Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-05-18
YOUNG MEN ADVISED.
CARE FOR THEIR SOULS, MINDS AND
BODIES.

BODIES.
Rev. Or. Talmage Responds to Request.
His Words to Those Who Are on the
Threshold of Life-An Optimistic View
OF the Future.
NEW York, May 1a-In his audi
ences at the Academy of Music DR.. Tai
mage meets many hundreds of young
men from different parts of the Union.
and representing almost every calling
and profession in life. To them he spe-
cially addressed his discourse this ter
noon, the subject being words with
4 Young Men
FAYEFTE, o.
REVEREND SIR-we, tho undersigned, being
earnest readers OF your sermons, especially
request that you use as q subject for some
one Of your future sermons "Advice to Young
1 Men," Yours respectfully,
H. S. MlLLorT CHARLES T. RUBERr.
/ f. 0. EIlLLorT. Me. ELDER.
j. L. SHERWOOD. S. j. ALTMAN.
Those six young men, suppose, rep
resent innumerable young men who are
about undertaking the battle Of life, and
who have more Interrogation points in
their mind than any printers case ever
contained, or printers fingers ever set
up. But few people who have passed 90
! years Of age are capable Of giving advice
to 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 under
] stand the south wind. Autumnal golden
rod makes a poor fist at lecturing about
early violets. Generally, after man
has rheumatism i'll bis right foot he is
not competent to discuss juvenile elias
ITCHY 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 large meeting in Phila-
delphia assembled to discuss how the
Young Mons Christian association of
that city might be made more attractive
for young people, when man arose and
made some suggestions with such lugu-
brious tone of voice and manner that
seemed to deplore that everything was
going to ruin, when an old friend of
mine, at IS years as young in feeling as
any one at 20, arose and said, "That
good brother who has just addressed
you will excuse me for saying that a
young man would no sooner go and spend
an evening among such funeral tones
of voice and funereal ideas of religion
which that brother seems to have adopt
ed than no would go and spend the even
ing III Laurel Hill cemetery. And yet
these young men of Ohio and all young
men have right to ask those who have
had many opportunities of studying this
world and the next world to give help
full suggestion as to 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.
1t is the most important room in your
house 1t is the parlor Of your entire
nature, Put the best pictures on its
walls. Put the best music under its
arches. 1t is important to have the kitch
en- right, and the dining room right, and
the cellar right, and all the other rooms
Of your nature right; but, oh the par
lor Of the soul Be particular about the
guests who enter it. Shut its doors III
the faces Of those who would dospoil
and pollute it. There are princes and /
kings who would like to come into it,
whilo there are essassins who would
like to como ont from behind its cur
tains, and with silent foot attempt the
desperate and murderous. Let the king
come in. Ho is now at the door Let
me be usher to announce 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, wor-
ship the king, Have him once for your
guest, and it does not make much differ
ence who comes or goes. Would you
have warrantee against moral disaster
and surety Of q noble career? 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 your" l often say when l
meet a friend Of mine in Brooklyn, He
is over 20, and alert and vigorous, and
very prominent in the law. His answer
is, Il am living on the capital of a well
spent youth. On the contrary, there
are hundreds Of thousands Of good peo-
pie who are suffering the results Of early
sins. The grace Of God gives one new
heart, but not new body David, the
Psalmist, had to cry out, Remember
not the sins of my youth. - Let young
man make his body wine closet, or a
rum jug, or a whisky cask, or 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; yet all the praying he can do
will not hinder the physical conse- |
quences of natural law fractured. You
six young men of Ohio and all the |
young men, take care of your eyes, those |
windows Of the soul Take care of your
ears, and listen to nothing that depraves.
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 |
or horseback, lawn tennis or exhilarat-
ing bicycle, if you sit upright and do |
not join that throng of several hundred |
thousands who by the wheel are cultivat- |
ing crooked backs and cramped chests /
and defo1med bodies, rapidly coming |
down toward all fOurs, and the attitude |
of the beasts that perish. Anything that /
bends body, mind or soul to the earth is |
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