The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-13
TALMAGE TO YOUNG MEN.
THEIR FIRST STEP SHOULD BE To
GET THEIR SOULS RIGHT.

Every Day Of His Life-They should
Also Take Care of Their bodies
and Their IntelIects-AvOfd Dis
reputable Resorts-Have "A Home
of Your own.
New York. May u. lS95-In his audiences
at the Academy of Music. Dr. Talmage
meets many hundreds Of young men. from
different parts Of the union. and represent
ing almost every calling and profession in
life. To them he specially addressed his
discourse this afternoon. the subject being
Words with Young Men"
"Fayette. o. Reverend Sir: We. the un-
dersigned, being earnest readers of your
sermons, especially request that you use as
a subject for some one Of your future ser
mons Advice 10 Young Mem
Yours respectfully.
H. S. Millott, Charles T. Rubert,
F. O.Mnlott. NJ. T. Elder.
J. L. Sherwood. 5. J. Altman"
Those six young men. suppose. repre-.
sent 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 fifty 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 UT
derstand May-time blossom week. The east
wind never did understand the south wind.
Autumnal golden-rod makes a poor fist at
lecturing about early violets. Generally.
after man has rheumatism in his right
foot, he is not competent TO discuss juven-
lie elasticity. Not one man out of a hun
dred can enlist and keep the attention of
the young after there is a bald spot on the
Uranium. I attended a large meeting in
Philadelphia, assembled to discuss how the
Young Mems Christian Association Of that
city might be made more attractive for
young people, when man arose and made
some suggestions with such lugubrious
tone of voice, and a manner that seemed
TO deplOre that everything was going to
ruin. when an old friend OF mine, at seven
ty-five years as young in feeling as anyone
at twenty, arose and said: THAT good
brother who has just addressed you VIII
excuse me for saying that a young man
would no sooner 20 and spend an evening
among such funereal-tOneS OF voice and
funeral ideas of religion which that BROTH
er seems TO have adopted. than he would
go and spend the evening in Laurel tlill
Cemetery" And yet these young men of
Ohio, and all young men, have a right TO
ask those who have had many opportuni-
world, to give helpful suggestions as 10
what theories of life one ought 10 adopt
and what dangers he ought to shun. At
tention, young menl
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 import
ant to have the kitchen right, and the
dining room right, ana the cellar righ,,
right; but, OH the parior of the soul.
Be particular about the guests who enter
it. Shut It's doors In the faces of those
who would despoil and pollute It. There
are princes and kings who would like TO
come into IL. 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 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, invisible. Make room. Stand
back. Clear the way. Bow, kneel wor-
Guest. and ii does not make much differ
ence who comes or goes Would YOU have
a warrantee against moral disaster, ami
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 your often say when | meet
a friend of mine in Brooklyn. He is over
20, and alert and vigorous, and very prom
inent in the law. His answer is. - am
living on the capital of well-spent
youth On the contrary, there are hum
dreds of thousands of good people who are
suffering the results of early sins The
grace or God gives one new heart, but
not new body. David, the Psalmist had
70 crp 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 a beer barrel, and smoke
poisoned cigarettes until his hand trem
bles, and he is black under the eyes. and
MS cheeks fan in, and then at some church
seek and ind religion; yet all the prav-
ing he can do will not hinder the phvsi-
cal consequences CT natural law fractured
You SIX young men of Ohio. and ali
your eyes, those windows of the son,
IKE care of your ears. and listen 10
nothlng that depraves. Take care of your
lips, and see that they utter no Drofanitiee
Take care of your nerves by enough sIeaT,
ana avoiding unhealthy eXcitements ann
py taking outdoor exercise, whether by
pan, OF skate or horseback, lawn tennis,
or exhlleratng bicycle, If you sit upright
ana do not join that throng of several
hundred thousands who by the wheel are
cultivating crooked backs ANA crar,,t1
chests, and deformed bodies. ranidl1,
coming down toward all-foilrs. ana
me attitude of the beasts that per
t .o,,, "a St that bends body, mind or
soul 10 the earth is unhealthy Oh II is
a grand thing to be well, but do not de-
pend on pharmacy and the doctors 10
I 1ra55, you Well stay we'll Read John
ana everything you can lay your hands
on ahout masucauon. and digestion ana
assimilation. Where you find one hcalfbv
man or woman, you find fifty half dead
rom my own experience [ can testify
that, being disciple of the gymnasium.
many time just before going To tbe
parallel bars, and punching bags. and mil
lies and weights, I thought satan S,,as
about taking possession of society and no
church and the world but after one h0n~
OF climbing and lifting and pulling I feit
like Fastening home so as to he tbere
when the millennium set in Take a GOOD
stout run every day. find in that habit
which have kept up since at eighteen
years / read the aforesaid Todd's Man
ual, more recuperation than in anvthine-
else. Those six men of Ohio will need IL
possible nerve. and all possible evesigbt
and all possible muscular deveionnact
before they get through the terrific
struggle of this life. my
Word the next: Take care of your in
tellect. Here comes the food of newell
ettes ninety-nine out of a hundred balft-
thing to every one that opens them Here
come depraved newspapers, submerging
good and elevated American Journalism
Here comes a whole perdition of printed
abomination, dumped on the breakfast ia
BILE, and tea table, and parlor "a
BILE. Take at least one good newspaper
with able editorial and reporters columns
mostly occupied with helpful intelligence
announcing marriages and deaths and re-
fof-x nd r.alfoiofts