The Progress., 1897-08-21
Or. TAlMAGs'S WARNING TO YOUNG
MEN OF TIE PERIOD.
Driven Like an OK TO the Slaughter" by
the Evil Influences OF Social Life-The
Downward Tath-RewArds of Honesty
and Industry

into hopeless debts and skepticism have
undoDe young men in town and country.
The text is Proverbs vii, %, LAS an OK to
the slaughter -
There is nothing in the voice or manner
OF the butcher to Indicate to the OK that
there is death ahead The OK thinks he is
going On to rich pasture field Of Glove,
wh--re all day long be will revel in the
berbaceous iuxuriance, but after awhile
the men and the boys close in upon him
with sticks and stones and shouting, and
drive him through bars and into q door
way, where be is fastened. and with well
mined stroke the fells him, and so the
anticipation of the redolent pasture field
Is completely disappointed So many
young man has been driven on by teInI la
ton TO what he thought would be para
disiaoal enjoyment, but aftsr awhile in7u-
enocs with darker hpe and swarthier arm
close in upon him, and be finds that in
stead of making an excursion into gar
den be has been driven "as al OK 30 the
slaughter.
We are apt to blame young men for be-
ing destroyed when we ought TO blame the
Influences TINT destroy them. Society
slaughters great many young men Try
the behest: You must keep up appear
Anoes Whabeve r be your salary, you must
dress as well rs others. you must give
wine and brandy to as many friends, you
must smoke ns costly cigars you must
give as expensive entertainments, and you
must live In ms fashionable boarding
house If yoqnhaven't the money, borrow
If you can borrow, make a false entry
or subtract here and there bin from a
bundle Of bank iills. You viii only have
TO make the deception little while In
q few months or in q year or two you can
Tvro Rxa MI .irt,& Nnhr xr-iJ t,rl
10y 1t, nobody will be the wiser You
yourself will not be damaged BY that
awful process hundeed Thousand men
have been slaughtered fdr tame and slaugh-
tered for eternity.
borrowing Money.
Suppose you borrow There is nothing
wrong about borro wing money There is
hardly a man who has not sometimes Dor
rowed money. Vast estates have been
built ON borrowed dollar. But there are
two kinds of borrowed money: Money bor-
rowed for the purpose of starting or keep
ing up legitimate enterprise and expense
and money borrowed to get that which
you can do without. The first is right
the other is wrong II you have money
enough Of your own to buy a coat, how
ever plain, and then you borrow money
for a dandys outfit, you have taken the
6rst revolution Of the wheel down grade
Borrow for the necessities; that may be
well Borrow for the luxuries; that tips
your prospects over in the wrong dircc-
ton
The Bible distinctly says the borrower
is servant of the lender. 1t is a bad state
of things when you have to go down some
other street to escape meeting some one
whom you owe. II young men knew what
is the despotisIn of hsjns in debt, more of
them would keep out II it. What did debt
do for Lord Bacon, With n mind towering
above the centuries? 1t induced him to
take hribes and convict himself as a Grim
inal bsfore all ages. What did debt do for
Walter Scott, broken hearted at Abbots-
fords Kept him writing until his hand
gave out in paralysis, to keep the sheriff
away from his pictures and statuary. Bet
ter for him II be had minded the maxim
which ho had chiseled over the fireplace
ut A hbotsfofd, Waste not, want not -
The trouble is, my friends that people
do DOT understand the ethics of going In
debt, and that If you purchase goods with
no cxpeciatfon of having for them or GO