The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1901-02-15
TEMPTATIONS TO THE YOUNG.
Sins Peculiar to Men.-Temptations
to Young Women.

Sins Peculiar to Men.-Temptations
to Young Women.
The following Is taken from a SER
mon preached by DR.. Chapel, at
West End Church, Nashville, last
Sunday, to the young:
against unwarranted self-con-
fldence young people need especially
to guard themselves. And since
they are wanting IN experience,
they ought in all important concerns
to seek the counsel of those who are
older. or all the irrational things
of which young people can be guilty
that of ignoring such counsel Is
about the most foolish. To suppose
that you know more about the way
of life than some one else, just as
highly endowded by nature as your.
sell, who has been trying it twenty
or thirty years longer, is almost the
height of folly. Older people are
often compelled to stand by and
with mingled pity and horror watch
young men rush headlong into the
snares set for them by the devil
young people, when warned
under such circumstances, often
reply, 'Oh, you had your fun when
you were young, aid now you want to
cut US off from youthful pleasure.
That is a mistake. No wise man
wants to deny his children or his
young friends any harmless youth
full pleasures; and yet we often
counsel you very earnestly against
forms Of indulgence that we allowed
ourselves. Let me tell you why. To
be honest, we have found by shame
full and bitter experience that they
do not pay. We tried them, and we
are suffering the evil consequences
in many ways still; expect to suffer
so long as we live on earth. If
possible, we would save you this
pain and loss for which there can be
no adequate compensation.
Sins Peculiar to Men.
"There are certain kinds of Sin,
again, to which men are more liable
than women. This grows partly out
of the fact of difference of constitu-
ton, the result of long ages of train
ing. From time immemorial man
has been the fighter, the protector of
home and family and country He
Is what he Is to-day largely by
reason of the long ages OF battle that
lie back of him. This training has
developed within him many noble
qualities, but it has tended to dwarf
one side of him and TO develop
tendencies to exaggeratiol which
need to be restrained and corrected.
There is dash of barbarism in al
most any boy you meet. He likes to
kill things just for the fun of seeing
them die. He is defective in sym
pathy and In delicacy of moral sen
timent, and therefore is not only
inclined 20 cruelty, but is liable TO
be cruel without real zing that he is
so. He is wanting in power of self
restraint and consequently much
more apt than his sister to become
the victim of his appetites and
passions. His peculiar temptations,
again, grow out of his peculiar cir
cumstances. Out in the world, In
the midst of its strife and competi.
ton, he sees his fellows at their
worst and is liable to grow cynical
and skeptical-to exaggerate the
evil that Is in the world and un-
derestimate the good. Then, again
he Is the bread-winner, and his in.
tense and absorbing preOccupation
with the material withdraws lis at.
tention from higher intellectual aud
spiritual concerns. So there is q
constant tendency to overestimate
the importance Of material concerns
There Is also a tendency to allow the
spiritual nature TO wither and die
and as this happens there 10 a grow.
ing skepticism about the realty and
value OF things that are highest and
noblest. This lowering Of the idea
leads To a lowering Of the standard
Of conduct. That Is Nhy Il is thai
we see 80 much that 10 saddenin