St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-07
DR. Talmage breaches an Eloquent Sermon
at Columbus, Ohio, on the
Crises Of Life.
How Young Men and Old Should Dea
With the Important Events Which
Must Come to Them.
Mr.. Beecher DiscOurses Upon Love in
its Relation to the Growth
of Every Life.
Divine Love a Natural Progression
from Emotions at First
Dim1y Defined.
Dr.. Talmage,s Sermon.

| Talmage, ID. D., arrived in this city yeSter-
day afternoon. The news that the celebrated
Brooklyn preacher would deliver a sermon
in the First Congregational church, Rev.
Washington GLADDEN. pastor, drew crowd
numbering several thousand to the doors
this morning. Many were turned away,
unable to find seats. DR.. Talmage read
and expounded the parable of the prodigal
son, and then announced the subject of his
discourse, Crises in Life, and the text,
II. Samuel xviii, 80: SIS the young man
Absalom safe?" DR.. Talmage said:
l want to utter few words this morning
in regard to the safety of young men, in
deed of all men. While men may get
along tolerably well without the religion of
| Christ in some circumstances of life, there
are three or four turning points where
a man must have God or perish, or if he
does not come to such a crisis as that. to
such an extreme as that, he must have God
or make mistake that will last forever.
/ propose this morning to speak to you
| of three or four of these turning points in
| life.
| The first turning point is the choice of
ali occupation or profession. 1t is a very
serious time when a young man comes
from the school or the college and has COM
| pleted his education, or has received all the
education from the schools he will receive,
and says: But what shall 1 BET For
what occupation, for what profession, am
fore him hundred different occupations.
PROFESSIONAL LIFE
will spread before him seven or eight call
ings. Indeed, perhaps in all there may be
five hundred different callings and occupa-
tions. For only one of those 500 is he
! fitted and prepared. If he does not have
| divine direction, 400 chances to one he will
get in the wrong business. In other words,
the most tremendous crisis perhaps in a
mans life, or one of the most tremendous,
is the time when he chooses his occupation
or profession, and he needs God to tell him
how to choose.
Another important pass in ones life, a
turning point in ones history, is the time
when he establishes his own home, When
man builds his home he builds for eternity.
Is it not amazing that afiancing in life is SO
often a matter OF merriment and of jokes,
when it decides so much for this world and
the world to come? [ do not put the case
too strongly when l say that when man
marrieS he marres for heaven or for hell!
Oh, build not your home On earth upon the
sparkle of bright eye or the color of fair
cheek. The time will come in your history
when you will want in your home not pet
or a toy, but a heroine, and you will find
that life is not gay romance, but a
tremendous reality, and coming home from
your store or Office or shop or factory or
studio, most all of you will need some one
in your home with a face cheerful but SYM
pathetic.
There is an aged man who looks back to a
ar,.- I.
and reason almost left the throne. He knew
not what to do. He remembers particu-
lar evening when he came from the store.
He hardly dared break the news to his wife.
He could not bear to tell he had suspended
in business, that he had stopped payment.
that his fortunes had gone. He went into
the house, he closed the door upon the
world, and in
DOMESTIC PEACE
found foretaste of that heaven where
panics never come. All! if it had
not been for that help that you had, what
would have been the result when you told
her of your financial embarrassment and
misfortune? She was cheerful, she was
sympathetic, she was helpful, she helped
you all through those dark days of trial,
and after the piano went, she could sing
without the accompaniment just as well as
she ever sang with the accompaniment.
! There have been Christian women who
have so had their domestic troubles sancti-
fed that they could get more music out of
a Wheeler d Wilson sewing machine than
ever in the days OF their prosperity they got
| out of Chickering grand or Steinway.
Again, l remark, it is a tremendous pass
in life when man comes to his Hrst great
| success. ou get in the cars some evening.
Everybody that looks at you knows there
has something glad happened. You sit
down in the car, your face Illuminated, and
lady comeein. There is no place for her
to sit, and you get up in great cheer and
| insist on her taking your place, and with
| great courtesy she says, Thank you," and
sits down. You say nothing to anybody,
but it is evident from your manner and ap-
pearance that great good fortune has hap
pened unto you. Now that is a crisis in
your life. At such time the question will
arise: I'm what enterprise shall invest?
What shall be the house will live in?
| What shall be the library? What shall be
my wardrobe? What shall do with my
| money!?
AT that point hundreds of men make a
fatal mistake. Some go into dissipation.
Some take on great arrogance, try to make
NOOuJ lCCl hOW llcy dIOs WAOl6
caravans of camels going through
THE NEEDLES EYE
| of their meanness. They walk through
the street with an air, as much as to say:
''Get out of the way; here comes three hun
dred thousand Gollars!" That is the crisis
in life where so many fail because they
have no God to direct them
Another tremendous pass in our life is
when we get our first sorrow. 1t would be
foolish for me to talk to the young men OF
this day, as though their life was going to
be smooth all the way. You might as well
start sea-captain in vessel, without a
carpenter, and without any tools and with
out any garbage. That would do very well
while the sea was smooth, but when the
ship gets caught in the teeth of a north
easter and the waves dash clear over the
hurricane deck, then the captain cries out:
where's the carpenter? Where are the
tools? Where are the ropes?" The young
men of this day would understand that i
misrepresented the matter, if l told them
| their life was always to be smooth. They
| know better. They know from what they
see of the life OF others. that life cannot
always be smooth. Many men came home
/ from the late war without scratch OF a
bruise, but in the conflict of life it is not So;
we all get wounded-wounded in the head,
in the hands, in the feet, in the heart. Life
is conflict. The Bible over and over
again states that. Paul states it. and he
writes himself as in war with the werld,
a war with the flesh, and war with the
devil, and war all the way through. Now,
how are you going to meet the first trouble?
That is the question. Show me how you
are to meet your first trouble, and I
will show you how you meet all the other
| roubles. 1t is the first blow that sends a
man to drinking to drown his troubles that
knocks the fire out of him, so he spends the
rest of his life cowed down. Who is that
weigher in that large commercial establish
ment? He once owned the store Who is