The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1889-05-08
OTHER DAYS LIVED OVER.
Sermon by Rev. T. Dewitt Tai
mage, d. II
lie Thinks II Would be We'll for All e
spend More Time in "Reminiscences
The Lasting Influence OF Early
Surroundings.

The IaatiDR Influence of Fprly
Surroundings.
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The subjectof DR., Talmage's recent sermon
at the Brooklyn Tabernacle was "Other Days
Lived Over" and his text, Deuteronomy
viii @; "Thou shalt remember all the way
which the Lord Thy God led thee" He said:
Before entering on my subject wish to
say that some newspaper correspondents,
referring TO recent sermon in which Iwel-
coined foreign nationalties to this country,
have said that advocated as desirable
thing the intermarriage OF tho white and
black races. never said so, ] never thought
so, and any one who 80 misrepresents that
sermon is either villain or a fool, perhaps
both. fst
But TO open this mornings subject have
to say God In the text advises the people TO
look back upon their past history. IL will
do US all good to rehearse the scenes between
this May morning and our cradle, whether
1t was rocked In country or town. A few
days ago, with my sister and brother, l Wis
tied the place OF my boyhood. IL was one
OF the most emotional and absorbing days Of
my life. There stands the old house, and as
went through the rooms said; II could
find my way here with my eyes shut, al
though have not been here In forty years" :"
There was the sitting room where large
family group every evening gathered, the
most Of them now In better world. There
was the old barn where we hunted for East
CT eggs, ana the place where the horses
$1,000. There Is where the orchard was,
only three or four trees now LETT OF all tho
grove tnat once bore apples, and such ap-
pies, 700. Ihere Is the brook down which
we RODE 70 the watering OF the horses bare
pack and with rope halter We also Wis
lted the cemetery where many OF our kin
dred are waiting Tor the resurrection, the
oid people SIDE oy SIDE after journey TO-
gether OF sixty years, only about three years
between the time OF their going. There also
sleep the dear OLD neighbors who used to tie
tneir horses under the shed OF the country
mecung houseand sit at the end OF the pew,
singing Duke street. !" and "Balelma," and
"Anuoch." u, they were glorious race OF
men ana women VINO did their work well,
raised splendid lot OF boys and girls, and
are now as TO their bodies In silent neigh
oorhood on earth, but as to their souls In
lubliant neighborhood before the throne OF
4od feel that my journey and visit last
week did me good, and 1t would do yon all
good, II not In person then in thought tor
visit the scenes OF boyhood or girlhood.
"Th0u shaltnmembera all theway which the
Lord thy God ledthee."
Youth ia apt too much to spend all its time
In looking forward. Oldage apt too much
TO spend all its time in looking backward.
People In mid-life and on the apex look both
ways. II would be well for us, think,
however TO spend more time in reminis-
cence. By the constitution Of our nature
we spend most Of the time looking forward,
and the vast majority Of this audience live
not 80 much in the present Us In the future
/ find that You mean 10 make reputation,
you mean 70 establish yourself, and the ad-
vantages you expect TO achieve absorb q
great deal OF your time. But soc no harm
In this II II does not make you discontented
with the present or disqualify you for ex-
isting duties
IL Ii useful thing sometimes to look
back, and 10 see the dangers we have es-
capped, and 10 see the sorrows we have suf-
fered, and the trials and wanderings Of onr
earthly pilgrimage, and 10 sum up our en-
| joyments. mean this morning, so far rs
God may help me, 10 stir up your memory
OF the past so that in thereview you may be
encouraged, and humbled and urged topay.
Ihere Is chapel in Florence with a fresco
Dy duido. IL was covered up with two
inches OF stucco until our American and
european artlsts went there and after long
toil removed the covering and retraeed the
iresco. And am aware that the memory
OF the past with many OF you, is all COW
cred up with ten thousand obiterations, and
propose TINS morniug, so far as the Lord
may neip me, 70 take away the covering,
that tne old picture may shine out again.
iWant 70 pind In one shear all your past
advantages, and want TO bind in another
smear all your past adversities. IL is pre-
clous harvest, and must be cautious how
swing the scythe'
Among the greatest advantages OF your
past n1ewas an early home and Its surround
ings. The bad men OF the day, for the most
part, dip their heated passions out OF the
boiling spring OF an unhappy home. We arc
not surprised 70 lind that BryOn's heart was
concentration Of SIN, when We hear his
mother was abandoned, and that she made
sport Of his infrrnity and often called him
''the lame brat" He who has vicious pa
rents has TO fight every inch OF his way II he
would maintain his integrity and at last
reach the home OF the good In Heaven.
Perhaps your early home was In the city.
II may have been in the days when Canal
street, New York, was far up town and tho
site Of this prcsentchurch was an excursion
into the country. That old house In the city
may have been demolished or changed into
stores, and II seemed like sacrilege TO you,
for there was more meaning In that plain
houaa In that small house than therof fa I'm