Pike County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 30, Petersburg, Pike County, 16 December 1891 — Page 4

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fie entitled to lost consideration; but they should not forget that tho government is now baying and of the market what to the eqnivalen tire prod not of our stiver mines. This to more than they themselves thought of asking two years ago. I believe it to the earnest desire of a great majority of the people, as itto mine, that a Nil coin use shall he made of silver just as soon as the oo-oi>eration of other nations can be seen red and a ratio flSed that will gtve circulation equally to gold and silver. Bi-metallism is the desired end, and the true friends of silver will he careful not to overrun tho goal and bring in stiver monometallism, with its necessary attendants, the toes of our gold to Europe and the ralipf of the pressure _for a larger currency. 1 have endeavored by the use of aiflcial agencies to keep a close observation of the state of public sentiment in Europe upon this question, and have not found it to be such as to justify me in proposing an international conferenco. There is, however, I am sure, a growing sentiment in Europe in favor Cf a larger Use of stiver. The exports of gold to Europe, which began In February last and continued Until the dose of July, aggregated over $70,000,(100. The net lose of goldduring the fiscal year was nearly $68,000,000. That no serious monetary disturbance resulted was most gratifying, and gave to Europe fresh evidence of the strength and stability of our financial institutions. With the movement of crone the outflow of gold was speedily stopped, and a return set in. Up to December 1 we had recovered of our gold loss at the port of New York $27,854,600, and It to confidently believed that during the winter and spring this aggregate will be steadily and largely increased. TBS TREASURY SURPLUS. • The presence of a large cash surplus in the treasury has formany years been the subjoc^of much unfavorable criticism, and has furnished an argument to those who have desired to place the tariff upon a purely revenue basis. It was agreed by all that the withdrawal from circulation of so large an amount of money was an embarrassment to the business of the country and made necessary the intervention of the department at frequent intervals to relieve threatened monetary panics. The surplus on March 1, 1888, was $183,827^90.3). The policy of applying this surplus to the redemption of the inter-est-bearing securities of the United States was thought to be preferable to that of depositing ft without interest in selects, banks. There have been redeemed Hfe the date last mentioned of interest -hearinJTseouri - ties $259,069,351), resulting In a reduction of the annuto interest charge of $11,084,878. The money .* ‘ * * without inwhich has been deposited in banks_ terest has been gradually withdrawn and used in the redemption of bonds. , The result of this polioy, of the silver legislation and of the refunding of thefts percent, bonds, has been a large increase of the money in circulation. At the date last named the circulation was $1,404,205,886, or $38.08 per capita, while on the 1st day of December, 1891, it had increased to $1,677,262,070, or $24.38 per capita. The offer of the secretary of the treasury to the holders of the 4ia per cent, bonds to extend the time of redemption at the option of the government, at an interest of 2 per cent., was accepted by the holders of about one-half the amount, and the unextended bonds are being redeemed on presentation.

lna wAn uBrAiunoni. The report of the secretary of war exhibits the results of an intelligent, progressive, and business-like administration of a department which has been too much regarded as one of mere routine. The separation of Secretary Proctor from the department by reason of his appointment as a senator from the state of Vermont is a source of great regret to me and to his colleagues in the cabinet, as I am sure it will be to all those who have had business with the department while under his charge. In the administration of army affairs some especially good work has been accomplished. The efforts of the secretary to reduce the per^ptage of desertions by removing the causes Vat promoted it have been so successful as to' enable him to report for the last year a lower percentage bf desertion than has been before reached m the history of the army. The resulting money saving is considerable, but the improvement in the morale of the enlisted men is the most valuable incident of the reforms which have brought about this result. HARBOR DEFENSE. The work of securing sites for shore batteries for harbor defense, and the manufacture of mortars and guns of high power to equip them, have made good progress during the year. The preliminary work of tests and plans, which so long delayed a start, is now ont of the way. Some gnus have been completed. and with an. enlarged shop and a more Complete equipment at Watervhet the army will soon be abreast of of the navy in fjun' construction. Whatever unavoidable cdhstfc “of. delay may arise, there should be nonefrom delayed or insufficient apSropriations. We shall he greatly emharrasc sd 1 the proper distributisn and use of naval vessels until adequate shore defenses are provided for our harbors. SMOKELESS FOWDRB AND MODERN RIFLES. I concur in the recommedation of the seer? tary that the three