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DR. TALMAGE’S SERMON. “TWO YOUNG MEN WHO CAME TO LIVE IN THE CITY?’ Text: “Fonder the )*athof thy feet."—Frov erbsiv.» 9l>. It was Monday, Hept ?mber i'O, ata country depot. Two young men are to take the cars to tbecity. Father brought them in a with two’trunks. The evening bes >ro at the old homo was r ather a >ad time. The ue.crh bor* ha l gathered in to say good bye. In deed, all the Sunday afternoon there had l<en a strolling that way from adjoining farms for it was generally known that the two boys the next m >rniDg were going to the city to live and the whole neighborhood was interested, some hoping they would do well and others, without saying anything, hoping lor them a city failure. Sitting on the fence talking over the matter, the ne-ghbors woul 1 interlani their conversation about the wheat crop of last summer and the apple crop yet to I>. gath *ie 1 with remarks about the city pros pects of Edward ami Nicholas, for these were the names of the two young men: Ed ward, seventeen, and Nicho as, nineteen, but Edward, although two years younger, being nui- ker to learn, knew as much as Nicholas. They were both brow n faced and hearty and l a 1 gone through all the curriculum of coun try sports by which muscle is developed and the chest filled out Father and mother on Monday morning had both resolved to go to 1 he tiepot with the boys, but the mother at the last moment backed out, and she said that somehow’ she ft-1 quite weak that morning, and had no n latite for a day or two, and so concluded to ? ay good-bye at tlp* front door of the old place. Where she went an 1 what she did utter the wagon left 1 leave other mothers to guess. The breakfast things stood almost till noon before they were cleared away. But little was said on the way to the railroad sta tion. As the locomotive whistle was heard coining around the curve the father put out hi- hand, somewhat knotted at the knuckles aud one of the joints stiffened years ago by a ’round from a scythe, and said: “Good-bye Edward, good-bye, Nicholas! Take good care or yourselves and write as soon as you get there and let us know’ how they treat you. Your mother will be anxious to hear." landed in the city they sought out with <\ us:deiable inquiry of policemen on street corners and questioning of car-drivers the two commer ial establishments to which they were destined, so far apart that thereafter they seldom saw each other, for it is aston ishing how far apart two persons can bo in a large city, especially if their habits are different Practically a hundred miles from Bowling Green to Canal street or from At lantic avenue to Fulton. Edward, being the youngest, we must look after him first. Ho never was in so large a stere in all his life. Fu h interminable shelves, such skillful imitation of real men and women to display goods on, such agility < f cash boys, such immense st >ck of goods and a whole community of employe-. His head is confused as h? se. ms dropped like a pebble in the gnat ocean of business life. “Have you seen that greenhorn from the country?’ whispers young man to young man. “He is in such and a department. \\ e will have to break him in some night. " Ed ward stands at his new place all day so ho ne sick that any moment he could have cried aloud if his pride had not suppressed every thing. Here and there a tear he carelessly dashed off as though it were from influenza or a cold in the head. But some of you know how a young man feels when set down in a city of strangel’s thereafter to fight his ow n battles and no one near by seeming to care whether he lives or dies. The centre of a d?sert, a month’s journey to the first settle ment, is not mu h more solitary. But that evening as the hour for closing lia- come, there are two or three young men who sidle up to Edward.and ask him how he likes the city.and where ha expects to go that night, and if he would like them to show him the sight-’. He thanks them, and says he shall have to take some evenings for unpacking and making arrangements, a- he has just ar rived, but says that alter a while he will bo glad to accept their company. After spend ing two or three evenings in his boarding house room, walking up and down, looking at th? bare wall or anol I chromo hung there at the time that religious new spapers,by such pri es