The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1901-11-15
FREEDOM FROM SIN.
Dr.. Talmage Depicts Struggle Of
Man Who Desires Liberation.
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the Good Angel and the Bad
@ Angel striving for Victory
Over the Soul.

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ment of evil and shows how he may
be set free; text, Proverbs 23:35:
"When shall awake? I will seek it
Jet again."
With an insight into human nature
such as no other man ever had Sol
onion in these words is sketching the
mental processes of a man who has
stepped aside from the path of rec
titude and would like to return.
Wishing for something better. he
says: when shall I awake? When
shall I get over this horrible night
mare of iniquity?" But, seized upon
by an uneradicated appetite and
pushed down hill by his passions, he
cries out: II wilt seek it yet again.
will try it once more!"
About mile from Princeton, N.
j., there is skating pond. One win
ter day, when the ice was very thin,
q farmer living 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 on his skates, the ice broke, and
his lifeless body was brought up. And
In all matters of temptation and al
lurement it is not a prolon ton
that is proposed, but only just one
more indulgence. just one more sin.
Then comes the fatality. Alas, for
the one round more! II will seek it
yet again"
Our libraries are adorned with ele-
giant literature addressed to young
men pointing out to them all the dan
gers and perils of life-complete
maps of the voyage of life-the
shoals, the rocks. the quicksands.
But suppose a young man is already
shipwrecked, suppose he is already
off the track, suppose he has already
gone astray, how can he get back?
That is a question that remains I'M
answered, and amid all the books Of
that subject.
You compare what you are now
with what you were three or four
years ago, and you are greatly dis
heartened. You are ready with every
passion of your soul to listen to a
discussion like this. Be of good
cheerl Your best days are yet to
come. I offer you the hand of well
comes-and rescue. I put the silver
trumpet of the gospel to my lips and
blow one long, loud blast, saying:
'Whosoever will, let him come, and
let him come now" The church of
God Is ready to spread banquet
upon your return, and all the
hierarchs of Heaven fall into line OF
hammered procession over your re-
demption.
So far as God may help me I pro-
pose to show what are the obstacles
to your return and how you are to
surmount those obstacles. The first
difficulty in the way of your return
Is the force of moral gravitation.
Just as there is natural law which
brings down to earth anything you
throw into the air, SO there is q cor
responding moral ,gravitation. I
never shall forget prayer heard q
young man make in tAe Young Mems
Christian association of New York.
With trembling voice and streaming
eyes he said: 20 God Thou knowest
how easy it is for me to do wrong
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right! God help mel" That man
knows not his own heart who has
never felt the power. of moral gray
itation.
In your boyhood you had good asso-
ciates and bad associates Which most
impressed you? During the last few
years you have heard pure anecdotes
and impure anecdotSs. Which the
easiest stuck in your memory? You
have had good habits, land bad habits.
To which did your soul more easily
yield But that moral gravita ton may
be resisted. Just as you may pick up
anything from the earth and hold it
in your hand toward heaven, just SO,
by the power of Gods grace, a fallen
soultmay be lifted toward peace, to-
ward pardon, toward salvation. The
force of moral gravitation is in every
one of us, but also power in Gods grace
to overcome that force.
The next thing in the way of your
return is the power of evil habit. I
know there are those who say it is
very easy for them to give up evil hab-
its. I cannot believe them. Here is a
man given to intoxicatio who knows
it is disgracing his family, destroying
his property and running him-body,
mind and soul. If that man, an intel
hgent man and loving his family, could
give up that habit. would he not do
80? The fact that he does not give
&c up proves that it is hard to give II