battalion organizations be adopted for the infantiy. The adoption of a smokeless powder and or a modern rifle equal In range, precision and rapidity of fire to the best known m use will, I hope, not be longer delayed. INDIAN ENLISTMENTS. The project of enlMting Indians and organizing them into separate companies upon the same basis as other soldiers was made the subject of a very careful study by the secretary, and received my approval. Seven companies have been completely organized, and seven more are in process of organization. The results of six months'training have more than realized the highest anticipations. The men are readily brought under discipline, acquire the drill with facility, and show great pride in the right discharge of their duties and perfect loyalty to their officers. THE RECORD AND PENSION DIVISION. The great work done in the record and pension division of the war department by Maj. Ainsworth, of the medical corps, and the clerks under him, is entitled to honorable mention Taking up the work with nearly 41,000 cases behind, he closod the last fiscal year with not a single case left over, though the new cases had increased 52 per cent. In number over the previous year by reason of the pension legislation of the last congress DEPARTMENT OP JUSTICE. I concur in the recommendation of the attor-ney-general that the right in felony cases to a review by the supreme court be limited. It would seem that personal liberty would have a safe guarantee ir the right of review in cases involving only fines and imprisonment were limited to the circuit court of appeals, unless a constitutional question should m some way be involved. PRIVATE LAND CLAIMS. The judges of the court of private land claims, provided for by the act of March 8, Wl, have been appointed and the court organized. It is now possible to give early relief to communities long repressed In their development by unsettled land titles, and to establish the possession and right of settlers whose lands have been rendered valueless by adverse and unfounded chums. JURISDICTION OP UNITED STATES COURTS. In previous messages I have called the attention of congress to the necessity of so extending the Jurisdiction of the United .States courts as to make triable therein any felony committed while in the act of violating a law of the United States. These courts can not have that independence and effectiveness whkffi the constitution contemplates so long as the felonious killing of high court officers, juries and witnesses in the discharge of their duties, or by reason of their acts as such, is only recognizable In the state courts. The work done by the attorney-general and the officers of his department, oven under the jfres ent inadequate legislation, has produced some notable results in the interest of law and order. THB POST OFFICE’ DEPARTMENT. In the report of the postmaster-general some very gratifying results are exhibited and many betterments of the service suggested. A perusal of the report gives abundant evidence that the supervision and direction of the postal system have been characterized by an intelligent nd conscientious desire to improve the service, 'he revenues of the department show an increase of over *5.000,010, while the estimate for the year 10*3 shows a surplus of receipts over expenditures. Ocean mall poet offloes have been established upon the steamers of the North German Lloyd and Hamburg lines, saving, by the distribution on ship-board, from two to lourteen nonrs' time In the delivery of mail at the port of entry, and often much more than this in the delivery at interior places. INCREASED MAIL FACILITIES. Eight thousand miles of new postal service has been established upon railroads, the car distribution to sub-stations in the great cities has been increased about 2 per cent, while the percentage of errors in distribution has during the past year been reduced over one-half. An appropriation was given by the last congress for the purpose' of making some experiments In free delivery in the smaller cities and towns. The results •at- these experimorAs have been so satisfactory that thS post-master-general recommends, and I concur in the reoommendation, that the froe-delivery system he at mice extended to towns of 5,000 population. OCEAN MAIL SERVICE. We were receiving for foreign postage nearly *2,000,000 under the old system and the outlay for ocean mail service did not exceed *000,000 per annnm. It is estimated by the post- - - that, it all the eon tracts proposed are completed, it will require *2-17,354 for this year, in addition to the appropriation for sea and inland postage already in the estimates, and that for the next fiscal jrearit^n^JmwaO^lWO, there-will prpbably THE NAVY DKPABTMBNT. _ tary of the navy shows a gratifying Increase of new naval_vesselB in commission. The Newark, Concord, Bennington and Miantonomah have been added during the year with an aggregate of something more than 11.000 tons. Twenty-four warship* of all classes are how under construction in the navy yards and private shops,but while the work upon them is going forward satisfactorily the completion of the more important vessels will yet require about a year's time. Borne of the vessels now under construction, it is believed, will be triumphs of naval engineering. When it Is recollected that the wort of building n modern navy was only Initiated in the year 18*8; that our naval constructors and ahip-huilders were practically without experience in the eon- " large Iron or steel ships: that our s were unfamiliar with the great and that the manufacture of and plates was almost . the progress that has hot only of

