The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-03-21
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.

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Rev. Elijah P. Brown, editor OF 1.-THE
Rams Horn" gave an Interesting talk
TO a large audience at the Y. NJ. c. a..
mems meeting yesterday afternoon, in
addition to sermons morning and even-
ing at North streetM I, church, where
this evening he delivers a lecture, His
talk yesterday afternoon was delivered
in an easy. oif.hand manner, and good
in substance. 1t was only an inkllng,
though, OF what DR., Brown can do II
he let's himself out. His hearers were
charmed with his brilliant style, and
happy illustrations. &
DR.. Brown was introduced by secre-
itary ]. C. Lynch. The speaker opened
by saying that an audience OF men al
ways impressed him, and that he had
been converted while one OF a large au-
dence Of men in Chicago. He was not
converted until In middle life. previous
to which he had tried TO get all out of
life there was in lit for SELF. Now, he
feels. for other men. and sees great
beauty In getting souls for Christ. DR..
Brown was converted In his forty
fourth year. and was attracted to
Christ by. hearing Evangelist Moody. ;
rs Only God and the angels can tell
what the world loses, when a young
man gets started wrong. said DR..
Brown, SO he hoped the young men In
front OF him could grasp their possibil-
tiles and live right kind of lives. He
noted an incident in the Chicago rail-
road yards, where train was wrecked.
owing to q track that spread. So with
young men, each OF whom God has
made king, pulling trains behind
them until at last they find the tracks
begin to spread, and tho crash follows.
"A mans Influence should be for good
and not for evil. The power of young
men can't be exaggerated, and Christ
paid much attention to young men, so It
Is meet that they should5Set started
right, and then the tracks wouldn't
spread. 4t lis
A young man Is rich with possessions,
for there isn't an old man but would
give all he has in exchange for the
bloom, the strength and the opportunlt-
les of youth. DR.. Brown touched on the
Biblical incident, where the young
man went down from Jerusalem to Jec-
icho, and the speaker remarked that ut
was always down to Jericho" This
young man had certainly been appraised
Of the dangers In Jericho. for Jewish
father always gives his children careful
instruction. The young mans mother
must have held Jericho up to her. son as
a bad place. DR.. Brown humorously
alluded to his own father having threat
.ened him with sending him to Texas"
for his boyish misbehavior. So, the
young man had been warned, but, as
so many young men, hesitating, or
headstrong. this young man left Jeru-
salem, which was in Gods favor, for
Jericho. which was not.
DR.. Brown urged young men to start
out In the race of life. with stakes set
out. Like the farmer who set out
stakes for the first furrow, SO as to
pillow the others straight BY 1t, young
man should set out stakes, so that he
could meet temptations without failure.
He should say that he wouldn't take 4
drink, or so In bad company, or
share In other vices; but II he starts
out without having any stakes set out,
he will hesitate at the offer to drink,
hesitate when urged by evil compan-
ions to "have o good time" II he has
determined beforehand that he will say
no, the battle will be his in short order.
In telling OF the farmers plan in set
ting out stakes for his first furrow, DR..
Brown told story OF the 1rlshman who
was told to keep his pillow in line with q
calf that stood at the opposite end OF
the field. The Irlshman faithfully
obeyed the instructions to follow the
calf and the calf led him a merry
chase, but no matter where the Gale
went, the Irlshman and the pillow follow
ed, 80 that when the dinner horn
sounded the freshman had plowed a
crookeder furrow, said the speaker. than
could be found anywhere but IN real
life.
s. DR.. Brown laid great stress upon bad
company and evil ASSOCIATIONS. It was n
question young manishould answer, of
whether It was to be good company or
not good company. He must decide. or
like the young man on the Jericho road,
he will be stripped of his raiment and
robbed OF his strength. Like him, too.
he will get to 4 point where neither his
father, mother, nor friends nor preach
er can help him. They will have to go
byron the other side OF the Jericho way,
Just because they are powerlcss to do
him any good-to get him back to Je-
rusalem.
~ The young man on the Jericho road
succored by the good Samaritan, after
the priest and the Levite had passed by,
showed the sacrifices tho Samaritan
had made, and DR.. Brown effectively
detailed the sacrifices made. And the
Lord Jesus Christ stands to-day, lean
ing over the man who has started
wrong, ready to pick him up and heal
his wounds, and do all without money
and without price. sS.
III To the. older members OF his audience
DR.. Brown addressed q few remarks In
an endeavor to get them over, to
Christ. While there is time, he said, It
should be made use of. There Is plenty
OF good lumber In the old tree, although
SCARED BY knots, and there are men In
middle life, who could stir the world for
Christ II they would only turn to Christ.
DR.. Brown concluded by n fervent and
eloquent prayer.
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