advanced their subs■•riptiou lists, and a.t r toying an hour with the match box,and ever and anon examining his wat h to s e if it is time to retire, and it seems that ten o’clock at night, or even nine o’clock, will never come, be resolves thereafter to accept the chaperoning of his new friends at the st< re. Soon the night comes when they are all out together. Although his salary is not large he is ciuito flush with pocket money which the old folk - gave him after saving up for so i e time. He cannot be mean and these frien Is are doing all this for his pleasure and so be pays the bills. zYt the door of places of amusement bis companions cannot find the change, or they accidentally fall behind just as the ticket office is approached, or thev say they will make it all right and will them selves jay the next time. Edward, accus tomed to farm life or village life, is dazed and en banted with the glitter of spectacular sin. Plain and blunt iniquity Edward would have immediately repulsed, but sin accom panied bv bewitching orchestra, sin amid gilded pill* - ind gorgeous upholstery, sin arrayed ii [be attractions that the powers ofdarkne ;in comb nation can arrange to magnetize a young man, is very different from sin in its loathsome and disgusting share. But after a few nights, being very late out, be says : “I must stop, my purse won’t stand this. My health won t stand this. My repu tation won’t stand this ” Indeed one of the business firm one night from his private box, in whi h he applauded a play in which atti tudes and phraseology occurred which, if taken or uttered in h s own narlor, would have caused bim to shoot or stab the actor on thespot,—from this hizh-priced box see-in a cheaper pla e the new clerk of his store, and is led to ask questions about his habits and wonders how, on the salary the house pays him, he can do a- he d m*s. Edward, to recover his ' hysical vigor an 1 his finances, stops a while and spends a few more even ings examining the chromoson the w all and counting the mat hes in the match box, or goes d »wn in the boarding-house parlor to bear the gossip ab >ut th i other b carders or a dis-our.se on the insufficiency of the table fare cons dering the pri epa d—the criti cism severe in pro} orti n as the fault-finder pay- little oris resolved to leave unceremoni ously and pay nothing at all. “C< nfound it?” cries the young man. “I cannot stand this life anv longer, and I mast go out and see the world." The same young men and others of a now larger a quaintance are ready to es ’ort him. There is never any lack ol such guidance. If a man wants to go the whble round of sin he can fin 1 plenty to ta e him, a who e regiment who know the way. But after awhile Edward’s money is all gone. He has re -eived his salary again and again, but it was spent before he got it, borrowing a little here and a little there. What shall he do now? Why. he has seen in his rounds of the ambling tables men who put down a dollar and took up ten. put down a hundred and took up a thousand. Why not he I To re onstructhis finances he takes a hand und wins: is so pleased be takes an other hand and win-, is in phrenzy of delight and takes another hand and loses all. When he first f ame to this city Edward w a* disposed to keep Sunday In quietness, n-a ling a little und going occasionally to hear a sermon. Now, Sunday is a day of carousal. He ts so full of intoxicants by 11 © clock in the day he staggers on the street bom** morning, Edwa d, his breath stench ful with rum, take his place in the store. He fe not fit to be there. He is listb-ss or silly or impertinent or in some way incompet nt and & messenger comes to him and says: “The firm desires to see you in the private office.” The gentleman in the private office says: “r dward. we will not need you any more. We owe you a litt e money for services since we ’ a d you last an i here it is.” “What is the matter V says the voung man. “I <annot understand this. Havel dnua anvthuxar/” x?. - reply is "We do not wi h unv w<.ris wi.h vou (ur engage...eat with ea .h otuer u »-n ietb “•hit of em loyment!” What does th*r mean to ag» d y »ung man? It m*an< a, opportunity to g?t another and pe hips a letter place. It means opportunity for men tal improvement and preparation for hi Ii t work “Out of employment!” What does that mean to a dissipated young man' It means a lightning express tram on a down grade on the Grand Trunk to Perdition. Al Dorak was a winged horse on which Ma li >.net pre ton do I t> have ridden by night tro:n Mec a to Jerusalem, and froni.lcrusi le nto the seventh heaven with s.i-h sneed Giat each step was as :ar as the ey • could rea *h. A young man out of employment through bi< di *ipations is suited on an Al Borak, ri*!i ig a • fast in th * upimsite dire.