Connecticut western news., 1895-05-16
YOUNG MEN ADVISED.
CARE FOR THEIR SOULS, MINDS AND
 BODIES.

CARE FOR THEIR SOULS, MINDS AND
 BODIES.
 Rev. Dr. Talmage Responds to a Request.
 His Words to Thoso Who Are on tho
 Threshold of Life-An Optimistic View { of the Future. ,.
 NEW YORK, May 12.-In his audi ences at the Academy of Music Dr. Tal- mage meets many hundreds of young men from different parts of the Union, and representing almost every calling and profession in life. To them he spe cially addressed his discourse this after noon, the subject being Words with Young Men"
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 REVEREND SIn-We. the undersigned being request that you use a subject for some one of your future sermons "Advice to Young Men" Yours respectfully,
 H. s. MIILorr. CHARLES T. HUBERT.
 F. O. MILLoTr. M. E. ELDER.
 J. L. SHERWOOD. s. J. ALTMAN.
 Those six young nien, suppose, rep resent innumerable young men who are about undertaking the battle of life, and who have moro interrogation points ln their mind than any printers case ever contained, or printers fingers ever set up. But few people who have passed 50 years of age are capable of giving advice to young men. Too many begin their counsel by forgetting they ever were young men themselves. November snows do not understand May time blossom week. The east wind never did under stand the south wind. Autumnal golden rod makes poor fist at featuring about early violets. Generally, after man has rheumatism in his right foot he is not competent to discuss juvenile elas- ticity. Not one man out of hundred can enlist and keep the attention of the young after there is a bald spot on the cranium.
 I attended large meeting in Phila- delphia assembled to discuss how the Young Mems Christian association of that city might be made moro attractive for young people, when man arose and made some suggestions with such lugu- brious tone of voice and manner that seemed to deplore that everything was going to ruin, when an old friend of mine, at 75 years as young i'll feeling as any one at 90, arose and said, ''That good brother who has just addressed you will excuse me for saying that a 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 adopt ed 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 help ful 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, that is the most valuable part of you. It is the most important room in your house. It is the parlor of your entire nature. Put the best pictures on it's walls. Put the best music under its arches. It is important to have the kitch- en right, and the dining room right, and the cellar right, and all the other rooms of your nature right; but, ohl the par Tor of the soull Be particular about the guests who enter it. Shut its doors in the faces of those who would despoil and pollute it. There are princes and kings who would lke to come into it, while there are assassins who would like to come out from behind its cur tains, and with silent foot attempt the desperate 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 all worlds, the king eternal, immortal, invisible. Make room. Stand back Clear the way. Bow, kneel, wor ship the king. Have him once for your guest, and it does not make much differ ence who comes or goes. Would you have a warrantee against moral disaster and surety of 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 yonY' I often say when I meet friend of mine in Brooklyn. He is over 70, and alert and vigorous, and very prominent in the law. His answer is, !" I am. living on the capital of well spent youth. On the contrary, there are hundreds of thousands of good peo- pie who are suffering the results of early sins. The grace of God gives one new heart, but not 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 a rum jug, or 8 whisky cask, or beer barrel, and smoke poisoned cigarettes until his hand trembles, and he is black under the eyes, and his cheeks fall in, and then at some church seek and find religion; yet all the praying he can do will not hinder the physical conse- quences of natural law fractured. You six young 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 depraves Take care of your lips, and see that they utter no profanities. Take care of your nerves by enough. sleep and avoiding un- healthy settlements, and by taking out door exercise, whether by ball or skate or horseback, lawn tennis or exhilarat- ing bicycle, if you sit upright and dc not join that throng of several hundred thousands who by the wheel are cultivat- ing crooked backs and cramped chests and deformed bodies, rapidly coming down toward all fours, and the attitude of the beasts that perish Anything that bends body, mind or soul to the earth is unhealthy. Oh, it is a grand thing to be well, but do not depend on pharmacy and the doctors to make you we'll Stay we'll Read John Todd's Manual and Coombs' Physiology and everything you can lay your hands on about mastication and digestion and assimilation. Where you find one healthy man or woman, you find 50 half dead <.
 From my own experience can testify that, being disciple of the gymnasium, many time just before going to the nara1lel bars and punchinO booa and