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I REY. DB. TALUAGE. The Eminent Washington Divine's Sunday Sermon. Subject: "David and Abaslom. Text: "I th voung man Absalom safe?' II Samuel xvii5., 23. I ThA heart of David. th father, wai wrapped up in his boy Absalom. He was a splendid boy. juig-d by the ru'e of worldly criticisT. From th crowa of his head to the sole of hU loot, there, wa? not a single blemish. The Bible says that he had such a luxuriant shock of har tbaJ whn on? a year it was 9horo. what cue off w?ighed over tbr pouads. Butnotwithstaming all his brillianev of aonearance hewaa bad boy. and broke his father's heart. Ha Tas plotting to set the throne of Israe'. He had marshaled an army to overthrow his father's goveraxent. Tbe "day of battle had come. The conflict wa3 begun. David, tha father, sat between the gates of th oalac waiting for the tilings of j the conflict. Ob, how rapidly his heart beat with emotion. The two gre-tt questions arer? tob?de;id i :h safety of his boy and the continu ance of the throne of Israel. Aftr a while a servan. standing on the to? of the hous. looks off and sees some one runninsr. K is coming with great speed, and the man on the top of the house announces the coming of the messenger, and the father watches an! waits, and as soon a3 the rne32ng?r from the field of battle com-is within hailing distance th father cr".e3 ouf. Is it a ques tion in rezard to th PstaV.ishment ol his throns? Does he si': ''Have the ar nies oZ Israel been victorious? Am I to continue in my imperial authority? Have I overthrown my enemies?" Ob. no! Th"re U on ques tion that springs from his heart to tin lip. and spring? from the lip into tha ear o? the besweatel and bedusted messenger flying frbm the battlefield the question, ''Is the young man Absalom safe?" When it was told to David, the kin?, tha. though bis ar mies had been victorious, his son had be-m slaic.the father turnet his back uoon the congratulations of the nation and w:nt up the stairs of his palace, his heart breaking as he wsnt, wringing his hands sometimes and then again pressing them against his iemoles as though he would press them in. crying: 0 Absalom! rov son! my son! Would to God I had Hied for thee. O Absalom! my son! my son!' My friends, the queslion which Davi ,, 'la ins. asked in regard to his son is the cu-- tion that resounds to hundreds of parent iay in the hearts n Yn. there are a great multitude o. voung men who know that ihi 1estion of th text is appropriate when gardto futta. a-ev aow-ia- temptation3 by which they ar.i surround?. They see so many who starre I life with as good rs Vutions a they have who have fallen in the patl. and th?y are reidy to heir me ask the question of my t?x';, "Is the young rrao Absalom jsafe?"' The fact is that this life is full of peri'. He who underlays ft without the grace of God and a proper un derstanding of the eonflictinto which he is gomg must certainly be defeated. Just look off upon society to-day. Look at the ship wreck of men for whom fair things were promised and who started lire wlthevsry ad vantage. Look at those who have' dropped from hieh social position and from great for tune, dissrraced for time, disgraced for eter nity. All who sacrifice their integrity coma to overthrow. Take a dishonest dollar and bury it in the center of the ear; b, and keo all the rorks of the mountain on too of it: then cover these rocks with all the diamonds f Golooda. and all the silver of Neva?, and all tb sold of California ani Austra'is. c 1 rut -.n the too oi tiee all banking aud moneyed institutions.! ani ihey emnot k-eo, oowntbat one dishonest dollar. That one d";-' honest dollar in tbe center of the earth will begin to heave and rok and upturn its lf uu il it comes toth resurrection of damna.ior. 'As the partridge sittth on gg? and hatcb?tb them no?, so he that gi-ttpth riches und not by righ'c shall leave them in to.3 midst cf hisdavs andj at his en 1 shall by a foo." . . Now. what are the sa'eguards of young men? Tiie firsc safeguir l of which I wan-: to spak is a love of bom?. Thre are thoss who have no idea of the pleasures that con centrate around that: word "home.' Per haps yrur early abad was fehadowel with vice or poverty. Harsh worsts and pesulance and growling m:.y hav? d-slroyed all the sanctltv of tha: spo! Love, kinicess and self sacrifl; which have built their altars in so mauy abaies. wre strangers ; in your father's house. God pily you, youug man; vou never had a home. Eut a multitud0 in this, audience can look back to a spot th it they ran n.