Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-11-01
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let me say to those Christian parent
who are doing their best in the education
of their children Take good heart. Your
sons this morning may be far away from
you and in distant city, but God, to
whom yon dedicated them. will look after
them. The God of Daniel will take care
of them far away in Babylon. "Train up
a child in the way he should go. and when
he is old he will not depart from it," He
may wander away for awhile and fall into
| sin and break yo'lr heart. but before he is
done with his life, yon: having commend,
ed him to God he will come back again,
for | put the emphasis in the right place
and on the word 'fold' when I repent that
passage and say. 'Train up child in the
wav he should go. and when he is old he
will not depart from it."
Are you fond of pictures? Here is one
drawn by Solomon: 'Who hath woe?
Who hath sorrow? Who hath conten-
tions?, Who hath bahbling? Who hath
wounds without cause? They that ta7rv
long at the wine. they that go to seek
mixed wine. Look not thou upon the wine
when it is red, when it moveth itself Alright
J in the cup. AT the last it biteth like
sernent and stingeth like an adder"
"Do You know what You are doing?"
said a mother who had broken into res
taurant. the door locked against her, her
son inside. She came up to the counter
and saw the man of the restaurant min
| ring the Intoxicating cup for her own son.
She said to the man behind the counter:
DO You know what Won are doing"
"No, said he; II DON'T. Says she, "You
are fattening graveyards."
was told at Des Moines of train of
cars going through a very stormy NIGHT
over one of the western prairies. The
young man who was present told us the
story. Tn the night there was little child
in the sleening car fretful and worrying
and crying hour after hour A man on the
opposite side of the car lost his patience
and said. Either make that child shut
up or take it to its motherW Then another
man on the opposite side of the sleeping
car. man with broken heart, pushed
back the curtain and looked out and said.
Young man, that child's mother is dead
in the baggage car. and the little thing is
wailng for her" Then the man who had
committed the affront rose and offered his
services for the night and took care of the
child until the morning. and all the pas
sengers in the car were broken down with
emotion.
Oh. if the cry of one child could arouse
so many svmpathies. what ought to be the
effect of the ten thousand voiced shrek
of orphanagc and widowhood from the ine-
briate's grave! God save this country
from the peris of strong drink.
My subject also impresses me with the
beauty of youthful character remaining
incorrupt away from home. If Daniel had
plunged into every wickedness of the city
of Babylon the old folks at home would
never have 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 MS at home
Frederick tending his fathers sheep among
the hills or thrashing rye in the barn is
ErederIry q
Stock Exchange. Instead of the retiring
disposition there is bold effroptery. In
stead of an obliging spirit there is perhaps
oppressive selfshness.
Instead of open handed charity there is
tight listed stinginess. Instead of reason
able hours there is midnight revel. l speak
to many Young men on this matter-you
who may have left your fathers house and
others who, though still under the par
entail roof are looking 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!
l think the most thrilling passage of a
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
have 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 sometimes he thought
the restraint rather bitter and rather Sc
we're in his calmer moments, he acklowl-
edged it was salutary and righteous
Through the influence 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 adven-
ta of |, ha
walks around the place to take last look
at things, perhaps comes upon some OBJ
ject that starts a tear, some old familiar
place, but no one sees the tear. The
trunk is put upon the wagon, the young
man is off for the city He is set down
are not overcareful about their words and
thoughts and actions. Morning comes.
No family altar. Sabbath comes. No
rural quiet. The sanctuary comes, but all
the faces are strange, and no one cares
whether he comes to church or does not
come. On his way from the store he sees
a placarl announcing a rare and vicious
amusement. He has no greeting at the
door of the boarding house. He has no
appetite for the food. No one cares
whether he eats or does not eat. Rather
he would not eat. 1t is cheaper. After the
book. finds it dull, no sister to look over
it with him. Goes upstairs to his room
in the third story, finds it cold and unin-
viting, and in despair he rushes out, caring
for nothing but to get something to make
him stop thinking He is caught in the
first whirl of sin. lie has started out on
the dark sea where the gleam of the JOY
is the flashing OF the pit and the laughter
is the creaking of the gate of the lost.
Oh how many graves there are in the
country clurchyard which, if they could
speak, would tell OF young men who went
OFF with high hopes and came back blasted
and crushed to disgrace the sepucher of
their fathers.
And vet this exodus must go on. AS
from distant hills the yivers are poured
down through tunnels to slake the thirst
of our great cities, from distant coun-
try places the streams of incorrupt popu-
lation must pour down to purify our great
cities. Tomorrow morning on all the
thoroughfares, in every steamboat and in
every rail car will be young men going
forth to seek their fortunes in our great
towns. O Lord God of Daniel, help them
to be as faithful in Babylon as they were
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