The Progress., 1898-12-31
DIR, TALMAGE'S SERMON
AN INTERESTING DISCOURSE DELIVERED
BY THE ABLE DIVINE.

and They Are Admonished to Hui,
on the Right Foundation.
TEXT: "Run. speak to this young man.
--Zechariah H., 4.
There was no snow on the beard OF th
prophet Of my text and no crows feet ha
left their mark near his eyes. Zecharia
was young man, and In dav dream h
saw and heard two angels talking obon
the rebuilding Of the city of Jerusalem
One Of these angels desires that vonn,
Zecharlah should be we'll informed abon
the rebuilding Of that city, it's circum few
ence and the height of its walls, and he ca y
to the other angel, "Run, speak 10 hi
young man." Do not walk, but run. for th,
message Is urgent and imminent. So ever,
young man needs to have Immediate ad
vice about the dimensions, the height an,
the circumference OF that which unde
God, He is to build-namely, His ow,
character and destiny. No slow or lapoart
pace will do. A little further on anG
counsel will be Of no advantage, Swift
footed must be the practical and i'm.
portant suggestions, or they might as
we'll never be made at all. Run at the pace
OF hVe miles the hour, and speak to that
young man. Run, before this year of 1895
is ended. Run, before this century is closed
Run, before his character is ineyorahI,,
decided for two worlds, this world and
the next. How many of US have found ont
by long and bitter experience things that
we ought to have been told before we wara
twenty-five years of age. Now I pronose
to tell you some things which. IL Won will
seriously and prayerfuily observe, will
make you master of the situation in which
you are now placed and master OF every
situation in which you ever will be placed
And In order that my subject NAV be- oil.
macteric, begin on the outside edge Of that
advice, which will be more and more i'm
portant as the subject unfolds.
Now, II you would be master of the situo
tioD, 40 not expend money before YOU get
It. HOW many young men irretrievablv
mortgage their future because OF resources
that are quite sure to be theirs. Have the
money either in your hand, or in n safety
deposit, or In bank, or In United States
Donn oefore you make purchases, or 90 into
expensive enterprises, or hitch spanking
team to a glittering turnout. or contract
Tor the building Of mansion on the poo.
mac or the Hudson. Do not depend en- an
inheritance from your father or uncle The
old man may live on good deal loncer
than you expect, and the day OF your an
forced payment may come before the dav
Of his decease. You cannot depend unon
rheumatism or heart failure or senilitv to
do Its work. Longevity is so wonderfully
improved that you cannot depend upon
people dying when you think they ought
to. They live to be septuagenarians. or
octogenarlans, or nOnagenarians, or even
centenarans, and meanwhile their heirs
90 into bankruptcy, or, tempted to
forgery, or transportation of trust
funds, or watering Of railroad or mining
stock. go into the penitentiary. Neither
hadyou better spread yourself out because
ofthe fifteen or twenty per cent. you ex-
pect from an investment, Most Of the if
Teen or twenty per cent. investments are
!ptto pay nothing save the privilege Of be.
Ing assessed to meet the obligations of the
company in the affairs of which you get
involved. Better get 80 per cent. from
government bond than be promised fifteen
per cent from dividend which will never
DO declared, or paid only once or twice, so
as TO tempt you deeper in before the grand
smash up, and you receive, instead of
payment OF dividends, a letter from the
president and secretary Of the company
SAYING that they are very sorry.
Do not say you have 40 chance, but re-
member Isaac Newton, the greatest
astronomer of ais day, once peddlinc cab
pages In the street, and Martin Luther
singing on the pubic square for any
pennies that he might pick up, and John
Bunyan mending kettles, and the late
Judge Bradley, Of the United St,.tes
supreme Court, who was the son of a
charcoal burner, and Turner, the painter, 1
VINO was the son OF barber, and Lord ,
give, who saved India to England, shipped
y nls father to Madras as a useless bow I
raom ne wanted to get rid of, and {
Indeaux, the world renowned scholar and
ssaeologian, securing pots and pans to work
as way through college, and tbs mother of 7
me late William E. Dodge, the philanthro-
pht and magnificent man, keeping a /
!nread and needle store, and Peter s
cooper, who worked on small wages in a Q
que factory, living to give $500, 900 for the 8
loundtng OF an institute that has already y
,,ducated thousands Of the poor sons and Il
laughters OF America, and 2owditch, the t
scientist. beginning his useful learning and O
lmuent career by reading the books that r
lad been driven ashore from shipwreck y
salem. There is, young man, great II
lnancial or literary or moral or religious G
uccess awaiting you II you only know how v
Q coup and take 1t. Then take 1t or get Y
eady to take it. The mightier the oppo- 3
zion the grander the triumph when you e
ave conquered. u
Again, II you would master the situation, b
Inen angry do not utter word or write a Il
alter, but before you speak word or Is
'nte word sing verse Of some hymn T
tune arranged in minor key Il
40 having no staccato passages. 81
Very angry, sing two verses. Ifin posi- tt
ye rage, sing three oerses. First OF all, al
= uhnealthiest thing on earth is to get hi
. sd. 1t jangles the nerves, enlarges the ia
leen and sets the heart into wild thump- g
Y; Many man and many woman has tc
Time OF such mental and physical agita- 81
IN dropped dead. Not only that, but 1t "
axes enemies out of friends, and makes TO
'cnies more virulent and anger is partial CT
consummate suicide. Great attorneys, CO
this, have often won their d.
use by willfully throwing the opposing til
unset into rage. There Is one man you to
~. manage or one woman you must con- al
= IN order to please God and make life
ccc c and that is yourself. in
me hardest realm that you will ever til
lY0 TO Q0varn Ia tho Won I'm Int rvoor ,,ou~ | l.