
THE cost Of the proposed Black sea
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