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CLEVELAND?"OFF TRACK?HOW TO GET ON AGAIN." ? ' J 'A Fl?7 \ 1 The Gospel" hi Handshaking?Christian People Do Xot Give .Proper Encour agement to the Outcast Who 1* Will ing to Return. . Cuevulaad, Dec. 5.?The. Rev. T. DoWitt Talmage, D. D., preached here to-day. Fol lowing is his sennon: Subject, "Oft! the Track; How to Get on Again." Text: Proverbs xxiii, 85 :"When shall I awoku? I will seek it yet again." _ With on insight ir to human nature such as n? other man ever reached,'Solomon, in my text, sketches the mental operations of one who, having stepped aside from the path of rectitude, dekire* to"return. With a wish for something better be said: ? "When 'shall I awake? When shall I come out of this horrid nightmare of iniquity I" But seized upon by uneradicated lmbit and forced down hill by his passions he cries out: "I will seek it yet again. I will try it once more." Our libraries ore adorned with an elegant literature addressed to young men, pointing out to them all the 'dangers and perils of life ?complete maps of the voyage, showing all the rocks, the quicksand*, the shoals. But suppose u man lias already made shipwreck; suppose he is already oft* the track; suppose he has already gone astray, how is he to get -back? 'That "fir V field ' comparatively un touched. I propose to address myself this morning to such. There are those in this audience who, with every - passion of their agonized soul, are ready to hear such a dis cussion. They compare themselves with ^ what they were ten years ago, and cry out from the bondage in which they are incar cerated. Now, if there be any in this house, come with an earnest purpose, yet feeling they.ah?vbeybud the pale of Christian sympa thy, and that the sermon can hardly be ex pect" I to address tfaem, then, at this moment, 1 give them my right hand, and coll 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 your return, and the hierarchs of heaven to fall into line of bannered procession at the 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 sur mount those obstacles. The first difficulty hi the way of your re turn is the force of moral gravitation. Just as there is a natural law which brings down to the earth anything you throw into tho air, so tbcro is a corresponding moral gravitation. In other weirds; it b 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?some of them good, some of them bad. Which, most affected you? Call 'to mind the anecdotes that you have beard in tho last five or ten years. Some of them are pure, and some of them impure. Whiob. the more easily sticks to* your memory? During the yeurs of your life you have formed cer tain course*; of cocduct?some of them good, some of them boci. To, which style of habit did you the ino-e easily yield? Ahl my friends, wo have to take but a moment of seff-ins'iection to find out that there is in all our souls a force of moral gravitation. But that gravitatioi may bo resisted. Just as you may pick ip from the earth something and hold it iu your bond toward hearen, just CO, by the power of God's grace, a soul fallen jnay be-lifted,toward peace, toward pardon, 'toward heaven: Ubrce of moral gravitation Is in every one of us, but there is power in God's grai-t! t?i overcome that force of moral gravi tation. The next thing In the way of your return is the power of evil habit I know there ore those who say It hi very easy for them to give up evil hal its. I do not believe them. Here is a man given to intoxication. He knows it is disgracfag his family, destroying his prop erty*, ruining him, body, mind and soul If that man, ocing an intelligent man, and lov ing his run lily, could easily give up that habit, would he r ot do so? Tho fact that he does not give it up proves it is hard to give it up It Is a very easy tiling to sail down stream, tho tide carrying you with great force; bnt suppose you turn the boat up stroam, is it so easy then to row it? As long cs we yield to t lie ?vil inclinations in our hearts, and cur bad habits, we ore- sailing down stream, but tho moment we try to turn we put our boat in tho rapids just above Ni agara, and try to row up stream. - Taka a man given to tho habit of using tobacco, as most of you do, and let him re solve to stop, and he finds it very difficult Twenty-ono years ago I quit that habit, and I would as coon dare to put my right hand in the fire as once to indulge in it Why* Be cause it was Mich a terrific struggle to get over it Now, lot a man be advised by his physician 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 as if th world had turned upside down. He feels his business is going to ruin. Where he was kii.