The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1895-06-07
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
uW NOTED DIvINEs SUNDAY
DISCOURSE.
Subjects swords with Young Men. +"

IN MY NuuiOheoa W the New hOrf Academy
Of Music DR. Ialmago meets many hundreds
OF young men from different parts of tho
Union, and representing almost every calling
and profession IN NE TO thom he specially
addressed this discourse, the subject being
Words With Young Men,"
FAYErrr, o.
Reverend slr-We the undersigned. being
earnest readers Of your sermons. especially
request thnt you use as a subject for some
one OF youriuture sermons "Aduceto Young
Men" Yours respectfully,
HIS MHLorr CuAmrs n. RunEnr.
=. o. MuLorr. nj FLprR.
J. l.. SHERWOOD. 81. ALTMAN.
Those six young men. ! suppose. represent
innumerable young men who arc about un-
dertahng the battle OF life. aud who have
more Interrogation points in their mind than
any printers case ever contained, or prin-
ter's fingers ever set up But few people
who have passed atty years Of age are capa-
BILE Of giving advice 20 young men. Too
many begin their counsel by forgetting they
ever were young men themselves. November
SHOWS do not understand May time blossom
week. The east wind never did understand
the south wind. Autumnal goldenrod makes
q poor fist az lecturlng about early violets.
denernllY, after man has rheumatism I'm
his right loot he is not competent TO discuss
Juvenile elasticity. Not one man out OF a
hundred can enlist and keep the attention of
the young after there Is bald spot on the
Uranium
attended a large meeting IN Philadelphia
assembled 10 discuss how the Young Mems
Christian Association OF that city might be
made attractive ioryoung people, whena
man arose and made some suggestions with
| such lugubrIous tone of voice and manner
that seemed 10 deplore that everything was
going 20 ruin, when an old friend OF mine.
at seventy-iiye years. as young I'm feeling as
any one az twenty. arose and said "That
| good brother who has Just addressed you
| viii excuse me for saying that young man
| would no sooner 90 and spend an evening
| among such funeral tones OF voice and
| iunereal ideas OF religion which that brother
/ seems 10 have adopted than he would 90 and
/ spend the evening In Laurel Hill Cemetery"
And yet these young men of Ohio and all
/ young men have a right TO ask those who
have had many opportunities Of studying
| this world and the next world to give help
| tul suggestion as 10 what theories Of life one
! ought TO adopt and what dangers he ought
to shun. Attention, young men.
First, get your soul right. You see, that
/ Is the most valuable part Of you. It Is the
| most important room in your house. It is
| the parlor Of your entire nature. Put the
| best pictures on ITS walls. putthe best music
under its arches. It Is important to have
the kitchen right, and the dining room right,
and the cellar right and all the other rooms
| OF your nature right; but OH the parlor OF
the soul! Be particular about the guests who
enter 1t. Shut its doors in the faces of those
who would despOi and pollute 1t. There are
princes and kings who would like to come
into 1t, while there are assassins who would
like to come out from behind its curtains,
and with silent foot attempt the desperate
Hlnda VakN 10 rav,5s ID, n.
is now at the door. Let me be usher to an
nounce His arrival, and introduce the King
OF this world the King OF all worlds, the
King eternal, immortal invisible Make
| room. Stand back. Clear the way. Bow
kneel, worship the King. Have Him once
for your guest, and it does not make much
difference who comes or goes. Would you
have warrantee against moral disaster and
surety Of a noble careerl Read at least one
chapter OF the Bible on your knees every day
OF your life.
Word the next: Have your body right.
"HOw are you?n / often say when [ meet a
friend Of mine in Brooklyn. He is over sew
enty and alert and vigorous, and very
prominent in the law. His answer Is, ~ am
living on the capital Of a we'll spent youth. "
On the contrary, there are hundreds OF
thousands of good people who are suffering
the results of early sins. The grace Of God
gives one new heart, but not a new body.
David, the Psalmist had to cry out, ere
member not the sins Of my youth" Let a
young man make his body a wine closet OF
rum jug, or whisky cask, or a beer barrel,
and smoke poisoned cigarettes until his
hand trembles, and he is black under the
eyes, and his cheeks fall in, and then at
some church seek and find religion; vet all
the praying he can do will not hinder the
physical consequences of natural law frac.
tured. You six young men Of Ohio and all
the young men, take care Of your eyes, those
windows OF the soul Take care Of youf
ears, and listen to nothing that deprayes
Take care Of your lips, and see that they
utter no profanities. Take care Of your
nerves by enough sleep and avoiding un.
healthy eXcitements, and by taking out
door exercise, whether by ball or skate OF
horseback, lawn tennis or exhilarating bi
cycle, If you sit upright and do not ioin tha1
throng Of several hundred thousands who by
the wheel are cultivating crooked backs anC
cramped chests and deformed bodies RAPIDLY
coming down toward all fours, and thu
attitude of the beasts that perish Anything
! that bends body, mind or soul to the eartl
is unhealthy. Oh, it is a grand thing to b.
well, but do not depend onp pharmacy and tn,
doctors to make you well. Stay WELL ReaC
John Todds Manual and CoombSs Physio
logy and everything you can lay your hand
} on about mastication and digestion and assiun
, ilation. Where you find one healthy ma
or woman, you find fifty half dead.
From my own experience can testify that
being disciple Of the gymnasium, many
time just before going to the parallel bar
, and punching bags and pullies and weights
l thought satan was about taking possession
3 Of society and the church and the world, bu
after one hour of climbing and lifting an
pulling felt like fastening home so as to b
} there when the millennium set in. Take goo
stout run every day. l find in that habit
l which l have kept up since at eighteen year
read the aforesaid Todd's Manual, NOR
recuperation than in anything else Thos
: six men Of Ohio will need all possible merry
+ and all possible eyesight and all posslbl
muscular development before they e
e through the terrific struggle of this life.
I Word the next: Take care Of your inte