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REV. DR. TALMAGE. “How to Conquor.”—(Preached at Late Maxintnckee ' ’ Tnd l Text: “When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.”- Vrov. xxiii., 35. With an insight into human nature such as no other mail ever reached, Solomon, in my text, sketches the mental operations of one rectitude who. having stepped aside from the path of recuuuu. desires aesiiesTO to return letuin With vvun a n wish wisn for ioi something better, he said: “When shall I awake ■awah-e. 1 ' When .v nen snan shall I i come come nut out of oi this tnisnoiriu horrid nightmare uneradicted of iniquity?” But, seized upon by by habit, and forced .down hill nX °Our SS1 fwill trwlt once mon" “ ^ libraries are adorned with an elegant sffis&iENS hasalreadv made shin-wreck suppose sunnose a a men m r .n nasaneaaj mane smpwrecK, suppose he is already oil the track; suppose g'ttacK he has alreadv xt.fi»£ <rone astrav How is he to I propose to address myself to suclr every passion or tueir 5*‘5S5S5i’!Si agonized soul, 'St are ready to hear such a discussion. They com pare themselves with what they were ten years ago, and erv out from the bondage in which thev -ire incarcerated with Now an' if therp ' be anv here eome earnest lievmill numose vci feelina tliev 'and nrp thenale of cmf Christian svmoafhv that the sermon hardly be exported to address them, then, at this moment, I give them my right hand, a ud call them brother. Look up. There is glorious and triumphant hope for you yet I sound the trumpet of Gospel deliverance. The church is ready to spread a banquet at vour return, and the hierarchs of heaven to fall into line of bannered pro cession at tho news of your emancipation. So far as God may help me, I propose to show what are the obstacles of your return, and then 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 a natm-al law which brings down to the earth anything you throw into the air, so there is a corresponding moral gravi tation. In other words, it is easier To go down than it is to go up; it is easier to do wrong than it is to do right. Call to mind the comrades of your boyhood days wmo nf tbom rv 0 o(] cmno nV thom which most affected you? Call to mind the anecdotes that you have heard in the last five or ten years-some of them are pure and some of them impure Which the more easily sticks to vour memoi"-? During the years of your life you have formed.certain courses of conducG-some of . them good, some of them bad. To which style habit did you the more easily vnM 1 * Ah mv “f fripnrlq seTf-ffispTction wp hnvp to ket a moment to find tvmt, fiiprn, ic in all nnr srml^ n for^p moral gravitation! But that gravitation may be resisted. Just as you may pick wp from£he earth something and hold it in your hand .toward heaven, just so, by the power of God’s grace, a soul fallen may be lifted toward jieace, toward pardon, toward heaven. Force of moral God’s gravitation in every one that of us. but power in grace to overcome foree of mnnl cn-nvititir,n The next thiiw fvil in the wav y of vour return is the power of habit. i know there are np°evB those who tbtl rav it I is do verv not easv bleve^eT for tliem to K ^ive Is disscaJLo- « limn ffiven to intoxication He knows it is ortv‘. “amiuiSg his family Wdy,' destroying: his prop- soik him. mind and If that man, being an inteUigent oecil(- man, ..J 1 s f«miiv eoniri trive im that j,ahit would lie not do so? The fact that he does not give it avSy up proves that it is hard to give streaul it ub It is easy thing to sail down the tide carrying vou^urn vou with great force-but is’itsoeasv sun thento^ow™^ksw“Vield nose the boat upstream our°hearfe to&e evil inclinations in and our but S bad moment we try to turn, wc put our boat in the rapids lust above Niagara and try to row up stream. Take a man given to the habit of using tobacco, as most of you do, and let him iresdlve to stop, and he finds it very difficult. Twenty-seven years ago I quit that habit, .and.I would as soon dare to put my right hand in i the fire as once to indulge in it. Why? Because it was such a terrific struggle to get over it. Now, let a man be advised by his physi cian to give up the use of tobacco, He goes around not knowing what to do with himself. He cannot add up a line of figures. He cannot sleep nights. It seems us’if the world had turned upside down. He feels his business going to ruin. Where he was kind and obliging he is scolding and fretful. The composure that characterized him has given way*to a fretful restlessness, and he has become a complete