The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1895-05-23
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
THIS EMINENT DIvINE's SUNDAY
SERMON.
Subject: sNwords With Young Men,.

OF young men from different parts of tn
Union, and representing almost every calinl
and profession in life To them he special,
addressed this discourse, the subject beint
"Words With Young Men,"
rAYErrE, O.
Reverend Sir-We, the Undersigned. beins
earnest resd1rs cf your sermons, especial,
request ttat you use as a subject for som'
one OF your future sermons advice to YounS
Men, Yours respectfully,
y. s. MILLorT. CHARLES T. RpBERT,
i. 0. MILLoTT. NJ Z. ELDER,
J. L. SHERWOOD. s. J. ALTMAN,
Those six young men, ] suppose, represent
innumerable young meh who are abort IN.
dertaking the bsntle of life, and who have
more Interrogation points III Their mind thar
any printers case ever contained, or prin.
ter's fingers ever pot up. But few people
who have passed ilfty years of age are capa-
bic OF giving advice to young men. Toe
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. Autumhal goldenrod makes
poor list ut lectoring about early Nioiets.
Gen2ralfy, aftnt a man has Rheumatism in
hlSflght foot he is nor competent to discuss
Juvenile elasticity Not one man out of a
hundred car enlist and keep the attention of
the young after there is a bald spot ON the
L attended large meeting in Philadelphia
assembled to discuss how the Young Men .
Christian Association of that city flight be
made more attractive foryeah6 people, when a
map orose and made sorh6 suggestions with
such lugubrioas tone of voice and manner
that seemed 10 deplore that everything was
going TO ruin, when an old friend of mine,
Mt soventy-flve years. as young in feeling rs
any one at twenty, arose and said, THAT
good brother who has Just addressed NdN
will excuse me for saving that voting man
would no sooner go and apchd an evening
among such funereAl tones of voice and
tunereal ideas OF religion which that brother
seems to 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 right 10 ask those who
nave 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 port of you; It is the
most important room III your house. It Is
the parlor of your enthe nature. Put the
best pictures Oh It's walls Putthe best music
under tt5 arches. 1t is important to have
the kitchen right, and the dining room right,
and the cellar right. and all the other rooms
the soul Be particular about tho GUESTS who
enter 1t. Shut its doors In the faces Of those
who would despol and pollutd it: There are
princes and kings who would like to come
into it, while there are assassins who would
like to come out from behind its curtains,
and with silent foot attempt the desperate
and murderous. Let the King como in. He
is now at the door. Let me be usher to an :.
nounce His arrival, and introduce the King
world of nj VEL thr,
King eternal, immortal, invisible. Make
room. Stand back. Clear the way, Bow,
knee, worship tho King. Have Him once
Tor your guest, and 1t doea not make much
difference who comes or goes. Would you
have warranted against moral disaster and
surety of 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" | often say. when meet
friend of mine in Brooklyn, He is over sew
enty, and alert and vigorous, and very
prominent in the law. His answer is II am
living. on the capital of a well spent youth"
On the contrary, there DIRE hundreds OF
thousands OF fcod people who are suffering
the results OF early sins. The grace Of God
gives one a new heart, but not u new body.
David. the Psalmist had to cry out. ''Re-
member not the sins OF my youth" Let IL
fpuliS InuH Hltlhc MS tpilS q WINE closet, or
rum jug, or whisky task, or beer barrel.
and smoke poisoned cigarettes until his
hand tcpab,ts, aud 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 your
Oh 30 la a "A.
Take care of your lips and see that they
utter no profanities. Take care of your
nerves by enough sleep and avoiding I'M
nealtny eXcitements, and by taking out
uoor exercise, whether by bail or skate or
horseback, lawn tennis or exhilarating BIZ
cyaie, If you sit upright and do not join that
threns OF several hundred thousands who by
the wheel are cultivating crooked backs and
cramped chests and deformed bodies, rapidly
coming down toward all fours and the
attitude Of tho beasts that perish, Anything
mat bends body. mind or soul to the earth
Is unhealthy Oh, it is grand thing to be
Well. but do not depend on pharmacy and the
Noctors to make you well. Stay we'll. Read
John Todd's Manual and Coombs's Physio-
logy and everything you can lay your hands
on about mastication and digestion and assim-
llation. Where you find one healthy man
or woman, you find fifty half dead,
From my own experience can testify that,
being disciple of the gymnasium, many d
time Just before going to the parallel bars
and punching bags and pulies and weights,
l thought satan was about taking possession
oil society and the church and the world, but
after one hour of climbing and lifting and
pulling felt like fastening home so as to be
there when the millennium set in Take good
stout run every day. l find in that habit,
which have kept up since at eighteen years
read the aforesaid Todd's Manual, more
recuperation than in anything else. Those
six men of Ohio will need all possible nerve
and all possible eyesight and all possible
muscular development before they get
through the terrific struggle of this life.
Word the next: Take care of your intel
lect. Here comes the food Of novelettes
ninety-nine out of II hundred belittling to
every one that opens them. Here come de
PRAYED newspapers, submerging good and
elevated American journalism. Here comes
whole perditon of printed abomination
dumped on the breakfast table and tea table
and parlor table. Take at least one good
newspaper with able editorial and reporters
columns mostly occupied with helpful in.
telliSence announcing marriages and death.
and reformatory and religious assemblages
and charities bestowed, and the doings o
good people, and giving but little place tC
nasty divorce cases, and stories of crime
which, like cobras, sting those that touch
them. Oh, for more newspapers that put
virtue in what is called great primer typ,
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