** tion. It is now on!v five since Edward < ame to town. He us *l to write home once a week at the longest. H»’ bis not written home tor three mouths. “What cm be the matter.'” say tn<>Jd peonle nr home. One Saturday morning the fath »r puts on theb st anparel of his wardrobe and go<s to the city to find out. “< )h. be has not b. ei here for a long while,” say ide gentleman of the firm. “Your son, 1 am sorry to say, is on the wrong tra k.” The old father goes hunting him from place to place and comes suddenly upon him t hat night in a place of abandonment The father bavs: “My son. come with me. Your mother Las sent me to bring you home. 1 hear you are out of money and e>iod clothes and you know as long as we 1 ve you can have a home." “Come right away!" he says, put ting ins hand on the young m in’s shoulder. In angry tone Edwanl replies: “Take your hands off me! You mind your own business. I will do as I please. Take your h inds off of me or 1 will strike you down! You go your way and 1 will go mine.” That {Saturday night or rather Sunday morning—for it is by this time two o’clock in the morning, the father goes to the citv home of his son. .Nicholas, and rings the bell and rings again and again, and it seems as if no answer would L»e given, but after a while a window is hoist “I and a voice cri js: “Who's there ?” “It is me," says the old man. “Why, father, is that you f' In a minute the door is opened and the son says: “What in the world has brought you to the city this hour of the night ?” “Oh. Edward has brought me here. I feared your mother would go star* cra’.y not hear ing from him, and I find out that it is worse with him than I suspected.” “Yes” says Nicholas, “I ha 1 not the heart to write you anything about it, I have tri *d my best with him and all in vain. But it is after two o’clock.” says Nicholas to bis father, “and 1 will take you to a bed. ’ < )n a comfortable couch in that house the old father lies down, coaxing sleep for a few hours, but no sleep comes. Whose house is it! One rente! by his sou, Nicholas. The fact is that Nicholas soon after coming to the city became indispensable in the com mercial establishment where ho was pla -ed. He knew, what few persons know, that while in all departments of business and mechan ism and art there is a surplus of people of ordinary application and ordinary diligence, there is a great scarcity and always has been a great scarcity of people who excel. Plenty of people to do things poorly or tolerably well, but very few clerks or business men or mechanics who can do splendidly well. Ad preciating this, Nicholas had resolved to do so grandly that the business firm could not do without him. Always at his place before the time he was required to come. Always at his place a little after everybody had gone. As extremely polite to those who declined purchasing as to those who made largo pur chases. He drank no wine, for he saw it was the empoisonment of multitudes, and when any one asked him to take something he said “No,” with the peculiar intonation that meant no. His conversation was always as pure as if his sister had been listening. He went to no place of amusement where he would be ashamed to die. He never bet or gambled, even at a church fair. When he was at the boarding house after ho got all the artistic development he could possibly receive from the chromoson the wall he be gan to study that which would help him to promotion: study penmanship, study biog raphies of successful men, or went forth to places of innocent amusement ami to Young Men’s Christian Associations, and was not ashamed to be found at a church prayer meeting. He rose from position to position and from one salary to an »ther salarf. Only five years in town and yet he ha rented his own house or a suit of rooms, not very large, but a home large enough in its hap in?s.s to be a type of heaven. In the m riling as the old father with handkerchief in