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r» v> ■ *;v: - \> thb:ledger;:Toapfney, s. c., November 20, isoe. IT’ ,, . ■•r A RESOUNDING CALL. REV. DR. TALMAGE ON “YOUNG MEN CHALLENGED TO NOBILITY.” II« Preaches en Iii*i*irlnj; Sonnon to Open Tli**lr I’ytn toTli< !r Safety, Opportunity and Destiny—Strong Defenses to Safety. The Turning Point. Washington, Nov. 22.—Areeonmliug call goes out in this sermon of Dr. Tal- range. If heeded, it would be revolu tionary for good. His subject is “Young Men Challenged to Nobility,” mid the text II Kings vi, 17, “And tho Lord opened the eyes of iho young man. ” One morning, in Dothan, a young theological student was scared by find ing himself and Elisha the prophet, upon whom he waited, surrounded by a whole army of enemies. Eut vencrablo Elisha was not scared at nil, because ho saw the mountains full of defense for him in chariots made of lire, drawn by horses of fire—a supernatural appearance that could not bo seen with the natural eye. So the old minister prayed that the young minister might see them also, and tho prayer was answered, and tho Lord opened tho eyes of the young man, and ho also saw tho fiery procession, looking somewhat, I suppose, like tho Adirondack.*? or tho Allcghouies in au tumnal resplendence. Many young men standing among tho most tremendous realities have thoir eyes half abut or entirely closed. May God grant that my sermon may open wide your eyes to your safety, yuur op portunity and your destiny! A Good Iliur.e. A mighty defense f< r a young man is a good home. Some cf my hearers look baekwith tender satisfaction to their early home. It may have been rude and rustic, hidden among the hills, and architect or upholsterer never planned or adorned it. Hut all tho fresco on princely walla never looked so enticing to yon as those rough hewn rafters. Yon can think cf no pork or arbor of trees planted on fashionable country seat so attractive as tho plain brook that ran in front cf the old farmhouse and sang un der tho weeping willows. No barred gateway aelorned with statue cf bronze and swung open by obsequious porter in full dress has half tho glory of tho old swing gate. Many of yon havo a second dwelling place, your adopted home, that also is sacred forever. There yon built the first family altar. There your chil- dreu were born. All those trees you planted That room is solemn because once in it, over the hot pillow, flapped the wing cf death. Under that roof you expect, when ycur work is done, to lio down and die. Year try with many words to tell the excellency of the place, but you fail. There is only one word in the language that can describe your meaning. It is home. Now, I declare it, that young man is comparatively safe who goes out into tho world with a charm like this upon him. The memory of parental solicitude, watching, planning and praying will be to him a shield and a shelte r. I never know a man faithful both to his early and udepted homes who at tho same time was given over to any gross form of dis sipation or wickedness. Ho who seeks his enjoyment chiefly from outside asso ciation, rather than from the more quiet and cupresuming pleasures of which I havo spoken, may bo suspected to bo on tho broad road to ruin. Absalom de spised his father’s house, and you know his history of sin and his death of fchamc. If you seem unnecessarily iso lated from your kindred and former as sociates, is thero not some room that you can cull your own? Into it gather hooks and pictures and a harp. Have a portrait over the mantel. Make ungodly mirth stand back from tho threshold. Consecrate some spot with tho knot of prayer. Dy the mi mcry of other days, a father’s counsel, and a mother’s love, and a sister’s confidence, call it home. InduNtrioun lliibit*. Auotl.er defense for a young man is industrious habits. Many young men, in starting upon life in this age, expect to make their way through the world by thousoof thoir wits rather than the toil of their hands. A boy new gees to tho city and fails twice before ho is as old as his father was when ho first saw the spires of tho great town. Hitting in some ofi’ice, rented at $1,000 a year, ho is waiting for tho bank to declare its dividend, or goes into tho market ex pecting 11 fero night to bo mn lo rich by the rushing up of the stocks. Hut hu k seemed ro dull ho resolved on sonic oth er tack. I'erhaps he borrowed from his employer’s incueydrawi r and targets to put it Lack, or for merely tho purpose of improving his pt nmam-hip makes a copy pluto of a merchant's signature. Never mind; all is right in trade. In some dark night there may ccmo in his dreams n visa n of iho penitentiary, hut it soon vanishes. In a short time ho will ho ready to retire from the busy world, and, amid his flocks and herds, cultivate tho domestic virtues. Then those young men who onro were Ids schoolmates and knew no I otter than to engage in honest work will conic