Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-12-14
TO YOUNG MEN.
REV DR.. TALMAeE breaches AN EACEL-
LENT SERMON At ANN ARBOR' MICH.
His Advice to Young Men Is 70 Cling % God and
Live Upright Li7cs-Moral Young Men Are
No. Safe From TenpatOn-Ihe Many
Alluring Features Of Vice.


Of hearing DR.. Talmsge, VINO Is Hls.tlnS
this city by invitation OF students VI
the University. Last night d VAST Su-
dience greeted the FAMOUS DrOOAIEH
preached at hrs lecture, and this even
ing when he was announced 10 preach
a special sermon TO young men, theIs
was no building in the city that Wouiu
accommodate all who wanted to near
him. His text was Proverbs l;l1'
s,Surely in vain the net is spread In
the sight Of any bird"
Fairly in the morning / went out Win
\ fowler to catch wild pigeons we
FASTENED through the mountain gorge
and into the forest. We spread out the
net and cayered up the edges OF II as
well AZ we could. We arranged the
call-bird. its feet fast, and its wings
tanning in invitation TO all fowls OF
heaven 10 settle down there. We re-
tired into a booth OF branches ana
leaves and waited. After awhile, look
ing out Of the door Of the booth, we saw
3 fiock OF birds In the sky. They came
nearer and nearer, and after a while
were about TO swOOp into the net, when
suddenly they darted away. Again we
waited. After while we saw another
fock OF birds. They came nearer and
nearer until just at the moment
when they were about to swOop they
darted away, The fowler was very much
dissppointed, as we'll as myself. we
said 10 each other, What is the mat
ter?" and "Why were not these birds
caught?" We went out and examined
the net, and by fiutter Of branch OF
n tree psrt OF the net had been consplc-
nonslv exposed, and the birds coming
very near had seen their peril ana Dart
ed away. When l saw that, SAID TO
the old fowler, THAT reminds me OF
passage Of scripture: Surely In vain is
The net spread ia the sight Of any bird. ,"
Now the net in my text stands Tor
temptation.
THE CALL-BTRD OF SIN
tempts men on from point to point and
from branch to branch until they are
about TO drop into the net. III man
finds out in time that it is the tempta-
ton of the devil, or that evil men are
attempting to capture his soul for time
and for eternity, the man steps back.
He saws, II am not 20 be caught in that
way; see what you are about: surely In
vain is the net spread in sight OF any
bird"
There are two classes Of temptation
the superficial and the subterraneous-
those above ground, those under ground.
III man could see sin as ii is, he would
no more embrace it than he would en-
brace leper. Sin is a daughter OF hell,
vet she is garlanded and rObed and trim
ketsd. Her voice is q MARBLE. Her cheek
is the setting sun. Her forehead Is an
aurora. She says to men: "COme, walk
this path with me; it is thymed and
primrosed, and the air is bewitched with
the orders OF the hanging gardens Of
heaven; the rivers are rivers OF wine,
and all you have to do is to trink them
up in chaliceS that sparkle with diamond
and amethyst and chrysOpraSus. See!
it is bloom and rOseate cloud and heay-
en-" Oh! my friends, if one moment
the chOiring Ofall these concerted voices
Of sin could be hushed, we should see the
orchestra Of the pit with hot breadth
blowing through fiery flute, and the
skeleton arms on drums OF thunder and
darkness beating the chorus: "The
end thereof is death"
TOO MEAN TO Go TO PERDITIoN.
unless somebody else pays his expenses?
For such young men we will not fight.
We would no more contend for them
than Tartary and Ethiopia would fight
as to who should have the great Sa-
hara Desert; but for those young men
who are buOyant and enthusiastic,
those who are determined to do some
thing for time and for eternity-fOr
them we will fight, and we now declare
everlasting war against all the infu-
ences that aSsail them, and we ask all
good men and philanthrOpiStS to wheel
into line, and all the armies Of heaven
10 bear down upon the foe, and we
pray Almighty God that with the thun-
derbOltS of his wrath he will strike
down and consume all these influences |
that are attempting to destroy the |
young men for whom Christ died.
The first class Of temptations that as
saults a young man is led on by the |
skeDtic.
Thousands of young men are going |
down under that process day by day,
and there is only here and there young /
man who can endure this artillery OF /
scorn. They are giving up their Bibles. |
The light OF nature. They have the /
light OF nature in China; they have il in /
HiRdOstan; they have il in Ceylon. |
Flowers there, stars there, waters there, |
winds there; but no civilization, no /
homes, 10 happiness. LanCets to cut, |
and JuggeruGutS TO fall under, and /
hooks to swing on; but no happiness. l |
tell you, my young brother, we have TO
take a religion Of some kind. We have /
TO choose between four or five. Shall il |
be the Koran of the Mohammedan. or
the Shaster Of the HindOo, or the Zen
davesta Of the Persian, or the Confucius
writings OF the Chinese, or the Holy
Scriptures?
GOD HELPING Nh,
/ will take the Bible. Light OF all |
darkness; rock for ali foundation; balm |
for all wounds. A glory that lifts its
pillars Of fire over the wilderness march. |
DO not give up your Bibles. If these /
people SCOT at you as though religion 1
and the Bible were fit only for weak /
minded people, you Just tell them you l
are not ashamed 60 De in the company /
of Burke the statesman, and Raphael /
the painter, and ThOrwaldSen the |
sculptor, and Mozart the musician, !
and Blackstone the lawyer, and Bacon /
the philosopher, and Harvey the physl- |
clan, and John Milton the poet. Ask |
them what id6dellty has ever done to |
lift the fourteen hundred millions of the |
race out OF barbarism. ASK them when |
infidelity ever instituted sanitary |
commission; and, before you leave /
their society once and forever, tell |
tlrem that they have insulted the men, |
DRY Of your Christian father, and spit |
upon the deathbed Of your mother, and |