The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-07-18
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
srypAY'S DISCOURSE By T:IE
lied DIVINE.
subject, "The objectionable SIM"

.heny against the Holy Ghost shall not bs
bryivan unto mrr. And whosonvpr speaksth
Vor ngninst theSon of Man II siall be for.
s,er him. but wi0s,Nys- sppa<eth agains,
he II llv Ghos; Il shall rot be- forgiven him.
neither I'm this world, nelthe- in the world 10
| some. Matthew xii 81. 3D. ole found no
Mace Of repentance. though he sought IL
carefully with tears. Hebrews xii., IL.
A. sometimes YOU gather the whole family
around the evening stand 90 hear some book
caJ - now we gather, great Christian
ssiv group, TO study this text. and now
NAV one and the same lamp cast its glow on
. All the circle.
You soc from the first passage that read
that there is a sin againstthe Holy Ghost for
| which man Is never pardoned. Once
having committed II. he is bound hand and
. foo, for the dungeons Of despair Sermons
NAV be preached to him, songs may be sung
! ~ him, prayers may be offered in his behalf.
| tut all 10 no purpose. He Is captive forthis
world and captive for the world that IL to
| come. Do you suppose trnt there is any ono
herr who has committed that siny All sins
an against the Holy Ghost. but my text
speaks of one especially. II Is very clear To
nv mind that the sin against the Holy Ghost
| vas the ascribing of the works Of the spirit
| !, the agency Ct the devil In the time Of the
| apostles.
4 There Is an impression in almost every
| nan. mind that somewhere in the future
there will be a chance whore he can correct
| all his mistakes. Live n we may, If we
sniy repent in time God will forgive US. and
men All will he as well ~ though we hal
| never committed sin. My discourse shall
| come In collision with that theory. shall
. sh0w you my friends. as God will help me.
that there H. such thing as unsuccessful
/ repentance; that there are things done wrong
| that always stay wrong. and for them you
nav sock some place Of repentance and seek
| n carefully, but never find 1t.
Belonging to this class Of irrcvocablc mis-
ukss is the folly Of a misspent youth. We
nav look back TO our college days and think
how we neglected chemistry or geology or
Ih,,any or mathematics. We may be sorry
about II all our days. Can We ever get the
Xu.,lpnc or the advantage that we would
|haya had had we attended TO those duties in
sary lifcy A man wakes up at forty years
oi age and finds that his youth has been
|xa,,ed. and he strives to get back his early
Elylnagcs. Does hc get them lick-thc
lay. oi boyhood the days in college. tho
Xiays under his fathers roof! "Oh, he saws.
EiiI Ic5ud only get those times back again,
~ would improve them" My brother
ku will never get them back. They are
Lr0ne gone You may be very sorry about
and God may forgive. so that you may NJ
d. reach heaven, but you will never -.
ser .)ne Of the mishaps that have come to
kour soul ~ Il result Of your neglect OF early
ku,y. You may try to undo 1t; you cannot
knloh. When you had n boys arms. and
f0ys eyes. and n boys heart, you ought to
haya attended to those things. A man says
n aity years Of age. ~ do wish could get
oysr these habits Of incidence" When did
hju get them? At twenty or twenty-five
bear of age. You cannot shake them of.
Irhey will hang TO you to the very day OF
E0ur death. II young man through long
k0ur,e Of evil conduct undcrmines his phys-
bal health and then repents of IL in after life,
lhe Lord may pardon him, but that does not
bring back good physical condition. | said
D. minister Of the gospel one Sabbath at the
tlOse Of the service, Where are you preach
Dag now2" "0h. " he says. al am not preach
|ing. am suffering from the physical effects
b earlysln | can't preach now; am sick"
A consecrsted man he nowis and he mourns
bitterly over early sins, but that does not
hrest their bodily effects.
The simple fact Is that men and women
pten take twenty years of their life to build
np influences that require all the rest Of
their life to break down. Talk about man
Beginning life when he Is twenty-one years
| ot age talk about woman beginning life
when she Is eighteen years of age! All. mol
lie. In nine cases out OF ten all the ques-
lions Of eternity are decided before that
I Talk about a majority OF men getting their
|iOnunes between thirty and forty years.
IIhey get Cr lose fortunes between ten and
twenty When you tell me that n man Is
Just beginning life. tell you he Is Just clos
lax Il. The next ilfty years will not be OF rs
/ [nurh Importance to him rs the first twenty.
| Now. why do l say this2 l. il for the
Xgrr q 1..f Il
retrospection? You know that Is not my
j way. | say II for the benefit Of young men
and women. Iwant them to understand that
Eternity Is wrapped up in this hour; that the
sins Of youth we never get over; that you are
/ now fashiOning the mold in which your
great future Is TO run; that q minute, in
stead OF being sixty seconds long, Is made
Iup Of everlasting ages. You can see what
Idsnity and Importance this gives to the
llie OF all our young folks. Why, in the
| light ot this subject life Is not something to
De FILTERED away. not something to be
snrked about, not something to be danced
put, but something to be weighed in the
balances OF eternity. Oh young man, the
PIN Of yesterday, the sin OF tomorrow will
rel'h over 10000 years-aye. over tho great
and unending eternity. You may after
awhile say: II am very sorry. Now / have
g)t 10 be thirty or forty years Of age, and |
lo WISH hal never committed those sins.
what does that amount tol God may par
don You, but undo those things you never
Vlll, You never can.
In this same category OF irrevocabe mis-
lakes put all parental neglect We begin
,he education Of our children too late. By
'he time they get to be ten or fifteen we wake
| up 70 our mistakes and try to eradicate this
nal habit and change that but II Is too late.
mat parent who omits In the first ten years
oi the chid's life to make an eternal impress
ZION Tor Christ never makes il. The child
VIII probably 30 on with all the disadyan-
hses, which might have been avoided by
parental faithfulness. Now you see what II
mistake Tint father or mother makes who
puts OIL TO late life adherence 10 Christ.
mere Is man who ut fifty years of age says
70 you, III must be II Christian" and he
i Yields his heart to God and sits in the place
4 ot prayer to-day Christian. None Of us
gan doubt ii. He goes home, and he says:
here at tfty years of age l have given my
uear TO the Saviour. Now must establish
amily altar" WHAT Where are your
children now? One in Boston, another in
Omclnnati, another In New Orleans, and you,
uy brother, at your fiftieth year going to
.sIabllsh your family altar Very well, bet
tet az, late than never, but alas, alas, thar ycu
u'u not do 1t twenty-five years ago!
Nhen l was in Chamouni, Switzerland,
Isaw In the window OF one OF the shops u
/ picture that impressed my mind very much.