The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-11-17

held up his arm. swollen and splintered. | I saw where he was hurt. The simple fact | Is when a man has a wounded soul all | ha has to do is to hold 1t up before. a | syfnpathetic Lord and get 1t healed.
 Young man. I will stand by you. The mountains may depart and the hills be | removed, but I will never fail you" And | then, as the soul thinks the news is too l. good to be true and cannot believe 1t and | looks up in Gods face, God lifts his right | hand and takes an affidavit makes an | oath, saying. As I live saith the Lord | God, 'I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked" Blessed be God for such gos- | pei as thisi "Cut the slices thin,'' says ] the wife to the husband, flor there will f not be enough to go around for all the | children; cut the slices thin" Blessed be | God, there is d full loaf fer every one l that wants it. Bread and enough to l spai e! No thin slices on the Lords table Advice to Young Men.
 I remember that while living in Phila- delphia at the time I spoke of u minute | ago the Master Street Hospital was | opened. and telegram was received, say Ing: There will be 300 wounded men to- l night. Please take care of them" From my church there went out twenty or thir- | ty men and women. As the poor wounded men were brought in no one asked them from what State they came or what was | their percentage. There was a wounded soldier, and the only question was how l to take off the rags most gently and put | on the cool bandage and administer the l cordial. And when a soul comes to God he l does not ask where you come from or what your ancestry was. Healing balm for all your wounds, pardon for all your l guilt, comfort for all your troubles Then. also; I counsel you, if you want l to get back, quit all your bad associates. One unholy intimacy will i'll your soul with moral distemper. In all the ages of | the church there has not been an instance l where man kept one evil associate and was reformed-amcng the sixteen hundred million of the race not one instanc. Give up your bad companions or give up heav | en. It is not ten bad companions that destroy man, nor five bad companions, | nor three, but one.
 | What chance is there for that younG man I saw along the street four or five l young men with him, in front of a greg shop, urging him to go in. he resisting | violently resisting-until after awhile they | forced him to go in? 1t was summer night, and the door was left open, and | saw the process. They held him fast
 and they put the cup to his lips. and they
 forced down the strong drink. Wha | chance is there for such a young man?
 I counsel you also to seek Christian ad-
 vice Every Christian man Is bound tC help you. If he declines to help you he is not a Christian. Now gather up all .your | energies of body, mind and soul, and, ap pealing to God for success. declare this | way everlasting war against all evil in-
 huences. half and half work VII amount to nothing; it must be Water
 
 | Push on and you are saved.
 Victory Over Sin.
 Some of you, like myself, were born in the country. And what glorious news | might these young men send home tt their parents that this afternoon they had l surrendered themselves to God and start | ed a new life! l know how 4 is in the country. The night comes on. The cattle | stand under the rack. through whicf | burst the trusses of hay. The horses hay, ! inst frisked up from the meadow brook at the nightfall and stand knee deep ir the bright straw that invites them to lii
 down and rest. The perch of the hovel is l full of fowl. their feet warm under then feathers. When the nights get cold, tn flames clap their hands above the grea | backlog and shake the shadow of tho group up and down the wall. Father ant l mother sit there for half an hour, sayink
 nothing. I wonder what they are thinking
 of After awhile the father breaks tn
 silence and says, Well, wonder Wher'
 our boy is in town tonight And tn
 mother answers: Tn no bad place.
 warrant you. We always could trust hin
 when he was at home. and since he ha
 been away there have been SO man,
 prayers offered for him We can trust hin
 still" Then at or o'clock, just befor
 they go to bed, they kneel down and com
 mend you to that God who watches i
 country and in town, on the land and oi
 the sea.
 Someone said to Greoian general
 What was the proudest moment of you [ life?" He thought a moment and said
 The proudest moment was when 1 sen
 word home to my parents that I ha
 gained the victory" And the gladdest am
 most brilliant moment in your life wi
 be the moment when you can send wor'
 to your parents that you have eonquere the evil habits by the grace of God an
 become eternal victory.
 Oh, despise not parental anxiety! Tn time will come when you will have nelth . er\ father nor mother. and you will 2
 around the place where they used | } watch you and find them gone from tn
 house and gone from the field and goh