St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-01-21
FOR THE YOUNG MEN.
Words Of Counsel Offered BY Dr..
Talmage for Them.


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Feet-warns Against Drink
ing, Gambling and Un-
thrifty Hahits.
washington, Copyright.
This arousing and practical sermon
by DIR. Talmage win 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 a 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 the message
is urgent and imminent. So every
young man needs to have immediate adj
vice 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. 4 little farther
on and counsel will be of no advantage.
Swift footed must be the practical and
important suggestions, or they might
as well 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 1895 is ended. Run, before this
century is closed. Run, before his
character is inexorahly 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
Is years Of age! Now propose to tell
you some things which if you will seri-
ously and prayerfully observe will
make you master of every situation In
which you ever will be placed.
Now, ii you would be master of the
situation do not expend money before
you get it. How many young men ir-
retrievably mortgage their future be-
cause of resources that are quite sure
to be theirs. Have the money either
in your hand or il safety deposit or in
a bank or in United States bond be-
fore you make purchases or so into ex-
pensive enterprises or hitch spank
ing team to a glittering turnout or con-
tract for the building of a 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
do its work. Longevity is SO wonder
fully improved that you cannot depend
upon people dying when you think
they ought to. They live TO be sep
tuagenarians or octogenarianso or nona-
genarians or even centenarians. and
meanwhile their heirs go into bank
ruptcy, or, tempted to forgery or mis-
appropriation of trust funds or water
ing of railroad or mining stock, go into
the penitentiary. Neither had you bet
ter spread yourself out because of the
Is or 90 per cent. you expect from an
investment. Most of the Is or 20 per
cent. investments ere apt to Fay moth
ing save the privilege of being assessed
to 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 be prom
ised is per cent. from dividend which
will never be declared or paid only once
or twice, so as to tempt you deeper in
before the grand smash up end you re-
ceiye, instead Of payment of Givi-
bends, q letter from the president and
secretary Of the company saying they
are very sorry.
II 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
Ill. Never spend dollar until you
have so cents that you do not spend.
In the government service in this city
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
q position on small salary, but enough
to keep .hem from starvation and the
roorhouse. Such men do not die; they
abscond. I cannot understand how
such spendthrift and reckless and inn
provident men dare at their decease
appear at 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 everlasting poorhouse. From no dis
appointed or disgruntled state of mind
do give this counsel, for life has been
to me . glad surprise. as it has been
to most people disappointment !
expected nothing of advantage or OPP
portunity. and SO everything has been
to me a matter of pleased amazement,
but have seen so many men ruined for
time and eternity by going into ex-
penditure. with nothing to depend upon
except anticipation. that if l had power
to put all warnings into one clap OF
thunder I would with that startling
yehemence say to all young Laen what
John Randolph said in yonder senate
chamber as he stretched his long finger
out toward some senatorial opponent
and with shrill voice cried out: Gen
tiemen, pay as you go!"
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
Luther singing on the public square
for any pennies that he might pick up.
and John Bunyan mending kettles, and
The late Judge Bradley, of the United
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