The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-12-23
FOR THE YOUNG MEN.
Words Of Counsel Offered by DR..
Talmage for Them.
The Dangers witch Await Unwnry
Feet-w Against Drink
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thrifty Habits.

washington. Dee IL Copyright. 1881
This arousing aud practical sermon
by DIR. Talmage will reach many hearts
and be an especial inspiration to those
who are now starting in life. His text
is Zechariah 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.
Zechariah was young man. and in
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
well informed about the rebuilding OF
that city. its circumference and the
height of its walls, and he says to the
angel: run, speak TO this young man"
DO not walk, but run, for he message
is urgent and imminent. SO every
young man needs to have immediate nd
vice about the dimensions. the height
and the circumference of that which
under God he is TO buid-nnmely, his
own character and destiny. No slow or
laggard pace will do. little farther
.oD and counsel will be of no advantage
Swift footed must be the practical and
1mportant suggestions. or they might
sns well never be made at ALL Run AT the
pace OF five miles the hour and speak
TO that young man. Run. be fore this
year of 1898 is ended. Run. before this
century Is closed. Run. before his
character is ineXorably decided for two
worlds. this world and the next. How
many of us have found out by long
and bitter experience things that we
ought 10 have been told before we were
25 years of age! Now propose to tell
you some things which If you will seri-
,ously and prayerfully observe VIE
make you master of every situation i'm
which you ever will be placed
Now, If you would be master of he
situation do not cXperd money before
you get it, How many young men ir-
retrievaby mort gage their future be-
cause of resources that are quite sure
TO be theirs. Have the money either
in your hand or in safety deposit or in
a bank or in United States bond be-
fore you make purchases or go into eN-
pensive enterprises or hitch u spank
ing team 10 glitterlng turnout or con
tract for the building of mansion on
the Potomac or the Hudson. DO not
depend on an Inheritance from your IA
Their 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 de
cease. You cannot depend upon rheu-
matism or heart failure or senility to
Il. I T..
fully improved that you cannot depend
npon people dying when you think
they ought to. They live TO be sep
tuagenarians or octogenariuns or mona
,genarians or even ccntenaTiuns. and
meanwhile their heirs go into bank
rupicy. or. tempted to forgery or mis-
appropriation of trust funds or water
ing OF railroad or mining stock. go into
the Ienitentiary. Neither had YOU bet
Ter sprenu yourself out because of the
Is or 20 per cent. you expect from an
investment Most of the 10 or ~ per
cent. investments are apt To pay moth
ing save the privilege of being assessed
10 meet the obligations Of the company
in the affairs OF which you get involved.
Better get three and one-half per cent.
from government bond than hc prom
ised 10 per cent. from n dividend which
will never b. declared or paid only once
or twice. 30 rs 10 tempt YOU deeper H.
before the grand smash up and you re-
eeive. instead OF It payment of civil
.Gends. a letter from the president and
secretary Of the company saying they
are very sorry.
If you have 20 wait a year or five
wears or ten years or most OF your life
time. then you had better wall rather
than spend money YOU expect 10 get
'Then after YOU get IL do not spend II
all Never spend n dollar until sou
have 30 cents that you do not spend
In the government service in this city
how many splendid women who are the
daughters OF men who spru' all they
got and then sneahed ont OF life 10
leave their daughters pcunlcss. TO be
looked after by some kind senator or
other friend who might solicit for them
a position on small salary. hui enough
10 keep them from starvation and the
poorhouse! Such men do not die; they
Abscond cannot understand how
such spendthrift and reckless. and inn
providrnt men dare al their deceaSe
appear AZ he door Of Heaven seeking
admission when they have Jeff their
families In the Topic, Of want aud
mendicancy such men do not deserve
throne and harp and II mansion but
an everlasting poorhouse. From no dis
appointed or dsgruntled state of mind
do ! give this counsel, for life has been
10 me glad surprise u, ii has been
10 most people disappointment |
expected nothing of advantage or OPP
portunity. and 80 everything has been
10 me IA matter of pleased amnzement,
but I have seen so many men ruined for
Iime and eternity 10y going into eN-
pendiiure. with nothing TO dept nd upon
except anticipation. that if had power
10 put all warnings into one clap OF
thunder would with that startling