despotism of debt.
p e v Dr. Talmage Gives Sound Ad
vice to Young Men.
There U N« Wrong In Harrowing; th*
Wrong Lies in Harrowing to Sccur*
That Which One Can Get
Along Without Having.
The following discourse by Rev. T.
PeVVitt Tulinnge contains good advice
to young men on the evils of recklessly
running into debt. The text is:
jtt an ox to the slaughter. Proverbs, vil., gg.
There is nothing in the voice or man
ner of the butcher to indicate to the ox
that there is death ahead. The ox
thinks he is going on to a rich pasture
field of clover where all day long lie
will revel herbaceous luxuriance; but
after awhile the men and the boys
close in upon him with sticks and
atones and shouting, and drive him
through bars and into a doorway,
where he is fastened, and with well
timed stroke the ax fells him; and so
the anticipation of the redolent pas
ture field is completely disappointed.
So many a young man has been driven
on by temptation to what he thought
would be paradisiacal enjoyment; but
after awhile influences with darker hue
and swarthier arm close in upon him,
and he finds that instead of making an
excursion into a garden he has been
driven "as an ox to the slaughte.’’
We are apt to blame young men for
being destroyed when we ought to
j blame the influences that destroy them.
; Society slaughters a great many young
men by the behest: " You must, keep up
appearance; whatever be your salary,
you must dress as well as others, you
must give wine ami brandy to as many
friends, you must smoke as costly ci
gars. you must give a.s expensive enter
; tuinments, am! you must live in as
■ fashion .ble a boardinghouse. 1 f you
1 haven't the money, borrow. If you
t can't borrow, make a false entry, or
subtract here and there a bill from a
bundle of bank bills; you will only
have to make the deception a little
I! while; in a few months, or in a year or
i two. you can make all right. Nobody
will be hurl by it, nobody will be the
wiser. You yourself will not be dam*
. aged.' By that awful process a hun
dred thousand men have been slaugh
' tercd for time and slaughtered for eter
nity.
i Suppose you borrow. There is noth
ing wrong about borrowing money.
* There is hardly a man who has not
sometimes borrowed money. Vast es
t tales have been built on a borrowed
; dollar. But there are two kinds of bor
rowed money Money borrowed for the
purpose of starting or keeping up
legitimate enterprise or expense, a. 1
j money borrowed to get that which you
! can do without. The first is right, the
other is wrong. If you have money
s enough of your own to buy a coat,
however plain, and then you borrow
money for a dandy's outfit, you have
taken the first revolution of the wheel
down grade. Borrow for the necessi
ties. that may be well. Borrow for
the luxuries; that tips your prospects
over in the wrong direction.
The Bible distinctly says the bor
rower is servant of the lender. It is a
bad state of things when you have to
go down some other street toescape
meeting some one you owe. If young
men knew' what is the desp< of
being in debt, more of lhei aid
keep out of it. W hat did de for
Lord Bacon, with a mind veer-
ing above the centuries? It in
duced him to take bribes and con
vict himself as a criminal be
fore all ages. \\ liP.t did debt do for
Walter Scott? Broken hearted al Ab
botsford. Kept w riting until his hand
gave out in paralysis to keep the
sheriff away from his pictures and
statuary. Better for him if he had
minded the maxim which he had chis
eled over the fireplace at Abbotsford,
"Waste not, want not."
The trouble is, my friends, that peo
ple do not understand the ethics of go
ing in debt, ami that if you purchase
goods w ith no expectation of paying
forthem, or go into debts which you
can not meet, you steal just so much
money. If Igo into a grocer’s store
and I buy sugars and coffees and meats
w ith no capacity to pay for them, and
no intention of paying for them, 1 am
more dishonest than if I go into the
More, and when the grocer's face is
turned the other way 1 fill iny pockets
with the articles of merchandise and
carry off a Imml In the one case I
take the merchant's time, and 1 take
the time of his messenger to transfer
the goods to my house, while in the
other case I take none of the time of
the mer- hant. and 1 wait upon myself,
and 1 transfer the goods without any'
trouble to him! In other words, a
sneak thief is not so bad as a man who
contracts debts he never expects to
P‘ty-
Yet, in all our cities there are fami
lies who move every May-day to get
into proximity to other grocers and
meat shops ami apothecaries. 1 hey
owe everybody within half a mile of
where they’ now live, and next May
they will move into a distant part of
the city, finding a new lot of victims.
Meanwhile you, the honest family in
the new house, are bothered day by
•lay by the knocking at the door of
disappointed bakers and butchers, and
dry goods dealers, and newspaper car
riers, and you are asked where youi
predecessor is. You do not know.