-r forge'.j It mav hava bsen a lowly roof, but you cannot think of it now wiihout a dash o! emotion. You have sen Ttothi jg on earth thit so siirred your su'. A stranger pacing along that plaee might tee noth'ns: remarkable about it;bu. oh! how much it mesns t." you. Fresco on palac-? wall does not msaa so much to you as thos rough hewn rafters. Parks and bor?rs and tres on fahionable waiering p'.a? or coun try s"at do not mean so much to you as that brork that r.i:i in front of th- plain farji house ant s;u r unle t'n wjpinwi'. lows. The barred gate way swung op?n by porter in full dres do not mean as mu:h to you as thaL swing gate, yaur sister on oai side of it an I y rx oa te other, sha gone 3f tetn yrars j int: glory: that siiae coming back to a to-lay, a vra sw?p: backward Jia I forward cn th gat , sin in th? soas of your childhood. But there arsttma herj who have their soa I d willing p'a;2. It i youraicpted home. ;That is al sacrsd iors-vr. Thers yoj &5taV.ish2l tha firsi family altar. Ther your children wr born. In that room flapped the wing oZ th? death angel. Under that roo when you work is done, you expect to lis down ani die. Thera is" only one word in all the lon guagv that caa convey your idea of that place, and that word 13 home." - Sow, let me say that I never knew a man irhowas faithful to his early and aootei hom who was given over at the same time to any gross form of wickedness. If you find more enjoyment in the club room, in the literary society, in the arc salon, thaa you do in these unpretending home pleas ures, you are on the road to ruin. Though rou may be cut off from your early asso ciate?, and though you may be separated from all your Kindred, young man, is there not a room somewhere teat you can call your own? Though it be th-3 "fourih story of a thiri-ciass boarding house, into tha; room gather books, pictures and a harp. Han?; your mother's porcrait over the mante1. Bid unholy mirth siani ba:k from that threshold. Cnsecrats soma sooc in that room with tin kceaoi prayer. By the memory of other days, a father's counsel. ?. mother's love and a siste-3 eon!idnstf. call it home. Another s.a"eguard for tlis? voung man is industrious habits. Thera are a gnat many people trying to maki their- way through the worid with their wits instead of by honest toil. There is young man who comes from the country to the citv. He fails twice before he is as old as his" father was when he first saw the spires o l tha great town. He is seated in hi3 room at a rent o $2000 a.year, waiting for the banks to de clare their dividends and the Morkstjran up. After awhile he gets impatient He ries to improve his penmanship by making copy plates of other merchants signatures. Never mini a!! is right in business. Afier awhile he has his estate. Now is ths time for him to retire to tha country, amid the flocks and the herds, to culture tha domestic virtues. Now the young men who were his siioo'. mates in boyhood will come, ani with their ox teams draw him logs, and with their hard hands will help to heave up the castle. That is no fancy sketch; it is every-iay life, i should noc wonder if there " were a rotten beam in that palace. I should not wonder it God should s nite him with dire sicknesses and pour into his cup a bitter draft that will thrill him with unbearable agony. I should" not wonder if that man's children grew up to be to him a disgrace and to make his life r.shame. Ishouiinot wonder if that man died a dishonorable deata and were tumbled into a dishonorable grave- and then went inio tha gnnsling ct tearh. The way oZ fas .insrodly sha'l perish. O young maa, you must have industry o! seal or. band or fooi:, or perish. Do noi have tha idea that you can get along in the vorld by genius. The cars a of this couc '.ry to-iay is geniuses men with, larC seti conceit and nothingelse- The man who PposeStO THateTiis living by his wit3 probably has not any. I should rather ba an ox, plain and plo iding and useful, than 10 be an eagle, high flying and good for nothing but to pick out the eyes of carcasses. Even in the Gar Jen of Elen it wa3 not safe for Acam to be idle, so God made him a horticulturist, and if the married pair had kept busy dressing the vines they would not have tesa sauntering under the trees, hank "ering after fruit that ruined them and their posterity! Proof positive of the