The National tribune., 1897-08-19
THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE WASHINGTON c. THURSDAY

tnelr encampment.eg
What generous rand magnanimous bust
ness infidelity has gone into This splitting
up of Hfe-boats and taking away of fire.
escapes, and extiiiguishing of lighthouses
come out and say. 70 such people,
What are ydp doing all this for?"
"Oh!" they say, aejust for fun. 1t is such
fun to see ChristiaRsstry to hold on to their
Biblesi Many of them have lost loved ones
and have been told that there is resurrec-
ton and it is such fun to tell them there will
be no resurrection MANY of them have be-
lieved that Christ came to carry the burdens
and to heal the wounds of the world, and it
is such fun to tell them they will have to be
their own savior! Slaughter young mans
faith in God, and there is not much more left
to slaughter
Now, what has become of the slaughtered ?
Well, some of them are in their fathers or
mothers house, broken down in health, wait
ing to die; Others are in the hospital, others
are in the cemetery. or, rather, their bodies
are, for their souls have gone on to retribu-
ton.
Not much prospect for young man who
started life with good health and good educa-
ton, and Christian example set him, and
opportunity of usefulness, who gathered all
his treasures and put them in one box, and
then dropped it into the sea-
Now how is this wholesale slaughter to be
stopped? There is not person who is not
interested in that question. The object of
my sermon is to put a weapon in each of your
hands for your own defense.
First have a room somewhere that you can
call your own Whether it be the back
parlor of a fashionable boarding-h house or
room in the fourth story of a cheap lodging,
/ care not Only have that one room your
fortress. Let not the dissipater or unclean
step over the threshold. If they come up the
long flight of stairs and knock at 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 yon from your coun-
try home Have q Bible on the stand If
you can afford it, and can play on one, have
an instrument of music-harp, or flute or cor
net or mclodeon or violin, or piano. Every
morning before you leave that room, pray.
Every night after you come home in that
room, pray. Let no bad book or newspaper
come into that room.
Take care of yourself Nobody else will
take care of you. Your help will not come
up two, or three, or four flights of starts; your
help will come through the roof, down from
of the worlds history never betrayed young
man who tried to be good and Christian.
Let me say in regard to your adverse
worldly circumstances, in passing, that You
are on a level now with those who are finally
to succeed. Mark my words young man,
and think of it 80 years from now You
will find that those who 80 years from now
are the millionaires of this country, who are
the orators of the country, who are the poets
of the country, who are the strong merchants
of the country, who are the great philan-
thropists of the country-migh tiest in church
and state-are this morning on a level with
you, not an inch above, and you in strait
ened circumstances now.
No outfit, no capital to start with Young
man, 60 down TO the library and get
some books and J read Of what wonderful
mechanism God gave you IN your hand,
in your foot, III your eye, in your ear,
and then ask some odctor to take you into
the dissecting room and illustrate to YOU
what you have rcadabout, and never again
commit the blaspheiny of saying you have
no capital to start with Equipped. Why,
the poorest Young. inan is equipped as only
the God Of the Whole. universe could afford
to equip him ,ai,ze, ,-a
There is no class Of persons that so stirs
my sgmpathies as young men in great cities.
Not quite enough sIilsry TO live on, and all
the temptations that come from that deficit
Invited ON all hands to drink, and their ex-
hausted nervous system seeming to demand
stimulus. Their religion carcatured 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 40 miles the hour, and he in
frail boat headed up stream, with nothing
but a broken oar to work with Unless AL
mighty God help him lie will 60 under
All when | told you to take care Of your
self you misunderstood me if you thought
meant you are TO depend upon human reso-
luton, 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 panopy, and you
shall bot be put to confusion 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.
y! irendless young man. o prOdigal
young man. o! broken-hearted young man,
discouraged young man, wounded young
man, / commend TO YOU Christ this day, the
this morning. Despse not that emotion
rising in your soul; it 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 | see you start on the
right road.
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 accord 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 influences you wound up
handed 20 your children. and their influences
wound up and handed to their children, until
watch and clock are no more needed to mark
the progress, because time itself shall be 10
longer.
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