It win arranged you should
Hol know. Meanwhile your prede
cessor has gone to some distant part of
the city, and the people who have any-
Jn i g | tO Se .‘ l | hUVe * eQt "
and stopped there to solicit the "valu
able custom of the new neighbor,
and he, the new neighbor, with great
complaeeny and an air of affluence,
orders the finest steaksand the highest
priced sugars, and the best of the
canned fruits, and perhaps all the
newspapers. And the debts will keep
on accumulating until he gets his goods
on the 30th of next April in the furiture
caru
No wonder that so many of our mer
chants fail in business. They are
swindled into bankruptcy by these
wandering Arabs, these nomads of city
life. 1 hey cheat the grocer out of the
green apples which make them sick,
the physician who attends them dur
ing their distress, and the undertaker
who tits them out for their departure
from the neighborhood where they
owe everybody when they pay the
debt of nature, the only debt they
ever do pay.
Now our young men are coming up
in this depraved state of commercial
ethics, and 1 am solicitous about them.
I want to warn them against being
slaughtered on the sharp edges of debt.
\ou want many' things you have not,
my young friends. You shall have
them if you have patience and hon
esty and industry. Certain lines of
conduct always lead out to certain suc
cesses. There is a law which controls
even those things that seem haphazard.
1 have been told by those who have
observed, that it is possible to cal
culate just how many letters will be
sent to the dead letter office every
year through misdirection; that it is
possible to calculate just how many
letters will be detained for lack of
postage stamps through the forgetful
ness of the senders, and that it is possi
ble to tell just how many people will
full in the streets by slipping on an
orange peel, in other words, there are
no accidents. The most insignificant
event you every heard of is the link
between two eternities —the eternity
of the past and the eternity of the fu
ture. Head the right w ay. young man,
and you will come out al the right
goal.
W hen a young man willfully and of
choice, having the comforts of life,
goes into the contraction of unpayable
debts, he know s not. into what he goes.
The creditors get after the debtor, tin*
pack of hounds in full cry, and alas!
for the reindeer. They jingle hisdoor
bell before he gets up in the morning,
they jingle his door bell after he has
gone to bed at night. They meet him
as he comes off his front steps. They
send him a postal card, or a letter, in
curtest style, telling him to pay up.
They attach his goods. They want
cash, or a note at 30 days, or a note on
demand. They eal 1 him a knave. They
say he lies. They want him disciplined
in tin.’ church. They want him turned
out of the bank. They come at him
from this side ami from that side, and
from before, and from behind, and
from above, and from beneath, and he
is insulted, and gibbeted, ami sued,
and dunned, and sworn at. until he
gets nervous dyspepsia, gets neuralgia,
gets liver complaint, gets heart dis
ease, gets convulsive disorder, gets
consumption. Now he is dead, ami
you say: "Os course you will let him
alone.” Oh, no! Now they are watch
ful to see whether there are any un
necessary expenses at the obsequies,
to see whether there is any useless
handle on the casket, to see
whether there is any surplus plait
on the shroud, to see whether the
hearse is eostlv or cheap, to see
whether the flowers sent to the casket
have been bought by the family or do
nated. See in whose name the deed to
grave is made out. Then they ransack
the bereft household, the books, the
pictutes. the carpets, the chairs, the
sofa, the piano, the mattresses, the pil
low on which he died. Cursed be
debt! For the sake of your own hap
piness, for the sake of your good
morals, for the sake of your immortal
soul, for (rod's sake, young man. as far
as possible, keep out of debt.
But 1 think more young men are
slaughtered through irreligion. lake
aw ay a young man s religion and you
make him the prey of evil. \\e all
know that the Bible is the only perfect
system of morals. Now, if you want
to destroy the young man’s morals,
take his Bible away. How will you
do that? Well, you will caricature his
reverence for the Scriptures, you will
take all those incidents of the Bi
ble which can be made mirth of
—Jonah’s whale. Samson's foxes,
Adam's rib—then you will cari
cature eccentric Christians, or incon
sistent Christians; then you will pass
off as your own all those hackneyed
arguments against ( hristianity, which
are as old as Tom Paine, as old as Vol
taire, us old as sin. Now. you have
captured his Bible, and yon have taken
his strongest fortress; the way is com
paratively clear, and all the gates of
his soul are set open in invitation to
the sins of earth and the sorrows of
death, that they may come in and
drive the stake for their encam, ment.
A steamer 1,500 miles from shore with
broken rudder and lost compass, and
hulk leaking 50 gallons the hour, is
better oil' than a young man when you
have robbed him of his Bible. Have
you ever noticed how despicably mean
it is to take away the world's Bible
without proposing a substitute. It is
meaner than to come to a sick man and
steal his medicine, meaner than to
come to a cripple and steal his crutch,
meaner than to come to a pauper and
steal his crust, meaner than to come to
spoor man and burn his house down.
It 1* the worst of all larcenies to
steal the Bible, which has been
crutch and medicine and food
aud eternal home to ao many,
what a generous and magnanimous
business infidelity has gone into! This
splitting up of lifeboats and taking
away of fire escapes, and extinguishing
of lighthouses. 1 come out and say to
such people: "What are you doing all
this for?" "Oh," they say, "just for
fun.” It is such fun to see Christians
try to hold on to their Bibles! Many of
them have lost loved ones, and have
been told that there is a resurrection!