reservations by allotments in severalty to the Indians, and the cession of the remaining lands to the United States for disposition under ths homestead law, has been prosecuted daring the year with energy and success. In September list I wan enabled to open the settlement in the Indian territory of Oklahoma 000,000 acres of land, allot which was taken up by settlers in a tract may bo secured. The prise which the commission wss authorised to offer-*lJB per acre— is, in mv judgment, when all the circumstances as to title and to character of the lands are considered, a fair and adequate one, and should have been accepted by the Indians. Since March 4, 1080, about 83,000,000 acres have been separated from Indian reservations and added to the public domain, for the use of those who desired to secure free homes under onr beneficent laws. It is difficult to estimate the Increase of wealth which will result from the conversion of these vast lands into farms, bat it is more difficult to estimate the betterment which will result to the families that have found renewed hope and courage in the ownership of a home and the assurance of a comfortexcitement, but subsistence under free and healthful conditions. THE GENERAL LAND OFFICE. Early land office. By fai_ have been rapidly reduced. At the tost fiscal year only 84,172 final agricultural enremained undisposed of, and the commistriegi_ _ ...... sioner reports that, with the present work can be fully brought nex t hsca, year. *B£ PENSION BUREAU. The administration of the pension bureau ni_ been characterized daring the year bv great diligence. The total number of pensioners upon the roll on the 80th day of Jane, 1881, was 876,180. There were allowed during the fiscal year ending at that time 250,966 oases. Of this number 102,387 were allowed under the law of Jane 27, 1800. Tho issuing of certificates has been proceeding at the rate of about 80,000 per month, about 76 per cent, of these being cash under the new law. The commissioner expresses the opinion that he will be able to carefully adjudicate' and allow 890,000 claims daring the present fiscal year. The appropriation for the payment of pensions for the fiscal year 1800-81 was $127,685,708.88 and the amount expended $118,980,649.20, leaving an unexpended surplus of 98,135,144.64. The commissioner is quits confident that there will be no call this year for a deficiency appropriation. The estimate for pensions expenditures for the fiscal year ending Jane 80,1883, is, $144,966,000, which, after a careful examination of the subject, the commissioner is of opinion will he sufficient. While these disburse meats to the disabled soldiers of the great civil war are large, they do not realize the exaggerated estimates of those who oppose this beneficent legislation. The secretary of' the interior shows with great fullness the care that Is taken to exclude fraudulent claims, and also the gratifying fact that the persons to whom these pensions are going are men who rendered not slight hot substantial war service.

THE SUBSIDISED RAILROADS The report of the commissioner of railroads shows that the total deht of the subsidized railroads to the United States was on •Deeember 81,1800, *112,512,613.06. A large put of this deht is now fast approaching maturity, with no ‘' —,te provision for its payment. Some dealing with this deht, with a view to ,v,, ........ate collection, should be at once adopted. It is very difficult—well nigh impossible—for so large a body as the congress to conduct necessary negotiations and investigations. I therefore recommend that provision be made for the appointment of a commission tOjg^g^ipan and report a plan for dealing with THE ELEVENTH CENSUS. The work of the census bureau is now far in advance and the great bulk of the enormous labor completed. It will be more strictly a statistical exhibit and less encumbered by essays than its immediate predecessors. The methods pursued have been fair, careful and intelligent and have secured the approval of the statisticians who have followed them with a scientific and non-partisan interest. The appropriations necessary to the early completion and publication of the authorized volume should be given in time to secure against delays, which increase the cost and at line same time diminished the value of the work. THE OKPARrUENT OP AGRICULTURE. If the establishment of the department of agriculture is regarded by anyone as a mere concession to the unenlightened demand of a worthy class of people, that impression has been most effectually removed by the great results already attained. Its home influence has been’ very great in disseminating agricultural and horticultural information; in stimulating and directing a further diversification of crops; in detecting and eradicating diseases of domestic animals; and, more than all, in the close and informal contact which it ' has established and maintains with the farmers and stock raisers of the whole oountry. The secretary of agriculture estimates that the restrictions upon the importation of our pork products into Europe lost us a market for 820,000,000 worth of these products annually. THE LARGEST GRAIN CROP IN OUR HISTORY. The grain crop of this year was the hugest in our history—50 per cent, greater than that of