The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-08-20

TO take you into the dissecting room
and illustrate to you what you have
read about. and never commit the bias
phemy of saying you have no capital
to start with.
There is no class of persons that so
stirs my sympathies as young men IN
great cities. Notquite enough salaries
to live on: and all the temptations that
come from that deficit. Invited on Sl
hands to drink. and their exhausted
nervous system seeming to demand
stimulus. Their religion caricatured
by most of the clerks in the store, and
most of the operatives in the factory
The rapids of temptations and death
rushing against that young man 40
miles an hour, and he in a frail boat
headed up stream, with nothing but
broken oar to work with. Unless Al
mighty God helps them they will go
under.
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
dissolved in the foam of the wine cup,
or may be blown out with the first
gust of temptation. Here is the he'll
met, the sword of the Lord God AL
mighty. Clothe yourself in that pam
oply, and you shall not be put to con-
fusion. Sin pays well neither in this
world nor the next, but right think
ing, and right believing, and right act
ing will take you in safety through
this life and in transport through the
next
Inever shall forget prayer L heard
a young man make some Is years ago.
1t was a very short prayer, but 1t was
a tremendous prayer: "Oh, Lord, help
u.s. We find it so very easy to do
wrong and so hard to do right, Lord
help usr' That prayer, | warrant you.
reached the ear of God, and reached
His heart. And there are 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
That is the echo of multitudes. L
am not preaching an abstraction, but
a great reality. o! friendless young
man. o! prodigal young man o.!
broken-hearted young man, dlscour-
aged young man, wounded young man,
| I commend to you Christ this day, the
hest friend a man ever had. He meets
you this morning. Despise not that
emotion rising in your soul; 1T is di-
vinely lifted. Look into the face OF
Christ. Lift one prayer to your
| fathers God, to your mothers God, and
this morning get the pardoning bless
ing. Now, while l speak, you are at
| the forks of the road, and this is the
! right road. and that is the wrong road,
and 1 see you start on the right road.
| The great musician who more than
anv other artist had made the violin
speak and sing and weep and laugh
and triumph-for it seemed when he
| drew the bow across the strings as II
all earth and Heaven shivered in de-
lighted sympathy-the great must
clan. in a room looking off upon the
sea, and surrounded by his favorite in
struments of music, closed his eyes
| in death. While all the world was
! mourning at his departure, 10 crowd
ed steamers fell into line of fu-
neral procession to carry his body to
the mainland. There were $4,000 OF
his eountrymen gathered in an amphi-
theater of the hills waiting to hear
the eulogium, and it was said when
the great orator of the day with stem
torian voice began to speak, the $4,000
people on the hillsides burst into tears
o! that was the close of a life that had
done so much to make the world happy.
But have to tell you, young man, if
you live right and die right, that was
a tame scene compared with that
which will greet you when from the
galleries of Heaven the one hundred
and forty and four thousand shall &C
cord with Christ in crying, 'Well done
thou good and faithful servant
And the influences that on earth you
put in motion will go down from
generation to generation, the intiu-
ences you wound up handed to your
children, and their influences wound
up and handed to their children, until
watch and clock are no more needed Il
mark the progress, because time Itself
shall be no longer.