hand comes crying down stairs to the table, there are four persons, one for each side; the young man. and opposite to him the best blessing that a God of infinite goodnesi can bestow, namely, a good wit \ and on another side the high chair tilled with dimpled and rollicking glee that ma\cs the grandfather opposite smile out-ide while he has a brokeu heart within. Well, as I said, it was Sabbath an 1 Nich olas and his father knowing that there is no pla z o so appropriate for a troubled soul as the house of God, fin 1 their way to church. It is c ommunion day, and what is the old man's surprise to see his son pass down the aisle with one of the silver chali -es, showing him to be a church ofii ial. Tne fact was that Nicholas from the start in city life hon ored God and God had honored him. When the first wave of city temptation struck him he had felt the me 1 of Divine guidance and Divine protection and in prayer ha 1 a night a regenerated heart, ami had obtained that michtiest of all armor, that mightiest of all protection, that mightiest of all reinforce ments, the multipotentand omnipot mt grace of God, and you might as well throw t histle down against Gibraltar, expecting to destr >y it, as with all the combined temptations of earth and hell try to overthrow a young man who can truthfully say: “God is my refuge and strength.” Come, let us measure Nicholas around the bead. As many inches of brain as any other intelligent man. Let us measure him around the heart.. It is so large it takes in all the earth and all the heavens. Measure him around the purse. He has more re sources than nine-tenths of any of those who, on that Monday, September 20, came in on any of the railroads from North, or South, or East, or West. But that Sabbath afternoon, while in the ba k room. Nicholas and bis father are talk in r over a new plan for the reclamation of Edward, there is a ringing of the door b l. and a man with a uniform of a policeman stands there, and with some embarrassment and some halting, and in a roundabout way says that in a fight in some low haunt of t it < ity Edward has been hurt. He savs to Ni holas: “I lv*ard that he was some rela tion of yours and thought you ought to know it.” “Hurt? Ls he badly hurt? “Yes, very badly hurt?” “Is the wound mortal?” “Yes: it is mortal. I'o toll yon the whole truth, sir,” says the policeman, “although I can hardly bear to toll you, he is dead.” “Deal!" cries Nicholas. And by this tim r * the whole family are in the hallway. The father says: “Just as I fearei. It will kil his mother when she hears of it. Oh, my son, mv son! Would to God I had died for th?e Oh, my son, mv son.” “Wash off the wounds,” says Nicholas, “and bring him right here to my housa and let there he all respect and gentleness suovrn him. It Ls the last we can do fnr him.” ()h, what obsequies ! r l he next door neigh bors hardly > new what was going on, but Nicholas and the father and mother knew Out of the Christian and beautiiul home of the one brother is carried the dissolute bro’her No word of blame uttered. No harsh thing sa d. On the bank of camellias is spelled out t e wor 1 “Brother.’ Had the prodigal been true and pure and noble m lie and honorable in death, he could not have been c-arned forth with more tender u nS. or slept 111 a more .1. ai ga 1 u ot the dead. Amid tne loose led t irf the brothers who left the country for < ity life five years before now part forever. The last scene of the fifth act of an awful tragely of human life ii endxL , What made the difference between these two young m-n ' Re’igton. The one de pended o i him elf, ths other depended ou ’Jo I. They Hta’ tod fr mi the sam • h \h id the sum t unportu’uties of e iu a’ion. arrived in th'* citv o.i tne same dav and if thuv wa< any di tore Edward ha i the advantage, for he was brighter and nui/Rer aud ail the n >ighb rs nron icsio.l greener success for him than for Ni’holas. But eecol I and wonder al ll.e trouiend >us iss ie. Voi’e. c >ma up out of this an lien *o and say : Did you know th *se brothe-s ? Yes, knew thrni wall. l)id you know their parents ’ Ye<, intimat *lv. Wnat was the city, what the street, what the last names ot t he-♦» young men. You have ex ute 1 our curiosity, now tell us all. 1 will. Nothing iu tht*sa <*hara -tors is firtl t-ons except the names. They are in every city and in every street