Connecticut western news., 1896-11-26
X ASTOUNDING CALL.
REV. DR. TAlMAGE ON "YOuNo MEN CHALLENGED TO NOBlLlTY.s

He Breaches an Inspiring Sermon to Opsn Their Eyes to Their Safety. Opportunity and Destiny-strong Defenses to Safety. The Turning Point.
 WASHINGTON, Nov. 22.-A resounding call goes out in this sermon of Dr. Tal- mage. If needed, it would be revolu- tionary for good. His subject Is Young Men Challenged to Nobility" and the text II Kings vi, F, "And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man. '"
 One morning, in Dothan, young theological student was scared by find ing himself and Elisha the prophet, upon whom he waited, surrounded by whole army of enemies. But venerable Elisha was not scared at all, because he saw the mountains full of defense for him in chariots made of fire, drawn by horses of flre-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, suppose, like the Adirondacks or the Alleghanies in au- tumnal resplendence.
 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. portunity and your destinyl
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 A mighty defense for young man is Q good home. Some of my hearers look back with tender satisfaction to their early home It may have been rude and rustic, hidden among the hills, and architect or upholsterer never planned or adorned it. But all the fresco on princely walls never looked so entioing to you as those rough hewn rafters. You can think of no park or arbor of trees planted on fashionable country seat so attractive as the plain brook that ran in front of the old farmhouse and sang un- der the weeping willows No barred gateway adorned with statue of bronze and swung open by obseQuious porter in full dress has half the glory of the old swing gate. Many of you have a second dwelling place, your adopted home, that also is sacred forever. There you built the first family altar. There your chill dren were born. All those trees you planted That room is solemn because once in 1t, 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 excellenoy of the place. but you fail. There is only one word in the language that can describe your meaning. It is home.
 Now, I declare it, that young man is comparatively safe who goes out into the world with a charm like this upon him. The memory of parental solioitude, watching, planning and praying will be to him shield and shelter. never knew a man faithful both to his early and adopted homes who at the same time was given over to any gross form of dis sipation or wickedness. He who seeks his enjoyment chiefly from outside asso- citation, rather than from the more quiet and unpresuming pleasures of which I have spoken. may be suspected to be on the broad 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 iso- lated from your kindred and former as- eociates, is there not some room that you can call your own? Into it gather books and pictures and harp. Have 8 portrait over the mantel. Make ungodly mirth stand back from the threshold. Consecrate some spot with the knee of prayer. By the memory of other days, a fathers counsel, and mothers love. and sisters confidence, call it home.
 Industrious Habits.
 Another defense for a young man is industrious habits. Many young men, in starting upon life in this age, expect to make their way through the world by the use of their wits rather than the toll of their hands. A boy now goes 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 in some office, rented at Sl, 900 year, he is waiting for the bank to declare its dividend. or goes into the market ex. peoting before night to be made rich by the rushing up of the stocks. But lucb seemed so dull he resolved on some oth. CT tack. Perhaps he borrowed from his employers money drawer and forgets te put it back, or for merely the purpose of improving his penmanship makes ( copy plate of 8 merchants signature. Never mind; all is right in trade. II some dark night there may come in hii dreams a vision of the penitentiary, but it soon vanishes. In short time he will be ready to retire from the busy world, and, amid his focks and herds cultivate the domestic virtues. TheI those young men who once were hil schoolmates and knew no better than tt engage in honest work will come witt their OK teams to draw him logs, and with their hard hands, to help heaye ul his castle. This is no fancy picture. is everyday life. I should not wonder i there were some rotten beams in tha beautiful palace. Ishould not wonder i dire sickness should smite through tn young man, or if God should pour int, his cup of life draft that would thrill him with unbearable agony if his chil dren should become to him livini Cux0eS mAAAu8 HIS uoho Q Pooe oho disgrace. should not wonder if he zoe to miserable grave, and beyond it int the gnashing of teeth. The way of tn ungodly shall perish.
 My young friends, there is no way t genuine success except through toll either of head or hand. At the battle o Crecy, in 1846, the Prince of Wales finding himself heavily pressed by tn enemy. sent word to his father for help The father, watching the battle from
 windmill, and seeing his son was no wounded and could gain the day if b would, sent word: "No, I will nc come. Let the boy win his spurs, for, God will. desire that this day be hi with all it's honors." Young man, fagt h>4Ala AA~o..zxl =