Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-11-30
DAVID AND ABSALOM.
DR.. TALMAeE breaches A GREAT
SERMON TO YOUNG MEN.
The Parent and the wayward son-Love
OF Home, Industry and the Christian
Religion as the Safeguards Of Young
Men-Keeping the Lords Day.

of Home, Industry and the Christian
Religion as the Safeguards Of Young
Men-Keeping the Lords Day.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.-In his SER
mon today Rev. DR.. Talmage, preaching
to the usual crowded audience, took up
a subject of universal interest to young
men. His text was selected from II
Samuel xviii, 80, is the young man
Absalom safe?''
The heart Of David, the father, was
wrapped up in his boy Absalom. He
was 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 notwithstanding all his
brilliancy of appearance he was bad
boy, and broke his fathers heart He
was plotting to get the throne of Israel.
He had marshaled an army to overthrow
his fathers government. The day of
battle had come. The conflict was be-
gun. 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.
The two great questions were to be
decided-the safety Of his boy and the
continuance of the throne of Israel Aft
er 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 messenger 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 con-
time in my imperial authority? Have /
overthrown my enemiesi" oh, mol
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
battlefeld--the question, Is the young
man Absalom SAFE. When IL was told
to David, the king, that, though his ar
mics had been victorious, his son had
been slain, the father turned his back
upon the congratulations Of the nation
and went up the stairs of his palace, his
heart breaking as ne Went Wrlhglhg MS
hahds sometimes ana then AGAIN press
ing them against ms temples as thougn
ne would press them H. crylns
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my SOM my son
The shipwreek OF Men.
My friends, the question which Da-
vid, the king, asked in regard to his
son is the question that resounds today
in the hearts of hundreds of parents.
Yea, there are great multitude 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 surround
ed. 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, Is the young man Absalom
safe?" The fact is THAT this life is full
Of peril. He who undertakes it without
the grace of God and a proper under
standing of the conflict into which he
is going must certainly be defeated
just look off upon society today Look
at the shlpWreck OF men for whom far
Things We're promised and VINO started
me with every advantage LOOK at
those VINO nave dropped rom hlgh So
clal position and from great fortune,