with their rx teams to draw him logs, and, with their hard hands, to help heave up his castle. This is no fancy picture. It is everyday lif\ I should not wonder if thero were r.omo rotten Loams in that beautiful palace. I should not wonder if dire sickm i s should smite through the young man, or if God should jhair into his cup of life a draft that would thrill him with unbearable agony; if his chil dren should become to him a living curse, making his home a port and a disgrace. I should not wonder if ho goes to a miserable grave, and beyond it into tho gnashing of teeth. The way of tho ungodly shall perish. My young friends, tin ro is no way to gciiuiuo success except through toil, eilln r of head or hand. At the battle of Crety, in i;i4<5, tho Prince of Wales, finding himself heavily pressed by the enemy, sent word to his father for help. The fulher, watt him; the buttle from a windmill, and sc.-iug hi . m m was not wounded and could gain the day if ho would, scut word: “No, I will not come. Lrt the boy win his spurs, for, if God will, I drsiro that this day be his with all it? honors.” Young man, fight your own battle all through, and you shall havo the victory. Oh, it is a hattln worth fighting 1 Two monarchs of old fought a duel, Charles V and Francis, and tho stakes were kingdoms, Milan and Hurgundy. You fight with sin, and the stake is heaven or hell. Capacity r-r Work. Do not get the fatal idea that yon aro / genius, and that, therefore, there is no need of close application. It is hero where multitudes fail. The curse of this age is the geniuses—men with enormous self conceit and egotism, and nothing else. I had rather bo an ox than an eagle —plain and plodding and useful, rather than high flying and good for nothing but to pick out the eyes of carcasses. Ex traordinary capacity without work is ex traordinary failure. Thero is no hope for that person who begins life resolved to live by his wits, for the probability is that he has not any. It was not safe for Adam, oven in his unfallcn state, to have nothing to do, and therefore God commanded him to be a farmer and hor ticulturist. Ho 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 havo been sauntering under tho trees and hanker ing after that fruit which destroyed them and their posterity, a proof posi tive for all ages to come that those who do not attend to their business aro sure to get into mischief. I do not know that tho prodigal in Scripture would ever havo been re claimed had ho not given up his idl * habits and gone to feeding swine for a living. The devil does not so often at tack the man who is busy with the pen, and the hook, and tho trowel, and the saw, and tho hammer. lie is afraid of those weapons. But woo to tho man whom this roaring lion meets with his hands in his pockets! Do not demand that your toil always be elegant and cleanly and refined. Thero is a certain amount of drudgery through which wo must all pass, what ever be our occupation. You ktoow how men aro sentenced a certain number of years to prison, raid after they have suf fered and worked out the time, then they aro allowed to go free. Ho it in with all of us. God passed on us the sentence, “By the sweat of thy brow sbalt thou eat bread.” We must endure our time of drudgery, and then, after awhile, we will be allowed to go into comparative liberty. We must be will ing to endure the sentence. Wo all know what drudgery is connected with the beginning of any trade or profession, but this does not continue all our lives, if it ho the student’s, or the merchant’s, or the mechanic’s life. I know you have at the beginning many a hard tin e, but after awhile those things will be come easy. You will bo your own mas ter. God’s sentence will be satisfied. You will bo discharged from prison. Bless God that you havo a brain to think and hands to work and feet to walk with, for in your constant activi ty, () young man, is one of your strong est deft uses. Put your trust in God and do your best. That child had it right when the horses ran away with the load cf wood, and he sat on it. When asked if Lo was frightened, he said, “No; I prayed to God an] hung on like a beaver. ” Itcrpect For til© Sabbath. Ilespcct for tho Sabbath will bo to tho young man another preservative against evil. God has thrust into the toil and fatigue of life a rccrentivo day, when the soul is especially to be fed. It is no new tangled notion of a wild brained reformer, but an institution established at the beginning. God lias mode natu ral and moral laws so harmonious that the body ns well as tho soul demands this institution. Our bodies are seven day clocks, that must be wound up as often as that or they will run down. Failure must come sooner or later to tho man who breaks the Bnbbalh. Inspira tion has called it the Lord's day, and ho who devotes it to the world is guilty of robbery. God will not let the sin go unpunished, either in this world or tho world to come. This is the statement cf u man who has broken this divine enactment: “I was engaged in manufacturing on the Lehigh river. On the Sabbath I used to rest, but never regarded God in it. One beautiful Sabbath, when the noise was all hushed and tho day was all that loveliness could make it, I sat down on my piaz/.u and went to work inv< nting a m w shuttle. I neither stopped to cat nor drink till tho sun went down. By that time I bad the invention comp)' t- ed. The next merning I exhibited it and boasted of n y day’s work and was ap plauded. Tho shuttle was triid and wcilod well, Lnt that Sabbath day’s work cost me $.