Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-04-13
DIR. TALMAGE ON SKATES.
THE ROLLER Kinks ALL RIGHT
IL RESTRICTED.

EOrclbty JIG eu-DehE "''"'"'ss :"
the Rrcreation-CrAze- Deploranl'-
Recreation only Precursor OF Use
fulness.
RpooKINyN n Y. AprU 19.-Dr. lal-
-, :, ~ pnoobI,, rraber-
maze Pie"0n'u III TUG - -.
nacle TINS morning on line h'IIVI 'A"t-
ing Craze After eXpouuding approprl.
ate nassaoes Of scripture. he gave out the
o,onin,, HYMN.
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MIA scenes OF CONFUSION an" N'''''''
plants.
How sweet to my soul is communion Oh SAINTS.
To find at the banquet of mercy there's room.
And feel i'm the presence % Jesus at home!
~, , ...,,+ . tt,r,,,,s inside and ont
~ ...,..l.,t irol,d
size the ""e' "'' 'O' w.
lng strangers from an p8iIs oi tue l""o
and from other lands.
DIR TaIul,t,p chose two texts Ezekiel
4.i 20 ..rl,, ,oiso of the wheels over
Ms 49, >,.t,,,ti . en-,
against lhelh "u" NHuu'ii "'''
noise OF the raitl ne OF the Wheels'" ful-
lowing rs the sermon in full:
I'm tho ono verse are the wheels OF he IN
r,-:.i h,,rl ,hor, Il tho othor
anu iN' "a
verse are me WneeIs oi uesUruclloh' anu
Nahum heard them. The good wheels
and the bad wheels will decide the dos
tiny Of This planet. Archimed, eulOgiZad
the lever. and said If he could find a full
crum for il 10 rest on he could move the
world But he found no such ful'rUm,
and ii is not the lever which is to lift or
sink me world. but the wheel. whether
n solid disk or composed of outer rim and
smokes and hub. Wheel of the rail train
that accpler,tts travel. Wheel Of print
inv press that multiples Intelligence.
Wheel Of shin wound with tiler ropes,
guiding NAVIGATION Wheel Of s"wiHg
macbue that allevates toll. Wheel of
chronompter t1at measures the flight OF
the hours. b dance wheels, Nv wheels,
belt wheels spur wheels, racket wheels,
driving wheels. The wheel invented by
whom | know rot, hut it is SUGGESTED
TO MS hy the fact that the planetary
system Is a wheel. and cOnstelll ions and
galaxies are wheels and all Of them
smaller wheels. working into the great
wheel of the universe, the axis Of which
is the periphery on which on which rests
the throne of God. Show me which way
the majority of the worlds wheels turn
and | will tell You whether It is rolling
toward rpdpmutiOn or ruin: and til me
how many revolutions thew make in an
hour AND I will tell YOU how near the
world is 10 its di-epthrallment or demoli-
tiou. In our dav the principle of the
wheel has come to he applied to amuse-
merts and recreatinns. and the velOcipede
and blcycla and tricycle. and the roller
skate are the Gov sequence. and the
Thousand, oicld qu 'Stlou 10 he met is
Are the no Ter skate wheels of help like
those which FI.,i. ] hea n. or wheels OF
destruction. ll. THIS. that rackcted in
fho ears ~ y uu.?
Never WitHu memory or yours has
there eat i1 Nh country such wide.
deep. tieh. popular agitation on the sub
iect' ot alnusaneuts. and all ministers of
religion ard a,l parents and all young
people and all old people must answer the
question. ard answer it right, and have a
reason for the answer. Let me premise
that | have Tor twenty-five years been
waiting for sore new style of amusement.
healthful for body and mind. hoping it
might come in time to rescue this genera
ton. such amusemenis have been appall-
ingly scarce, Plenty of places 10 blastand
hIisht and consume body. miud and soul
Never airy lack of gambling saloons.
Within one hour Of every home and hotel
iu New York and BROOKLYN there are
ulacas where a Young man can ret d-
,orced from his money while the Old
solder of the gaming table officiates al the
funeral of innocent flies. Plenty ofpIaces
where YOU can lose ten cents or a house
and LOT or all YOU have in one night.
Plenty of drinking looms where tn,
owner by an outlay OF $50 worth Of alcohol
can NIX up stun that he sells for $3.50
They viii let Young man have
all he wants az long as his money lasts
one glass. two glasses. three glasses. fonr
glasses-and then when having felt in an
his pocke Is tor more money it is de-
monstrated that he has not so much as a
postage STAMP they will hrlp him into the
street To look after himself or be taken
home bv some other yOunp man not unite as
intox Gated :for rumse Hers never beip their
victims home. lest getting to the door th,v
conf ont the mother or wife. to whom
God might lend one of his smaller thun-
derbolts with hicb she could strike the
despoiler into ashes. Plenty of gates of
hell and all of them wide omen. the TENN
tresses CRYING: Come inl Come ini"
But of good places a great deficit.
Seven O'Clock D. m. finds tens of thOu-
sands of Young people home or at hotel or
boarding house. 'What shall do with
myself this EVENING"" he asks. You
answer: $50 ~ PRAYER meetipg.v Wal
that is good advice for two nights of tn
week. but there are seven NIGHTS in most
weeks. Subtract Sunday night and two
other church nights and YOU have four
nights left. SEQ and hear a Lecture on
astronomy" YOU say. Well. the younp
mans brain is tired from running IN the
figures Of the account boob or from tryip~
to sell goods TO people that don't want To
buy. and be has no appetite for a lecture
on ASTRONOMY. He does not want To hear
about other worlds-he has more than he
can do to get along with TINS. Now. take
uD the newspapers and nick ont fOr him a