The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-05-16
SUNDAY.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
IMPRESSIVE DISCOURSE TO YOUNG
MEN ON SUNDAY EVENING.
MAY 18th, BY THE PAS
TOR, REV. E. D.
HUNTLEY.

HUNTLEY.
An lnteresteS and attentive congregation crowd
ca the Methodist Episcopal church, on Sunday
evening, In anxious anticipation Of listening to an
address to Young Men by the eloquent pastor,
Rev D. Huntley. The services commenced at
the usual hour by singing the favorite, well-known
hymn ; 'All hail the power of Jesus name" AT
the conclusion of the usual preliminary exercises
Mr. duntley announced his text from the second
chapler or Titus, and the sixth verse s'Young
men likewise exhort 20 be sober-minded.''
| IN obedience to the in junction Of the apostle
wish TO exhort my friends, the young men of this
audience to sober mindedness. That the subject
may not appear needessy uninteresting, let me
say by way of Introduction, that this term does
not imply slow mindedness any more than the
term wisdom implies laziness Indeed the orioi.
nal slgnlhcation of the term which is rendered in
thls passage " to be sober mi nded :" ia "to he
wise" Were I to take the liberty which the
| Greek really allows and exhort the young men TO
| be wise, they would never think that a slackeuinp
of mental speed was even so much as limited at.
Neither, be it remembered is sober-mindedness
accompanied by sad-heartedness On the contra.
ry II Is recommended for just that period in life
which is most untavorabe to sadness of heart.
In the logic OF life sad belongs to the depart
ment of conclusions rather than to that of that of
premises, We expect to hear its minor when the
great bugle sounds retreat, not when it thunders
charge. Sadness is not tope's nurse whose place
is at the cradle, but one of hopes pall-bearers
whose place is at the grave When therefore
come before you tonight, befronted as you are
with fields of usefulness and avenues of honor
would not be repealed by preconception that the
text bear fnculcates gloom. Thus having brief
ly freed our subject from the r, sponsibility Of
suggesting slowness of thought and moroseness.
oflife, let us proceed to recognize and sympathize
some Of the Thoughts it does suggest Anc first
Of all, sober-mindedness suggests deliheration
and dellberatOn begets selfrespect, economy of
time ana philanthropy.
Secondly, Sober-mi adedness suggests the practi.
cal rather than the visionary Novel reading for
instance, tends to inflame rather than sober the
mind. They pr vent the formation of a taste for
sound, strong knowledge imparting reading. RI
bertsssays: The habit of novel reading must
inevitably enervate your manhood, and dwarf
the mind and give you disreish for the at and
grand and true in the world ofthought" He con-
tlnues: "If our youth would be men and sinl.
into eteminacy, they must leave the region Of
slckly sentmentalism Goldsmith himself ?
novel writer's says :g"Ahove all never let your son
touch novel or romance, They teach the youthful
mind to sigh after beauty aDdhappiness that never
existed to despisc the little good that fortune has
mixed in our own cup, by expecting more than
she ever gave" Carlyle observes: Modern
novels are tales Of adventures which did not occur
in Gods creation, but only in the waste chambers
of certain human heads and which are part and
parcel only ofthe sum of nothing Novels beget
| thirst for excitement that the world of facts
does not quench. Only recently young man
| committed suicide in Indiana and ascrlbes his
downfall to the influence CT the ''vlest kind O.
novels" which he was allowed to read when eight
or nine years OF age" IF good books had been
| fuTn1 shed me would have read them: persuade
ali persons over HON You have any influence not
to read novels was his parting advice to his
brother. he chaplain Of Newgate prison in Lon
don, IN his annual report to the Lord Mayor, re-
terring to many fine looking lads OF respectable
! parentage III the city prison says: THAT all
tnese boys without one exception, had been in the
habit OF reading those cheap periodicals which are
| now published for the alleged instruction and
| amusement Of the youth of both sexes" The
murderer Of ord William Russell, attributed the
assassination to morbid sympathy with crime
| induced by The read ne Of the then popular
romance Of Jock Sheppard. Our reading impress
ea us more than we think and in ways different
from what we expect. Homers Had was the ia
v0rite volume of Alexander and Crzar tried to COPY
Alexander. Charles the 18th Of Sweden longed
| from boyhoOd to initiate The great Macedonian
| COnqueror, and so it came about that the Gods of
Homer fought under the banners of Alexander
Casar and Charles the 18th of Sweden. Napoleon
borrowed his plan Of the battle of Austerltz from
the sixth book Of NJ ilton's paradise Lost where
Satan, brings his artillery to bear upon Michael
and his angelic host with such direful affect
Good books make good and rapid Impressions
Benjamin franklin read Essays to do Good - by
Cotton Mather, and claims that the book influenced
his entire life. Jeremy Bentham's current Of
thought and study was directed for life bya sin
gular phrase that caught his eye at the end. of
pamphlet "Fhe greatest good OF the greatest
number" A clergyman gave a lady at hotel, q
copy Of Doddridge's ''Rise and Progress" She
read il and lent 1t and a church was formed from
those who were converted by readir ing it,
| Thirdly let us remember that sober-mindedness
suggests strong Misunderstanding to discrimi-
nate. We need power to discriminate in, every
condition OF life and society, this is so. Let us
aim TO carry out iG all the practical details OF
every day NE the apostles injunction ''to be
! her-miGded."
| t' WHAT is EARTH
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