The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1895-05-24
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
A Practical Sermon for the Benefit
of Young Men.
HeaIthful Exercise and the Careful Train
Ing of the Intellect the Essentials of
Success-OPpOrtunIti of the
Rising Generation.

| Will AOuHB N1cu, us discourse OF
that subject being delivered at the re
quest of party of young men of Fay
cite. o.
Those six young men, suppose, rep
resent innumerable young men whC
are about undertaking the battle o.
! life, and who have more interrogation
points in their minds than any print
er's case ever contained, or printer'l
| fingers set up. But few people who
have passed fifty years of age are capa
bic of giving advice to young men
Too many begin their council by forget
ting they ever were young men them
| selves. November blossoms do not un
derstand May-time blossoms. The
east wind never did understand the
south wind. Autumnal golden ROD
makes poor fist at lecturing about
early violets. Generally, after a man
has rheumatism in his right foot, he
is not competent to discuss juvenile
elasticity. Not one man out of hun
dred can enlist and keep the attention
of the young after there is bald spot
on the Uranium. l attended a large
meeting i'll 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 man
ner that seemed to deplore that every
thing was going to ruin, when an old
friend of mine, at seventy-fve years as
young in feeling as any one at twenty,
arose and said: "That good brother
who has just addressed you will excuse
me 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 even
ing in Laurel Hill cemetery" And
yet these young men of Ohio, and all
young men, have a right to ask those
who have had many opportunities of
studying this world and the next
world to give helpful suggestions 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 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 it's
arches. 1t is important to have the
kitchen right, and the dining room
right, and the cellar right, and all the
other rooms of your nature right; but,
OIL the parlor of the soul! Be partic-
ular 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 it, while
there are assassins who would like
to come out from behind his curtains,
and with silent foot attempt the des-
perate 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, in
visible. Make room. Stand back. Clear
the way. Bow, kreel, worship the
King. Have Him once for your guest,
and it does not make much difference
who comes or goes. Would you have
a warrantee 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 you2" l often say
when 1 meet friend of mine in Brook
lyn. He is over seventy, and alert and
vigorous, and very prominent in the
law. His answer is: 81 am living on
the capital of n well-spent youth" On
the contrary, there are hundreds of
thousands of good people who are suffer
ing the results of early sins. The grace
of Godgives one new heart, but not
new body. David, the psalmist, had
to cry out: Remember not the sins
of my youth" Let young man make
his body a wine closet, or a rum jug,
or a whisky cask, or a barrel, and
smoke poisoned cigarettes until his
hand trembles, and he is black under
the eyes, and his cheeks fall in,
and then at some church seek and
find religion; yet, all the praying he
can do will not hinder the physical
consequences of natural law fractured.
You six 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 no profanities.
Take care Of your nerves by enough
sleep and avoiding unhealthy excite
ments, and by taking outdoor exer-
else, whether by ball, or skate, or
horseback, lawn tennis, or exhil-
arating bicycle, if you sit up
right and do not JOIN that throng
of several hundred thousands
who by the wheel are cultivat-
ing crooked backs, and cramped chests,
and deformed bodies, rapidly coming
down toward all-fours, and the atti-
tude of the beasts that perish. Any
thing that 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 doctors to make you
well. Stay well. Read John Todd's
Manual" and Coombs' Physiology"
and everything you lay your hands on
about mastication, and digestion, and
assimilation. Where you find one
healty man or woman you find fifty
half dead. From my own experience
can testify that, being a disciple
of the gymnasium, and many a
time just before going to the par
alleI bars, and punching bags, and
pullies and weights, I thought Satan
was about taking possession OF society
and the church aBd the world, but
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