The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-04-22
miscellaneous.
REV. t. DEWITT TALMAGE's
Sermon to Young Men, Delivered In the BrOOA'
IJn Tabernacle, Brooklyn, April ii, lSSO'

Sermon to Young Men, Delivered In the BrOOA'
Iyn Tabernacle, Brooklyn, April IL, 1885,
During the announcements DR.. Tal-
mage said II thank the contributors
from every state in the Union for their
donations toward the payment of the
Tabernacle debt. AS near as | can tell,
there are fifty thousand people who, at
some time or other, will contribute dol
lar" He announced that on Sunday,
the 18th, he would preach national ser.
mon on his recentSouthern observations.
sUBJECT-"RoBBING THE DEAD"
Text Sam. 3l:8. "Aud it came to
pass on the morrow, when the Pnilistines
came to strip the slain, that they found
Saul and his three sons fallen in Mount
Gilboa."
Some of you were at South Mountain,
or Shiloh, or Balls Bluff, or Gettysburg,
and ask if there is any sadder sight
than a battlefield after the guns have
stopped fring2 I walked across the
field Of Antietam just after the conflict
The scene was so sickening | shall not
describe it. Every valuable thing had
been taken from the bodies of the dead,
for there are always vultures lowering
over and round about an army, and they
pick up the watches, the memorandum
books letters, coats and hats, and apply
them to their own use. The dead make
no resistance. There is similar scene
in my text. Saul and his army had been
horribly cut to pieces. Mount GilboA
was ghastly with the dead. On the
morrow the straggers came on the field,
and they lifted the latChet of the helmet
from under the chin of the dead, and
they picked up The swords and bent them
on their knee to lest the temper Of the
metal, and they opened the wallets and
counted the coin. Saul lay dead along
the ground, eight or nine feet in length,
and suppose the Cowardly Philistines
to show their bravery, leaped upon the
trunk of the carcass, and jeered at the
fallen slain, and whistled through the
mouth of the helmet. Before night
those Cormorauts had taken everything
valuable from the field.
Before l get through tonight l will |
show you that the same process is going |
on all the world over and every day, and |
that when men fall, Satan and the world, |
30 far from pitying or helping them, go |
to work remorselessly to take what little
is left-thus robbing the dead.
There are tens of thousands of young
men every year, coming from the count.
ry to our great cities. They come with |
brave hearts and great expectations.
They think they will be Rufus Choates
in the law, Diapers in chemistry, or A.
7, Stewards in merchandise. The count.
ry lads sit down in the village grocery,
with their feet on the iron rod round the
redhot stove, in the evening, talking
over the prospects of q young man who
has gone off to the city. Two or three
of them think perhaps he may get along
very well and succeed, but most of them
prophesy failure; for it is very hard to
think that those whom we knew in boy.
hood will ever make any stir in the
world. But our young man has fine
position in dry goods store. The month
is over; he gets his wages; he is not &C.
Customed to have 30 much money of his
own. He is little excited, and does
not exactly know what to do with it; he
spends it in some way he ought not.
Soon there comes up new companions
and aquaintanCes from the bar-rooms
and saloons of the city. Soon that young
man begins to waver in the battle of
tenn ptaion, and soon his soul goes down
In few months or years be has fallen.
He is morally dead. He is mere corpse
of what he once was. TIE harpies of
sin snuff up the taint and come on the
field. He has pawned his watch. His
credit and health fail him. He is too
poor to stay in the city, and he is too
poor to pay bis way home to the count.
ry. Down. Down. Why do the low
fellows of the city stick to him soH Is
it to help him back to a moral and spir
itual life? Oh, no. l will tell you why
they stay; they are the Phihstines strip.
ping the slain.
Do not look where l point, but yonder
stands man who once mad a beautiful
home in this city. His home mad ele.
CANT furniture, his children were neatly
clad. His name was honored and re-
speCted but evil habits surrounded him.
Where is the piano, the hat.raCk, the
carpets, the wardrobe? All gone to get
bread Where are the daughters2
Working their fingers off trying to keep
the family together Worse and worse,
until everything is gone. Who is that {
going up the front steps of that house2
1t is creditor, hoping to find something
that has not been levied upon. There
go the constables and the sheriffJ. For
Wha2 Some on their own account and
some on account Of the law, stripping I
the slain. l
An ex.member OF Congress, one of the 6
most eloquent men that ever stood in J
the House of Representatives, said in /
his last moments: "This is the end. l
am dying-dying on a borrowed bed,
covered by borrowed sheet, in house
built by public charity. Bury me un- J
der that tree in the middle of the field, J
where l shall not be crowded for have t
been crowded all my lie" Where were J
the jolly politicians and the dissipating
comrades who had been with him, ap. t
plauding his eloquence, laughing at his G
jokes, and punging him into SIM They q
have left. Why? His money is gone; 4
his reputation is gone, his wit is gone;
everything is gone. Why should they '
stay any longer2 They have completed
their work. They have stripped the t
slain. g
There is another way, however, of do t
ing that same work. Here is man e
who, through his sin, is PROSTATE. He e
ackno Wedges he has done wrong Now |
is the time for you to 90 to that man u