The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-05-25
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
A Practical Sermon for the Benefit
Of Young Men.
Hsaithfui Exercise and the Careful Train.
Ing OF the Intellect the Essentials OF
Observation-Disclosures OF the
Rising Geueration.

Rev, T. Dewitt Talmage interested
= large COZ gregation in the Academy
OF music, New York city, with Words
with Young Men," his discourse on
that subject being delivered at the re.
quest OF u party of young men OF Fay
cite. U.
Those six young men, suppose, rep
resent innumerable young men who
are about undertaking the battle OF
life, and who have more Interrogation
points in their minds than any print
er's case ever contained, or printers
fingers set up. But few people who
have passed fifty years OF age are capa-
BILE 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 I'M
derstand May-timc blossoms. The
cast wind never did understand the
south wind. Autumnal golden rod
makes poor fist ut lccturing 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. attended IA 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 a man arose and
made some suggestions with such
lugubrious tone of voice, and man
ner that seemed to dcplore that every
thing was going to ruin, when an old
friend OF mine, ut seventy-five years as
young in feeling us 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 fnnereal tones of voice
and funercal 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 right to ask those
who have had many opportunities of
studying this world and the next
world to give helpful suggestions us
to what theories of life one ought To
adopt, aud what dangers he ought to
Bhun, 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 Pit the best pictures on its
walls. Put the best music under its
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 its doors in the faces of those
who would despoil and pollute 1t.
There are princes aud kings who
would like to come into it, while
there are nssassins who would like
to come out from behind his curtains,
and with silent foot attempt the dcs-
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 nil worlds,
tho King eternal, immortal, in
visible. Make room. Stand back. Clear
the way. 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
surety of u 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 you?" often say
when ] meet a friend Of mine in Brook
Ign. He is over seventy. and alert and
vigorous, and very prominent in the
law. His answer is: ~ ain living on
the capital OF a well-spent youth" On
the contrary, there are hundreds of
thousands fgood people who are suffer.
ing the results of early sins. The grace
Dof God gives one new heart, but nota
new body. David, the psalmist, had
to cry out: Remember not the sins
of my youth" Let young man make
his body wine closet. or rum jug,
or q whisky ,cask, or q barrel, and
smoke poisoned cigarettes until his
hand tremblcs. and he is black under
the eyes. and his cheeks fall in,
and then ut some church seek and
find religion: yet. all the praying he
san 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
deprnvea 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, II you sit up.
right and do not JOIN that throng
of several hundred thousands
who by the wheel are cultivat.
ing crooked backs, and ped chests.
and dcformed bodies, rapidly coming
down toward all-fours. and the atti-
tude of the beasts that perish. Any.
thing that bends body. mind OF soul to
the earth is unhealthy. Oh. 1t Is grand
thing to be we'll, but do not depend ON
pharmacy and the doctors to make you
we'll. Stay we'll. Road John Todd's
manual" and Coombs' Physiology, +"
| and everything Won Inv your han IA ON