<t und obliging he is scolding aud fretful. Tb>; eom'Kwaru that characterized him has give:: way to a fretful restlessness, and he has I econie a complete fidget. What power isk timt has i oiled a wave of woo over tho earth und shaken a portent in the heavens' He has tri.sl to sop smoking! After a while ho says: "I am going to do as I please. Tho doctor doesn't understand my case. I am going back to my old habit." And he re turns. Everything assumes its usual com posure. His business seems to brighten. The world becomes au attractive place to live in. His children, seeing the difference, hail the return <>/ their fathers genial ciisposition. What wave of color has dashed blue into tho sky, und greenness into the mountain foliage, and the glow of sapphire into the sunset? Whut enchantment has lifted a world of beauty and joy on his soul? He has gone back to smoking. Oh! the fact is, as wo all know in our own experience that habit is a taskmaster; as long *\v ubvy it it does not chastise us, but let u.s resist and we find we are to bo lashed with scorpion whips and bound with ship cabh*. and thrown into tho track of bone breaking juggernauts. During the war of 181- there was a ship ret on lire just above Niagara Falls, and then, cut looso from its moorings, it came on down through tho night and Uwsed over the falls. It was said to have been a scene brilliant beyond description. Well, there are thousands of men on fire of evil Lnbit, coming down through tho rapids mid through the uwful night of temptation toward the eternal plunge. Oh, how hard it is to arrest then j. God only can a nest them. Suppose a man, after five or ten or twenty years of evil doing, resolves to do right? Why, all the forces of darkness are allied against him. He cannot sleep night?. He gets down on his knees hi the midnight and cries, "God help nie!" He bites his lip. Ho grinds his teeth. He clenches his fist in a determination to keep his purpose. He dare not look at the bottles in the window of a wine store It was one long, bitter, exhaus tive, hand to baud fight with inflamed, tan toliziug and merciless habit When he thinks he is entirely free, the old inclinations pounce upon him like a pack of hounds with their xmj=rie& .tearing, awayat tha_fianks o? cno ^ppor^seiadeejv- -In Paris, these is a sculptured representation of Bacchns,the god of revelry.. Ho is riding on a panther at full leap. - Oh, how- - suggestive! ? Let every ? one who is spoediagou bad ways understand he is not riding a docile and well broken steed, but he is riding a nionsiar, wild and bloodthirsty, gniii'S 'at a death jeap. How many thcro aro who resolve on a better Hfe and say: "When shall J awake?" but, seized on by their old habits, cry: "I will try it once more; I will seek it yet again!" Years ago there were some Princeton students who were skating, and/the dee was, very thin, and some one warned the company back from tho.air hole, end finaliy.woi ited tbem entirely to leave the place. But onu young man with bravado, after all the rest bad stopped, cried out: "One round morel"-* He-swept around, and went down; and was brought out a ? corpse. My friends, there nrt -Lhon-wtitds and teas o? thou sands, of men losing, their, souls in that way; It is the one.round mor*}. ? ?7I have also to.suy. that if a man .wants to .return from 'evfl 'practices society repulses" :*Jhint; BcsMng&yrtfw&Lh6 eafs: "Now, I will rhnke off lay old "associates, Jaiid~ I will find Christian cornnanioni-hip." And he ap peal's at I ho church door some Sabbath day, and the usher greets him with a look, as much as to say: "YVhy; vou-hcre? You are the last mau I ever expected to see at church! Come, take this-se'ut right down by tho doorP1 in stead of saying: "Good morning; I am glad you aro here. Come; I will give you a first rate seat, right ?p by tho.;puIpit." Well, the -""prodigal, not yet discouraged, en ters a--.pra.yjec--toecting, and some Chris tian'-man, with more zeal'than common sense, says: -HJlod to see you. The dying thief was saved, and I suppose there is mercy for youl" The young man, disgusted, chilled, throws himself bock on his dignity, resolved he never will enter the bouse of God again. Perhaps not quite fully disgusted about reformation, bo sides up by some highly re spectable man ho used to know, going down the street, and immediately the respectablo man has an errand down some other street! Well, the prodigal, wishing to return, takes some member of a Christian association by the hand, or tries to. The Christian young man looks at him, looks at the faded apparel and tho marks of dissipation, and instead of giving him a warm grip of the hand offers him the tip end of the long fingers of the left hand, which is equal to striking a man in tho face. Oh, how few Christiau people understand how much force and gospel there is in a good, honest handshaking! Sometimes, when you have felt the need of encouragement, and - otne Christian man has taken you heartily by the band, have you not felt that thrilling through every fibre of your body, mind and soul, an encouragement that was just what you needed? You do not know anything at all about this unless you know when a man tries to return from evil courses of conduct he runs against repulsions innumerable. We say of some man, he lives a block or two from the ?horch or half a mile from the church. There are people in our crowded cities who live 1,000 miles from church. Vast deserts of indifference between them and the house of God. The fact is, wo must keep our respectability, though thousands and tens of thousands perish. Christ sat with publicans and sinners. But if there camo to the house of God a man with marks of dissipation upon him, people almost threw up their bands in horror, as much as to say: "Isn't it shocking?'' How these dainty, fastidious Christians in oil our churches ore going to get into heaven I don't know, unless they have an especial train of cars, cushioned and upholstered, each one a car