Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1889-07-20
HOW TO CONQUER.
sERM by DR.. TALMAGE, SUNDAY
juicy 81, 1889.

.OEnWsSltzsD1 In iStLlnff0EI SOiNGNIt
juicy 81, 1889.
Great Crowds Arc Present to Hear the
iiraoElyn, Divine prenrh-Texs of Scr
n,sl.,ss..when Shall ! AwnlseY 1 VIII
s., soeksItsyet Again."
Lax ~, XINKUcKEE, Ind, July 81.
-Rov.g,rr. Dc Witt Tulmuge preached
at Cul Park assembly. this place, to-
day, great crowds Of people being pres,
entafroni Chicago, Indianapolis and
the Surrounding regions. His subject
g.was:sssH low to Conquer. The text was:
w hen shall | awaken will seek it
yetsagain:... Prov. xiii, IS. The ell
oquent preacher said:
s1itliaiisinsight into human nature
such dis s,lo othernul ever reached,
Solomon. III my text, sketches the
mental pel1tions Of ono who, having
stepned aside from the path Of recti-
studG, desires TO return. With wish
for Something bettor, ho sud, wv hon
shall L :aWlltea When shall come
souL1 this ho1rid nightmare of iniQui-
But, seized upon by uneradicted
habit. and forced down hill by his
i passions, he cries out: Il will seek it
yetiagnin. will try it once more.
Our libraries are adorned with an
elegant literature addressed to young
mel, pointing QUITO thcnall the dahl
gersands pcrils Of life-completc maps
sof133Se voyage, showing all the rocks,
stliesauicksands. the Shouts. But sup.
pose u man llas already made ship
iwrcfli; suppose lio is already of the
track; suppose lie lius already gone
astray, How is lie 10 get backl That
is:naieldcompar,tively untouched. |
propose to address myself to such.
There are those i'll this audience who.
withsevcry passion Of their agonizcd
soul. are ready To hear such Il discus
sion. They compare themselves with
What they were ten years ago,
and cry out from the bondage in
which they a,r incarcerltcd. Now, if
there bcany here, como with All earnest
purpose. yet feeling they are beyond
Thea pmlc Of Christian sympathy, and
that The sermon c;ul hardly be eX-
pectctl touddress them, then. at this
moment. | give them my right hand,
and call them brother. Look up.
There is glorious and triumphant hope
foryou yet. sound the trumpet of
Gospel deivcNnce. The church is
ready to spread a banquet at your re-
turn, and the liernrchs of heaven to
fall into line Of hammered procession
at the news OF your emancipation. So
far as God may help nc, propose
to show what are the obst& Acs
of your return, and then how
you arc to surmount those OBJ
stacles. The first difficulty in the
way of your return is the force OF
moral gravitation. Just US there is q
law which brings down 10 the
earth anything you throw into the
Saip, SO there is Il corresponding moral
grayitation. LII other words, it is
easier to go down than it is to go up;
it is custer to do wrong than it is to
do.right. Call 10 mind the comrades
of your boyl.oo;l days-somc OF them
GOOD, some of them batl-which most
affected yUll Call to mind tho apec-
glotes that you have heard in the last
five or ten ycars-soinc of them are
yInfss5 and some of-tfem impure.
Which tho more easily sticks to
your ,ncnoryi During tho ycors Of
your Ifs you have formed Certain
coursesof conduct-somco ftlicm good,
some of them bad. To which style Of
habit di., you the moro easily yield7 All,
l,o,-o m f,l-o Inf my
mcnt OF self inspection to find out that
there is in all our souls force OF
moral gravitation But that gravita-
ton may be resisted. Just us you may
pick up from the earth something and
hold.it in your hund toward heaven,
just so, by tile power of Gods grace u
soul fallen may be Hflcd toward peace,
toward pardon, toward heaven. Force
OF moral gravitation in every one OF
us, but power in Gods grace to over
come that force Of moral gravitation.
THE POWER OF EVIL IADIT.
The next thing in the way of your
return is the power Of evil habit. !
know there arc those who say it is very
easy for them to give up evil habits.
do not believe them. Here is man
given to intoxication. He knows it is
disgracing his family, destroying his
property, running him, body, mind
and soul. If that man, being an in
telligent man, and loving his family.
could easily give up that habit, would
he not do sol The fact that he docs
not give it up proves that 1t is hard to
give tup. tits a very easy thing TO
sail down stream, the tide carrying
you with great force; but suppose you
:urn the boat up stream, is it SO easy
then to row it2 AS long as we
yield to the evil inclinations i'll our
hearts, and our bad habits, we are
sailing down stream; but the moment
we try to turn, we put our boat ln the
rapids just above Niagara, and try to
row up stream. Take Il man given to
the habit of using tobacco, as most OF
you do, and let him resolve TO stop.
and lie finds it very difficult Tween
ty-seven years ago lquit that habit,
and would Us soon dare to put my
right hand in the fire as once to in
dulge, in it. Why2 Because it was
SUCH ] tcrrltlc StruSSSie W Set w u IL.
Now. leta man be advised by his ply
sician.to give up the use OF tobacco.
lie goes around not knowing what TO
do with. himself. He cannot add upa
line aof figures. He cannot sleep
nights. It seems as if the world had
turned upside down. He feels his
business is going TO ruin. Where he
was kind and obliging he is scolding
and fretful. The composure that char.
acterized him has given way To fretfui
restlessiless, aud he has become COM
plete fidget. What power is it that
has rolled wave OF woe over the
cartl and shaken portcnt III tile
heaSens2 He has tried TO stop smok-
ing or chewing After a while lie
says Il an, going 10 do as please.