faci that when peoole do notalend to their business they get into mischie'. "Go to the aa, thou sluggard; consider her ways aud be wise, w'lieb. having no overseer or guide. provi th herfood in tbe sumnr.er and gathereth her meat in the harvest.' S i'an is a roaring lion, and you caq never destroy him by gun or pistol or sword. Tht weapons with wMh yovi ar to bat him bactk ar? pen an 1 typ? and hammK and adz an i saw and pickax and vardstick and the weapon of hoaest toi!. Work. work, or die. Auother sareguard that I want to pr-rsent to yoxintr men is a nigh ideal o lif. Som time3 soldiers soing 'nto battle shoot into th groum instead of into tb hearts of their enmies. Taey are ant to take aim to? low. and it is very often that the captain, going into conflict with h'- mo. will crv our. " now. mep. aim high! ' T'as fai is that iu lifw a crat many m-n taVe n? aim at al'. Th1? ar.ist plans out hi? entiri thought before he puts it uoo 1 canva--. bTore ha takes up the crayon or tha oMse An architect thinks out theeniir. building bror the-workmn beglr. Although ev?ryfbin? may seem to be unorganized, that architect has in his mind every Corinthian eoluma. eyry n-thic arch. very Byzmtine capita'. A pot thinks out the entire p?ot of his pom before ha begins to ama the canios ol tinkling, rhythms. And y.- taer ar a gr?at man vf men who stari ihe important stra?ture of life without knowing wn?tr" it i g"inTi t be a rude Tartar hut or a S. Mark's ca thedra', and begin to writ- out the in tricate noem of their lfa witho-it know ing whether it is to b a Homer's ''Oivssev' or a rhvmsster's botci. Oat of 1900. 939 have no life plot. B3tel ani spurrei and caoarisons5. thev ha?te! a'nr. anil ran out ani sv: ;,Hllo. man! Wuitheraway?" ?" where!" thev say. Ob. young man. make evry day's dnty a filling up of the great lifa plo. Ala, that thera should be on this seA of life s" miny ships that seem bnni for no oorl! Ta?yare sw.pt evry whither by wind ani wave, up by the mountains an i dowa b v the va'deys. Tuey fail w'.th no rhari. They ga3 on no star. They logg for n'vharoir. 0. young man. have a hig'i ideal and priss to i. ani it will be a miga'.y svegavrJ. Tuer. never were grander ooporianitiesopninbsfore young men thaa are opeainr now. Young men of th strong arm ani of the siout heart and of the bounding stp. T marshal yoa to-day for a rreat achievement. Anct"ier t.fegurl is a re?pert for the Siobath. Tell me how a young' man soeais ! 1 his Sabbat, and T will tell you what are his prospects in busnes. and I will tell you what are his prosoeits for the eternal warld. God hasthrast into our busv life asacrel iav when we are to look after our souts. Ts it exorbitant. after giving six days to the feeding and clothing of thes perishable bodies, that God shoald demand one day for the feeling an i clothing: of the immortal soul? Our bodies are seven day clocks, and they ned to be wound up. and if they are not wound up they run down into the grave. No man can continuously break th Sabbath aud keep his physical and mental health -Ask those aged men, and they will tell you they neve- knew men who continuously broke the Sabbath who did not fail in mind, bodyormonl principle. A manufacturer gave this a hi exoerience. He said: "I owned a factory oa the Lehigh. Everything prospered. I kept the Sabbath, and every thing went on well. But one Sabbath morn ing I bethought myself of a new shuttle, and I thought I would invent that shuttle before sunset, and I refused all fool and drink un til I had completed that shuttle. By sun down I had completed it. The next day. Monday. I showed to my workmen and friends this new shuttle. They all congratu lated me on my grat success. I put that shuttle into play. I enlarged my business but, sir. that Sun lay's work cost ra $30,000. From that day every thing went wrong. I failed - in business, ani I lost my mill." Ob, my friends, keep the Lor fs dav. You may think it old fogy aivic. but I give it to you now: "HememSr the Sabbith day and keep it holy. Six day3 shalt thou labor and do all thy work, bat t he seventh is the Sabbath of the Lord thy Go 3 : in it thou sha't not do any work." A man said that he would prove that all this was a fallacy, aad so he said, "I shall raist a Sunday" crop." Ani he plowed the field ou the Saboitb. and then he put in the seed oa the Sabbath and he cultured the ground on the Sabbath. When the harvest was rip?, he reapat it oa the Sabbath, and hi carried it into the