The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1895-05-15
TO THE YOUNG MEN.
Rev. Talmage Delivers a Very
Timely Sermon,
Giving Words of Advice in Answer to g
Letter from six Youths in OhiO-The
Soul and the Body Must Be
Kept Clean-The Power of
the Young to Do Good.

AepU CIean-The POWER OF
the Young to Do Good.
Rev. 7. Dewitt Talmage delivered
his latest sermon in the New YorL
Academy of Music, taking for his sub
ject "Words with Young Men," the
topic being suggested by letter tc
him from six young men residing in
Fayette, O., who requested that he de
liver sermon to Young men.
But few people who have passed fifty
years of age are capable of giving ad.
vice to young men. Too many begin
their counsel by forgetting they even
were young men themselves Novem'
Der SHOWS do not understand May-time
blossom week. The east wind never
did understand the south wind Au.
tumnal goldenrod makes poor fist al
lecturing about early violets. Gener'
ally, after a man has rheumatism in
hls right foot, he is not competent tC
discuss Juvenile elasticity. Not one
man out of hundred can enlist and
keep the attention of the young after
there is bald spot on the Uranium.
attended a large meeting in Philadel
phia, assembled to discuss how the
Young Mems Christian association Of
that city might be made more attract
i've for young people, when a man
arose and made some suggestions with
such lugubrious tone of voice, and a
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 anyone at TWEEN
ty, 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 evening 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 thi;
world and the next world to give help
full suggestions as to what theories o1
life one ought to adopt, and what dan
gers he ought to shun. Attention, young
men
First, get your soul right. You SET
that is the most valua BILE part of you
1t is the most important room in you
house. 1t is the parlor of your entire
nature. Put the best pictures on it,
walls. Put the best music under it
arches. 1t is important to have tn,
kitchen right, and the dining room
right, and all the other rooms of you
nature right; but 0! the parlor of th
soul Be particular about the guest
who enter it. Shut it's doors in tn
faces of those who would despoil an,
pollute it. There are princes and king
who would like to come into it, Will
there are assassins who would like t
come out from behind its curtains, an
with silent foot attempt the desperat
and murderous. Let the King come in
Heis now at the door. Let me be usher
announce His arrival, and introduc
King of this world, the King of al
WOIluo, OllC MILK llhllOl Jul, IL
visible. Make room. Stand back. Clea
the way. Bow, kneel, worship tn
King. Have Him once for your CUES
and it does not make much differenc
who comes or goes. Would you have
warrantee against moral disaster an
surety of noble career? Read at leas
one chapter of the Bible on your knee
every day of your life.
Word the next: Have your bod
right. "How are you?" l often sa
when meet friend of mine in Brool
lyn. He is over seventy, and aler
and vigorous and very prominent
the law. His answer is: IL am livin
on the capital of a well-spent youth
On the contrary, there are hundred
of thousands of good people who al
suffering the results of early sins. TT
grace of God gives one new hear
but not new body. David, the psalm
ist, had to cry out Remember NJ
the sins of my youth" Let youn
man make his body wine closet, or
rum jug, or a whisky cask, or BET
barrel, and smoke poisoned cigarett,
until his hand trembles and he
black under the eyes, and his cheel
fall in, and then at some church sec
and find religion; yet all the prayir
he can do will not hinder the physic
consequences of natural law fra
tured. You xix young men of Obi
and all the young men, take care
your eyes, those windows of the sol
Take care of your ears, and listen
nothing that depraves. Take care
your lips, and see that they utter !
profanities. Take care of your nerv
= by enough sleep and avoiding u
healthy excitements, and by takil
outdoor exercise, whether by ball,
skate, or horseback, lawn tennis,
exhilarating bicycle, if you sit uprig
and do not join that throng of sever
\ hundred thousand who by the whe
are cultivating crooked backs, al
cramped chests, and deformed bodit
rapidly coming down toward all-foul
and the attitude of beasts that peris
- Anything that bends body, mind
W soul to the earth is unhealthy. o,
M is grand thing to be well, but do n
y depend on pharmacy and the doctc
to make you well. Stay well. Re
o. John Todds Manual, and Cooml
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