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 YOUNG MEN OF MONTREAL. 
 
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 Time follo-wlng sermon, preached by the 
 
 Very Redv. the; Dean of Montreal, In St. 
 
 George's Church, on the 21st Sunday after 
 
 Trinity, has been printed, by request, in the 
 
 hope that its more general circulation may 
 
 prove of value, beyond the object for which it 
 
 was originally delivered. 
 
 Nov, 15th, 1889. 
 
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A SERMON 
 
 BY 'raB 
 VERY REV, JAMES CARMICHAEL, 
 Dean op Montreal. 
 
 TfiAiAH 62, 10. Prepare ye the ^ay of the people; cast up the highway ; 
 gather out the stones. 
 
 I suppose that there are few things harder than, in all 
 things and for years, to do what our own conscience 
 tells us is right. Of course the habit of right-doing, like 
 all habits, relieves to a great extent the difficulty ; but 
 even with the best of men and women— those really 
 religiously good and most like Christ — call it what you 
 will — their " nature," the " old Adam," at times will 
 break out and leave them in misery, because their con- 
 science tells them that they have done wrong. And 
 indeed these are the people who feel the trial keenest, for 
 their hard-gained habit is the habit of right, and wrong, 
 when it is done, seems to them like afoul splash of blood 
 on a clear white marble floor. 
 
 Right-doing is hard because wrong-doing is so 
 easy." Some people object very strongly to the doc- 
 trine of what is called " natural depravity ; " but, object 
 as one may to the vJoctrine, the fact remains. It is easier 
 for a young child to do wrong than right. You have 
 
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 to train it to do right. It is easier for ayouug man to do 
 wrong than right; often for .an old man. The terror 
 of wrong-doing is its ease — the smoothness of the road. 
 
 On the other hand, as I said, it is hard to do right 
 continuously and victoriously. Our own nature ; the 
 example of so many about us ; the free habits of a free 
 life ; the thousand induct^ments to (!vil that throng 
 about the path of the inexperienced — some, or all these 
 things combined, are barriers in the way — obstacles to 
 right-doing ; and he or she who through God and Christ 
 avoids them or overleaps them and passes onward, even 
 falteringly and repentantly, on the straight road beyond, 
 may often stop on the upward journey and say " Thank 
 God." 
 
 But Christ demands more than a holy selfishness — a 
 battling only for ourselves. His own example, the gist of 
 His whole teaching, plain as the sun in the heavens, tells us 
 that we should strive to help others, and as far as we can, 
 either take obstacles to right-doing out of a brother's way, 
 or else make those obstacles as few as wg can make them. 
 I have heard it said that the rage for taking obstacles out 
 of the way of young people is apt to create a race of 
 invertebrate Christians — beings without habits of self- 
 control, and manly or womanly determination. But I 
 have no fear of this, if only on the ground that each age 
 seems to bring its own dangers, and that we do some- 
 thing in our own day and generation, if we simply pre- 
 vent them from accumulating." 
 
 Now, if you ask me what I consider the greatest 
 obstacle to right-doing, in the present day, I say : Intem- 
 
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 perance, and the rocklossi laws which foster aiul maintain 
 its power as, for instance, in this very city. I do not say 
 that there are not other evils equally bad in act and 
 relatively in power ; but experience of life both here and 
 • elsewhere! has taught m(! that drunkenness is a root or 
 jrerm evil ; that many of its competitors in iniquity grow 
 out of it, and that, if its influence could be curbed, the 
 manhood and womanhood and childhood of our civic life 
 would certainly be all the better for the curbing. 
 
 As far as I am concerned, I positively burn with a 
 savage kind of indignation when I tliink how, spite of 
 every effort made on the side of " right," that awful trade 
 which grows wealthy by " wrong-doing " is petted and 
 fostered by our rulers ; that again and again its members 
 can meet together, and boast of victories all along the 
 line of its blighting and deadly-life. If one thing could 
 be said in its favor ; if one solitary moral plea could be 
 advanced as a reason why it should be supported and 
 propped up by those in power, it would be different ; but 
 it is an engine of sheer destruction, without one moral 
 argument in its favor — a permanent pestilence, a rooted 
 and growing cancer, blighting or sapping the young life 
 of generation after generation, as it steps in to fill up the 
 ranks of the self-murdered dead that this awful traffic 
 throughoiit the w orld might bury, not in graves — but 
 in pits. • 
 
 The " Citizens' League," an admirably intentioued so- 
 ciety, starting on the principle. " We ask only obedience 
 to law," and working through the regularly constituted 
 authorities — provincial and municipal — is forced to ask 
 
obedience to what in the Province of Quebec often appears 
 to be solely under the control of the drink trade. Take the 
 case of selling drink to boys— a patent act of criminality 
 of the worst kind. A tentative clause was in force pro- 
 tecting boys ; the drink-sellers saw that a most lucrative 
 branch of business was threatened, and that they might 
 often be placed in a position where prosecution could be 
 easily enforced by the Citizens' League or others, and they 
 worked 'to have it changed. The question before the 
 Government was : " Will we protect the boys, or will we 
 protect the drink-sellers?" Of course the boys are 
 sacrificed, because it is perfectly plain that the Govern- 
 ment is practically under the control of the drink- 
 sellers. It is afraid of them ; they constitute a powerful 
 organization over the country ; their influence in Provin- 
 cial politics is deep and far-reaching, and their licenses aid 
 in filhug the provincial treasury. Hence the drink- 
 traders knovf their power, and they use it. What is your 
 boy fo them? A thing to make money out of— a soul to 
 be sacrificed ! And if we sit tamely under their tyrannical 
 domination, and submit without murmur to the acts of a 
 Government that they lead and guide, the day may come 
 when our girls may be sacrificed by Government and 
 Trade as ruthlessly as our boys are sacrificed to-day. 
 