mow on the Sabbath, ani then he stood out defiant to his Christian neighbors, and said: "There, that is mv Sun lav croo, ani it is all gar nare ?." Afier awhile a storm came up ani a great darkness, ani the lightning of heaven struck the barn, and away went his Sunday crop. There 13 another safeguard that I wiat to present. I have save I it until the la ?t D3 2ause I want it to b the more enphatic. The great safeguard for evry young man is the Christian religion. Nothing Gin take the place of it. You may have racsfuluess enough to put to blush Lord Chssterfiel'', you may have foreign language dropping from your tongue, you may discuss laws and literature, you may havd a paa of une qualed polish ani power, yai n.v haeso .mura busing ti that you can get the largest salary in a banking house, yoa may b as shar a. H-rod ani as strong as SaaiiOD. and with a- long locks as those which hung Absalo jj, and ye. you have no saTeiy against temptation. Soma of you look forward to life with great despondency. 1 know it. I se it in your faces from time to tim. You say. 111 the occupations and professions are f ul'. and there's no chance for me." Ob. young man, cheer up! I will tell you bow yoa can make your fortune. Seek first " the kingdom ef God and His righteousness, ani all other things will be aided. I know you do not want to be mean in this matter. You will not drink the brimming cup ol U'h and then pour the dregs on God's alta-.. To a gener ous Saviour you will not act like that: you have not the hearcto act like tha. That is not manly. That is not honorable. That is noi brave. Your great want is a new heart, ani in the name of the Lor I Jesus Christ I tell you S3 to-iay, and the blessed Spirit presses throagh th t solemnities o this hour v oat the cuoof life to vour thirsty lips. Oh. thrust is no; back. Mer.?y presents It bedins msrey, long suffering marey. De so's? all oiher friendships, provd recreant to all other bargains, but despiss God's love for your dying sou' lo not do that. There comes a erisisin a man's life, ani the trouble is he dos; not know it is the crisis. I got a letter in which a man says to me: "I stari out now to preach the gospel of righteousness an I temperance to tha people, D you remem ber me.' I am the man who appeared at the close of thes?rvico when you were worshiping in the chapel after you came from Philadelphia. Do you remember at the close of the service a maa coming up to yoa ail a-tremble with conviction, and crying out for mercy, and telling you he had a v.'ry bal business, ani he thought he would change it? That was the taming p rint in my history. I gave no my ba i bu ines?. 1 gave ray heart to Go j, and the de sire to serve Him has grown upon me all these years, until now wos is unto me if 1 prea?h not the gospel." That Sunday night was the turning point f that young man's history. This verj Sab bath hour will be the turning point in the history of 100 young mea in this house. Go I help us! . 1 once stood on an anniver sary platform with a clergyman who told this marvelous scory. He said: 'Thirty years ago two voung men started oui to attend Park Theatre, New York, to see a play which made religion ri ii-ulou3 and hypocritica'. They hai be ea brought uo ia Christian families. They- scariel for the theatra to see that vila p'lav. ani their ariy convictions came bark 'northern. They felt it was not right to go, but still they went. They came to the door of the theatre. One of the young mea stopped ani m ne, out returned ani came ut 10 me iioor, imt ne had not the courage to go id. ' H.- again started for home and went home. The ether young man went in. He went from one degree ol teaipiad.Ja ro another. Caught in ta whirl o: frivolity sni s.n, he sank lower and lower. He hose tis business rrsition. He tos: 'his morals. He lost his son. He died a draif-- a not one star of mercy shining oa it before you to-Jay.f' said tha" mi- 1 thank God that lor. twenty Tr: been permitted to prearh thi KoaCi t T the other young man." t 1 Ob, you see that; was the twain rvP. the one went back the other went l f great roaring world of busing Ufe break in upon yoa, young men v!l wild wave dash ou the impriW Jf ? day as an ccean billow dasher tat--. the sand on the beach? You n-ed ot better than this world can giv- vou 1 v on your heart., and it sound hollow v want something sreat and grand an 1 ous to fill it, and here is the religion tha, -doit God save vbu! 