THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA, THURSLAY, DECEMBER, 1896. YOUNG MEN. Dr. Talmage Praaches an Eloquent Sermon to Them. With God's Help Fight the Battle of Life ~The Mightiest Defense Against the Wickedness of the World 1s a Christian Home. The popular divine addresses an eloquent sermon to the youth of the land from the text: II Kings 6: 17: “And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man.” One in Dothan, a young theological student wns scared by find- ing himself and Elisha the prophet, upon whom he waited, surrounded by a whole army of enemies. But vener able Elisha was not scared at all, be- cause he saw the mountains full of de fense for him, in chariots made of fire, drawn by horses of fire—a supernat- ural appearance that could not be seen with the natural eye. So the old min- ister prayed that the young minister mighit see them also, and the was answered, and the Lord opened the eyes of the young man, and he also saw the fiery procession, looking somewhat, I suppose, like the Adiron- dacks or the Alleghenies in resplendence. Washington morning, prayer autumnal Many young men, standing the most realities, have their eyes half shut or entirely closed. May God grant that my sermon may open wide your eyes to your safety, your opportunity, and your dest : among tremendous iny! A mighty defense for a young man is a good home, look back with their early home. rude and hills, and never planned or adorned it Some hearers to have been tender satisfaction It hidden amon may rustic architec r the g the { oisterer But all never or he fre SCO on princely walis looked so I rough-hew rafters You ec: of no p on fash tractive An think rbor of trees planted your meanir him, tude, wi i will be to him a sh d never knew a maz his early the same time was give gross form of di He who from outside from the and unpres pleasure of which I have be SUS cited to be on the br ruin. house, and you know his | And his death of shan f mnnecessarily isolated from dred and f not some room that and adopted SEEKS DIS associat t More ui uming spoken may Absalom dispised hi Irmer associate there you can <a ur Into it gather books and pictures and a harp. Have a portrait over the mantel Make back from the thr some th By the memory of other ther's « and a sister's confidence, call Another di industrious Imbits, in pect to own p spot Ww unsel, and a mother’ tense for a young Mnny vou starting upon make t} world by t ise of tl r wits rather than the of ir hand A now goes [3 before he when boy twice was saw the ) »f the he first great town, Sitting in office, rented at $i for the bank to decl goes into the market expecting night to rich by the rushing up of But luck seemed so dull he other tack Perhaps from some 000 a vear, he is waiting or before are its dividend be made the stocks resolved on some he borrowed his ployer's money drawer, and forgets to put it back, or for merely the of improving his penmanship makes a copy plate of merchant's signa. ture. Never mind; all is right in trade In some dark night there may come in his dreams a of the peniten- tiary; but it soon vanishes. In a short time he will be ready to retire from the busy world, and amid his flocks and herds cultivate the domestic vir tues Then those young men who oned were his schoolmates, and knew no better than to engage in honest work, will come with their ox teams to draw logs, and with their hard hands to help heave up his castle This is no faney picture. It is evory day life. I shonld not wonder if there were some rotten beams in that beau tiful palace. 1 should not wonder if dire sickness should smite through the young man, or if God should pour into his eup of life a draught that would thrill him with unbearable agony; if his children shou'd become to him a living corse, makig his home a pest and a disgrace. 1 should not wonder if he goes to a miserable grave, and be. yond it Into the gnashing of teeth. The way of the ungodly shall perish. My young friends, there is no way to genuine success except through toll, either of head or hand. At the battle of Creey, in 1348, the Prince of Wales, fluding himself heaviiy pressed by the énemy, sent word to his father for help. The father, watching the battle from a windmill, and secing his son was not wounded and conld gain the day if he would, sent word, "No, I will not come. Lat the boy win his spurs, for, if God will, I desire that this day be bis with all ite honors.” Young em- purpose ne vision him | are at their wits’ end. man, fight your own battle all through and you shall have the victory. You cannot know the changes to which you may be subject, but you may know what always will Be right and always will be wrong. Let gen- tleness and charity and veracity and faith stand in the heart of the sketch, On some still brook's make a lamb and lion lie down Draw two or three of the trees of life not frost-stricken, nor ice-glazed, nor wind-stripped, but with the thick vers dure waving like the palms of Heaven. On the darkest cloud place the rainbow, that pillow of the dying storm You need not print the title on the frame. The dullest will catch the design at a glance, and say, ‘‘That is the road to Heaven,” Ah me! On this sea of life what innumerable ships, heavily laden and well rigged, yet seem bound for no port! Swept every whither of wind and wave, they go up by the moun- tains, they go down by the valleys, and They sail by no chart, they watch no star, they long for no harbor. 