of every city and in every cemetery. Not two of them but ton thousand. Aye, aye! Right before me to day an 1 on eith »r side of me and above ma thev sit an 1 stand, the invulnerable through religious defence and the blasted of city al lurements. Those who shall have longevity in b 'dutiful homes and others who shall have < arly graves of infamy. And lam here to day in the name of Almighty God to give you the choice of two characters, th? two hist tries, the two experiences, th» two desti ni >s, the two worlds, the two eternities. Standing with you at the forks of the road something makes me think that if to-day 1 s*t Ixsfore the noople the termini of the two roads they will all of them take the right one. There are before me in this house ami in the invisible audienc? back of this—for journal i<m has generously given me every wook full opportunity to address the people in all the townsand cities of Christendom—! say, in the visible and invisible audience there are many who have not fully made up their minds which road to take. “Coni' with usl” cry all the voices of righteousness. “Come with us!’ cry all the voices of sin. Now the trouble is that many make disgraceful surrender. As we all know, there is honorable and dignified sur render. as w hen a small h>4 yields to superior numliers. It is no hu miliation for a thousand men to yield to tea thousand. It is better than to keen on when there can be no result except that of massacre. But th >se who surrender to sin make a surrender when on their side they have enough reserve forces to rout all the armies of perdition whether led on by what a Alemonographer calls Belial or Beel zebub or Apollyon or Abaddon or Ariel. The disgraceful thing about the surrender nt 8 dan was that the French handed over 4V> field guns and mitrailleuses, six thousand horsesand eighty-throe thousand armed men. And it is base for that man to surrender to sin when all tho armaments of Almighti ne;s would have wheeled to the front to fight his battle if he ha 1 waved one earnest signal. But no! he surrendered body, mind, soul, reputation, home, pedigree, time and eter nity, while yet all the prayers of his Christian an -cstors were on his side and all the prof erod aid, supernal, cherubic, seraphic, arch angelic, deinc. We have talked so much the last few weeks about the abdication of Alexander, of Bul garia, but what n paltry throne was that which the unhappy King descended coni >ared with the abdication of that young man or middle-aged man or old man who iiuit- the throne of his opportunity and turns nis b:i“k upon a heavenly throne and tramp< off into ignominy and everlasting exile. That is an abdication enough to shock a universe. In Persia they will not have a blind man o.i tne t;irone, and when a reigning monarch is jeal ous of some ambitious relative he has his eyes extinguished so that he cannot possibly ever come to crowning. And that suggests the difference between tho way sin am! di vine grace take* hold of a man. Tho former blinds him so he may never reach a throne, while the latter illumines the blind that he mav take coronation. Why this sermon? I have made up my mind that our city life is destroying too many young men. There comes in, every {Septem ber and October, a largo influx of those l>e tween sixteen and twenty-four veal’s of ago. anil New York and Brooklyn damn at least a thousand of them every year. They are shoveled off and down with no more com punction than that with which a coal heaver scoops the anthracite into a dark cellar. What with tho wine-cup and the gambler’s dice and the scarlet enchantress, no young man without tho grace of God is safe ton minutes. There is much discus uon about which is the worst city of the continent. Some say New York, so ne say New Orleans, some say Chicago, gome say St. Louis. What 1 have to say is you cannot make much com* 1 ar son between tho infinities and in all our cities the temptation seem > infinite. We keep a great many mills running day an 1 night. Not r.ce mills nor cotton m 11*. Nos mills of corn or wheat, b it mills for grin ling up men. Such are all the grog-shops, lice ns* 1 or unlicensed. Such are all the gambling saloons. Such are all the houses of infamy, and we do the work a ‘cording to law an I wo turn out a new grist every h »ur, and grind up warm hearts and clear heads, and the earth