Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-12-16
THE REV. DIR. TALMAGE GIVES.
GOOD ADVICE TO THE
REPENTANT.
Hope Extended to All Mankind
Difficulties in the Way of
the Sinners Return
Pointed Out.
Evil Habits Cling Tightly to a
Manhood Resolutions
Broken.
How to Win the REORGANIZATION
Promised to All.


the Track-How to Get On Again." from the
text: Proverbs xiii. IS: "When shall awakel
will seek II yet again"
With an insight into human nature such as
40 other man ever reached, Solomon. In my
text, sketches the mental operations Of one
Tho, having stepped aside from the path OF
'ectitude, desires TO return. With wish for
something better he said: "When shall
awake! When shall come out Of this horrid
nightmare of iniquityl" But seized upon By
uneradicated habit and forced down hill by
his passions he cries out; ~ will seek 1t yet
again. will try 1t ouce more"
Our libraries are adorned with an elegant
Literature addressed to young men, pointing
out to them all the dangers and perils Of life
! complete maps OF the voyage, showing all the
rocks, the quicksands the shoals. But sup
pose man has already made shipwreck; sup
pose he Is already Off the track; suppose he
has already gone astray, how is he TO get
backt That is a field comparatively I'M
touched. | propose to address myself this
! morning to such. There are those in this
audience who, with every passion Of their
ag"niZcd soul, are ready to hear such a dis
| cussion. They compare themselves with
what they were ten years ago, and cry out
rom the bondage In which they are incar-
Grated.
FOR ALI, HOPE N,SKrND
Now, II there be any in this house, come
with an earnest purpose, yet feeling they are
teyond the pale of Christian sympathy, and
that the sermon can hardly be expected to
address them, then, at this moment, give
them my right hand and call them brother.
Look up. There Is glorious and triumphaDt
hope for you yet | sound the trumpet of
go,nel deiiverance The cburch ia roadu q,
- h. N".n 20 ''"'' W
'P''"" o"uques Ut your return, ana the
hlefarchs OF heaven TO fall intolfne OF banner
ed procession at the news of your emancjna-
ton. So far as God NAV helm me 7 nr,nose IN
show what ora ,Io obs,,o,o. 80 ,,, .' W
~ '' 'A' 'o''"@'e' vi your fe'uih,
ahu 'nen no" are you 10 surmouht those OBJ
stacics.
The first difficulty in the way Of your return
is the force Of moral gravitation. just as
there is natural law which brings down to
the earth anything you throw into the air. so
there Is corresponding moral grayitation,
In other words, it is easier to 20 down than it
is to 90 up; ii is easier to do wrong than it is
to do right. Cali to mind the comrades of
YOUR boyhood days-some of them good, some
Of them bad-which most affected YOU! Call
to mind the anecdotes that you have heard in
the last five or ten years-some of them are
pure and some Of them impure. Which the
more easily sticks to your mcmoryl During
the wears OF your life Won have formed certain
courses Of Conduct-some Of them good, some
on them bad. To which style OF habit did YOU
the more easily yiedi
GRAvITATIoN AND EVIL HABIT
All, my friends, we have to take but mo-
iRent of self-inspCction to find out that there
is in all our souls force of moral gravita-
ton. But that gravitatlon may be resisted.
just as you may pick up from the earth some.
thing and hold 1t in your hand toward heaven,
just So, by the power of Gods grace, Il soul
fallen may be lifted toward peace, toward
pardon, toward heaven Force OF moral
gravtaton In every one of u.s. but power in
Gods grace to overcome that force of grayita-
ton
The next thing IN the way OF your return is
the power of evil habit | know there are
those who say 1t Is very easy for them to give
is a man given to intoxication. lie knows it
is disgracng his family, destroying his prop
erty, running him, body, mind and soul. If
that man being an enteligent man, and low
ing bis family, could easily give up that habit,
give it up proves it is hard to give it up. 1t is
very easy thing to sail down stream, the
tide carrying you with great force but sup.
pose YOU turn the boat up stream, is it so easy
then to row it! As long as YOU yield to the
evil inclinatiOns in you hearts and your bad
habits we are sailing down stream, but the mo-
mcnt we try to turn we put our boats in the
| rapids just above Niagara and try to row up
+vcam.
THE USE OF TOBACCO.
man given to the habit of, using to-
K as most of you do and let him resolve
Il and he finds it very difficult. Twenty
e years ago quit that habit, and would
Is soon dare to put my right hand in the fire
as again to indulge in it. Whyl Because it
was such q terrible struggle to get over it..
| Now. let man be advised by his physician
| to give up the use of tobacco. He goes around
not knowing what to do with himself He
can not add up line of figures He can not
| sleep nights. 1t seems as if the world had
turned upside down. He feels his business is
| going to ruin. Where he was kind and oblig-
| ing, he Is scolding and fretful. The comps.
| urc that characterized him has given way to
| fretful restlessness and lie has become a com
| plcte fdget What power is il that has rolled
| i wave OF woe over the earth and shaken a
portent In the hcavensl He has tried to stop
| smoking. After A while he saws. ~ am
| going to do as | please. The doctor doesn't
| understand nv case. Pm going back TO nv
old habit And he returns Evervthing
assumes its usual composure, His business
| seems to brighten, The world becomes an
| attractive place to live in. His children SEQ
| ing the difference. hail the return of their
| fathers genial disposition. What wave Of
| .olOr has dashed bIue into the skv and cream
ness into the mountain foliage, and the glow
Of sapphire into the sunsetl What enchant
| ment has lifted world of beauty and iov on
| bis sor,s He has gone back TO smoking
THE POWER OF Evil, HABIT
o, the fact is, as we all know in our own eY-
perience, that habit is a taskmaster: as long as
| we obey it 1t does not chastisc us. but let us
| resist and We find we are to he lashed With
| scorpion whips and bound with shin cable and
thrown into the track of bone breaking lug.
| peruauts Dnring tho war of fS,o there was
| shin set on fire inst above NIAGARA Falls and
| then cnt loose fr5,n its nnnorings 7, cave nv,
| down through the night and tossd over the