The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-08-16
REV. DK. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE's SUN.
DAY SERMONS.
Subject in the Morning: luminous
Company" Subject in the Even
ing: Lessons of the Penn
sylvania Flood"

turn, promised TO avoid all evil aSsocia-
tons. Had kept my promise should have
been saved this shame, and been free
from the load Of guilt that hangs round me
ike yulture, threatening to drag me 10 JUS
tlce for crimes vet unrevealed. l. who once
moved in the first circles of society, and have
been the guest Of distinguished public men,
am lost, and all through bad company"
This is but one of tine thousand proofs that
the companion Of fools shall be destroyed.
1t is the invariable rule. There is a well man
in the wards Of hospital, where there are
a hundred people sick with ship fever, and
he viii not be 50 apt to take the disease as a
good man would be apt to be snitten with
moral distemper, if shut up with iniquitous
companions.
In olden times prisoners were herded to-
gether in the same cell, but each one learned
the vices Of all the culprits 50 that, instead of
being reformed by Incarceration, the day of
liberation turned them out upon society
beasts not men.
We may, in our places of business, be COM
PEELED to talk to and mingle with bad men;
but he who deliberately chooses to associate
himself with vicious people is engaged in
carrying on courtship with Delilah, whose
shears viii clip of the locks of his
strength, and he will be tripped into
perdition Sin is catching is infec-
tious, IS epidemic. 1 will let you look over
! the millions of people now inhabiting the
earth, and challenge you TO show me good
/ mau who, after enc year, has made choice and
consorted with the wicked A thousand dol
/ lars reward for one such instance l care not
now strong your character may be- Associate
with gamblers, you will become gambler
! Clan with burglars and YOU will become a
burglar. 90 among the unclean, and you
viii become unclean. Not approaching the
truth OF my text many a young man has
| been destroyed. He wakes up some morning
IN the great city, and knows no one except
the persons into whose employ he has entered.
As he goes into the store all the clerks
mark him, measure him and discuss him
Inc upright young men Of the store wish him
We'll but perhaps wait for formal introduc-
ton, and even then have some deli
cacy about inviting him into their associa-
IONS. But the bad young men OF the
store at the first opportunity approach
ana oher their services. They patron
lie him. They profess to know ali about tho
town. They viii take him anywhere that he
wishes to go-f he viii pay the expenses.
for Il good young man and a bad young
man go TO some place where they ought not
the good young man has invariably to pay
the charges. At the moment the ticket is
TO be paid for, or the champagne settled for,
the bad young man feels around in his
pockets and says; Il have forgotten
my pocket book" In forty-eight hours
after the young man has entered the store tho
bad fellows Of the establishment slap him on
me shoulder familiarly, and, at his stupidity
IN taking certain illusions, say: my young
Friend you will have TO be broken in;n aud
they Immediately proceed to break him in
Young man, in the nameof God, warn you to
beware how you let bad man talk fam
liarly with you. II such an one slap YOU on
the shoulder fnmiliarly, turn round and give
hum whitening look, until the wretch
erouehes in your presence. There is no mon
stroSlty of wickeduess that can stand una
hlghnd nudpf- fha olana1 Of, 4
First, warn you to shtm the skeptic-the
young man who puts his fingers in his vest
and laughs at your old fashioned religion,
and turns over to some mystery of the Bible
and says; Explain that, my piOus friend;
explain that And who says: Nobody
shaH scare me; l am not afraid of the
1uturei used to believe in such
things, and so do my father and
mother, but | have got over it," Yes, he
has got over it; and if you sit in his S,om-
Pany little longer, you will get over it too.
without presenting one argument against
the Christian religion, such men will, by their
1eers, and scoIs and caricatures, destroy
your respect for that religion which was
the strength Of your father in his
declining years and the pillow OF
your old mother when she lay
a-dying. Alas! q time viii come when that
clustering young infidel viii have to die, and
then his diamond ring viii flash no spiendor |
In the eyes Of Death, as he stands over the |
couch, waiting for his soul.
AGAIN. urge you to shun the companion
ship Of ldlers. There are men hanging around
every store and Office, and shop who have
nothing TO do, or act as if they had not They
are apt to come in when the firm are away, |
and wish to engage you in conversation
while you are engaged in your
regular employment. Politely suggest |
10 such persons that you have no time to give |
them during business hours. Nothing would |
please them so well as to have YOU re- |
nounce your occupation and associate with !
them Much Of the time they lounge around |
the club rooms or the doors Of engine |
" 9uses or after the dining hour stand upon |
- steps Of a fashionable hotel or an /
WAS q restaurant. wishing TO give YOU the |
: tiiz5 . JIi5 pI1ce wsigTS5 Sls7y ;IIis=. /
ed alOF do not dine there. They are sink
n lower and lower, day by day. |
Eby day nor by night have anything /
18th the idlers. Before you admit
into your acquaintance ask him
cureiy: what do you dc for a liv-
= Il he says: Nothing; I am a gentle
tAan,n look outfor him. He may have very
soft hand and very faultless apparel, and
have high sounding family name, but his
touch is death. Before you know it you will
in his presence be ashamed of your work
dress. Business will become to you drudgery,
and after awhile you viii lose your place,
and afterward your Responsibility, and
last of ali your soul Idleness is next door to
ylllaIny. Thieves gamblers, burglars shop
iliters and assassins are made from the class
VINO have nothing to do. When the police 20 TO
hunt up and arrest a culprit they seldom 20
to look in among busy clerks or in the busy
carriage factory, but they go among the
groups Of idlers The play is going on at the
theatre, when suddenly there is a scufIie in
the top gallery. What IS it? A policeman
has come in, and, leaning over. has tapped on
the shoulder Of a
want you, SIR He has not worked during
the day, but somehow has raked together a
shilling or two TO get into the top gallery. He
is an idler. Tho man on his right hand is an
idler and the man on his left hand is an idlcr
Shrink back from idleness in yourself and
in others if you would maintain a right posi-
ton. Good old Ashbel Green, at more than
eighty years Of age was found busy writing,
and some young man said to him: "lYhy do
you keep busy? It is time for YOU to rest
He answered: Il keep busy 70 keep out Of
mischief No man is strong enough to be
Idle.
\ young man came to a man Of ninety
years Of age and said to him; ''How havo
you made out to live so long and be SO wellYi
The old man took the youngster to an or
chard, and, pointing to some large trees full
IF apples, said II planted these trees when
was boy, and do you wonder that now
am permitted TO gather the fruit of
HEMP" We gather in old age what we plant
n our youth. Sow 10 the wind, and we reap
he whirlwind-. Plant in early life the right
lind of 4 Christian character and you will
at luscious fruit in old age, and gather these
harvest apples in eternity.
again: L urge You to avoid the per-
,etual pleasure seeker. / believe in re-
reation and amusement. need it as much
S l need bread, and go TO my daily exercise
With as conscientious purpose as l go to the
4ord's Supper; and all persons of sanguine
emperament must have amusement and re-
reation. God would not have made us
With the capacity to laugh if He had not in
ended US sometimes to indulge it. God hath
lung in sky, and set in wave, and printed on
-rass many roundelay; but he who chooses
easure seeking for his life work does not IN
erstand for what God made him. Our
are intended to help
S in some earnest mission. The
hunder cloud hath an edge
1quisitely purpled, but, with voice that
airs the earth, it declares: Il go to water
he green feldsp The wild flowers under the
ence are gay, but they say: 1--WE stand
iere to make beautiful edge for the wheat
leid and to refresh the husbandmen in
heir morning. The stream sparlsles
I'd foaIns, AID frolics, ana says: II 20 TO