lastyeat^-andmarketa havebeen opened and the larger demand resulting from short crops in Europe have sustained prices to such an extent that the enormous surplus of meats and breadstuffs will be marketed at good prices, bringing relief and prosperity^ to an industry that was much depressed The value of-the grain crop of the United States is estimated by the secretary to be this year $500,000,000 more than last; of meats 050,000,000 more, and of all products of the farm $700,000,000 more. It Is not inappropriate, I think, here to suggest that our satisfaction in the contemplation iff this marvelous addition to the national wealth isunclpuded by any suspicion of the currency by which it is measured, and in which the farmer is paid for the product of his fields. THE CIVIL-SERVICE COMMISSION. The report of the civil-service commission should receive the careful attention of the opponents as well as the friends of this reform. The commission invites a personal inspection by senators and representatives of its records or methods; and every fair critic will feel that such an examination should precede a judgment of condemnation, either of the system or its administration. EFFICIENCY RECORDS. The beads of the several executive departments have been directed to establish at once an efficiency record as the basis of a comparative rating of the clerks within the classified service, with a view to placing promotions therein-unon the basis of merit. 1 am cbnfident.that such a record, fairly kept, and open to the inspection of those interested, will powerfully stimulate the work of the departments, and will be accepted by all as placing the troublesome matter of promotions upon a just basis. CONCERNING PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS. The method of appointment by the states of electors of president and vice-presidont has recently attracted renewed interest by reason of a departure by the state of Michigan from the ithod which had ' ~ ‘ . method which had become uniform in all the states. Prior to IKS various methods had been nsed by the different states and even by the same state. In some the choice was made by the legislature; in others electors were chosen by districts, but more generally by the voters of the whole state upon a general ticket. The movement towards the adoption of the last-named method had an early begining and went steadily forward among the states, until in 1838 there remained but a single state. South Carolina, that had not adopted it. That state, until the cival war, continued to choose its electors by vote of the legislature, but after the war changed its method and conformed to the practice of the other states. For nearly sixty years all the states save one ha*e appointed t heir electors by a popular vote upon a general ticket, and tor nearly thirty years this method was universal. A DANGEROUS INNOVATION. It Is not possible now to take, by consent, one step in the direction of reform by eliminating the gerrymander which has been defeated by all parties as an influence in the election of electors of president and members of congress? All the states have, acting freely and separately, determined that the choice of electors by a general ticket is the wisest and safest method, and it would seem that there could be no objection to a constitutional amendment, making that method permanent. If a legislature chosen in one year upon purely local questions should, pending a presiiw for a aential contest, meet, rescind the law for a choice upon a general ticket, and provide for the choice Of electors by the legislature, and this trick should determine the result,'it is not too much to say that the public peace might he seriously and widely endangered. An attempt was made in the last congress to bring to bear the constitutional powers of the general government for the correction of frauds against the suffrage It is important to know whether the opposition to such measures is really rested in particular features, supposed to be objectionable, or includes any proposition to give to the election laws of the United States adequacy to the correction of grave and acknowledged evils. I must yet entertain the hope that it is possible to secure a calm, patriotic consideration of such constitutional or statutory changes as may be necessary to secure the choice of the officers of the government to the people by fair apportionment and free elections. I believe it would be possible to consti tute a commission, non-partisan in its membership, and composed of patriotic, wise and impartial men, to whom a consideration of "-sltion of the evils connected with our __system and methods might be committed wfth a good prospect of securing unanimity in some plan for removing or mitigating those evils. The constitution would permit the selection of the commission to be verted, in the supreme court, if that method would give the best guarantee of impartiality. HrajgHHB I have been greatly rejoiced to notice many evidences of the increased unification of people, and of a revived national #<irit. The Vista that now opens to ns is wider and more glorious than ever before. Gratification and amazement struggle for supremacy as we contemplate the population, wealth and moral strength of our country. A trust momentous in its influence upon our peoples, upon the world is for a brief time committed to ns, and we must not be faithless to ‘ t condition—the defense of the free and *r4 sreftasasat Haiiiwui.

