The Penn's Grove record., 1901-11-15

Immoral Gravitation - Helpfulness oi
Religion-Door of Mercy Swings Wide.
copyright, 1sol.1
WASHINGTON, D. Gin this discourse
DR.. Talmage depicts the struggle of a
man who desires liberation from the en-
thrallment Of evil and shows how he may
When hen sN!%S a1skeY / viii seek it yet
again" H..
.p %is !, s an No. snla s ia.s a HaG. sd 1o8SEs
in these words is sketching the mental
process of a man who has stepped aside
from the path of rectitude and would like
to return. Wishing for something better,
he SAYS: when shall ] awake? When
shall l get over this horrible nightmare
of ~iniquity?" But seized upon by UNI
eradicated appetite and pushed down NIL
by his passions he cries out; Il will seek
it vet again. / will try it once more
About a mile from Princeton, N. j.,
there is a skating pond. One winter day,
when the ice was very thin, a farmer liv-
ing near by warned the young men of the
danger of skating at that time. They all
took the warning except one young man.
He. in the spirit of bravado, said, Boys,
one round more" He struck out OF his
skates, the ice broke and his l~ifeless body
was brought up. And in all matters of
temptation and allurement it is not a
prolongation that is proposed, but only
| lust one more indulgence, just one more
sin. Then comes the fatality. Alss, for
the one round more! ~ will seek it yet
again"
Our libraries are adorned with elegant
literature addressed to young men. point
ing out to them all the dangers and perils
Of life. Complete maps of the voyage of
life-the shoals, the rocks, the ,quieksands.
But suppose a young man IS already SHIP
wrecked, suppose he is already on the
track. suppose he has already gone astray,
how can he get back? That is a question
that remains unanswered, and amid all
the books of the libraries l find not one
word on that subject. To that class of
persons 1 this day address myself.
You compare what you are now with
what you were three or four years ago.
and are greatly disheartened. You are
ready with every passI-s;sia er = 2 nod 10
cReerl Your best day1 i'll be fowinpme.
I offer you the hand II aud res
cue. I put the silver Of the Cos,
pei to my lips and By Ae long, loud
blast, saying; "Whosot. will, Jet nm nm
come, IN IN snnriai repceeo M .n now = b ane
oiet Voorhees,, the s. and ali the HE.
TTarcyG ves much informnto line of ban.
ner< gre than one-tesr your redemption.
e state is exemptle yet Albert Barnes
Aaggregate valuations in his pulpit one
6perty in the State in o oil rh1'a .a;d "a
einst sSSgl rs 2Szu 2Se soul tonight" At the
Rereas6of the service Mr.. Barnes intro
d14ns a young man, saying, 'This Is the
you1k man you prayed for" But / see
now was a too limited prayer. | offer
no su1 prayer to-day. 1t must take in a
widegf Sweep: Lord, give Us all these
S4far as God may help me I propose to
III what are the obstacles to your re-
"a h, and then how you are to surmount
III Sc obstacles. The first difficulty in the
EcIy of your return is the force of moral
d kvitation. Just as there is a natural
| Ian which brings down to earth anything
youAthrow into the air, SO there i a cor
resl bnding moral grayitation. l never
sha8 forget a prayer | heard a young man
man IN the Young Mems Christian Asso-
CATION ~Qt New York. With trembling
voice and streaming eyes he said: 80
God, Thou knowest how easy it is for me
to do wrong ~ sSw hard md,5 it I is for me @t to
knows not his oNtr ARE who has never
felt the power of gravitation..
In YOUR boyhooA Ton had good asso-
ciates and bad asNt lates. Which most
impressed YOU? Dur3. the last few years
you have heard purGH anecdotes. and I'm
pure anecdotes. Whr2 The easiest stuck
to your memoryas- have had good hah-
its and bad habits. which, did your
soul more easily. yieldE But that moral
gravitation may be res listed just as you
may pick up anything \ trom the earth and
hold it in your hand N pward heaven. Just
so, by the power of Is grace, a tallen,
soul @ay be lifted 1t Z vas Peace toward
ne Tu8es OF
moral CRAWL }sSssbss-4 " one of us,
tRat a force gov pn Ian2 s'0 overcome
The next thhf " way of your re-
turn IS the poweSs vii habit, | know
there are those W. ~ it is very easy for
them to give up elt NINA, I cannot be-
illeve them; Here L. nan given to intox-
family, destroying HI nronerty and ruin
ing him body, mlndH and soul. II that
man, being an ,ntelia mt nan and loving
would he not do so THE fact that he
does not give it up ives that it is hard
to give 1t up. II Isl very easy thing to
SAIL down stream, tide carrying you
with great force, ID suppose YOU turn
the boat up stream7f it so easy then to
row It! As long as yield to the evil in.
cllnatlons IN OUT IN I and to our bad
habits we ire sailingE wn stream. but the
moment we try to "a we put our boat
in the rapids Just aSa NIAGARA and try
to row up stream
y DiNSlcldn btAS rht1put that he
must quit the use of frcn nc Il IL de-
stroying his health. Imam renlies 'J
can stop that habitY enough" He
quits the use OF I ,eea He goes
around not knowing @to do with Him
self. He cannot adj n a column Of
hgures; he cannot I'll lights. 1t seems
He feels his businet N going to min,
Where he was kindN Ar oSjieing he Is
scolding and f%retful, ,ncomposure that
eharacterlzed MN hat ola way to a fret
full restlessness, and N af become n COM
plete fdget. What % is Il that has
rolled a wave of wosA lyr the earth and
shaken n portent in t heavens? He has
quit tobacco. After liz he saws. II
am going to do as ease; the doctor
does not understand case. am going
back to my old habit i~I Ne ratirnss
Everything AZ wiIa usual eomposSn,e,
His business Sc, brighten. The
world becomes aibest{ etve place to live
in, His childrephar e the difference,
hail the return ofkUe hther's genial dis
position, What Yesf, color has dashed
blue into the skye reenness into the
mountain foliage IF. glow of sapphire
into the sunset? TN enchantment has
lifted a world of nve and joy on his
soul? He has resr- ohaeco,
The s2tnn isff,sss W in our ex-
periepss wIrenothes taskmaster. As
Ia his jn,s nf 8 not chastise us.
Bun Ssm we find that we
are N..opos.ehi whips and bound
with MIDI ", slck thrown into the
track Of hon 70 ce5 Iuggernauts.
In Paris tfv-- ulptured represen-
tation of Bacehus.s ,o1 Of revelry. He
is riding on a paIs& at full leap, Oh,
how suggestivei Lets very one who IS
speeding on bad way Understand he IS
not riding a docile and we'll broken steed.
but that he is riding monster wild and
bloodthirsty and going "a death leap.
[ nave also to say man wants to
return from evil practE society repulses
him. The prodigal, hing to return,
tries to take some p4 ssor of religion
by the hand. The ri iessor of religion
looks at him, looks at The faded apparel
and the marks of dissl hon, and instead
Of giving him a firm g OF the hand of
fers him the tip end Of ne longer fingers
of the left hand, which s equal to strik-
ing a man in the face,
Oh, how few Chris q people under
stand how much gospel s3ere is in a good,
honest Handwriting! 2metlmes when
You have left the neoE VI encouragement
and some Christian has taken you
heartily by the handf L.e YOU not felt
4br;u;n, tbran,h avarvt NJ Of vOur bn6y