How to take care of Number One : addressed to young men.

Date:
[between 1850 and 1859?]
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Credit: How to take care of Number One : addressed to young men. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    conscious of your unworthiness, of your weakness, of your inability, and you feel oppressed by tbe weight of sin. This would indeed be a wretched state, were not Cheist your worthiness, your ability, and your deliverance from sin's bondage. He is indeed ascended into heaven, but he is not beyond the reach of your hearts in prayer, while in faith, he is ever present, ever felt. Very powerful are the ties of sympathy existing between you and him. He not only took man's nature upon him, but man's lowest condition. Although he was the Lord of light and truth, upholding all things by the power of His might, yet when He descended from on high. He was humble in birth—a carpenter's son—born in a stable, and working at his trade. Born among the poor, he suffered poverty as you may do, and he wandered about from city to city, often without food, and sometimes without a place to lay his head. He consorted not with the great and powerful, nor did he give himself up exclusively to the righteous. His mission was to the poor, the wretched, and the vile: and his bosom yearned for the hated Samaritan, the despised Publican, the sorrowing Magdalene, and the repentant Thief. As a poor man, as '*the despised and rejected of men, as a wronged man, as a man of sorrows he walked the earth to bless it, and he is especially the friend of those who toil, and of those who suffer, and of those that are in bondage, and of those that are in darkness, mental or moral; and he invites you with open arms, that he may hless you with that life of the soul which can only be realized in union with him. But you say, That you have your living to get in this world, and that to get it fairly and honestly is a difficult task! You say that knavery so abounds that he who adopts plain dealing, and who rests upon truth and integrity has no chance. I grant that it seems to be so j but I know that the Scripture