about a eider mill is not more satu rated with the beverage than the ground about all the*e soul destroying institutions is saturate I with the blood of victims. We say to Long Island neighborhoo Is and villages: “Send us more su >’»ly,” and to Westchester and Ulster and all the other counties of '’ew York: “Send us more men and women to put under the wheels. Give us full chance and we con’d grind up in the municipal mill five hundred a dav. We have enough machinery; we have enough men who can run them. Give us more homes to crush! Give us more oarental hearts to pulverize! Put into the hopper the war 1 robes and the family Bibles and the livelihood of wives and children. < live us more material for these mighty mills whi h are wet with tears and sill hurous with woe and trembling with the earthquakes of an incensed God who will, unless our cities r**p'*nt, cover us up as quick an 1 as deep as in August of the year 79 Vesuvius avalanched Herculaneum. ? )h, man or woman, ponder the path of thy feet' See whi h way you are going. Will you have thedistmy of Edward or Nicho as? On this sacramental dav when the burnished chali es stand in the presence of the people, start from the foot of the cross for usefulness and heaven. Plutarch tells us that after Cesar was slain and his twenty three wounds had Ijeen disn’ayed to the im.*q pie, arousing an uncontrollable excitement, and the body of the dead conqueror, accord ing to ancient custom, had been p it upon the funeral pile and the flames arose, people rushed up. took from the blaming mass torches with which they ran through tht> city, crying the glory of the assassinated and tho shame of his assassinators. On this sa ramenta! day when the five bleeding woun is of Christ, your King, are shown to you and fie fires of his earthly suffering blaze before your imagination, each one of von take u tor h and start heaven word, a tor li with light for yourself ami light for others, for the iace that starts at the cr *ss ends nt the throne. 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Tho inforaatXn around eanh lox fa worth ton timaa tke ooot of a boa of urr iirun ■ iirsv-ii-sS sMB-HEOIis I IMNCWWUMBLE Bgi The Most Perfect Instrnment & World. Used Exclusively nt the “Grand Conservatory of music,” OF NEW YORK. Endorsed by all Eminent Artists. LOW FHICKS! KASYTKHMSt AUGUSTUS BJUS4CO.,»w Warerodms. 58W. 23d St. New Tori. ■ This Wash Board Is to art • of ONIC SOLID AHEKff or IIVATY COBRU. GATED ZINf, which producM a <1 ou bla* faced board of the beat quality and durability. The flutlutf is very daap, holding more water, nnd consequently dfoh'g buttes waaliing than any wash board in tho market. The Ira in e is made of hard wood, and hold together witli an iron t<»lt run- U. I.'«.r of the zinc, thus binding the wholo together in l he mint sub- Stan tial manner, and producing a waub board which for cconom v.exrailenro and dur ability ih unquestionably the heat iu the world. We And ho niiinv dc.nlnra that object to our board on account of its DUKAHII.ITY, aaying “It will last too long, wo cun never sell a customer but one.” We take thia means to advise consumers to IIS HI Hl' upon having the NORTH STAR WASH BOARD. TUB DEMT IS TMD CMKAHKST. I ■aad*ztur*d Uy PFANSCHMIDT, DODGE & CO,, I S«8 A 280 Went Polk St., Chloago, 111. I Are the Finest ii the World. I Thea# Extracts sorer vary. I BUPERIOR FOB BTBENGTH.QtJALITT, I PURITY, ECONOMY, ETC. I Made from SeleoUd Fruit, and BploM. I Insist on having Battine's Flavora I and take no others. ■ SOLD BY ALL GROCERS. I BASTIUE & CO-,! 41 Warren St., Naw York. [ tsEORRVILLE CHAMPION COMBINED Grain TtaheijKloier Huh. Acknowl<’<lK«d by ’Fbrc.hermeti to b. TtLO King! JBrtaaSffi '.SS'StKs will do the work of two septate machines ■»• Clover Unitor In nota simple att.M< hment bul a separate hulling cylinder constructed and OP"*" ted upon the mont approved sclentijc pi If ks the widest separating capacity of an▼ macMue in tho market. Ie compact diimblw, ueee bill «n« belt and re< l•• power nnd l.nn F'W'r worUlnN tlmnmiy otlser machine* Mo uliupy in< »n«trnrllon Ibnttt l« •’"J* 1 Y •(»»<!. Will thumb p -ltoclly .11 pe»e, timothy, n.i», clorer, etc. £.l Mini prlco Hot. etc., of Tbreohere, Keirin"., - 1 *• Jm<i (train Kepi.t. re. and b« .urn to mention Ibis paper Aifetßla wanted. Addrc THE KOPPES MACHINE CO. ORRVILLE. O. him ■■ —W