Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-11-28
A RESOUNDING CALL.
REV. DR.. TALMAGE ON "YOUNG MEN
CHALLENGED TO NOBILITY"


and Destiny-Strong Dcfcnses to Safety.
The Turning Point.
WASHINGTON, Nov. GA resembling
call goes out in this sermon Of DR.. Tai
mage. If needed. it would be revolu-
tionary for good. His subject is
Young Men Challenged to Nobility, "
and the text II Kings vi. II, "And the
Lord opened the eyes Of tho young man. "
One morning, III Dothan, young
theological student WAS scared by find
iug himself and Elisha the prophet
uu0n whom he waited, surrounded by Il
whole army of enemies. But venerable
Elisha was not scared ut all because he
saw tho mcuntains full of defonse for
him in chul lots made of fire, drawn by
horses of fire-a supernatural appearance
that could not be seen with the natural
eye. So the old minister prayed that the
young minister might see them also,
and the prayer was answered, and the
Lord opened the eyes of the young man,
and he also saw the fiery procession,
looking somewhat, l suppose, like the
Adirondacks or tho Alleghanics i'll au-
tumnal resplondencc.
Many young men standing among the
most tremendous realities have their
eyes half shut or entirely closed. May
God grant that MY sermon may open
wide your eyes to your safety, your op-
,,Ortunitv and vOur destiny
A Good Home.
A mighty defense for a young man is
q good home Some Of my hearers look
back with tender satisfaction to their
early homo. 1t may have boon rude and
rustic, hidden among the hills, and
architect or upholsterCr never planned
or adorned it. But all the fresco on
princely walls never looked so cnticing
to YOU as those rough hewn rafters You
can think CT no park or arhor of trees
planted On faahioLable country seat so
attractive as the plain brook that ran i'll
front of tie old farmhouse and sang un-
der tho weeping willows No barred
gateway adorned with statue of bronze
and swung open by obscquious porter i'll
full Gress has half the glory of the old
swing gate. Many Of you have second
dwelling place, your adopted home. that
also is sacred forever. There you built
the first family altar. There your chill
dron were born. All those trees you
planted. That room is solemn because
once in it, over the hot pillow, tapped
the wing of death. Under that Roof you
expect, when your work is done, to lie
down and die You try with many
words to tell the excellency of the place,
but you fail. There is only one word i'll
the language that can describe your
meaning. 1t is home.
low, I declare it, that young man is
comparatively safe who goes out into
the world with Il charm like this upon
him. The memory of parental solicitude,
watching, planning and praying will
be to him shield and ~ shelter l never
knew a man faithful both to his early
and adopted homes whoat the same time
was given over TO any gross folm of dis
sipation or wickcdncss. He who seeks
his enjoyment chiefly from outside asso-
citation, rather than from the more quiet
and unprcsuming pleasures of which l
have spoken. MAY be suspected to be Oh
the bread road to ruin. Absalom de-
spised his fathers house, and you know
his history Of sin and his death of
shame. If you seem unnecessarily $50
lated from your kindred and former as
sociates, is there not some room that
YOU can call your own? Into it gather
books and pictures AID harp. Have a
portrait over the mantel. Make ungodly
mirth stand back from the threshold.
Congecrato some spot with the knee OF
prayer By the memory of other days, a
fathers counsel, Gl,l mothers love.
and sister, confidence, call it home
Industrious Habits.
Another defense fer young man is
industrious habits. Many young men,
in starting upon life i'll this age, expect
to make their way through the world by
tho uso Of their wits rather than the toll
Of their hands y 10y row gees to the
city and fails twice before he is as old
as his father was when he first saw the
spires Of the great town. Sitting III
some office, rented at $1,000 year, he
is waiting for the bank to declare its
dividend. or goes into the market ex-
pccting tefore night 10 bo made rich by
the rushing Up Of the stocks. But luck
seemed so dull ho resolved Oh some 9TH
or tack. Perhaps lie borrowed from his
employer money drawer and forgets to
put it back, or for merely the purpose
of improving his pcnmanship makes a
COPY plate Of merchants signature.
Never mind all is right i'll trade. IN
some dark night there may come in his
dreams vision Of the ponitentiary, but
it soon vanisles. II a short time he
will be ready to retire from the busy
world, and, Gmid his focks and herds,
cultivate the domestic virtues. Then
those young men who once were his
! schoolmatts und knew no better than to
engage in honest work will come with
their OK teams to draw him logs, and,
with their hard hands, to help heave up
his castle. This is no fancy picture. 1t
is everyday life. I should not wonder it
there were some rotten beams i'll that
beautiful palace. Ishould not wonder If
dire sickness should smite through the
young man, or if God should pour into
his cup of life draft that would thrill
him with unbearable agony; if his chill
dren should become to him living
curse, making his home pest and a
disgrace. / should not wonder if he goes
to miserable grave, and beyond it into
the gnashing of teeth. The way of the
ungodly shall perish.
Ny young friends, there is no way to
genuine success except through toll,
| either of head or hand At the battle OF