_ A DlaconrM on the Fittfnll* and Man Traps Continually Sot to Catch the Toot oi the' Unwary and Drag Them to Ruin. The following discourse was dellvered by Rev. T, DeWitt Talmage to an immense congregation composed principally of young men, at Ann Arbor, Mich. He took for his text: Surely In vain the net to spread to the sight of any bird.—Proverbs t, IT. Early in the morning I went out with a fowler to catch wild pigeons. We hastened through the mountain gorge and into the forest. We spread out the net, and covered up the edges-of it as well as we could. We arranged the callbird, its feet fast, and its wings flapping in invitation to all fowls of heaven to settle down there. We retired into a booth of branches and leaves and ■waited. After awhile, looking out of the door of the booth, we saw a flock of birds in the sky. They came nearer and nearer, and after awhile were about to swoop into the net, when suddenly they darted away. Again we waited. _ After awhile we saw another flock of birds.* They came nearer and nearer, until just at the moment when they were about to swoop they darted away. The fowler was very much disappointed, as well us myself. We said to each other: “What is the matter?” and “Why were not these birds caught?” We went out and examined the net, and by a flutter of a branch of a tree part of the net had been conspicuously exposed, and the birds coming very near had seen their ■peril and darted away. When I saw that, I said to the old fowler: “That reminds me of a passage of Scripture: ‘Surely in vain is the net spread in the sight Of any bird.’ ” Now the net in my text stands for temptation. The call bird of sin tempts men on from point to point and from branch to branch until they are about to drop into the net If a man finds out in time that it is the temptation of the devil, or that evil men are attempting to capture his soul for time and eternity, the man steps, back. He says: “1 am not to be caught in that way; I see what you are about; surely in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird.”

There are two classes of temptations —the superficial and the subterraneous —those above ground, .those under ground. If a man could see sin as ibis he would no more embrace it .than he would embrace a leper. Sin is a daughter of hell, yet she is garlanded and robed and trinketed. Her voice is a warble. Her cheek is the setting sun. Here forehead is an aurora. She says to men: “Come, walk this path with me; it is thymed and primroscd, and the air is bewitched with the odors of the hanging gardens of Heaven; the rivers are rivers of wine, and all you have to do is to drink them up in chalices that sparkle with diamond and amethyst and chrysoprasus. See! It is all bloom and roseate cloud and Heaven.” Oh! my friends, if for One moment the choiring of all these concerted voices of sin could be hushed, we should see the orchestra’of the pit with hotftjsreath blowing through fiery flute, and the skeleton arms on drums of thunder and darkness beating^the chorus; “The end thereof is death. ” I want to point out the insidious temptations that are assailing more especially our young men. The only kind of nature comparatively free from temptation, so far as I can judge, is the cold hard, stingy, mean temperament. What would Satan do with such a man if he got him? Satan is not anxious to get a man who, after awhile, may dispute with him the realm of everlasting meanness. It is the generous young man, the ardent young man, the warmhearted young man, that is in especial peril. A pirate goes out on the . sea, and one bright morning he puts the glass to his eye and looks off, and sees an empty vessel floating from port to port. He says: “Never mind; that’s no prize for, us.” But the same morning he puts the glass to his eye, and he sees a vessel coming from Australia laden with gold, or a vessel from the Indies laden with spieoes. He says: “That’s our prize; bear down on it.” Across the unfortunate ship the grap-pling-hooks are thrown. The crew are blindfolded and compel©d to walk the plank. Ibis not the empty vessel, but the laden merchantman that is the temptation to the pirate. And a young man empty of head, empty of heart, empty' of life—you want no Young Men’s Christian Association to keep him safe; he is safe. He will not gamble unless it is with somebody else’s stages. He will not break the Sabbath unless somebody else pays the horse hire. He will not drink unless some one else treats him. He will hang around the bar hour after hour, waiting for some generous young man to come in. The generous young man comes in and accosts him and says: “Well, will you have a drink with me to-day?” The man, as though it were a sudden thing for him, says: “Well, well, if you insist on it I will—I will.” To mean to go to perdition unless somebody else pays his expenses? For such young men wo will not fight. We would no more contend for them than Tartary and Ethiopia would fight as to who should have the great Sahara Desert; but for those young men who, are buoyant and enthusiastic; those who are determined to do something tor time and eternity—for them we will fight, and we now declare everlasting war against all the influences that assail them, and we ask all good men and philanthropists to wheel into line, and all the armies of heaven to bear down upon the foo, and we pray Almighty God that with the thunderbolt of His wrath He will strike down and consume all these influences that are attempting to destroy the young men for whom Christ died. The first class of temptations that assaults a young man is led on by the skeptic. He will not admit that he is an infideleor •atheist. Oh, no! he is a “free-thinker," he is one of your ‘.