The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-08-28

the physician who attends them our
ing their distress. and the undertaken
who fits them out for their departure
from the neighhorhood where they
owe everybody when they pay the
debt OF nature, the only DEBT they
ever do pay.
Now our young men are coming up
In this depraved state OF commercial
ethics, and am solicitous about them.
/ want to warn them against being
slaughtered on the sharp edges OF debt
You want many things you have not
my young friends. You shall have
them if you have patience and hon
esty and industry. Certain lines OF
conduct always lead out to certain sue
cesses. There is law which controls
even those things that seem haphazard.
/ have been told by those who nave
observed, that it is possible to cal
culate just how many letters Will be
sent to the dead letter office every
year through misdirection; that 1t Is
possible to calculate just now many
letters will be detained Tor lack OF
postage stamps through the forgetfui-
ness of the senders, and that 1t Is posi-
BILE to tell just how many people Will
fall in the streets by slipping on an
orange peel. In other words, there are
no accidents. The most lnslgnincant
event you every heard OF IS the INK
between two eternities-the eternity
of the past and the eternity OF the fu-
ture. Head the right way young man,
and you will come out at the right
goal.
Nhen young man wlliluliy anu VI
choice having the comforts Oh me-
goes into the contraction Oh unpayaoie
debts ne KNOWS not ihto "haC nc gocs'
The creditors get alter the oeotor, 'he
pack OF hounus III iuii cry, anu NUS
for the reindeer. Ihey jingle MS aoor
bell before he gets up IN the morning.
they jingle his door bell atter he mas
gone to oed at nlght. Ihey meet nun
as he comes OH ms 'front.' steps Ihey
send him postal caro- or lctter' IN
curtest style, telling MN TO pay up.
They attach his goods. Ihey want
cash, or note at 80 days, or note on
demand. They callhim 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, and
from before, and from behind and
from above, and from beneath, and he
is insulted, and gibbeted, and sued,
and dunned, and sworn at, until he
gets nervous dyspepsia, gets neuralgia,
gets liver complaint, gets heart dis
ease, gets convulsive disorder, gets
consumption. Now he is dead, and
you say: 'Of course you will let him
alone" Oh, no! Now they are watch
full to see whether there are any un-
necessary expenses at the obsequies,
to see whether there is any useless
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
have been bought by the family or do
mated. See in whose name the deed to
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 hap
| piness, for the sake of your good
morals, for the sake OF your immortal
soul, for Gods sake, young man, as far
as possible, keep out of debt.
But l think more young men are
slaughtered through irreligion. Take
away young mans religion and yor
make him the prey OF evil. We al
know that the Bible is the only perfect
system OF morals. Now, IL you want
to destroy the young mans morals
take his Bible away. How will yot
do that? Well, you will caricature hi
reverence for the Scriptures, you viii
take all those incidents OF the Ri
BILE which can be made mirth o
I-Jonahs whale. Samson's foxes
Adams rib-then you will carl
cature eccentric Christians, or incon
sistent Christians; then you will pas:
off as your own all those hackneyed
arguments against Christianity, which
are as old as Tom Paine as old as Vol
taire, as old as sin. Now, you have
captured his Bible, and you have taker
his strone est fortress; the way is com
paratively clear, and all the gates o.
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