fidget. What power is it that has rolled a wave of woe over the earth and shaken a portent in the heavens? He has tried to stop smoking or chewing! After a While he says, “I am going to do as I please. The doctor doesn’t under stand my case. Frn going back to my old habit.” And he returns. Everything assumes its usual composure. His business seems to brighten, the world becomes an attractive place to live in. His children, seeing the difference, hail the return of their father’s genial disposition. What wave of color has dashed blue into the skv, and greenness into the mountain foliage, and the glow of sapphire into the sunset? What en chantment has lifted a world.of beauty and iov on his soul? He has gone back to to Oh, the fact is, as we all know in our own experience, that habit is a taskmaster; as long as we obev it, it does not chastise us: but let us resist, and we find we are to be lashed with scorpion whips and bound with ship cable, and thrown into the track of bone-breaking Juggernauts! During the war •of 1812 there was a ship set on fire loose just from above its Niagara Fails, and then, cut moorings, it eame on down through the night and tossed over the falls. It was said to have been a scene brilliant beyond all description, Well, there are thousands of men on fire of evil habit, coming down through the rapids and through the awful night of temptation toward the eternal plunge. Oh! how hard it is to arrest them. God only can arrest them. Suppose a man after five, or ten. or twenty vearsof evil doing,resolves to do right? Why, all the forces of darkness are allied against him He cannot sleep nights. He gets down on his knees in the midnight and erics, “God, help me.”’ He bites his lip. He grinds liis teeth. He clenches his fist in his determine. tion to keen his purpose. He dare not look at the bottles in the window of a wine store. It was one long, bitter, exhaustive, hand to hand fight, with inflamed, tantalizing and merciless habit. When he thinks he is en tirely free, the old inclinations pounce upon him like a pack of hounds with their muzzles tearing away at the flanks of one poor rein deer. In Paris there is a sculptured repre- He mentation of Bacchus, the god of revelry. is riding on a panther at full leap. Oh, how suggestive! Let every one who is speeding riding on bad ways understand he is not a docile and well-broken steed, but he is riding a monster, wild and bjoodthirstv. going at a death * • leap. But one young man with bravado, after all the rest had stopped, cried out: “One round more!” He swept around and went down, and was brought thousands out a corpse. My friends, there are and tens of thousands of men losing their souls in that wav. ‘ It is the one round more. j have also to say that if a man wants to retarn Horn evd practmes somety repulses nun. iiesiring to lciorm. ne says. ' AO* i ^vill sliukcoil my old sssocifltos, and 1 will . Christian corrmmiionshin ” Ami he nna vmisuan compamonsnip. ! m ,P e an- a P pears * at the church door some Sabbath , day, , aua 1116 ustiu greets o-reets him him with with a a wk look, as as ver Secl^tosee a JZvhl ****** of saying: “Good morning; f am glad with more zeal than common sense, savs: , • tVlifif wiaa to see you. me ay mg mier wfl was „ saved, and I J suppose there is mercy for you ” TW }om e chiuk tlfrow, StjSZm7SS££S'i6Z 3££ PoSS i J & non, ne siaes up Dy some hitrhlv m niy respectatne resneetahlc man he used to know going down the street, and immediately the respectable man has an errand down some other street! Well, the prodigal, Christian wishing to association return, takas by- some hand, mem ber of a the or tries to. The Christian young man looks at him, looks at tho faded apparel and the marks of dissipation, and instead of giving him a S»P of the hand offers him the tip end of the long fingers of the left hand, which is eo Oh, ’"I^ how few Christian m the people Her. understand how much force and Gospel there is in a g°° d - honest handshaking! Sometimes, when T some ou ^T Christian 6 .