'ltaatcia TEMPERANCE. irs rsr qcit, A Baviffalor of ripe 3-a-s ail rar5'-;'i was discharged by ai. moloyr. f r ir;nk. enness. He had used liquor for rji V t m" Ibirty vears. I ut iha )egan a n-w )if "What!" sneeral kn o'.d-tiir- c-Tpan;0V "won't take a lri-V? Haven't s-s-oru have you" "No.' was the answer; just quit." To "iwear off' i. to'i-nna dreary struggle. tTo jut quit" is town a quic, sure vittory. saa jay-ioDl ximes. THE SALOO ASD THE H)Mr. The saloon devoujrs the money cr wio wise expenditure m(u h of th har.-ria 0f the home depends, j If the wife has txi 1 &f the wash tub till evpry muscle aches n i l her whole being is weajry, it is simply t x tsnera ting to have her husband leava her aai co to spend in one hour in the saloon the rnoaev that would have paid needed he! p. Clo; hes wear out.) No amount oT waValn? or mending can keep things forv;- nn. The rags will come, and when thy cms those who wear them will loo'c shaVn-. Not even cleanliness ctn be fu'ly maintain! when there is a lack; oT changes aid t h-k of towels, and these cQ3t money. Th siion cuts oflf the supply. Fuel and liht cost money. A smouldering fire and a dim la-ap can Dot make a cheery room. The saloon puts the fire that should be in the gr:i' int the man's stomach, j The rations grow short. The children worryj and the w.fe is spiritless from exhaustion. The man looks over tha bare table and grumbles, "fhere'3 no con fort at home." lhen he claims he is driven to the saloon because it is so bright and hi." home so wretched, and author?, moralis's and divines support jhim in the claim. This is putting effect for pau?e. The fart i. tha if we could put outj the saloon lights ani fires every oneenipty the barrels. sT.ash the crockery, and make the saloon cark as the traffic is, those homes would soon arrow bright. JDickens represents one of his w.vt :bed characters showing a cup of foul watr to a visitor, and saying: If you had such water, wouldn't you drink gin?"' Very touchinc! But if that man bad been willing to pny for water the price of his gin, he could have hai the clearest ice watej" to drink. The saloon become bright by making On home dark. Science, iells us that when you light your fire of wood or coal, and th- ru'idy flame springs up and! fll's the room w.tb it glow, you are simply! basking in the impris oned sunlight of loog ago. So; wh?a th? saloon throws its light across the highway, a blaze of splendor, ynh simply see co:vvn:ra ted into one dazzling; focus the light thtt it has stolen from scores of darkened home?. Yet the more ot every good it suck o ;: of a man's life, and the. more hopelessly wrt.'hei he oecomes, the fairer the saloon .-e-ns by contrast, till he grows to esteemm, his de stroyer his only refuge and hope. Th- i owr-r the saloon casts him down, the mor n j s sary the saloon, becomes to hitrs. D :t h wife and children can not flee to its and oblivion. Our civilizitioa wiil n?t yi tolerate that. Thev must stay in th- ii?s late home. Now if this were hone-: poverty, forced upon them byihard necessity, wiii'M the man was doing 1 he could to s'Kir" ant brighten, a true wife would rally ail beauty and truth of woman's devotion", to bear up and sustain her husiand a t'.! i it a . But when she knows that the husb-iui who brought ner to it has drserted midst of it for a selfish and svricis i t--iihl which will sink him 4-aaJ them ' v-r y- how can she view. ensure it? Sacred liivt I pAT. TIC-. tigliaV. wj Tii sino? ths tipnli pant in tni cinnrrr. cnsifs cii- ! that it starts many m f n oa th r 1 1 holtc -xc-ess. It fir-ijt. tempts n r: ; 1 who do not wish to dfjin'c and ! r. ' v, refuse. Thei it brings th n ? r.' "l" the tk sts where thejv tik lt t i1' they iik it, because jthev r-rav "'" thev cannot set aloajwit rroat ir. Ai -habit of tippling wouljd s-m to b a N conspiracy for the making of druokri pernicious influence h-ing all tiJ : deadly that it is concjealel cent and raspetable guise. ua . ! t-" ;--.riV nr V IT'. -6i: t i Draakar is 'retreats! have now istnc? in Eaclan I f- rrincir. on wh;.a thev are o make the patiea s stoj drinkinr a 0 to make them absivja entirely f " period, t we've rconths when p "- ing them busy during that tim. -tients always co ne in an a ivm . 1 alcoholism." It has been foun : cet reports, that no harm.- but -coo 1. bvth sudden ani complete ui-'J hoi in such cases; that a large s..--- ,. habitual druakennesi in means a hopel-Ai disease. vii- if.
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