The morning news., 1897-08-16

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what his pbvsiosI hAaItb ie ana what
III. mental csfiher ana u,ba+ hts babits
ana I win ron Won what win he his dos
tnv for tbis world and his destiny for
ma world to c,t,,e and I v.ui moi mako
five Inaccurate nronbecies out Of fbe i've
hundred An mis- makes me soIicitous in
rayard 10 ,o,lno mon and want tn make
them ncrvous I'm regard ia the contraction
Of t,nr,a,,,bla doIts 7 oive Won, "a nara
eraph from NV own exnertoncc
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viII5qa NJ, salary v-ae sSoo ana a mar
eonaoa Tho amo,,pt seernc1 enorn,o,i. to
me sa,d to myself. "Vybatt an mis- for
ono .,,eartp I ,v1s afraid of oetting world
Iv und.r 50 nucb nrosperitl resolved
IN invite All tba oonf,rcoation To my
bouse N groups of tweutv-0ve each. We
bepan and as thev vgere Inc hest copgra-
ratiop I'm All the world ana we felt nothins
was too good for then. we piled 9U The
Iuv,,rfas an the tahlo never comn,eted
the Undertaking At the end of six months
was in financial despair found that
we NOT onIv bad MOI tho s,irnlus ~ lux
uries but yvn mad a STRUGGLE ia Get the
necossities and 7 learned what every
,ouno man learns In time to save him
elf ar foo late that vou rnust measure
tn. size of a n,an's bodv before voi, begin
| IN ciit Tho cIoth for his coat
when n vounp man u,ilfulv and of
choice having The comforts Of life goes
ipto mo contraction of iinnava ble debts.
no lxnows not into what he roes The
cro9itore ,,et after tho dehtor fbe mack of
hounds in run cr1 and a1asi for me rein
deer Tbev iine1e his doorheI bofore he
oots nm IA no r,orntn, tbe, iinrta his
doorbeiI after he has zone to he'd at
nigbt Thev meet him as ne comes off
bis front stens Tbev send him a nostaI
card or a letter in curtest stvle telling
rim to nav nm ,Tbev attoch his goods
They want cash or a note at thirty days,
or a note on demand. They call him a
knaVe They say he lies. They want him
disciplined in the church They want him
turned out Of the bank They come at
him from this side and from that side,
ana from before, and from behind
and from above, ana from beneath, and
he is insulted and gibbeted, and sued and
dunned and sworn at, until he gets the
nervous dyspepsia, gets neuralgia, gets
liver complaint, gets heart disease. gets
cOnVulsive disorder gets consumption
Now he is dead, and you say: "Of course,
they will let him alone" Oh. nol Now
they are watchful to see whether there
are any unnecessary expenses at the OBJ
sequies, to see whether there Is any use
less handle on the casket, to see whether
there Is any surplus plat on the shroud,
to see whether the hearse Is costly or
cheap to see whether the flowers sent to
the casket nave been bouSht by the Iam-
lily or donated to see in whose name the
deed TO the grave Is made out Then they
ransack the bereft household, the books
the pictures the carpets, the chairs, the
SOFA, the piano the mattresses the Pill
low on which he died. Cursed be debt!
For the sake OF your own happiness, for
the sake OF your good morals, Tor the
sake of your immortal soul, Tor GODS
sake young man, as tar as possible Keep
out OF II.
But l think more young men are
slaughtered through irreligion. Take away
a young mans religion and you make him
the prey of evil. We all know that the
Bible is the only perfect system of morals.
Now. if YOU want to destroy the Young
mans morals, take his Bible away How
will. you do that? Well you will carl
catupe his reverence for the Scriptures. you
will take all those Incidents of the Bible
which can be made mirth of-Jonah's
whale Samson's foxes. Adams rib-then
YOU will caricature eccentric Christians. or
inconsistent Christians then Won will mass
off as your own all those hackneved ar
guments against Christianity which are as
old as Tom Paine as o.d as Voltaire az
old as sin. Now. YOU have captured his
Bible. and YOU have taken his strongest
fortress: the way is comparatively clear
and all the gates OF his soul are set omen i'm
invitation to the sins of earth ana the sor-
rows of death. that they NAV come in ana
drive the stake for their encampment
A steamer fifteen hundred miles from
shore with broken r,ldder and lost com
pass. and hulk leaking hftv gallons The
hour Is better off than a Young man when
you have robbed him of his Bible Have
YOU ever noticed how despfcablv mean A.
is TO take away the worlds Bible without
proposing a substitute. 1t is neaner than
TO come 20 a sick man and steal his med
icine. meaner than to come TO "A crlpp q ana
steal his crutch. meaner than 10 come to
a pauper and steal his crust. meaner tban
10 come to a poor man and bnrn his bo,,so
down II Is the worst OF an larcenies to
steal the Bible which has been crutch and
medicine and food and eternal home to so
many. What a generous and magnaml-
nous business inhdelty has gone into! This
splitting up OF lfe-boats. and taking away
of iro-escapes, and eXtinguishing OF light
houses. ] come out and / say TO such peo-
pie, What are you doing an this for?''
"Oh!' they say Just for fun" It is such
fun TO see Christians try 60 hold on to
their Bibles! Many of them have lost
loved ones, and have been told that there
Is a resurrection. and it is such fun to tell
them there will be no resurrection! Many
OF them have believed that Christ came TO
carry the burdens and to heal the wounds