Connecticut western news., 1898-12-22
ARCHITECTS OF FATE
DR.5IAlMAGE SAYS WE MOLD OUR
 OWN DESTINY.


 Do Not Wait For Dead Mems Shoes.
 Great Men Who Were Self Made.
 The subJugatton of the EGo-Cheer-
 fulness of Religion.
 Tcopyright, 1898, by American Press Asso-
 ciation.1
 WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.-This arous- ing and practical sermon by Dr. Tal- mage will reach many hearts and be an especial inspiration to those who are now starting in life. His text is Zecha- riah ii, 4, "Run, speak to this young man"
 There was no snow on the beard of the prophet of my text and no crows feet had left their mark near his eyes. Zeohariah was young man, and in a day dream he saw and heard two angels talking about the rebuilding of the city of Jerusalem. One of these angels de- sires that young Zechariah should be we'll informed about the rebuilding of that city, its circumference and the height of its walls, and he says to the other angel, "Run, speak to this young man." Do not walk, but run, for the message is urgent and imminent. So every young man needs to'have imme- diate advice about the dimensions, the height and the circumference of that which, under God, he is to build namely, his own character and destiny. No slow or laggard pace will do. A lit tie farther on, and counsel will be of no advantage. Swift footed must be the practical and important suggestions, or they might as we'll never be made at all. Run at the pace of five miles the hour, and speak to that young man. Run, before this year of 1898 is ended. Run, before this century is closed. Run. before his character is inexorably de- oided for two worlds, this world and the next. How many of us have found out by long and bitter experience things that we ought to have been told before we were 25 years of age. Now propose to tell you some things which, if you will seriously and prayerfully observe, will make you master of the situation in which you are now placed and mas ter of every situation in which you ever will be placed. And in order that my subject may be climacterio, begin on the outside edge of that advice, which will be more and more important as the subject unfolds.
 Master of the Situation.
 Now, If you would be master of the situation, do not expend money before you get it. How many young men irre- txievably mortgage their future because of resources that are quite sure to be theirs. Have the money either in your hand, or in 8 safety deposit, or in bank, or in United States bond before you make purchases, or go into expen- dve enterprises, or hitch spanking team to a glittering turnout, or con- tract for the building of a mansion on the Potomac or the Hudson. Do not de- pend on an inheritance from your father or uncle. The old man may live on a good deal longer than you expect, and the day of your enforced payment may come before the day of his decease. You cannot depend upon rheumatism or heart failure or senility to do its work. Longevity is so wonderfully improved that you cannot depend upon people dy- ing when you think they ought to. They live to be septuagenarians, or ooto- genarians. or nonagenarians, or even centenarians, and meanwhile their heirs go into bankruptcy, or, tempted to forgery, or misappropriation of trust funds, or watering of railroad or min ing stock, go into the penitentiary. Neither had you better spread yourself out because of the 10 or 20 per cent you expect from an investment. Most of the 15 or 20 per cent investments are apt to pay nothing save the privilege of being assessed to meet the obligations of the company iD the affairs of which you get involved. Better get 3 M per cent from a government bond than be promised 15 per cent from a dividend which will never be declared, or paid only once or twice, so as to tempt you deeper in be- fore the grand smash up, and you re- ceive, instead of payment of dividends, . letter from the president and seore- tary of the company saying they are very sorry.
 If you have to wait year or five years, or ten years, or most of your life- time, then you had better wait rather than spend money you expect to get. Then after you get it do not spend it all. Never spend dollar until you have 50 cents that you do not spend. In the government service in this oity how many splendid women who are the daughters of men who spent all they got and then sneaked out of life to leave their daughters penniless, to be looked after by some kind senator or other friend who might solicit for them po- sition on small salary. but enough to keep them from starvation and the poorhouse. Such men do not die; they abscond. l cannot understand how such spendthrift and reckless and improvi- dent men dare, at their decease, appear ct the door of heaven seeking admission when they have left their families in the tophet of want and mendicancy. Such men do not deserve throne and . harp and mansion, but an everlast- ing poorhouse. From no disappointed or disgruntled state of mind do give ihis counsel, for life has been to me glad surprise, as. it has been to most people a disappointment. l expected nothing of advantage or opportunity, and SO everything has been to me mat ter of pleased amazement, but l have seen 50 many men ruined for time and eternity by going into expenditure with nothing to depend upon except anticipa- tion that if I had power to put all warnings into one clap of thunder l would with that startling vehemenoe say to all young men what John Ran dolph said in yonder senate chamb as he stretched his long finger out toward some senatorial opponent and with shrill voice cried out, Gentlemen. pay as you go. :"
 Success Awaiting You.
 Do not say you have no chance. but remember Isaac Newton, the greatest astronomer of his day, once peddling cabbages in the street, and Martin -AI Al H