to himself! They cannot go with the great herd of - publicans j and sinners. O yo, who curl your lip with *eorn ut the fallen, I tell you plainly, if you had been surrounded by the same influences, instead of sitting to-day amid the cultured, and the refined, and the Christian, you would have been a crouching wretch in stable or ditch, covered with filth and abomination! It is not because yon are naturally any bet ter, but becauso the mercy of God has pro tected you. Who are you that, brought up in Christian circles, and watched by Chris tian parentage, you should be so hard on the fallen? I think men also are often hindered from return by the fact that churches are too anxious about their membership, and too anxious about their denomination, mid they rush out when they see a man about to give up h'v sin and return to God, and ask him bow he is going to bo baptized, whether by sprinkling or immersion, and what kind of church he is going to join. O, my friends! it is a poor time to talk about Presbyterian catechisms, and Episcopal liturgies, and Methodist lovofeasts, aud Baptistries, to a man that is coming out of tho darkness of sin into tho glorious light of the gospel. Why, it reminds me of a man drowning in the sea, and a life boat puts out for him, and the man in the boat fays to the man out of the boat: "Now, if I get you ashore, are you going to live in my street?" First get him ashore, and then talk about the non-essentials of re ligion. Who cares what church he joins, if he only joins Christ and starts for heaven? 0, you ought to have, my brother! an illumined face, and a hearty grip for every one that tries to turn from his evil way. Take hold of the same book with him, though his dissipations shako I the book, remembering that he that con I verteth a sinner from the error of his way shall save nsoulfrom death, and hide a multi- ] [ rude of sins. Now, I have shown you these obstacles be 1 l-uuso 1 want you to understand I know nil the difficulties in the way; but I am now to j tell you how Hannibal may scale the Alps, I und how the shackles may lie unrivetfd, and how the paths of virtue forsaken may be regained. First of all, my brother, throw yourself on God. Go to him frankly and earnestly, and tell him those habits you have, and ask Hun if there is any help in all the resources of om nipotent love, to give it to you. Do not go with a long rigmarole people call prayer, made up of "ohs'" and "abs" and Vortver and forever amens!" Go to God and cry for help! help! help! and if you cannot cry for ! help just look and live. I remember in tho late war I was ut Antietom, and I went into tho hospitals uf ter tho battle, and I said to a man: "Where are you hurt?'' He made no answer, but held up his arm, swolleu and splintered. I saw where he was hurt The simple fact is, wbeu a man has a wounded soul, all he has to do is to hold it up be fore a sympathetic Lord and get it healed. It does not take any long prayer, j Just hold up the wound. Oh! it is no small thing, when a man is norvous, and weak and exhausted, coming from his evil ways, to j feel that God puts two omnipotent arms arms around about him and says: "Young man, I will stand by you. The mountains may depart aud the hills be removed, but I will ! never foil you." And then, as the soul thinks j the news is too good to be true, and cannot believe it, and looks up in God's face, God lifts his right hand and takes an oath, an affidavit, saying: "As I live, saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth." Blessed be God for such a gospel as this] "Cut the slices thin," said the wife to tho 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 tvery one that wants it; bread enough and I to spare. Notbin slices at the Lord's table. I remember when the Master Streit hospital in Philadelphia was opened during tho war a telegram came saying: There will be three hundred wounded men to-night, bo ready to take coro o? them;" and from my church there wont in somb twenty or thirty men und women to look after these poor wounded fellows. As they came, some from one part of the land, I some from another, no one asked whether this man was from Oregon, or Massachu setts, or from Minnesota, or from New York. There wo? a wounded soldior, und the only question was how to take off the rags most gently, and put on the bandage, t.nd admin ister ttoeroidiaL And when a soul, comes to God, He does not ask where you, came from or what your ancestry was.' Healing for all your wounds. Eardon for all your guilt. Comfort for all your troubles. - ?Tben-also 1 counsel you, if you want to get back,-to quit uli your bad associations. One i unholy mtunacy will fUl your.soul with moral distemper. In oil the ages of tho. church there has not been an instance where a man kept one evil" associate and was reformed. Among the 1,400,000,000 of the race not one instance! Go homo to-day, open your "desk, take out letter paper, stomp and envelope, and then write a letter something like this: "My old companions: I start this day for heaven. Until I am persuaded you will join mo in this, farewell." ^ Then sign your name, and send -tho letter with tho lirst post Give up your, bad com panions, or giro up heaven. It & not ten bad companions that destroy a man, nor, fire bad companions, nor three bad companions, but one. What