Many of them have believed that Christ
came to carry the bin dens and to heal
the wounds of the world, and it is
such fun to tell them they
will have to be their own
savior! Think of the meanest thing
you ever heard of; then go down 1,000
feet underneath it, and you will find
yourself at the top of a stairs 100
miles long; go to the bottom of the
stairs, and you will find a ladder 1,000
miles long; then go the foot of the lad
der, and look off a precipice half as
far as from here to China, and you will
find the headquarters of the meanness
that would rob this world of its only
comfort in life, its only peace in death,
ami its only hope for immortality.
Slaughter a young man’s faith in God,
and there is not much more left to
slaughter.
Now, what has become of the slaugh
tered? Well, some of them are in their
father's or mother’s house, broken
down in health, waiting to die; others
are in the hospital, others are in the
cemetery, or, rather, their bodies are,
for their souls have gone on to retribu
tion. Not much prospect for a young
man who started life with good health,
and good education, and a Christian
example set him. and opportunity of
usefulness, who gathered all his treas
ures and put them in one box. and
then dropped it into the sea.
Now, how is this wholesale slaughter
to be stopped? There is not a person
who is not interested in that question.
The object of my sermon is to put a
weapon in each of your hands for your
own defense. W ait not for young men's
Christian associations to protect you,
or chinches to protect you. Appealing
to God for help, take care of yourself.
First, have a room somewhere that
yon can call your own. W hether it be
the back parlor of a fashionable board
ing-house, or a room in the fourth
story of a cheap lodging. 1 care not.
Only have that one room your fortress.
Let not the dissipater or unclean step
over the threshold. If they come up
the long Hight of stairs and knock at
the door, meet them face to face
and kindly yet firmly refuse
them admittance. Have a few
family portraits on the wall, if you
brought them with you from your
country home. Have a Bible on the
stand. If you can afford it and can
play one, have an instrument of music
—harp, or Hute, or cornet, or melo
deon, or violin, or piano. Every morn
ing before you leave that room pray.
Every night after you come home iu
that room pray. Make that room your
Gibraltar, your Sebastopol, your Mount
Zion. Let no bad book or newspaper
come into that room any more than
you would allow a cobra to coil on
your table.
Take care of yourself. Nobody else
will take care of you. Your help will
not come up two, or three, or four
flights of stairs; your help will com«
through the roof, down from Heaven,
from that God who in 6,000 years oi
the world's history never betrayed a
young man who tried to be good
and a Christian. Let me say in re
gard to your adverse worldly circum
stances. in passing, that you are
on a level now with those who
are finally to succeed. Mark my words,
young man. and think of it thirty
years from now. You will find that
those who thirty years from now
are the millionaires of this country,
who are the orators of the country,
who are the poets of the country, who
are the strong merchants of the coun
try. who are. the great philanthropists
of the country-mightiest in church
and state are this morning on a level
with you. not an inch above, and you
in straightened circumstances now.
Ah! when I told you to take care of
yourself, you misunderstood me if you
thought 1 meant you are to depend
upon human resolution, which may be
dissolved in the foam of the wine cup,
or may be blown out with the first
gust of temptation. Here is the helmet,
the sword of the Lord God Almighty.
Clothe yourself in that panoply, and
you shall not be put to confusion. Siu
pavs well neither iu this world nor the
next, but right thinking, and right be
lieving. and right acting' will take yov
in safety through this life and iu trans
port through the next.
That is the echo of multitudes. 1 air
not preaching an abstraction, but a
great reality. 0! friendless young
man. 0! prodigal young man. O
broken-hearted young man, 1 com
mend to you Christ this day, the
best friend a man ever had.
He meets you this morning. Despise
not that emotion rising' in your soul;
it is divinely lifted. Look into the
face of Christ. Lift, one prayer to your
father's God. to your mother’s God, and
this morning get the pardoning bless
ing. Now, while 1 speak, you are at
the forks of the road, and this is the
right road, and that is the wrong road,
and 1 see you start on the right road.
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Mr. Cumrox’s son was studying his Latin
lesson. There was a tremolo of discourage
ment in his voice as he remarked
“1 don ’t seem to get along with this lessou
very well, father.”
“Can’t you say any of it?”
“Yes; I can say ‘a’.io, amas, amat;’ and
then 1 always forget what conies next.”
“W hat does those words mean, John
ny?” asked Mr. Cumrox, who deserves
credit for being always ready to add to a
somewhat deficient early education.
“They mean ‘I love, thou lovest, he
loves.’ ”
“It does seem too bud to see you starting
in so soon,” the old gentleman mused, “with
the difficulties that nave always surrounded
that verb. But you might as well commence
young to learn that them words in one way
or another cause two thirds of the bothera
tion that occurs in this life.”
“Please, can I quit school, then?”
“No; it wouldn’t be anv use. You couldn’t
dodge ’em, and vou might as well go right
ilong and get as familiar with them as pos
sible. You’ll find that learnin’’em ain't half
the worry that handlin' ’em is after ye know
’em. Cheer up, Johnny, and remember that
most of your trouble is still ahead of you.”
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