1 beg every young man to-day to draw out a sketch of what, by the grace of God, he means to be Think no excellence so high that you cannot reach it, He who starts out in life with a high ideal of character, and faith in its attainment, will find him- self encased from a thousand tempta- There are magnificent possibil- ities before each of you young men of the stout heart, and the buoyant step, and the bounding spirit. I would mar- shal you for grand achievement BOW provides for you the field and the Who is bank together tions. Crod fortifications. on the Lord's side? A captain in ancient times, to en- courage his men against the immense armor and the is on the side of their enemies, sald “Come, my men, look these fellows in the face. They are 6,000, you are 300 the is "That gave them the victory. Be not, t any time by Surely match even 8 PH ech hearers, dismayed what seems an immense odds against Is fortune, is want of education hot ot multitad ’ * muititudes of and stand up to the m against y Nay, you hav 14 ¢ be { earth You world sometimes r short of the arm of Almighty be sufficient to uphold ’ orward to the despondency. Cheer tell ng you ritune Seek of God ghteousness, and all other things and unto you." I know you do not want to be mean in this matter the freshness of your life heart cup (zive You v down the not have the to drink life and To us you that honor brimming of then pour the dregs on God's altar infinitely to brave, that is a Saviour so the is not gener have not heart act Th able, that is not manly, LiKe at not Your greatest heart And the want in ail the worldisa new ) In I tell you that i i t presses. t blessed sp (rod 8s name migh the th : Lb of t eternal 1d privileges of life VIS holy cup to Yack ong. other ps Thrust it not bleeding mercy, Cy Reject all ungrateful for all other recreant to all other God's love for do not do that you this ’ Gespise Son some of he ranks of the your conquered spirit at the { Jesus I'his hour is no wan the © the SON ering vagabond staggering over messenger of skies mercy Ww thy Life but after awhile it may be rough, wild and pre- " We seldom une arth, itis a winged whisper ng smooth is now, There comes crisis in the man derstand that turning point until it is far past f read on two sign boards: way to happiness.” “This to ruin.” How apt we are to pass the fork of the road without thinking whether it comes at the door of bliss or the gates of darkness Do not get the fatal idea that you are a genius, and that, therefore, there is no need of close application It is here where multitudes fail. The curse of this age is the geniuses, men with enormous self-coneceit and egotism, and nothing else. I had rather be an ox than an eagle; plain and plodding aud useful, rather than high-flying and good for nothing but to pick out the eyes of carcasses Extraordinary ca- pacity without work is extraordinary failure. There is no hope for that per- son who begins life resolved to live by his wits, for the probability is that he has not any, It was notsafe for Adam, even in his unfallen state, to have nothing to do, and, therefore, God com manded him to be a farmer and horti- eulturist. He was to dress the garden and keep it, and had he and his wife obeyed the divine injunction and been at work, they would not ha%e been sauntering under the trees and hank ering after that fruit which destroyed them and their posterity —a proof posi © pitate history of every I'he road of life is forked, and | ‘This is the is the way out tive for all ages to come that those | who do not attend to their business are sure to get into mischief, Do not demand that your toil always be elegant and cleanly, and refined, | There isn certain amount of drudgery | through which we must all pass, whats | 4 158 thy | days of thy youth; but know thon that ever be our occupation, You know how men are sentenced a certain numbor of years to prison, and after they have { comparative liberty. | strongest defenses | God and do your best ly depart d, | two young men. suffered and worked out the time, then they are allowed to go free. Sot is with all of us. God passed on us the sentence: “By