‘liberal” men; he is free and easy ip rell- . giou. Oh! how liberal he is, hie is so “liberal” that he will give away his Bible; he is so “liberal” that he will give away the throne of eternal justice; lie is so “liberal” that he would be willing to give God opt of the univere; he is so “liberal” that he would give up his own soul and the souls of all his friends. .Now, what more could you ask in the way of liberality? The victim of this skeptic hast probably just ooine from the country. Through the intervention of friends he has been placed in a shop. On Saturday the skeptic says to him. “Well, what are you going to do to-morrow?” He says: “I am going to ehurch.” “Is it possible!” says the skeptic. “Well, I used to do these things: I was brought up, I suppose, as you were, in a religious family, and I believed all those things, but 1 got over it; the fact is, since 1 came to town I have read a great deal, and 1 have found that there are a great many things in -the Bible than are ridiculous. Now, for instance, all that abont the serpent being cursed to crawl in the garden of Eden because It had tempted oyr first parfats; why, you §ff bow iUurd \\ is;

it just as you can that it story about, oaah, or Jonah the whale, which was it? It don’t make any difference, the thing is absurd; it is ridiculous to suppose that a man could hare gone down through the jaws of a sea monster and yet kept his life; why, his respiration would have been hindered; he would have been digested; the gastric juice would have dissolved the fibrine and coagulated albumen, and Jonah would .have been changed from prophet .into Chyle. Then all that'story about the miraculous conception—why, it is perfectly disgraceful. 0! sir, I believe in the light of nature. This is the nineteenth century. Progress, sir, progress. I don’t blame you, but after you have been in town as long as I have, you will think just as I do. Thousands of young men are going down under that process day by day, and there is only here' and there a young man who can endure this artillery of scorn. They are giving up their Bibles. The light of nature! They have the light of nature in China! they have it in Hindustan; they have it in Ceylon. Flowers there, stars there, waters there, winds there, but no civilization, no homes, no happiness. Lancets to cut, and juggernauts to fall under, and hooks to swing on; but no'happiness. 1 tellyou, my young brother, we have to choose between four or five. Shall it be the Koran of the Mohammedan, or the Shasta of the Hindoo, or the Zepdavista of the Persian, or the Confucius writings of the Chinese, or the Holy Scriptures? Take what you will; God helping me, I will take the Bible. Light for all darkness, rock for all foundation, balm for all wounds. A glory that lifts-its pillars of fire oyer the wilderness march. Do not give up your Bibles. If these people scoff at you as though religion and the Bible were fit only for weak-minded people, you just tell th^rif you are not ashamed to be in the cwnpany of Burke the statesman, and Raphael the painter, and Thorwaldsen the sculptor, and Mozart the musician, and Blackstone the lawyer, and Bacon the philosopher, and Harvey the physician, and John Milton the poet. Ask them what infidelity had ever done to lift the fourteen hundred millions of the race out of barbarism. Ask them when infidel - ity ever instituted a sanitary commission; and, before you leave their society once and forever, tell them that they have insulted the memory of your Christian father, and spit upon the deathbed of *you mother, and with swine's snout rooted up tho grave of your sister who died believing in the Lord Jesua

Young man, Hold on to your Bible. It is the best book you ever owned. It will tell you how to dress, how to* bargain, how to walk, how to act, how to live, bow to die. Glorious Bible! whether on parchment or paper, in octavo or duodecimo, on the center table of the drawing room or in the counting room of the banker. Glorious Bible! Light to our feet and lamp to our path. Hold on to it. The second class of insidious temptations that comes upon our young men is led on by the dishonest employer. Every commercial establishment is a school. In nine cases out of ten the principles of the employer become the principles of the employe. I ask the older merchan ts to bear me out in these statements. If, when you were just starting in life, in commercial life, you were told that honesty was not marketable; that though you might sell all the goods in the shop, you must not sell your conscience; that while you were to exercise all industry and tact, you were not to sell your conscience—if you were taught that gains gotten by sin were combustible, and at »the moment of ignition would be blown on by the breath of God until all the splendid estate would vanish into white ashes scattered in the whirlwind—then that instruction has been to yon a precaution and a help ever since. There are hundreds of commercial establishments in our great cities which are educating a class of young men who will be the honor of the land, and there are other establishments which are educating young then to be nothing but sharpers What chance is there for a young man who was taught in an establishment that it is right to lie, if it is smart, and that a French label is all that is necessary to make a thing French, and that