The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-10-26
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NV subject also impresses me with
the beauty of youthful character re-
naming incorrupt away from home.
If Daniel had plunged into every WICK
edness of the city of Babylon, the old
folks at home would never nave
heard of it. If he had gone through
all the rounds of iniquity, it would
have cast no shadow on his early home.
There were no telegraphs; there were
no railroads. But Daniel knew that
Gods eye was on him. That was
enough. There are young men not SO
good away from home as at home.
Frederick tending his fathers sheep
among the hills or thrashing rye in the
barn is different perhaps from Fred
erick on the stock exchange. Instead
of the retiring disposition there is bold
effrontery; instead of an obliging spirit
there is perhaps oppressive selhshness;
instead of open handed charity there is
tight-fisted stinginess; instead of rea-
sonable hours there is midnight revel.
I speak to many young men on this
matter-you who may have left your
fathers house and others who, though
still under the parental roof, are look
ing forward to the time when you will
go forth to conflict, alone in this world,
with its temptations and its sorrows,
and when you will build up your own
character. Oh, that the God of Daniel
might be with you in Babylon!
I think the most thrilling passage
of young mans life is when he
leaves home to make his fortune. The
novelty and the romance of the thing
may keep him from any keen sorrow,
but the old people who have seen the
destruction of so many who started
with high hope cannot help but be
anxious. AS long as he was in his
fathers house his waywardness was
kindly chided, and although some
times he thought the restraint rather
bitter and rather severe in his calmer
moments he acknowledged it was sal
utary and righteous. Through the in
fluence of metropolitan friends the
father has obtained a situation for
his son in the city. The comrades OF
the young man come the night before
his departure to bid farewell to the
adventurer. The morning of his go
ing away he walks around the place
to take last look at things-perhaps
comes upon some obJect that starts
tear, some old familiar place, but
no one sees the tear. The trunk i:
put upon the wagon, the young mar
is off for the city. He is set dowr
amid excitements and amid associate!
who are not overcareful about thei1
words and thoughts and actions
Morning comes. No family altar
Sabbath comes. No rural quiet. Thu
sanctuary comes, but all the faces ar
strange, and no one cares whether h
comes to church or does not come
, On his way home from the store h
sees a placard announcing a rare ant
vivacious amusement. He has NJ
greeting at the door of the boarding
house. He has no appetite for tn
food No one cares whether he eat
or does not eat-rather he would no
, eat-it is cheaper! After the tea h
goes into the parlor, takes up boob
finds it dull, no sister to look over
with him. Goes upstairs to his roor
in the third story, finds it cold an
uninviting, and in despair he. rushe
out, caring for nothing but to ge
something to make him stop thinking
, /, He is caught in the first whirl of sir
He has started out on the dark Sc
where the CLEAN of the JOY is tn
flashing of the pit and the laughte
is the creaking of the gate of the los
. oh, how many graves there are in tn
country churchyard which, if the
could speak, would tell of young me
t. who went off with high hopes an
= came back blasted and crushed to di!
! grace the sepulcher of their fathers
And yet this exodus must go oil
J As from distant hills the rivers al
y poured down through tunnels to slak
y the thi: st of our great cities, so frol
distant country places the stream
: of incorrupt population must poi
: down to purify our great cities. II
= morrow morning on all the thorough
a fares, in every steamboat and in ever
: rail car will be young men going fort
u to seek their fortunes in our .grei
u = towns. o Lord God of Daniel, he
u them to be as faithful in Babylon |
. they were in Jerusalem! Forget no
= o my young friend, in the great Sc
:, ports the moral and religious pri
II ciples inculcated by parental sole
tude, and if to-day seated in the hou
% of God Won feel the advantage of ear
10 Christian culture forget not those