The Penn's Grove record., 1895-05-17
REV.. DR.. TaLqAGE.
The Brooklyn Divine's Sunday
Sermon.
Subject: swords with Young Men"

In his audiences at the New York Academ,
OF Music DIR. Talmage meets many hundredi
of young men from different parts of this
Union, and representing almost every calling
and profession in life. To them he specially
addressed this discourse, the subject beinf
swords With Young Men"
FAYErTE, o.
Reverend Strive, the undersigned, being
earnest readers Of your sermons especially
request that you use rs u subject for sons
one Of your future sermons "Advieeto Young
Men," Yours respectfully,
+. O. MLLoTT. M. Z. ELDER.
]. L. SHERWOOD. s.. ]. ALTMAN.
Those six young men, l suppose, represent
innumerable young men who are about un-
dertaking the battle of life, and who have
more interrogation points in their mind than
any printers case ever contained, or prin.
ter's fingers ever set up. But few people
who have passed fifty years OF age are caps-
bic of giving advice to young men. Too
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 lie understand
the south wind. Autumnal goldenrod makes
u poor fist at lecturing about early violets.
Generally, after a man has rheumatism IN
his right foot he is not competent to discuss
juvenile tlhSlICIlN. Npt Ouc ulhh oui " Y
hundred can enlist and keep the attention oil
the young after there is q bald spot on thu
attended a large meeting In Philadelphia
assembled to discuss how the Young Mems
Christian Association OF that city might be
made more attractive for young people, whena
man arose and made some suggestions with
such lugubrious tone of voice n a manner
hat seemed to deplore that everything was
going to ruin, when an old friend of mine,
ct s~eventy-five 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 a young nan
would no sooner &C and spend an evening
among such funereal tones of voice and
funereal ideas OF religion which that brother
seems to lave adopted than he would go and
spend the evening in Laurel Hill Cemetery"
And yet these young men OF Ohio and all
young men rave a right to ask those who
nave had many opportunities of studying
this world and the next world to give help
full suggestion 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, tina,
Is the most valuable part Of you. 1t Is the
most important room In your house. It ID
best pictures on Its walls. Putthe best music
under It's arches. 1t Is important to have
the kitchen right, and the dining room right,
and the cellar hight, and all the other rooms
OF your nature right; but. OH the parlor Of
the soul! Be particular about the guests who
enter IT. Shut its doors In the faces OF those
who would despoil and pollute II. There art
princes and kings who would like to come
into 1t, while there are assassins who would
like to come out from behind its curtains,
aAd with silent foot attempt the desperate
and murderous. Let the King come in. He
10 now at the door. Let me be usher to an
nounce His arrival, and introduce the King
Of this world, the King Of all worlds, the
King eternal, immortal, invisible. Make
room. Stand back. Clear the way. Bow,
kneel, worship the King. Have Him onct
difference who comes or goes. Would you
have n warrantee against moral disaster and
surety Of . noble careerf Read at least one
chapter Of the Bible on your knees every day
Of your life.
Word the next: Have your body RICH.
"How are you?" I often say when / meet a
friend Of mine In Brooklyn. He Is over sew.
enty, and alert and vigorous, and very
prominent in the law. His answer Is, 81 am
living on the capital Of a well spent youth. n
On the contrary there are hundreds Of
thousands of good people who are suffering
the results Of early sins. The grace of God
gives one q new heart, but not q new body,
David, the Psalmist had to cry out, "Re.
member not the sins OF my youth" Let q
young mar make his body q wine closet, OF
rum jug, or q whisky cask, or a beer barrel,
hand trembles, and he is bSS under the
eyes, and his cheeks fall In, 10 then al
some church seek and find religion; yet all
the praying he can do will not hinder the
physical consequences OF natural law frac.
tured. You six young men OF Ohio and all
the young men, take care OF your eyes, those
windows of the sou. Take care Of your
ears, and listen to nothing that depraves.
Take care of your lips, and see hat they
nerves by enough sleep INT avoiding un.
healthy excitements, and by taking out.
door exercise, whether by ball or skate OF
horseback, lawn ennis or exhilarating BIZ
cycle, If you sit upright and do NOT join that
throng Of several hundred thousands who by
the wheel are e~ultivating crooked backs and
sramped chests and deformed bodies. rapidly
soming down toward all fours, and the
attitude of the beasts that perish. Anything
that bends body, mind or soul to the earth
Ii unhealthy. Oh, It is q grand thing to bs
we'll, but do not depend on pharmacy and the
doctors to make you well. Stay well. Read
John Todd's Manual and Coombs's Physio.
logy and everything YOU can lay your hands
on about mastication and digestion and assim.
Alhkitu. VHoE0 YOU hnu Ouo uc8ltuY uh4
or woman, you find fifty half dead.
From my own experience can testify that
being a disciple Of the gymnasium, many I
time Just before going to the parallel bars
and punching bags and pullies and weights,
I thought satan was about taking possession
of society and the church and the world, but
after one hou Of climbing and lifting and
pulling I felt like fastening home so as to be
there when the millennium set In. Take q good
stout run eveYy day. I find in that habit,
which Ihave kept up since at eighteen Year,
/ read the aforesaid Tod1's Manual, more
rocuperation than in anything else. Those
sif men Of Ohio will need all possible nerve
and all possible eyesight End all possible
muscular development before they get
through me terrific struggle Of this life.
Word the next: Take care of your intel
ninety-nine out of q hundred belittling to
every one thatNpens them. Here come de
PRAYED newspapers, submcrging good and
elevated American Journalism. Here comea
. whole perdition OF printed abomination,
dumped on the breakfast table and tea table
and parlor table. Take at least one good
newspaper with able editorial and reporters'
columns mostly occupied with helpful in
telligenoe, announcing marriages and deaths
and refornatory and religious Assemblages,
and charities bestowed, and tho doings oil
good people, and giving but little place to
nasty divorce cases, and stories OF crime,
which, like oobras, sting those thai touch
them. Oh, for more newspapers that put
virtue In what II called great primer type
and vice in nonpareil or agate!
You have all seen the photographers mega
tive. He ook picture from II ten or twenty
years ago You ask him now for q picture
from that same negative. He opens the
great chest containing black negatives OF
1885 or 1878. andt- -eproduces the picture,
YouR--'ory Is made up Of the
negat ~amortal photography. All
that u w-r hear goes into your soul 10
make pictures for the future. You will have
With you till the Judgment day the negatives
Of all the bad pictures you have ever looked
ct, and Of all the debauched scenes you have
read about, Show me the newspapers you
take and the books you read, and / win tell
you what are your prospects for we'll being
In this life, and what will be your residence
. million years after the star on which W.
now live shall have dropped out 81
the constellation. ! never travej
N sunday unless n be . case or necessity OF
mercy. But last autumn / was In India in a
hty plague strucs. By the hundreds the
people were down with fearful illness. We
vent to the a~pothecary's to get some pre-
ventitive OF the fsver, and tho piece SWas
srowded with invalids, and we had no -
aence In the preventive we purchased !
ne Hindoos. The mail train wa to ?