| Show A LESSON TO YOUNG I 1 the way of the tran transgressor sg ressor Is hard A law of nature makes I 1 it t so eo nearly always a young man who is bright and as lias has talent and ambition wishes he had money often he imagines that it would vastly augment his happiness and that without it life is devoid of charen or purpose when the tion alon ot of a young man has gained as far y ad a this an ascendancy over his judgil ident and conscience he is in danger y and his fall becomes anease matter the dismal awful door of the state prison lately closed behind a young 1 man mall who a few years ago entered upon a life career that promised everything his bit family and friends or even he him aalf could reasonably hope or desire parentage and connections were i highly bly respectable his education was y thorough his natural abilities were ohp v or he was energetic and am I 1 bialous bit lous and without much difficulty toe he obtained a responsible position funds that did not belong to him passed through his hands he imagined that ht he needed money faster than he hp could draw his bis salary which was a genf betous one and the rest is soon told he teh fl and today he is a convicted felon hope pride and prospects are crushed kw A of agonizing agOA izing horrible despair I 1 has swallowed him up in their old age tal ka efly parents are bowed down in shame pa and grief alef because ot of him and his wife atae ue and loving to the last were ra happier were she mile a a widow honorable and intelligent men who have passed from poverty to affluence ft are A almost it if not quite unanimous in belr testimony upon three points 1 money dow not produce happiness 2 there to is more haip in a sense of duty faithfully performed than there 1 la 10 in spending money 3 there is more plea pleasure star in acquit acquiring ing wealth by patient and aad diligent biti kent effort than there la is in pos using it after it to is acquired young iba man could have these impressed upon his hie athel ort they would be a protection to wa ia thea hour of temptation ithe world arld is full of allurements allure ments and tfx the children of men pass through it timo th yield mate or less leas but it if ate and the hallow nees and aad the bitter fiction of oc that which entices tit AL path of rectitude were more 14 bt trally ay and thoroughly comprehended each succeeding rising generation as the stage of active life would be less leos sin and conse conae lew shame and suffering here the earth N if youth could be to believe the truth and pre jre bated from believing that which is not efte abouav the laws of life and hap examples as aa the one re borred red ta would cease to be repeated ve the fall of a man charged with the aft dodt of funds not his own is al V ways W as a matter of regret and is often tha topic of a sermon but generally 1 have one grave detect defect maff do not reach the root of the they fail to point out when aft and how the character of a K mast man requires to be strengthened quit ills ta resist the strain of tempha afoa in after life fe 4 students of df this subject agree that chait p who is taught the value of purity and who from childhood ff tc W is so BO trained and en J aa 49 to arm him against tempha sij to commit sexual sin is other i b being e inq equal better fortified every other form and sort of bf yi on than a young man josol aya dan can be aho who vho hate hals not been taught W erve his chastity and the con verse of this is true the young man who has led an unchaste haste life is necessarily weak throughout his entire moral structure and is always liable to yield under the pressure of a temptation there is a direct and strong connection between that phase of a young mans morals which relates to the opposite sex and the phase which relates to his pecuniary honesty and his status in regard to one of these phases goes far to determine his condition in the other respect men who are strong in maintaining their own sexual purity axe are morally strong in every way while the libertine is never to be trusted in any position that calls for resisting moral fibre fabre the conclusion to be drawn from these truths so often illustrated in human experience is obvious if the boy is to be fortified against temptations to commit such crimes as embezzlement forgery theft or any other he must be taught the danger and degradation of unchaste conduct |
