The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-06-11
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DTvYyE'S SUN,
DAY SERMON.
Subject: Swords With Young Men"


In his audiences at the New York Academy
OF Music DR.. Taimage meets many hundreds
OF young men from different parts of the
Union. and representing almost every calling
sr2 profession in life. To them he specially
addressed this discourse, the subject being
Words With Young Men"
FAYETrE, o.
Reverend Sir-We, the undersigned, being
earnest readers Of your sermons, especially
request that You use rs q subject for some
one Of yourfuture sermons advice to Young
Men" Yours respectfully,
HIS. M11ocr. CHARLES Y. RUBEsT.
2. o. MnLorT. NJ. E. ELDER.
). L. SHERWOOD. S. J. ALTMAN.
Those six young men. suppose, represens
fnnumerable young men who are about un-
dertsking the battle Of life, and who have
more Interrogation points in their mind th:,u
any printers case ever contained, or prln-
ter's fingers ever set up. But few people
who have passed fifty years Of age are cara
BILE Of giving advice to young men. zoo
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. Autumnal Soldenrod makes
poor fist at lecturiEg shout early violetS
Generally, after g 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 attenEon Of
the young after there is bald spot on the
Uranium.
attended large meeting in Philadelphia
assembled to discuss how the Young Mems
Christian Association of that city might be
made demo-eattractivef for young people, when
man arose and made some suggestions with
spch luSubrious tone Of voice and manner
that seemed to deplore that everything 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 mo for saying that young man
would no soone' 20 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 so and
spend the evening in Laurel Hill Cemetery"
And yet these young men Of Ohio and all
young ner have q right to ask those who
have had many opportunities Of studying
this world and the next world to give help
full suggestion as to what theories Of life ora
ought to adept and what dangers he ought
to shun. Attention, young men-
First, set your soul right. You see, that
Is the most valuable part OF you. It is the
most i'm poltant room in your house. It Is
the parlor Of Your entire nature. Put the
bess pictures on lis walls. PItthe best music
under its arches. Il is important to have
the kitchen right. and tho dining room right,
and the cellar right, and all the other ROOMS
Of your nature right; but. OH the parlor OF
the soul! b particular about the guests who
enter It. Shut its doors 10 the faces Of those
who would despoii and pollute it. There are
princes and kings who would like to come
into It, while there are assassins who would
NksasGs2ss 81 lsssfSsaeelad its euss.ss1ns,
40 TIff sifsnt foot aytsmpt the desperate
and rnurderous. Let thu King come in. lie
is now at the door Let sH.sner to an
nounee His arrival, and introduce the m-n.e- snS
of this world. the King Of all worlds, the
King eternal Immortal, invisible. Make
ROOM Stand back. Clear the wav. Bow,
kneel, worship the King. Have Him once
for your guest, and it does not make much
difference who comes Or goes. Would you
have warrantee against moral disaster and
p. surety o. 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 righ,.
How are you?" I often say when I meet a
friend OF mine in Brooklyn. He is over sew
enty, and alert and vigorous, aud very
prominent In the law. His answer is, 81 an
living on the capital of we'll spent youth. "
Ga the contrary, there are hundreds Of
thousands Of good people who are suTerin9 g
the results Of early sins. The grace Of God
gives on9 e new heart, but not a new body.
David, the Psalnist had to cry ont, "Ee-
member not the sins of my youth" Let a
young man make his body wine closet, OF
rum jug, or q whisky cask, or beer barce,
and smoke poisoned cigarettes until his
hand trembles, and he is black under the
eyes, aud 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 frac.
sured. You six young men of Ohio and all
the young men, take care Of your eyes, those
windows Of the soul. Take care OF your
ear, and listen to nothing that depraves.
"ake care Of your lips, and SEQ that they
utter no profanities. Take caro- OF your
nerves by enough sleep and avoiding un.
healthy excitements. and by taxing out
door exercise, whether by ball or skate OF
horseback, lawn tennis or eXhilarating BIZ
cycle, If you sit upright and do not join that
throng Of several hundreG thousands who by
the wheei are cultivatins crooked backs and
crampe6 chests and deformed bodies. rapidly
coming down toward all fours, and tie
attitude OF the beasts that perish. Anything
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 we'll. Stay well. Read
John Todd's Manual and Coonabs's Physio-
logy and everything you can lay your hands
on sbouE mastication and digestion aud assiul-
lation. Where you find one healthy man
Or woman, you find fifty half dead.
From my own experience can testify that,
being disciple Of the gymnasium, many a
kyr,o S,icS hSfN fn roll la1 no
and punching bags and pullies and weights,
! thought satan was about taking possession
OF society and the church and the world, but
after one hour Of climbing and lifting and
pulling felt like fastening home so as TO be
there when the millennium set in. Take a good
stout run every day. I find in that habit,
which Ihave kept up since at eighteen years
! read the aforesaid Todd's Manual, more
recuperation than in anything else. Those
six men OF Ohio will need all possible nerve
and all possible eyesiSht and all possible
muscular development before they get
through the terrific struggle Of this life.
Word the neXt: Take care of your intel
iect Here comes the food of novelettes,
ninety-nine out Of a hundred beittling to
every one that opens them. Here come de-
praveJ newspapers. submerging good and
elevated American Journalism. Here comes
whole perdition Of printed abomination,
dumped on the breakfast table and tea table
and pa1lor table. Take at least one good
newspaper with able editorial and reporters
columns mostly occupied with helpful in
teii9enee, announcing marriages and deaths
and reformatory and religious assenblases,
and charities bestowed, and the doincs OF
good people, and giving but little place to
nasty divorce cases, and stories OF crime,
which, like cobras. sting those that touch
them Oh for more EeWSDaperS that put
virtue in what is called great primer type
snd vice in nonpareil or agate
You have all seon the photographers mega
tive. He took picture from it ten or twenty
years ago. You ask him now :or picture
from that same negative. He opens the
C-"st Ghost containing black negatives Of
1855 or 1875, ana he roproduoes the picture.
Young men, your memory is made up OF the
negatives OF an immortal photography. All
that you see or hear goes into your soul to
make pictures for thu future. You will have