Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1896-12-02
fALMAGE'S SEkMON.
RS Subject: "Young Men Chal-
ienged to Mobility"
The Evils That Hs.st wand~r.r. Awax
From Home-My rssds Closs In Around
Them and Their Position 10 Made
P-riioux-

&-1thakCS s9RltCt CunQuT WAS
Young Men Challenged to Mobility"
and the text III. Kings vi, 10: Ard
the Lord opened the eyes of the young
man.
One morning. N Dothan, n young
theological Student was scared by find
ing himself and Elisha the Prophet.
upon whom me waited. surrounded by
i a whole army of enemies. But vcner-
able Elisha was not scared ut ali. be-
rause he saw the mountain full of de-
icrse for him. in chariots made Of FIRE.
drawn by horses of fire-a super
natural appearance that could not be
seen with the natural eye. So the old
minister prayed that the young minis
ter might see them also, aad the pray-
err was answered. and the Lord opened
the eyes of the young man, and he also
saw the fiery procession, looking some
what, suppose. Ike the ACKNOWLEDGES
IPr the Alleghenies in autumn resplend-
any young men. standing among
most tremendous realities, have
theFeyes half shut or entirely closed.
May God grant that my sermon may
open wide your eyes to your safety,
Your opportunity, and your destinyi
a mighty defense for young man is
good home. Some of my hearers look
back with tender satisfaction to their
early home. II may have been rude
and rustic, hidden among the hills,
and architect or upholsterer never
planned or adorned it. But all the
ireSco on princely walls never looked
so enticing TO You rs 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 farm
house and sang under 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 Won have "A second dwelling
place, your adopted home, that also is
sacred forever There you built the
first family altar. There your children
were born. All those trees you plant
ed That room fs 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 excel
lency of the place, but you fail. There
is only one word in the language chat
can describe your meaning. 1t is
home.
Now, declare it, that young man is
comparatively safe who goes out into
the world with n charm like this upon
him. The memory of parental solicit
tude, watching, planning and praying,
will be to him n shield ami shelter.
i never knew man faithful both TO
his early and adopted home who at the
same time was given over to any gross
form of wicledness or dissipation. He
who seeks his enjoyment chiefly from
outside association, rather than
from the more quiet and un-
presuming pleasures of which
have spoken, may be suspected
TO be on the broad road to ruin. Absa-
lom despised his fathers house, and
you know his history of sin and his
death of shame. II you seem unneces-
sarily isolated from your kindred and
former associates, is there not some
room that you can call your own? Into
it gather books and pictures and a
harp. Have portrait over the man
tel. Make ungodly nirth stand back
from the threshold. Consecrate some
spot with the knee of prayer. Ry the
memory of other days, a fathers coun-
sci, and a mothers love, and a sisters
confidence, call it home.
Another defense for voung man is
indu trious habits. Many Young men.
in starting upon life in this age. ex-
pect to make their way through the
world by the nse of their wits rather
than the toll of their hands. bov
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 $1,000 year, he is waiting
for the bank 70 declare its dividend.
or goes into the market expecting be-
fore night to be made rich by the
rushing up of the stocks. But luck
seemed so dull he resolved on some
other tack Perhaps he borrowed from
his employers money drawer, and for
gets to put IL back, or for merely the
purpose OF improving his penmanship,
makes a copy-plate of merchants sig
nature. Never mind; all is right in
trade. In some dark night
there may come in his dreams
vision OF the penitentiary. but
it soon vanishes. In a short time he
will be ready TO retire from the busy
world. and amid his hocks and herds
cultivate the domestic virtues. Then
those young men who once were his
schooInates, and knew no better than
90 engage i'm honest work, will come
with their OK teams 20 draw him logs
and with their hard hands TO help him
heave up his castle. This is no fancy
picture. 1t is everyday life / should
not wonder IL there were some rotten
beams in that beautiful palace
should not wonder if dire sickness
should smite through the young man.
or If God should pour into his cup Of
life a draught that would thrill him
with unbearable agony, il his children
should become TO him living curse.
making his home pest and disgrace
I should not wonder IL he goes to n
miserable grave and beyond t. INTO the
gnashing OF teeth. The way OF the
ily shall perish
My young friends, there is no way
90 genuine success except through toll.
either OF head or hand. At the battle
Of Crecy in 1916, the prince Of Wales,
finding himself heavily pressed by the
enc ny. sent word to his father for
help. The father watching the battle
from q windmill. and seeing his son
tyae mot wounded and could er,fr tt,.