chance,-. Is there for., that young man I saw along the street, four or five young men with him, halting in front of a grog shop, urging him to go In, ho resist ing, violently' resisting, until after a while they forced him to go in ? It. was a summer night, and the door was left open, and I saw the process. They held him fast, and they put tho cup to his lips, and they forced down the strong drink. What chance is there for such a young man? I counsel you also, seek Christian advice. Every Christian man Ls bound to help you. If you find no other human ear .willing to listen to your story of straggle, como to mo, and I will, by every sy. ipntay of my heart, and every prayer, an- cry toil of my hand, stand beside you in the ....niggle for reforma tion; and as I hopo to have my own sins for given and hope to be acquitted at the judg ment seat of Christ, I will not betray you. First of all, seek God; then seek Christian counsel. Gather up all tho energies of body, mind and soul, und, appealing to God for success, declare this day everlasting war against all drinking habits, all gaming prac tices, all houses of sin. Half-and-half work will amount to nothing; it must be a Waterloo. Shrink back now, and you are lost Push on, end you are saved. A Spartan general fell at tho very moment of victory, but he dipped his finger In his own blood and wrote on a rock near which he was dying: "Sparta has conquered." Though our struggle to get rid of sin may seem ?i be almost a death struggle, you con dip your finger in your own blood and write on the Rock of Ages: ''Vic tory through our Lord Jesus Christ." Oh, what glorious news it would be for some of these young men to send home to their parents in the ' ntry these holidays which are coming. ' go to the postoflico every day or two to ?.%. whether there are any letters from you. How anxious they are to hear! You might send them for a holiday present this season a book from one of our best publishing houses, or a complete ward robe from the importer's palace, it would not please them half as much as the news you might send homo to-morrow that you Lad given your heart to C .. I know how it is in the country. Tho ..ight comes on. The cattle stand under the ruck through which burst tho trusses of bay. The horses just having frisked up from the meadow at the nightfall, stand knee deep in the bright straw that invite.-; them to lie down and rest The perch of the hovel is full of fowl, their feet warm under the feathers. In the old farmhouse at night no candle is lighted, for the flames clap their hands about the great black log, and shake tho shadow of the group up and down the wall. Father and mother sit there for half an hour, saying nothing. I wonder what they are thinking of. After awhile the father breaks tho silence and says: "Well, I wonder where our boy is in town to-night?" and the mother an swers: "In no bad place, I warrant you; we always could trust him when he was home, and since he has been away there have been so many prayers offered for him, we can trust him stilL" Then at 8 o'clock?for they retire early in the country?they kneel down and commend you to that God who watches in country and in town, en the land and on the sea. Some one said to a Grecian general: "What was the proudest moment in your life?" He thought a moment, and said: "The proudest moment in my life was when I sent home word to my parents that I had gained the victory." And tho proudest and most bril liant moment in your life will bo the moment when you can send word to your parents that you have conquered your evil habits, by the grace of God, and become eternal victor. Oh, despise not parental anxiety! The time will come when you will have neither father or mother, and you will go around the place where they used to watch you, and find them gone from the house, and gono from the field, and gone from the neighborhood. Cry as loud for forgiveness as you may over the mound in the church yard, 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 tlio cane with which your father used to walk, and you will think and think and wish that you had 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 young man who lias 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 iu tho first hour of his life, in steud of being laid against the warm bosom ! of maternal tenderness, he had been coffined and sepulchered. There is no balm powerful enough to heal the heart of one who has brought parents to a sorrowful grave, and who wanders about through tho dismal cem etery rending the hair and wringing the hands and crying: "Mother! mother 1" Oh, that to-day by all the momories of tho past and by all the hopes of the future you would yield your heart to God. May your father's God and your mother's God be your God for ever! The brown beard and hair of Carl Schurz is Itecoming plentifully sprinkled with gray, but otherwise his appearance shows no sign of the wear and tear of age. On the 31st of May last tho approximate number of sheep hi New Zealand was 15, 200,000, being mi increase of G?4.000 on the previous year. Mrs. Mackay's dressmakers are understood to be pledged not to duplicute her dresses for any one else. ^ Lieut C. N. Clinch, by tho will of Mrs. A. T. Stewart, becomes "the richest officer in th ? army." 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