you ought always to be honest when it pays, and that it is wi-ong to steal unless you do it well? Suppose, now, a young man just starting in life enters a place of that kind where there are ten young men, all drilled in the infamous practices of the establishment. He is ready to be taught. The young man has no theory^ #J, commercial ethics. Where is he to get his theories? He will get his theories from his employers. One day he pushes his wit a little beyond what the establishment demands of him, and he4 fleeces a customer until the clerk is on the verge of being seised by the law. What is done in the establishment? He is not arraigned. The head of the establishment says to him: “Now, be careful, young man, you might be caught; but really that was splendidly done, you will get along in the world, I warrant you.” Then that young man goes up until he becomes head clerk. He has found that there is a premium on iniquity. One morning the employer comes to the establishment.' He goes into the counting room and throws up his hands and shouts: "Why, the safe has been robbed!” What is the matter? Nothing, nothing; only the clerk who has been practicing a good while on customers'is practicing a little on the employer. No new principle introduced into that establishment. It is a poor rule that will not work both waya You must never steal unless you can do it well. He did it well. I am not talking an abstraction; 1 am talking a terrible and crushing fact. Now here is a young man. Look at him tc day. Look at him five years from now, aftar he has been under trial in such an establishment. Here he stands in the shop to-day, his cheeks ruddy with the breath of the hilla He unrolls the goods on the counter in gentlemanly style. He commends them to the purchaser. He points out all the good points in the fabric. He effects the sale. The goods dre wrapped up, and he dismisses the customer with a cheerful “good morning,” and the country merchant departs so impressed with the straight-forwardness of that young man that he will come again and again, every spring and every antumn unless interfered with. The young man has been now in that establishment five years. He unrolls the goods on the counter. He says to the customer, “No#, those are the best goods we have In our establishment;” they have better on the next shelf. He says: “We are selling these goods less than cost;” they are making twenty per 9ent. He says: “There is nothing like them in all the city;” there are fifty shops where they want to sell the same thing. He says: ‘Now, that is a durable article, it will wash;” yes, it will wash out. The sale is made, the goods are wrapped up, the country merchant goes oft feeling that he has an equivalent for his money, and the sharp pl«fk foes into (be prtrste of (bp

and he says; "W< at those goods at last; I thought we would never sell told him we were selling than cosand he thought he .was getting a good^bargain; got rid of them at last” .And the head of the firm says: “That’s well done, splendidly done?” Meanwhile, God had recorded eight lies—four lies against the young man, four lies against his em- c ploy er; for I undertake to say that the employer is responsible for all the iniquities of his clerks; and all the iniquities of those who are clerks of those clerks, down to the tenth generation, if those employers inculcated iniquitious and damning^ principles. I stand before young men this morning who are under this pressure. I say come out of it “Oh!” you say; “I can’t; I have my widowed mother to support and if a man loses a situation now he can’t get another one.” I say come out Of it Go borne to your mother and say to her: “Mother, I can’t stay in that shop and be upright; what shall I I do?” and if she is worthy of you she will say: “Come out of it my son—we will just throw ourselves on Him who hath promised to be the God of the widow and fatherless; He will take care of us.” And 1 tell you no young man ever permanently suffered by such a course of conduct In Philadelphia, in a drug shop, a young man said to his employer: “I want . to please you, really, and 1 am willing to sell medicines on Sunday, but 1 * can’t sell this patent shoe-blacking on Sunday.” “Well,” said the head man, “you wilLhave to do it, or you will have to go away.” “The young man said: “I can’t do it; I am willing to sell medicines, but not shoe-black-ing.” "Well, then, go! Go now.” The young man went away. The Lord looked after him. The hundreds of thousands of dollars he won in this world were the smallest part of his fortune. God honored him. By the course he took he saved his soul as well as his fortune in the future. A man said to his employer: “I can’t wash the wagon on Sunday morning; I am willing to wash it on Saturday afternoon; but, sir, you will please excuse me, I can’t wash the wagon on Sunday morning.” His employer said: “You must wash it; my carriage comes in every Saturday night, and you have got to wash it on Sunday morning”’ “I can’t do it,” the man said. They parted. The Lord looked after him, grandly looked after him. He is worth to-day a hundred fold more than his employer ever will be, and he saved his soul. Young men, it is. safe to do right. There are young men in this house to-day who, under this storm of temptation, are striking deeper and deeper their roots and spreading out broader their branches. They are Daniels in Babylon, they are Josephs in the Egyptian court, they are Pauls amid the wild beasts of Ephesus. I preach to encourage them. Lay hold of God and be faithful.

