Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1876 — To Young Men. [ARTICLE]

To Young Men.

Then I would like to speak to young men. It seems to me that they help us more and do more real work than the old men. Old men are good for counsel,'but when we want aggression we must have ynnrig men. Christian ityhas been on the defensive a long time. These drinkingsaloons, tbesfc billiard-halls, ought to be visited. Invito the men to come to these meetings and. take a seat among yon, and whenever * meeting is held don’t let them go away without pressing upon them the claims of Christ. A sermon may not touch them, hut a kind remark, a clasp of toe hand, may touch them. Go into these billiard-halls and drinking-saloons and ask

them, in the name of (Jhjtyt, to come. Some of you will look at this in a scornful way, and say:You go in there and they will insult you, and cast you out.” I am able to contradict that. Out of the hundreds and hundreds of saloons in tills city that I visited, I don’t know that I was ever unkindly treated in one of them. Once in a while I found a man under the influence of and he ordered me out. Home of the best workers on the the North Side have been found in the billiard-halls and drinking-saloons. Some of these young men are hastening to ruin, and need saving. The spirit of the Gospel of Jesus Christ is sent to men to-day, and if they won’t Comb ip here, let uS go to them. If we open the doors and they won’t fill the hall, let’s let the building alone and go And see these men, and ff we can’t get a multitude, let's preach to qne and two. The best sermons Christ ever preached were to the ones and twos—that sermqn to the woman at the well; that wonderful sermon on regeneration wta preached to one man, Nicodemus. What a blessing it has been to the church of God! If we can’t get the multitiides, let’s preach to one and two- There was a mau in Philadelphia that was brbfight into our meeting, and he was drunk. When they rose for prayers he tried to get up. The first time he couldn't and the second time he fell back, but the third time he says: “ I will ask you to pray for me,” and he has not drank a bit since. He is now a missionary, working in Philadelphia. Let us not give men up, though we think them beyond hope. —Frumone of Mr. Moody's Recent Sermons in Chioago.