^ the man Ileedof has encouragement,and taken you heartily ! hy the hand, have you not felt that thrilling through every fibre of your body, mind and 30ul - an encouragement that was just what you needed? You do not know anything at aV ' out thls ualess know wh ® n a ma ” f ncs to retu rn from evl1 courses of conduct, , he runs against . repulsions innumerable. We f? man ’ he lives a block or two from the church, or half a mile from the church. There are people m our crowded cit ies who h ve a thousand miles from the church Vast deserts or indifference between them and the respectability, house af ,»? d - /£ though he thousands >ve must and keep tens of thousands perish Christ sat with publi eans and sinners. But if there comes to the house of God a man with marks of dissipation upon him, people throw up their hands in horror,_as much as to say: Isn’t it shock ln S ? Haw thes e dalnu >'- fa - stldloa s Chris tians m . all our churches . are going to get into heaven 1 dont know, unless they have an especial train of cars, cushioned and up bolstered, each one a car herd to himself! they and cannot go with the great of publicans sinners. Oh, ye, '' d 1 °_ '; ar 1 y® ar J u ‘ scorn at the _ fallen, I tell . I you r plainly, r . n if you had ^surrounded by the same mfluenc^ ins “ of sittingto-dayamid the cnltuied would and tha reflucd „ and the Christ a,, you ditrtq covered with ibth andabommaton! „ L w It is not because you are naturally any bot ter, but because the mercy of God has pro ***** Who are yo^ that broughtup m Christian circles, and watched by ChriB «an parentage, you should be so hard on tho fa llon. 1 tliink men a)so are often hindered from r etura ^. tke ? act that churches are too anx ions about their membership and too anxious about their denomination, and they rash out when they see a man about to give up his si ^ an f going to be baptized, whether by sprinkling ? r immersion, and what land of a church he is going to join. Oh, my friends! It is a P° or Gme to talk about Presbyterian Metho- cate chisms, and Episcopal liturgies, and dist lovo " foasfcs ’ and baptisteries to a man ™ coming out of the darkness ofsin into the glonous light of the Grospel. ^ by, it reminds us of a man drowning in the sea, and a lifeboat puts out for him, and the man in the boat says to the nmn out of the boat: --Now, if I get you ashore, ar e you going to live in my street, First . get him ashore, and then tail: about the non-essentials of religion. AV ho cares wliat church he joins, if he only joins Christ and starts for heaven? Oh, you ought to and have, | my brother an illumined face, a hearty grip for every one that tries to turn from Lys evil way. Take hold of the same book with him, though his dissipations shake the book, remembering that he that con¬ Terteth a sinner from the error of his ways shall save a soul from death, and hide a multitude of sins. Now., I have shown you these °b staeles because I want you to under¬ stand I know all the difhculties in the way^* but I am now to tell you how Hannibal may scale the Alps and how the shackles may be unnveted and how the paths of virtue forsaken may be re gained. First of all, my brother, throw yourself on and God. tell Go Him to Him, these frankly habits and earnestly, Him, help you all have, and ask if there is any in the resources of omnipotent love, to give it to you. Do not go with a long rigmarole people call prayer, made up ot ohs and “ahs” and “forever and forever amens!’ Go to God and cry for help! help! help, and if you cannot ery for help just look and live, I remember in the war I was at Antietam, and I went into the hospitals after the battle, and I said to a man, -VV here are you hurfcf’ He made no answer, hut held up his arm swollen and splintered, I saw where he was hurt. The simple tact i s » when a man has a wounded soul, all he has to do is to hold it up before a sympathetic Eord and get it healed. It does not take any long prayer Just hold up the wound, Oh, it is no small thing when a man is nerv ous an ^ and exhausted, coming from hp evil ways, to feed that (rod puts two om nipotent arms around about him and says: “Yo V*? uian, I will stand by you! The mountains may depart and the lulls be re moved, but I will never fail you. And then, as the soul thinks the news if. too good to be true, and cannot believe it, and looks up m God s face, God lifts His right hand and takes au oath, an affidavit, saying: "As I live, saith the Lord God. I have uo pleasure m the death of him that dieth.” Blessed be God for such a Gospel as this, “Cut the slices thin,” said the wife to the husband, “or there will not be enough to go all around for the children: cut the slices thin.” Blessed be God. there is a full loaf for every one that wants it; bread enough and to spare. No thin slices at the Lord’s table. I remember when the Master Street hos pital m Philadelphia, was opened during the war, a telegram came saying: ‘There will be three hundred wounded men to-night; be ready to take care of them: and from my church there went m some twenty or thirty men an ^ women to look after these poor wounded fellows. As they came, some from one part of the land, whether some this from man was another,^no from Oregon, one or asked from Massachusetts, or from Minnesota, or from New York. There was a wounded soldier, ind the only question was how to take off the bandage, moral distemper. In all the ages of tlio church there has not been an instance where » man kept one evil associate and was re formed. Among the fourteen hundred mill ion of the race not one instance. t»o Home to-day, open your desk, take out letter paper, stamp and envelope, and then write a letter ^My^ld .