lucre as a uuauiKc wo uituvc auuui young men. We put them in two classes—the one class is moral, the other is dissolute. The moral are safe. The dissolute can not be reclaimed. I deny both propositions. The moral are not safe unless they have laid hold of God, and the dissolute may be reclaimed. «I suppose there are self righteous men in this house who feel no need of God, and will not seek after him, and they will go out in the world and they will be tempted, and they will be flung down by misfortune, and they will go down, down, down, until some night you will see them going home hooting, raving, shouting blasphemy— going home to their mother, going home to their sister, going home to the young companion to whom, only a little while ago, in the presence of a brilliant assemblage, flashing lights and orange blossoms, and censers swing ing in the air, they promised fidelity and purity and kindness perpetual. Asthat man reaches the door she will open it, not with an outcry, but she will stagger back from the door as he edmes in, and in her look there will be the prophecy of woes that are coming; wdnt that will shiver in need of fire, hunger that will cry in vain for bread, cruelties that will not leave the heart when they have crushed it, but pinch it again and again, and stab it again, until some night she will open the door of the place where her companion was ruined, and she will fling out her arm from under her ragged shawl and say, with almost omnipotent elequence: “Give me back my husband! Give me back my protector! Give me back my all! Him of the kind heart and gentle words, and the manly brow —•give him back to me!” And then the wretches, obese and filthy, will push back their matted locks, and they will say: “Put her out! Put her out!” Oh! self-righteous man, without God you are in peril Seek after Him to-day. Amid the ten thousand temptations of life there is no safety for a man without God. But I may be addressing some who have gone astray, and so I assault that i other proposition that the dissolute can not be reclaimed. Perhaps you have only gone a little astray. While I speak are you troubled? Is "there a voice within you saying: “What did you do that for? Why did you go there?. What did you mean by that?” Is there a memory in your soul that makes you tremble? God only kuoifrs all our hearts. Yea, if you have gone so far as to commit iniquities, and have gone through the whole catalogue, 1 invite you back this hour. The Lord waits for you. "Rejoice! 0, young man in thy youth, and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth; but know thou that for aU these things God will bring thee into judgment.” Come home, young man, to your father’s God. Ot I wish that all the batteries of the Gospel could today be unlimbered against all those influences which are taking down so many young men. I would like to blow a trumpet of warning, and recruit until this whole audience would march out on a crusade against the evils of society. But let none of us be disheartened. 0! Christian workers; my heart is high with hope, The dark horizon is blooming into the niorning of which prophets spoke, and of which poets have dreamed, and of which painters have sketched. The world’s bridal hour advances. The mountains will kiss the morning radiant and effulgent, and all the waves of the sea will become the orystal keys of a great organ on which the fingers of everlasting joy shall play the grand march of a world redeemed. Instead of the thorn there shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the briar there shall come up the myrtle tree, and the mountains and the hills shall break forth into singing and all the trees of the wood shall .clap their hands! Talmage EmbsmaieU. Did you ever hear the lecture entitled “Big Blunders,” by the picturesque, statuesque and grotesque but eloquent and useful Talmage? It is, you remember, a succession of whoops and yells of laughter at and with the lecturer from first to last. Imagine Talmage’s feelings as he was introduced with that lecture to a large audience, one evading in Ohio, by a well-meaning clergyman, \*ho first asked the audience to rise, and then devoptly proceeded to invoke the Divine blessing on the. words to which they were to listen, and “to fill the speaker with the spirit el grace and truth!". ’ ■ /

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