The New York herald., 1877-10-29
BROOKLYN TABERNACLE.
TEMPTATIONS THAT BEsEr YOUNG MEN-sERMt

TEMPTATIONS THAT BEsET YOUNG MEN-sERMoN
By THE REV. t. DE WITT TALMAGE.
Mr.. Talmase preached on the "Temptations Of Young
Men, taking his text from Proverbs, vi, 7-'Surely
in vain Is the net spread tho sight of any bird
The net in my text. said Mr. Talmage, stands TOR
temptation Tho call bird Of sin tempts mon on from
point TO point until they are about 10 drop into the
net II u man nnds out in time that II Is the tempta-
ton OF the devil he pulls back There classes
OF temptations the superficial and the subterraneous,
those above ground and those under ground. II man
could SOC it is, no would no more embrace II
than would embrace jeper Sin is the daughter OF
hell yet Il Ii garlandcd and robed and Hinketed. aud
her voice is warblo.
wart this morning, my dear friends to point out
the insidious temptations tEat are assailing young
men, Tho only kind OF nature that ~ entirely iroe
from temptation, far rs know, Is the cold, hard,
stingy, mean temperament II 10 the generous, ar
dent, warm hearted, social young man that IS in es-
peclal peril For The former you want no Young
MEMS Christian Association Keep sae no is safe
He will gamble, unless It Is with somebody css's
money; he will not drink, unless one else
trents-too mean 10 30 TO perditon unless somebody
else pays his expenses. For such young men we will
Iuoyans, enthusiastic. who arc determined 70
do something and TO bo something Tue
men New York and Brooklyn Is tho influences OF
the sceptic. He is liberal man, so very liberal that
he will give up the Bible and his own soul and those
OF his friends. He says, ssrhere are great many
things In tho Bible that aro ridiculous Now, that
story about the whale swallowing Jonah. Why. his
been digestcd; tho gastric Juices ol the whales
stomach would have dissolved him, and Jonah would
have been changed from prophet into chyme ! DC,
hcve In tho lignt Of nature Progress, sir progress
Thousands OF young mon arc daily gong down under
such artillery OF scorn Don't give up your Bioes!
What has inhdelly ever done 10 it the 700 600
OF tho human out OF barDarism Young man, hold
on TO your Bble u is the best book you ever owned
EMPLOYERS RESPONSIBILITIES.
The second Of insidious temptations that como
upon our young men Is led on by the businese en-
ployer. Every commercial establishment IS u school,
und n n 10
rality Of tho employer become the principles ana mo-
rality Of the enploye. There are hundreds OF com-
mercial Establishments in our great cities which aro
educating cluss Of young men VINO will De The honor
cities then there ure other establishments edu
eating young men to 20 nothing but sharpers. What
chance there for young who is taught that il
IL right 10 lie II It Is profitable, or that he ID always 10
s.raclon. am taking terrible and . crushing
tact l undertake TO say that the employer IL
responsible for all the iniquties OF MS clerks and all
the inquities of those who ccrks OF these clerks
down 10 the tenth generation II the employer has IN.
culcatod iDquities and damning princlpIes stand
before young men this morning who are under this
pressure, and l say TO them, 'Come out OF Isl" NO
young man permanently suffered by an honest course
Of conduct. Young men, It Is safe to do right Lay
young men. We are apt 70 put them In two Classes;
tho class IL moral and Tho othor dssotute; tho
moral will be saved and the dssoluto cannot De re-
claimed. deny both propositi0nR The moral arc
not saved unless they lay hold Of God and
men, without God you In peril There safety
Tor q without God. But may be addressing
some who nave gone astray anu SO assal lnat otLer
proposition, that the dissOute may not be reclaimed
Perhaps you have only gone little astray; but even
II have gone so lar as 70 commit all iniqutes and
have gone through the whole catalogue OF sins l in
vite you back this morning Como homo to your
fathers God. On, wish that all tho batteries of The
Gospel were unlmbered against the drinking saloons
and gambling hells aud houses Of death
which taking down so many Of our
young men. l would ike to blow trumpet
that would this whole audience out . crusade
against the evils that destroying our young men.
But my heart IS high with hope The dark horizon 10
blooming IN The morning hight, OF which prophets
have spoken and poets dreamed and painters sketcsd
Mr. rumago concluded with tue following rather
extraordinary figure OF speech:-
The worlds bridal hour advances, the morning rad
and eulgent aud the Of the Will become
the crystal chords OF a grand organ, on which the
fingers OF everlasting joy shall pcal the grand march
OF world redeemed. Instead OF the thorn there shall
up tho DIR tree, and instead OF the brier there
shall como up the myrtle tree, and the mountains and
the hills sEal break forth into singing and nll the
traes of the wood shall clan their hnnda.