^^ companions- mn^rsuaSyS I start this will day for job, . this ’ farewell.” Then sign . vour name, and , send , »■ the v ^ letter . ■ with " the tlle first first nnst post. {livn trive im up vran- youi bad Dau tom- com panions, “tA, or give up heaven. It is not ten bad cZpanhms * | t . rov a man ’ nor five bail nm three bad companion, £ut one. What chance is there for gjJ men wiftm ha'tfnjlu suinmci mgnt ana me uooi was held ieit him open, fast, and I saw tho ,Y process. They hie nnd thev and they put the cup to ms lino lips, and tney f Wt!h ““ ^aA.m I c«tS S .1.1, “o'k “ri.tim advice. First of all, seek God; S j.t then ir i seek m*™. Christian ’ counsel, ( rather all the , . oflbody .., , up energies God for mmd and soul, and appealing everlasting to success, declare this day gambling war against all drinking habits, Half-and-half all practices, all houses of sin. work will amount to nothing; it must bo a Waterloo. Shrink back now and you are lost. Push on and you are saved. A Spar tan general fed at the very moment of vic tory but ho dipped his finger m his own blood and wrote on a rock near which he was dying “Sparta has conquered. ’ Though your struggle to got rid of sin may « be almost a death struggle, you can dip your the finger in your own blood and write on Rock of Ages, “Victory through our Lord Jesus Chi 1 st. Oh, what glorious news it would be for some of these young men to send home to then- parents They go to the postoflico every day or two to see whether there are any letters from you. How anxious they are to hear. borne one said to a Grecian general: ‘ VVhat was the proudest moment in your life?” He thought a moment, and said: “The proudest moment of my life was when I sent word home to my parents that I had gained the victory.” And the proudest and m0 st brilliant moment in your life will be the moment when you can send word to your pa rents that you have conquered your evil habits by the grace of God and become eternal victor. Oh, desjuse not parental anxiety! The will come when you wil have neither father nor mother, andyouwil go around the place where they used to watch you and find them gone from the house, and gone from the field, and loud gone from the neighborhood. Cry the as for forgiveness as you may over mound in the churchyard, they will not answer. Dead! Dead! And then you will take out the white lock of hair that was cut from your mother’s brow just before they buried her, and you will take the cane with which your father used to wal k, and you will think, had ami think, and wish that you done just as they wanted you to, and would give the world if you had never thrust a pang through their dear old hearts. God pity the poor young man who has brought disgrace on his father’s name! God pity the young man who has broken his mother s heart! Better if he had never been born—better if, in tho first hour of his life, instead of being laid against the warm bosom of maternal tenderness, he had been coffined and sepulchered. There is no balm power fl ‘! f, n0U f h hoai the heart of one who has brought parents to a sorrowful gi-ave and who wanders about through the dismal cemetery, rending the hair, and wringing the hands, and crying: “Mother! mother!” Oh, that today by all the memories of the you' past and yielf by all tho hopes rt^, of ^° the ^- future, would your Ima ( y° UI father s bod and your mothers brod be your God forever! Making the Best of lt. ... ‘./sr l JL—i . x r i I’, r i % Hk ! I q Si I. Hasty flight with the prize. - <■**?= A I '! ! P i. ' i i Mr 71 5 I VC. f’l' i iMM t: if I I ! i 1 w <^3 II. Stuck fast, but bound to get away with that watermelon. Judge (to prisoner)—“So you were drunk and disorderly? What have you to say 9” ? Prisoner—“I've a good deal to say, your honor, if you’ll only give me time to say it.” Judge—“Certainly, with pleasure. Sixty days will Vie enough, won’t it? Our object is to please.”— Washington Critic. 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