The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-11-29
YOUNG MEN WARNED.
DR.. Talmage Gives Them Some
Timely Advice.
Lessons OF 'bsaIOm's Fate-Safeguards Sur
rounding Youth Are love OF Home,
Respect for the Sabb 4th aud
High Ideal OF Life

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to give some timely advice to the young
men of the period. His text was Sc
iected from III. Samuel, xviii, 20: as
the young man Absalom safe?' DIR.
Talmage said:
The heart of David, the father,
was wrapped up in his boy Alb
salon. He wac a splendid boy. judged
by the rules of worldly criticism. From
the crown of his head to the sole of his
foot there was not a single blemish.
The Bible SAYS that he had such
luxuriant shock of hair that when once
year it was shorn, what was cut off
weighed over three pounds But, not
withstanding all his brilliancy of APP
pearauce, he was bad boy, and broke
his fathers heart He was plotting to
get the throne of Israel Tie had mar
shaled an army to overthrow his faith
er's government The day of battle
had come. TIE conflict was begun.
David, the father, sat between the
gates of the palace waiting for the It'd
ings of the conflict. Oh, how rapidly
his heart beat with emotion. Two great
questions were to be decided; the safety
of his boy, and the continuance of the
throne of Israel. After awhile,
a servant, standing on the top
of the house, looks off. and sees
some one running. He is coming with
great speed, and the man on top of the
house announces the coming of the
messenger, and the father watches
and waits, and as soon as the mes
senger from the field of battle comes
within hailing distance, the father
cries out Is it question in regard to
the establishment of his throne? Does
he say: Have the armies of Israel
been victorious? Am to continue in
my imperial authority Have l over
thrown my enemies?" OIL no. There
is one question that springs from his
heart TO the lip, and springs from the
lip into the ear of the besweated and
bedusted messenger flying from the
battleield-the question, us the
young man Absalom safeT' When il
was told to David, the king, that,
though his armies had been victorious,
his son had been slain, the father
turned his back upon the congratula-
tons of the nation, and went up the
stairs of his palace, his heart breaking
as he went, wringing his hands some
times, and then again pressing them
against his temples as though he would
press them in, crying: 'Oh, Absalsm!
my soni my sonl Would God had
died for thee, Oh, Absalom! my sonI
my SOM
My friends, the question which
David, the king, asked in regard to
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to-day in the hearts of hundreds of
parents. Yea, there are a great multi
tude of young men who know that the
question of the text is appropriate
when asked in regard to them They
know the temptations by which they
are surrounded; they see so many who
started life with as good resolutions as
they have who have fallen in the path,
and they are ready to hear me ask the
question of my text: us the young
man Absalom safe?" The fact is that
this life is full of peril He who un-
dertales it without the grace of God
and proper understanding of the con-
hict into which he is going, must GER
tainly be defeated. Just look off
upon society to-day. Look at the ship
wreck of men for whom fair things
we're promised, and who started
fife with every advantage. Look at
those who have dropped from high so
cial position, and from great fortune,
disgraced for eternity. All who sacri-
fee their integrity come to overthrow.
Take dishonest dollar and bury it in
the center of the earth, and keep all
the rocks of the mountain on top of 1t;
then cover these rocks with all the
diamonds of Golconda, and all the sill
yer of Nevada, and all the gold of Cali
f,rnia and Australia, and put on the
top of these all banking and moneyed
institutions, and they cannot keep
down that one dishonest dollar. That
one dishonest dollar in the center of
the earth will begin to heave and rock
and upturn itself until it comes to the
resurrection of damnation- las the
partridge stitch on eggs and hatcheth
them not, so he that getteth riches and
not by right shall leave them in the
midst of his DAYS, and at his end shall
be fool"
Now, what are the safeguards of
Young men? The first safeguard of
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home. There are those who have no
idea of the pleasures that concentrate
around that word home" Perhaps
Eour early abode was Swallowed with
vice or poverty. Harsh words, and
petulerce. and Sowing may have de-
stroved all the sanctity of that spot
Love. kindness and self-sacri1ice, which
have built their affairs in so many
abodes. were stran rers IN your
fathers house. God pity you,
Young man; you have never had a
home. But a multitude in this audi
epee can look back to a spot that they
can never forget. 1t may have been
IowIy roof. but You cannot think OF II
now without dash of emotion You
have seen nothing on earth that SO
stirred your soul n stranger passing
along that place might see nothing re-
,ar[able about il: but, oh! how much
II means to you. Fresco on palace wall
3oes not mean so much to you as those
rourb-hewn rafterS- Parks and bow
and trees on fashionable watering
Mace or country seat do not mean so
much to you as that brook that ran IN