the sweat of thy brow | shalt thou eat bread.” We must endure { our time of drudgery and then, after a while, we will be allowed to go into We must be will- ing to We all know what drugdery is connected with endure the sentence | the beginning of any trade or profes. sion; but this does not continue all our lives, if it be the student's, or the mers shant's, or the mechanic's life, the beginning but after a become « nasy I know ow while those You will be God's sentence will You will discharged vou have at many hard time, things will your own master, be from prison. Bless God that you have a brain to think and hands to work, and feet to walk with, for in your constant activ- ity, O young of your Put your trust in That child had it right the horses ran away with the load of wnod and he sat on it. When asked if he was frightened, he said: “No, I prayed to God and hung m like a beaver.” satisfied, be man, 18s one when Respect for the Sabbath will be to the young another preservative ngainst evil. God has thrust the of life recreative lay, when the soul is especially be fed. Itis no newfangled notion of a wild-brained reformer, but an man into and a toil fatigue to institu- God laws so harmonious that the body as well as Our tion established at the beginning has made natural and moral the soul demands this institution, bodies are seven-day clocks, that often must that, or must come be they sooner or later to the the Sabbath. the lax to tl wound up us HE will run down. Fallure man who breaks Mration ievoles it 1 God week tuary tous fuas peerel ¢ ay, I ve with curse his office The way of side down In one of the o is said that a wonderful child i in Bagda his footsteps 6.000 and a magician cou Mies Aw ay can hear the footstep of that man to the house WAY ship, to«ley, the step not lifetime of usefulness, but one ing step of eternal ages of happiness vet ions of vear mill A noble necta Ld { approximating to it are an in 8 AWAY. ideal and confident e> o The artist completes he great he thought wishes to transfer to the canvas or the the crayon pi he marble before he takes Ihe structure to up or the chisel architect ans out the entire before orders | the workmen begin, and though they may for a time seem to be nothing but blundering and he wreath and Gothic arch and Byzan ner AONE radeness, has in his mind every Corinthian Line ntire plot before he begins to chime the first canto And strange there are who build their acter knowing in, the end it shall a rude Tartar's tent or a St. Mark's of Venice men who begin to write the intricate poems of their lives without knowing whether it shall be a Homer's or a rhymester's boteh., Nine hundred and ninety-nine wen out of 1,000 are living without any great life plot Booted and spurred and plumed, and urging their swift courser in the hot test haste, | ask: “‘Hallo, man, whith. er away?’ His response is: “Nowhere” Rush into the busy shop or store of many a one, and taking the plane out of the man's hand or laying down the yard stick, say: “What, man, is all this about, so much stir and sweat?’ The reply will stumble and break down be tween teeth and lips. Every day's duty ought only to be the filling up of the main plan of existonce, Many years ago 1 stood on the anni versary platform with a minister of Christ who made this remarkable states ment: ‘Thirty years ago two young men started out in the evening to at tend the Park theater, New York, where a play was to be acted in which the cause of re. ligion was to be placed in ridiculous and hypocritical light. They eame to the steps The consciences of both smote them, One started to go home, but returned again to thedoor, and yet had not the courage to enter, and final But the other young man entered the pit of the theater. It was the turning point in the history of these The man who entered wus caught in the whirl of temptation, He sank deeper and deeper in infamy; he was lost, That other young man was saved, and be now stands before capita The poet arranges the « of tingling rhythms to SAY, attempt to without whether yet, men char be fxivaaey ' you to bless God that for 20 years he has been permitted to preach the gos | Mi “Re jolee, O young man, in thy youth, eart cheer thee in the for all these things God will bring thee into judgment. Send Congratulations to ham on the Success of MANY PROMINENT WOMEN... ‘ the Court « ‘ Mrs. Pink- Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Ungestionably the Most Efficient Remedy for Female Complaints in the World--Its Sale This Year Unprecedented--And the Num- ber of Cures Performed Away Beyond its Discoverer’s Most Sanguine Hope. the fir { I su f¥ January O had AL red so # ‘ -— { 2) a womb much Ww PROFESSIONAL CARDS FORTNI test orn hange ful attention t IRA C. 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