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DR.. TALMAGE ON ADJUSTMENTS.

ing from the text, Judges, XVI, 25-
"And it came to pass, when their
hearts were merry, that they said,
Call for Samson, that he may make us
sport" DIR. Talmage's subject was,
ssHow 10 Discriminate mAmusements,"
and he spoke thus:-
Now, all opera houses, theaters,
bowling alleys, skating Kinks and all
STYLES OF amusement, good and bad, L
put on trial to-day and Judge of them
by certain cardinal principles. First,
you may Judge OF any amusement by
its healthiul result or by its baleful re-
action. There are people who seem
made up of hard facts. They are a
combination OF multiplication tables
and statistics. 1t you show them an
exquisite picture they will begin to
discuss the pigments involved in the
coloring; if you show them a beautiful
rose they will submit it to a botanical
analysis, which is only the post-mor-
TEN examination of a flower. They
have no rebound in their nature. They
never do anything more than smile.
There are no great tides of feeling
surging up from the depths of their
soul in billow after billow of reverber-
ating laughter. They seem as if Ma
ture had built them by contract and
made a bungling job out of it. But,
blessed be God, there are people in the
world who have bright faces and
whose life is a song, an anthem, a
pean of victory. Even their troubles
are like the vines that crawl up the
side of q great tower, on the top of
which the sunlight sits and the soft airs
OF summer hold perpetual carnival.
They are the people you like to have
cone to your house. They are the
people l like to have come to my
house. If you but touch the hem of
their garments you are healed.
SUBJECT TO TEMPTATION.
Now, it is these exhilarant and SYM
pathetic and warm hearted people that
are most tempted to pernicious amuse-
ments. In proportion as q ship is
swift, it wants a strong helmsman; in
proportion as a horse is gay, ii wants a
stout driver; and these people of exu-
berant nature will do we'll to look at
the reaction of all their amusements.
If an amusement sends you home at
night v go you cannot sleep and
YOU rise in the morning, not because
you are slept out, but because your
duty drags you from your slumbers,
you have been where you ought not to
have been. There are amusements
that send a man next day to his work
bioodEhot, yawning, stupid, n~auseated,
and they are wrong kinds of
ments. There are entertainments that
give a man disgust with the drudgery
Of lIfe-with tools because they are not
swords, with working aprons because
they are not robes, with cattle because
they are not Infatuated bulls of the
arena. If any amusement sends you
hc.le longing for "a life of romance
auu thrilling adventure, love that takes
poison ana shoots iiself, moonlight adj
ventures and hairbreauth escapes, YOU
may depend upon it that you are the
sacrificed victim OF unsanctified pleas
urc. Our recreaiions are intended to
build us Up; and if they pull US down,
as to our moral or az to III physical
strength, you may ON to the cOnclu-
zion that they are obnoxious.
Still further, those alnusements are
wrong which lead you into expendi-
turc beyond your means. Money
spent In recreation is not thrown away.
1t is all folly for lis to come from q
place of amusement feeling that we
have wasted our money and time.
You may by it have made an invest
ment worth more than the transaction
that yielded you a hundred or a thous-
and dollars. But how many prOpe rites
have heen riddled by costly amuse-
tnontSD Thn tahla hoe ham ,nhho1 10
pay the club. The champagne has
cheated the children's ward
robe. The carousing party has
burned up the boys primer, the
tab'ecloth the wife's faded dress. EXcur-
sions that in Il day make a tour around
a whole months wages, ladies whose
lifetime business ids to''go shopping"
have their counterparts in uneducated
children, bankruptcies that shock the
money market and appall the church
and that send drunkenness staggering
across the. richly figured carpet of the
mansion and dashing into the mirror
and drowning out the carol of music
with the whoopins of bloated SONS
come home to break their old mothers
heart.
When men 60 into amusements that
they cannot afford they first borrow
what they cannot earn, and then they
steal what they cannot borrow. First
they go into embarrassment, and then
into lying, and then into theft, aud
when a man gets on as far as that he
does not stop short of the penitcn-
tiary.
VICTIMS OF EVIL ADJUSTMENTS.
There is not a prison in the land
where there are not victims of unsanc-
titled amusements. How often | have
had parents come to me and ask m 10
go over to New York and beg their
boy off from crimes that he had COM
mitted against his employer-the taking
OF the funds out of the employers till
Or the disarrangement of The accounts!
Why, he had salary, enough to pay all
lawful expenditure, but not enough
salary to meet his sinful amusements.
And again and again | have gone and
implored for the young man some
times, alas. the petition unavailing.
Merchants of New York, is there a
disarraugenent in your accounts? Is
there a leakage in your money drawer2
Did moi the cash accounts come out
right last night? viii tell you there
l. p young man i'll your store wander
ing off into bid amusements. The SAL
AIRY You give him may meet lawful en-
penditure, but not The sinful indulgence
il which he has entered, and he takes
- thelt mat which you do not give
ihm i'll lawful salary. You may
judge of amusements by their effect
upon physical health. The great need
cf many good people, is physical re-
auperatiol. There are christian men
who write hard things against their
Immortal souls when there is nothing
tho matter with them but an incompe-
tent liver. There are christian people
VINO think II q good sign 20 ne poorly.
ana necause iticbard Baxter and Rob-
-: u.ii were invaIids they think that
~ The same sickness they may comc
:" he an grandeur of character.
want ~ tell the christian people of my
-c.grcgaticH ihat God viii hold You
,~rsnoasih'5 for ycur invalidism if it is
Toar tanit, aiG when through right ex.
e."is" 2ua prudence you m.ght be
athletic AID We'll
IKE efieot or TIC body upon the sou
Sou doh.i'" - Sc- IuL Il hiiil OF mic
disposition upon the animal Diet 0
which the indians partake and in a lit
tie while his blood will change it
chemical proportions. Ii will become
Ike unto the blood OF the lion or thu
tiger or the bear, while his disposition
viii change and become fierce. cruc
ana unrelenting. The body has ,
powerful effect upon the soul. Ther.
are good people whose ideas of HEAVIER
are all smut ont Will. clouds of Tobacco,
smoae. There are people WHO Oar,
To shatter the physical vase i'll which