Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1895-05-29
Rev. DR.. Ta[uaGE.
The Brooklyn Divine's Sunday
Sermon.
Subject: "words With Young Men"


Reverend S.r-We, the undersigned, being
earnest readers Q: your sermons, especially
request that you use subject for som<
one OF your future sermons "Adviceto Young
Men," Yours respectfully,
II. s. MrLLorr. CHARLES T. RUBKRr.
F. o. MILLorT. M. E. ELDER
J. L. SHERWOOD. 81. ALTMAN.
Those six young men. l suppose, represent
fnnumerable young men who are about un-
dertaking the battle OF life, and who have
more interrogation points in their mind than
any printers case ever contained, or prin.
ter's fingers ever set up. But few people
who have passed fifty years Of age are capa-
ble 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 understand
the south wind. Autumnai goldenrod makes
a poor fist at lecturing about early violets.
Generally, after a man has rheumatism in
his right foot he is not competent to discuss
hundred can enlist and keep the attention oi
the young after there is bald spot on thu
Uranium.
attended 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 q
man arose and made some suggestions with
that seemed to deplore that everything wai
going to ruin, whom an old friend Of mine,
at seventy-five years, as young in feeling as
any one at twenty, arose and said, "That
good brother who has just addressed you
will excuse mo for saying that young man
would no sooner go 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.
And yet these young men OF Ohio and al
young men have right to ask those whd
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, tina,
Is the most valuable part Of you. 1t is the
most important room In your house. 1t ID
the parlor OF your entire nature. Put the
best pictures on Its walls. Putths best must
under its arches. It is important to havt
and the cellar right, and all the other roomi
Of your nature right; but. oh! the parlor o.
the soul! Be particular about the guests who
enter 1t. Shut its doors In the faces Of those
who would despoil and pollute 1t. There ar<
princes and kings who would like to come
like to come out from behind its curtains
and with silent foot attempt the desperate
and murderous. Let the King como in. II,
Is now at the door. Let me be usher to an
nounce His arrival, and introduce the Xins
Of this world, the King Of all worlds, tn,
King eternal, immortal, invisible. Max,
room. Stand back. Clear the way. Bow
kneel, worship the King. Have Him onc'
for your guest, and 1t does not make mucl
difference who comes or goes. Would you
have a warrantee against moral disaster ant
surety of q noble career2 Read at least on,
chapter OF the Bible on your knees every da!
Of your life.
Word the next: Have your body righ.
"How are you?" often say when meet
friend Of mine in Brooklyn. He Is over sew
enty, and alert and vigorous, and yer!
prominent In the law. Hts answer is, 81 al
living On The capital OF well spent youth.
On the contrary, there are hundreds o
thousands Of good people who are sufYerin:
the results Of early siIs. The grace Of Go,
David, the Psalmist had to cry out, "Re
member not the sins OF my youth" Let
young man make his body . wine closet, o
rum jug, or a whisky cask, or a beer barrel
and smoke poisoned cigarettes until hi
hand trembles, and he is black under tn
eyes, and his cheeks fall in, and then a
some church seek and find religion; yet al
the praying he can do will not hinder th
physical consequences Of natural law frac
| tured. You six young men Of Ohio and al
the young men, take care of your eyes, thos
| windows Of the soul. Take care of you
ears, and listen to nothing that depraves
Take care of your lips, and see that the
nerves by enough sleep and avoiding un
| healthy excitements, and by taking out
| door exercise, whether by ball or skate o
horseback, lawn tennis or eXhilarating bi
cycle, II you sit upright and do not join tina
throng of several hundred thousands who b
the wheel are cultivating crooked backs an
cramped chests and deformed bodies. rapid
coming down toward all fours, and tn
attitude Of the beasts that perish. Anything
that bends body, mind or soul to the cart
II unhealthy. Oh, 1t is a grand thing to b
well, but do not depend on pharmacy and tn
doctors to make you well. Stay well. Rea
John Todd's Manual and Coombs's PhyAc
logy and everything you can lay your hand
| on about mastication and digestion and assim
ilation. Where you ind one healthy ma
Or woman, you find fifty half dead.
| From my own experience can testify thai
being disciple Of the gymnasium, many
time just before going to the parallel bar
and punching bags and pullies and weight:
thought satan was about taking possessio
| of society and the church and the world, bu
| after one hour of climbing and lifting an
pulling felt like fastening home so as to b
there when the millennium set in. Take a goo
stout run every day. / find in that habit
which Ihave kept up since at eighteen year
read the aforesaid Tod1's Manual, NOR
recuperation than in anything else. Thos
six men Of Ohio will need all possible nerv
and all possible eyesight end all possibl
muscular development before they &c
through the terrific struggle Of this life.
Word the next: Take care Of your intel
iect. Here comes the food Of novelties
ninety-nine out of a hundred belittling t
every one that "opens them. Here come dc
PRAYED newspapers, submerging good an
elevated American journalism. Here come
q whole perdition OF printed abominatior
dumped on the breakfast table and tea tabl
and parlor table. Take at least one goo
newspaper with able editorial and reporter
columns mostly occupied with helpful in
telligence, announcing marriages and death
and reformatoYy and religious assemblage:
and charities bestowed, and the doings c
good people, and giving but little place t
| nasty divorce cases, and stories of crime
which, like cobras. sting those that touc
them. Oh, for more newspapers that pu
virtue In what Is called great primer typ
and vice I: noRnareil or a9atei
You have ali seen the photographers mega
tive, He took picture from II ten or twent
years ago. You ask him now for pictul
from that same negative. He opens tn
great chest containing black negatives {
1885 or 1875, and he reproduces the pictur
Young men, your memory Is made up Of II
negatives OF an immortal photography. A
that you see or hear goes into your soul
with you till the judgment day the negativ
of all the bad pictures you have ever locke
1T, and Of all the debauched scenes you ha,
read about, Show me the newspapers yo
take and the books you read, and I will te
you what are your prospects for well beiI
In this life, end what will be your residen
Q million years after the star ON which '
now live shall have dropped out
the constellation. ] never trav
; ,n sunday unless II DO . case OF necessity
mercy. But last autumn I was In India In
dty plague struck. By the hundreds II
people were down with fearful illness. "
went to the apothecary's to get some pr
crowded with invalids, and we had no con
, Hence in the preventive We purchased fro
he Hpdoos. The mail train was TO sta