The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-07-25
HOW TO CONQUER.
SERMON BY Or. TALMAGE, SUNDAY,
JULY Fl, 1889.

Great Crowds Are Prcsent to Hear the
brooklyn Divine Preach-Text Of Ser
mon. when Shall I Awaken VIII
Sock 1t Yet Again"
LAKE MAxINKUoKEE, Ind, July Fl.
Rev. T. De Witt Talmage preached
at Culver Park assembly, this place, to-
day, great crowds Of people being pres
ent from Chicago, Indianapolis and
tho surrounding regions. His subject !
was: How to Conquer. " The text Vas
When shall / awalze2 will see; 1t !
yet again" Prov. xiii, 35. The el-
oquent preacher said:
Witt. an insight into human nature |
such as no other man ever reached, |
Solomon, in my text, sketches tho |
mental operations OF one who, having
stepped aside from the path Of recti-
tude, desires TO return. With wish
for something better, he said, when
shall awake2 When shall ! come
out Of this horrid nightmare Of iniqui-
ty?" But, seized upon by pneradicted
habit and forced down hill by his
passions, he cries out; II will seek 1t
yet again. will try it once more"
Our libraries are adorned with an
elegant literature addressed to young
men, pointing out TO them all the dan
gers and perils of life-complete maps
Of the voyage, showing all the rocks,
the quicksands, the shoals. But sup
pose a man has already made ship
wreck; suppose he Is already off the
track; suppose he has already gone
astray. How is he to get backl That
is field comparatively untouched.
propose 10 address myself to such.
There are those in this audience who,
with every passion Of their agonized
soul, arc ready to hear such discus
sion. They compare themselves with
what they were ten years ago,
and cry out from the bondage in
which they arc incarcerated. Now, If
there be any here, come with an earnest
purpose yet feeling they arc beyond
the pale Of Christian sympathy, and
that tho sermon can hardly be OK
pected to address them, then, at this
moment, l give them my right hand,
and call them brother. Look up
There is glorious and triumphant hope
for you yet. / sound the trumpet of
Gospel deliverance. The church Is
ready to spread banquet at your re-
turn, and the hierarchs of heaven to
fall into line of hammered procession
at The news Of your emancipation. So
far as God mdy help me, I propose
TO show what are the obstacles
of your return, and then how
you are to surmoupt those OBJ
stacles. Tho first difficulty in the
way of your return Is the force OF
moral gravitatiop. Just as there is q
natural law which brings down to the
earth anything you throw into the
air, so there Is q corresponding moral
gravitation. In other words, 1t Il
easier to go down than it Is to go up
it is easier to do wrong than It Is t
do right. Call to mind the comrades
Of your boyhood days-some Of then
good, some of them bad-which mos
affected you1 Call to mipd the anec
dotcs that you have heard In the las
five or ten years-some of them ar
pure and some of them impure
Which the more easily sticks t.
your memory1 During the years o
your lifo you have formed certain
courses of conduct-some Of them good
somo of them bad. To which style 0
habit did you the more easily yieldl Alb
my friends, we have to take but me
ment of self inspection to find out tina
there Is in all our souls a force c
moral gravitationl But that gravits
ton may be resisted. Just as you ma
pick up from tho earth something an
hold it in your hand toward HEAVIER
Just so, by the power of Gods grace,
soul fallen may be lifted toward peace
toward pardon, toward heaven. Fore
of moral gravitation in every one {
us, but power III Gods grace to owe
come that force of moral gravitatiol
THE POWER OF EVIL HABIT.
Tho next thing in the way of yot
return Is tho power of OWL habit.
know there are those who say it is yer
easy for them to give up evil habit
do not believe them. Here Is anna
given TO intoxication. He knows 1t
disgracing his family, destroying il
property, running him, body, mir
and soul. If that man, being an !
telligent man, and loving his famil
could easily give up that habit, wou
ho not do sol Tho fact that hc do
not give it up proves that it Is hard
give it up. 1t is n very easy thing
sail down stream, the tide carryiI
you with great force but suppose "
turn the boat up stream is 1t SO ca
then TO row III AS long as '
yield to tho evil inclinations in o
hearts, and our bad habits, we a
sailing down stream; but tho mono
we try to turn, we put our boat In I
rapids just above Niagara, and try
row up stream. Take man given
the habit of using tobacco, as most
YOU do, and let him resolve to ste
and he finds it very difficult. TIVE
ty-seven years ago quit that hal
and | would as soon dare to put l
right hand in tho fire as once to
dulge in il. Why2 Because it v
such n terrific struggle to get over
Now, let a man be advised by his pl
sician to give up the use of tobac'
He goes around not knowing what
do with himself. He cannot add u
line of figures. IIp cannot slC
nights. II seems as if the world /
turned upside down. He feels
business is going TO ruin. Where
was kind and obEging ho is scoldi
and fretful. The composure that ch
acterized him has given way to fret
restlessneSs, and he has become a co
plete fidget What power is it I
has rolled n wave of woo over
earth and shaken n portent IN
heavensl He has tried to stop sm
ing or chewing After a while
says, Il am going to do as ! ple'
The doctor doesn't understand
case. I'm doing back to my old /
it." And no returns. Everyth
assumes its usual composure.
business seems to brighten.
world becomes an attractive plac
live In. His children, seeing, the
ference. hail the return of their
theirs genial disposition. What v
Of color has dashed blue into the
and groenness into the mountain
age, and the glow of sapphire into
sunseti What enchantment has
cd n world of beauty and JOY ON
soull lie has gone back to tohacS
IT is \ TAsEMASrl.R.
Oh. the fact is, rs VIC aii llnoY
our own experience, that habit
tasllmastcr; as long rs We obey
does not chastiSe Us; but let us r.
aud we find we are 10 be lashed
scorpion whips and bound with
cable. and thrown into the trac
bone breaking Juggernauts! Du
the war Of 1912 there was SIN
on fire Just above Niagara Falls,
then, cut loose from its moorin
came ON down through the night
tossed over the falls 1t WAS sa
have been a scene brilliant beyou
description. Well, there are
sands of men on fire OF evil !
coming down through the rapids
through the awful might Of ten
ton toward the eternal plunge.
how hard ii Is To arrest them.