The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-05-17
TO YOUNG MEN.
Or. Talmage Advises Them as to
Their Duty.
The Importance of a Good beginning In
LIfe-yicious Literature should BE
summed as a Poisonous Viper
Keep the Body Pure.

HELL HIS EADlEEL btAAz FbAh' ~ I'll
Young Men" The sermon was preached
in response to the request of six young
men of Fayette. o. DIR. Talmage said:
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 minds than any printer
case ever contained. or printers fingers
set up.
But few people who have passed 50
years of age are capable of giving adj
vice to young men. Too many begin
their counsel by forgetting they were
ever young men themselves. NOvem-
Der SHOWS do not understand May time
blossom week. The east wind never
did understand the south wind.
Autumn golden rod makes a poor fist
at lecturing about early viOlets. GEN
orally. after a man has rheumatism in
his right foot. 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 a bald spot on the Uranium.
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phia. assembled to discuss how the
Young Mems Christian association of
that city might be made more attractive
for young people, when a man arose
and made suggestions with such lugu-
brious tone of voice and a manner that
seemed to deplore that everything was
going to ruin, when an old friend of
in aa1fr,s-
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 90 and
spend an evening among such funereal
tones of voice and funereal ideas of
religion which that brother seems TO
have adopted than he would go and
spend the evening in Laurel Hill
cemetery"
First-Get your soul right. You see
that is the most important room in
your house. Il is the parlor of your
entire nature. Put the best pictures
on its walls. Put the best music under
its arches. It is important to have the
kitchen right and the dining room right
anu the NEAAdE M anu oil Tit ONhCE
rooms of your nature right. But, oh!
the parlor of the soul. Be particular
about the guests who enter It. Shut
its doors in the faces of those who
would despoil and pollute it. There
are princes and kings who would like
to come into it. while there are assas-
sins who would like to come out from
L I'll
foot attempt the desperate and muir
derous. Let the King come in. He 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,
visible Make room Stand back.
Clear the way. Bow, kneel. worship
the King. Have Him once for your
guest. and it does not make much diff
ference who comes or goes. Would
you have a warrantee against moral
disaster and surety of a 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 yOu?' I often say
when I meet a friend of mine in Brook
lyn. He Is over 20. and alert and vigor-
Gus. and very prominent in the law.
His answer Is: Il am living on the cap
ital of a well spent youth" On the con-
trarv, there are hundreds of thousands
of good people who are suffering. the
results of early sins. The grace of God
gives one a new heart, but not a new
body. David. the Psalmist, had to cry
out: Remember not the sins OF my
youth" Let a young man make his
body wine closet, or a rum jug, or
whisky cask. or a beer barrel. and
smoke poisoned cigarettes until his
hand trembles, and he is black under
the ewes. and his cheeks fall in, and
then at some church seek and find re-
ligion: vet all the praying he can do
will not hinder the physical conse-
ouences of natural law fractured.
You 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 10 profanities- Take care of
your nerves by enough sleep and avoid
ing unhealthy excitements. and BY
taking outdoor exercise. whether BY
ball OF skate, or horseback, lawn ten
mis-. or exilarating bicycle. if you sit
upright and do not join that throng of
several hundred thousands who by
the wheel are cultivating crooked
backs. and cramped chests, and de-
formed 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 unearthly. Oh. 1t is a grand thing
70 be well, but do not depend on phar-
macy and the doctors to make
Won well. STAY well Read
John Tod6's Manual and Coombs'
Physiology, and everything you
can lay your hands on about
mastieation, and digestion. and assimi-
latiou. Where you find one healthy
man or woman you find fifty half dead.
From nv own experience I can testify
that, being a disciple of the gymnas-
ium. many a time Just before going to
the parallel bars, and punching bags,
and pullies and weights. I thought
Satan was about taking possession OF
society and the church and the world.
but after one hour OF climbing and lift
ing and pulling, felt like fastening
home so as to be there when the mil
lennium set in Take good stout run
every day. find in that habit which
I have kept up since at IS years read
the aforesaid Todd's Manual. more
reeuperatiOn than in anything
else. Those six men of Ohio viii need
all possible nerve, and all possible eye
sight. and all possible muscular devel-
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