 Oh ! Christian men and w^omen, when you come to 
 think of it,-i8 it not shameful, this wholesale obstacle, 
 making to right-doing— this holding-out of opportunities 
 on the side of wrong, spite of the Church and the medi- 
 cal profession, and the warnings of judges on thebdnch, 
 and common sense, and often the dictates of common 
 
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 doooncy. Spite of all theso united forces on the .side of 
 good, we iire just like di-e in the hands of cunning 
 gamblers; they fling us as they will, and they win the 
 game. 
 
 Now, I have been led to make these remarks by an 
 appeal which has been made to me in common with all 
 the clergy oi' the city, to strive and rouse the public to 
 save from sale the Athletic Club House, well known as 
 the temperance rendezvous on the Mountain for our 
 young men's clubs. This Club House was erected mainly 
 as. a place where young men could meet, apart from the 
 domination and evil influence of the tavern-keeper; a 
 rallying point for the snow-shoe, pedestrian and other 
 clubs that aid in developing the physical strength of our 
 young men, and in giving them that measure of rational 
 enjoyment which so many of them richly deserve. 
 
 As far as the objects of the Club are concerned, they 
 are all on the side of right-doing, and, as objects, have 
 been successful, Six clubs, with a total memberships of 
 1,515 young men, visit the Club House about sixteen times 
 in each season ; and three more city clubs, making a total 
 of nine, have signified their intention to come into the 
 movement this year. 
 
 But, the Club is now on the brink of extinction for 
 want of funds, and is about to be brought to the 
 hammer to meet a floating debt of $8,000. You 
 know, friends, that you cannot make money out of 
 a reputable cafe at the same rate that you can make 
 money out of a disreputable bar. The advantage here is 
 
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 wholly on the side of wrong-doing, aud, as this move- 
 ment started largely against the tide, for want of 
 original stock being subscribed, its sales, though large, 
 aid but little in providing for its liabilities. What is 
 needed is, that the balance of the stock be taken up aiA 
 the membership increased. If this be done, the Club 
 House is saved. 
 
 Now I base my appeal to you, to take this matter into 
 consideration at once, on two grounds : — 
 
 1st. To help the young men of the city to keep on the 
 side of right, to take obstacles out of their way. The 
 young men of Montreal use this Club — they do not want 
 to have it closed. They are content with it, and thankful 
 for it. But you cannot expect them to support it, and 
 when you realize that they are our own sons or our 
 relations or friends or employees, surely we may well 
 stand in the breach and help them. 
 
 2nd. I ask you to act promptly for I notice in the 
 advertisement of the sale which takes place on the 14th, 
 th|it, amongst others, " hotel-keepers " are warned " not to 
 lose sight of this chance." You see the trade is so dis- 
 graceful that astute men shrink from using ordinary 
 terms. You know and I know, and very one knows 
 what that title " hotel-keeper " means. "Tavern-keepers" 
 are warned " not to loose the chance," and if I know 
 them aright, they do not need the warning. "We, on the 
 side of right, have trained our men to go there ; the 
 path to the door is worn by the lusty feet of our boys ; 
 what a splendid chance to get them on the side of wrong ! 
 The same house, the same rooms, and then the victory — 
 
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 another glorious victory for drink ! Another blighting 
 blow to the rabid fanatics who claim they see evil in our 
 glorious traffic! 
 
 Now, friends, just as some time ago the question was 
 before the Government : " Will we protect our boys or 
 will we strengthen the drink traffic?" so this question is 
 before the right-thinking community of Montreal be- 
 tween to-day and the 14th of this month. Will you 
 help to protect our young men, aid in keeping an obstacle 
 to right-doing and an incentive to wrong-doing out 
 of their way ? men of means, in so many ways, liberal 
 and kind, stand for this once in the breach. Stand by 
 your young men, and give this enterprise a fair start, 
 and teach these wholesale deprave ' of youth the lesson 
 that there is a limit to their power, when apart from 
 weak-kneed governments, they are brought face to face 
 with an aroused and right-thinking public. 
 
 You may ask how we can meet the difficulty. Well, 
 take home the paper in your pew, read it, it speaks for 
 itself. You have the choice of three methods of help so 
 admirably graded pnd arranged that the poorest can lend 
 a hand. Fill in what you can do, and fill it in quickly, 
 and send it to its destination, and may God speed the 
 good work and stay the evil through your means, 
 and send you down to face the business of another week 
 with the happy thought, strong before your minds, that 
 you have done what you could to take at least one 
 obstacle out of the rough and rugged ros d thai che young 
 life of this city is most shamefully forced to walk on, 
 through the miserable bondage of a weak government to 
 a dangerous and destructive trade.