The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1897-09-09

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them ad n~,ttance. Have few
family portraits on the wall, II you
brought them with yon from your
country home. Have a Bible on the
stand. II you can afford it and can
play one, have mn in 3trrinent of music
harp, or buLr, or cVrnct, or me.o-
dcoU, or violin, or piano. Every morn
ing before you leave that room pray.
Every night after you come home in
that rDgm pray. Make that room your
t., bra tar, your Srhastopol, your Mount
Zion. Let no bad book or newspaper
come into that room any more than
you would allow a cobra 70 coil IN
your table,
TAX care Of Yourself. Nobody else
vii! tittr care Of you Your holp viii
not GONE up. two, or three, OF four
light> uf stairs; your help VIII come
through the roof, down from Heaven
from that God vino in 6,0gJ years OF
the worlds history never betrayed a
young man who tried TO De good
and q Christian. bet me say in re-
gard to your adverse worldly clrcum-
stances. IN passing, that you are
on 4 level now with those who
are finally ~ succeed. Mark my words,
young man, and think Of it thirty
years from uow. You wia. find that
those who thirty year, from now
are the m~illJVuaircs of this country,
VINO are The orators Of the country,
"fu are the poets Of the country, who
are tn strong alsrchanta Of the cUun-
Try, Who are the great philauthropists
Of the country ~mjEh,jest in church
and state are this morning ON u level
win you, not uu inch above, and you
IN ,lfi'ghlenrd circumstances now.
An. "hcn told you to take are of
yourself, you misunderstood me il you
thought l meant you are 10 depend
upD, human resolution, which may be
dI,,o, we'd in the foam If 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.
Diuthc yourself in that panopiy, and
you shalt not be put to confusion. Sin
pays well neither in this world nor the
next, but right thinking, and right be-
lirying, and right acting will take you
in safety through thi, life aud in trans
port through the next.
I.Shail never forget IA prayer | heard
a young man make some - years ago.
1t wa II very short prayer, but was II
tremendous prayer: "Oh, Lord, help
MS. We find II very easy to do wrong
and 50 hard 10 do right, Lord help u.s.
That prayer. | warrant you. reached
the ear OF Got, and reached His heart.
And there are u hundred men who
found out-a thousand Young
men, perhaps, who have found out that
very thing. 1t is SO very easy to do
wrong, aud SO hard to Ito right. | got
a letter n dag, only Il paragraph,
which | shall read.
Having moved around somewhat |
run across many young men of in
t"lligence. ardent strivcrs after that
will-oHthe-wisp- forsune-and OF one
OF these | would speak. He was a
young Englishman of 81 or ~ years,
who came to New York, where
he had no acqu]aintances, with
barely sufficient to keep him a
Of weeks. He had been
tendcrIy reared, perhap, | should say
too tcnderly, and was' not used to
earning his living, and found it cx-
tremcIy difficult to get any position
that hG,waS capable of filling. After
many vain efforts in this direction he
found himself Oh a sunday evening in
brooklyn near your church with about
50 left Of his small capital, Providence
seemed TO lead him to your door, aud
he determined TO go in and hear you.
"llr told me his going to hear you
that night vas undoubtedly the turn
ing point III his life, for when he went
into yoar church h, felt desperate, but
while listening To your discourse his
better nature got the mastery. truly
believe from what thi, young man
told ne that your sounding the depths
of his heart that night alone brought
him bart, to hi, God whom he was SO
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