The morning news., 1897-08-16

unclean step over the threshold II they
come up the long flight Of stairs and knock
al the door. meet them face to face and
kindly yet firmly refuse them admittance
Have a few family portraits on the wall
if you brought them with you from your
country home. Have a Bible on the stand
If you can afford it and can play on one,
have an instrument of music-harp, or
flute, or cornet or melodeon, or violin, or
piano. Every morning 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 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 the six thousand years Of the world
history never betrayed a young man who
tried to be good and a Christian. Let
me say in regard to your adverse world
ly circumstances 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 mllionares of this
country. who are the orators of the coun-
try, who are the poets of the country, who
are the strong merchants Of the country,
who are the great philanthropists Of the
country -mightiest in church and state
are this morning on level with you, not
an inch above, and you in straitened cir
| cumstances now.
iIerschel earned his living by playing
violin a t parties, and in the interstices of
the play he would go out and look up
the midnight heavens the fields of his
immortal conquests. George Stephenson
b, n In
TO be the most renowned of the world's
engineers. No outfit. no capital to start
with! young man, go down to the ilbrary
and get some books and read Of what
wonderful 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 il
lustrate 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 10 equip him.
Then his bOdy-a very poor affair COM
pared with his wonderful soul-Oh, that
is what makes me solicitous. l am not
so much anxious about you, young man,
because you have so little to do with. as
! am anxious about you because you have
so much to risk, and lose or gain.
There is no class of persons that so 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 SEEM
ing 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
forty miles the hour, and he in a frail boat
headed up stream, with nothing but a
ran "a a W
God help them they will go under.
Ali 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 Clothe yourself in that
panoply and you shall not be put to con-
fusion. Sin pays well neither in this world
nor the next but right thinking, and right
believing and right acting will take you
| in safety through this life and in transport
through the next
/ never shall forget a prayer I heard a
young man make some fifteen years ago.
1t was a very short prayer, but it was
tremendous prayer: "Oh! Lord, help us.
We find it so very easy 70 do wrong and
so hard to do right Lord help us" That
prayer, l warrant you reached the ear of
hundred men who have found out-a
thousand young men, perhaps, who have
found out that very thing. 1t is so very
easy to do wrong, and so hard to do right.
1 got n letter one day, only one para
graph, which / shall read:
"Having moved around somewhat,
have run across many young men of intel
.igence, ardent strivers after that will
o. he-wisp-fortune-and of one of these
l would speak. He was young English
man Of twenty-three or four years, who
came to New York, where he had no ac-
quaintances. with barely sufficient to keep
him couple of weeks, He had been tender
ly reared perhaps ! should say too tender
ly, and was not used to earning his liv-
ing, and found 1t extremely difficult to get
any position that he was capable of filling.
After many vain efforts in this direction
he found himself on a Sunday evening in
Brooklyn. near your church. with about
three dollars left of his small. capital Prov
idence seemed to lead him to your door,
and ne determined to go In and hear you.
HE told me his going to hear you that
night was undoubtedly the turning point
In his life for when he went into your
church he felt desperate, but while listen
ing 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
That Is the echo OF multitudes. am
not preaching an abstraction, but a great
reality. o. friendless young man. o,
prodgal young man. O! roken-hearted
young man. discouraged young man,
wounded young man, l commend to you
Christ this day. the best friend a man ever
had. lie meets you this morning. Despise
not that emotion rising in your soul; Il 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 blessing
Now. while / speak. YOU are at the forks
OF the road and this Is the right road
and that is the wrong road and l see you
start on the right road.
one sabbath morning at the close OF
the service. 1 saw "A gold watch OF the
world-reuowned ana deeply-lamented vio-
dinist Ole Bull. You remember he died
I'm his island home or the coast Of Nor
way. That gold watch he had wound up
day after day through his last illness, and
then he said 60 his companion: "Now. I
want 20 wind this watch as long as / can,
and then when ! am gone / want YOU TO
Fecp it wound up until e goes 20 my