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Lost In Ann Arbor

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Day
23
Month
December
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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"Lost in Ann Arbor," was the subject of Hev. W. M. Forrest's sermón, at the Church of Christ, Sunday night. "Students," he said, "may be lost to to the cliurcli. They thinkthat school days are unimportant and that they count but little towards a life. This is wrong. Christ did all his work while a young man. The Wesleys started a great work while students. The great missionary movcment was started and is conducted by students. Shall we, then, let these golden years go by unused':' My friends, you will have no better opportunity for usefulness if you live a thousand years, than you have wbile students. Some are lost morally. There are institutions existing here that are working moral death to our young men and young women. Our young men and young women walk along the streets with moral lepers. Shall we tolérate these things? Better permit incendiaries to live here who burn our houses, than these moral incendiarles who destroy our young men and young women. The boy comes, after having promised his mother to read his bible and pray each day. Bright companions tempt him. He goes back to his home his brain ruined by drink and liis moral purity wrecked by licentiousness. The sweet young girl comes here to earn her own living, but the tempter lies in wait for her. At first she has charming companions, fiowers, and pretty clothes. Then comes foul disease, fever and death. Men say to me, 'Oh, if you only knew when our hacks are called out at night to take home boys who are drunk upon the streets or in worse places. ' I am told that not less than twenty young women are se degraded that the pólice mark them upon the streets as wicked women. Agnosticism and unbelief also stand ready to turn men aside from the church and lose them to the benefits and comfort of religión. Truly oñe may be lost in as small and as beautiful a city as Ann Arbor."

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Ann Arbor Register