Milford chronicle., 1902-05-23
TALMAGE
SERMON
By Rev.
FRANK DE WITT TALMAGE, DID,,
Pastor Of jefferson Park Presby-
terrain Church, Chicago

Rev. Frank De Witt Talmage warns
young people against the tcmpters who
would lead them to run; text, Proverbs
!. 10. MY son, if sinners entice thee
consent thou not"
No cathedral, ii matters not how
lofty the spires or how wonderful the
statuary or how May and bewidering
the architecture, awes the tourist into
reverence unless time has hallowed it.
Then the centuries have covered up
the crumbl.ng walls with moss and
creeping ivy; then Westminster abbey.
with its dark, damp, dripping vaults.
has become the sepulcher Of dead kings
and queens. In the same way no man
has u right to give advice or tell us
what to do unless gray hairs begin to
fringe the forehead or he can speak
out of his own bitter experience. 1t is
absurd for the ruddy faced lad to write
an essay upon sorrow, when the only
sorrow he ever felt was the fright from
the dentist pulling his first baby teeth
and what audience does not smile when
listening to the schoolboy's bombastic
graduation Grafton upon How to Win
Success?" No reformer can have great
influence in attacking clubrCOm when
he himself is so unsOciable that the
hearers dislike the reformer worse than
they despise his teachings.
Every speech. every sermon. every
argument. every essay. must he lacked
up by the personality Of the individual.
1t is said that when John J. Crittenden
arose to address a jury and ran his
fingers through his long gray hair his
case was already half won. All Ken
tuckians knew John J. Crttenden
would not defend client unless he
himself believed in that mans limo
cence. You must respect the speaker
before you can respect his speech.
King Solomon wrote with authority.
He had drunk from the chalices OF
pleasure. He had quaffed to the bitter
dregs every cup Of woe He had seen
the ups as well us the downs Of life,
| He was no fanatic or adventurer. He
was the king who sat upon the richest
throne of the then known world. His
/ pillared halls were lined with statuary
The fountains which played in hil,
gardens moistened the throats Of birds
whose ancestors once cleansed thei
| plumage or sang their young o sleep in
foreign lands. His cellars We're filed
with wine of choicest vintage.
The throneroom and Judgment hall
were circled by rooms above rooms
Near by were his hGrems, in which the
king gathered Il thousand wives AMI
cOncubines. AS the wit once wrote OF
Brigham Young. King Solomon was the
most married man that ever lived
Not only was he great and increased
more than all that were Before him il
Jerusalem. but his wisdom remained
with him. When two women claimed
little child. Solomon ordered his ei
ecutioner to cut the baby in twain ant
give half to each The real mother fel
Oh her knees and begged him TO SAVE
the child and if necessary to give IT Il
her enemy. Then said Solomon: ISLE
is the true mother Give her the child
As a gardener. he knew all about dow
ers; as an equestrian. all about horse
as an architect. all about buildings. Il.
made the ant our teacher As mel
chant. he fingered in the busy mar
to tell us how to trade Today. ami'
wealth and power, within sound q
clinking tankards of gold and rumbliI
chariot wheels. the old sage writes u
eternal protest against sin. My son,
4 sinners entice thee. consent thou not :
! The Importance of starting RICH
Young men dislike to be patroniZet
Although willing to accost each 9TH
in terms Of familiarity, we dislike oil
er people to pat us understanding
IF upon the back. So today, as Il yoml
n man. l thought you young people woul
c, let me try to interpret these words
ST the Bible. would especially interpr
r. them now. because many of you W
have come from far away are for t
: first time living in a great city. VI
are away from home. away from I
n Their and mother. Unless you start rig
you will never end right. The glo
of young men is their strength" II
way to keep that strength is to refu
q, to allow the sinful designations to 81
= the virility of youth.
y King Solomon warns the young pr
D pie against sin. because young fol
are apt to be thoughtlessly reckle
They do not want to be bad; they ha
no intention of throwing overheard
the past teachings of probity and rig
they are naturally religious; they s
to- their prayers when they arise in {
. morning; they say their prayers ag;
r. before going to bed at night. But IL
sti. are full of fun and animal spirits. II
re laugh and sing and frolic just as a c
ner capers, kitten plays with her tail q
atty Il bird flies hither and thither for !
nd, mere pleasure of flying. A full bio
ed lad cannot keep still. He SOUR
and twists and whispers and pas
- notes in the schoolroOm. He does alb
7 everything that the teacher tells
not to do If you ask him why he d
thus. he could not answer. W
EY EchoOlboy when out in the country
not tried to see how near he co
skate to the airhole in the ice? W
boy has not fished when standing u
a rolling log or has not tried to W
~, across dangerous trestle or has
climbed a steep precipice until
ohn brain was dizzy with vertigo? W
fac. boy has not tried to swim across a
d js or merely because the older boys {
ice. he could not?
IN When Benedict Arnold was a 20
lies nan. he would catch hold of the sp,
mus Of the mill wheel and be dragged re-
ions and round, in and out of the va
bills merely to terrorize the miller,
thought tine boy was going to
~ in When a healthy boy at boarding sci
did you not love to 90 rowing?
)EL. you not pull the boat so far from S
. that when the storm came up it
IN almost impossible to get back?
} Uy That is the spirit with which y,
people enter a large city. This is
first time you have ever been a
from home. At the first manifest;
1T of sin you were shocked and horr
LII You were always accustomed to 1
cred Sabbath. You went to ch
regularly. But now you find that
of the clerks and students in the b,
entail ing house consider Sunday a play
4 instead of a holy day, time for
door sports instead of sacred com
ion. Then you begin to grow
TO. ened. Instead of keeping your t
the straight line of principle yol