‘50,000. Wo branched out and enlarged, and tho cuiso of heaven was upon me from that day on ward. ” While tho divine frown must rest upon him who trauiple* upon this stat ute, God’s special favor wiil bo upon that young man who scrupulously ob serves it. Tills day, properly obaerved, will throw a hallowed influence over all the week. The song and sermon and sanctuary will hold Lac': from presump tuous sins. That young muii who begins the duties of lifo with either secret or open disrespect to tho holy day, I ven ture to prophesy, will meet with no per manent successes. God's curse will fall upen his ship, his store, his office, his studio, Ids body and his soul. The way of the wickid he turnetli upside down. In one of tho old fables it was said that a wonderful child was born in Bagdad, and a magician could hear his footsteps 15,.)00 miles away. But I can hear in the footstep of that young man on his way to the house of worship today the step not only of a lifetime of usefulness, but the oncoming step of eternal ages of happiness yet millions of years away. High IilenD. A noble ideal and confident expecta tion of approximating to it are an infal lible defense. Tho artist ( ' is m liis mind the guut thought that hu wishes to transfer to the canvas or the marble before he takes up the crayon or tho chisel. Tho architect plans out tho entire structure before ho orders tho workmen to begin, and, though there may for a long while seem to bo nothing but blundering and rudeness, ho has in his mind every Corinthian wreath and Gothic arch and Byzantine capital. Tho P"Ot arranges the entire plot before he begins to chime tho first canto of tingling rhythms. And yet, strange to say, thero aro men who attempt to build their character without knowing wheth er in the end it shall be a rude Tartar’s tent or .a St. Mark’s of Venice—raou who begin to write tho intricate poem of their lives without knowing whether it shall bo a Homer’s “Odyssey” or a rhymester’s botch. Nine hundred and ninety-niuo men out of a thousand are living without any great life plot. Booted and spurred and plumed and urging their swift courser in tho hottest haste, I ask: “Hello, man; whither away?” His re sponse is, “Nowhere.” Kush into tho busy shop or store of many a ono, and, taking the plane out of tho man’s hand or laying down tho yardstick, say, “What, man, is all this about—so much stir and sweat?” Tho reply will stumble and break down between teeth and lips. Every day’s duty ought only to bo the filling up of the main plan of existence. Let men bo consistent. If they prefer misdeeds to coirrcct courses of action, then let them draw out the design of knavery and cruelty and plunder. Let • very day’s falsehood and wrongdoing be added as coloring to the picture. Let blooily deeds red stripe the picture, and thoeloudsof u wrathful God hang down heavily over tho canvas ready to break out in clamorous tampest. Let the wa ins be chafed and froth tangled and green with immeasurable depths. Then take a torch of burning pitch and scorch into the frame the right name for it— the soul’s suicide. If one entering upon sinful directions would only, in bis mini! or on paper, draw out in awful reality this dreadful future, he would recoil from it and say, “Am I a Dante, that by my own life I should write an other ‘Inferno?’ ” But if ycu aro re- foln d to live a life such as God and good men will approve, do not let it be a vague dream, an indefinite determina tion, but in your mind or upon paper sketch it iq all its minutro. Yqu cannot know tho changes to which you may be subject, but you may know what always will be right and always will bo wrong. Let gentleness and charity and veracity and faith stand in the heart of tho sketi h. On some still brook’s bank make a lamb and lion lie-down tog< ther. Draw two or throe of the trees of life, not frost stricken, nor ico glazed, nor wind stripped, but with thick verdure waving like tho palms of heaven. On tho dark est cloud place the rainbow, that pillow of the dying storm. Yon need not print the title on the frame. Tho dullest will catch tho design at a glance and say, “That in the road to heaven.” Ah, me! On this sea of life what innumerable ships, heavily laden and well rigged, yet et era bound for no port! Swept ev ery whither of wind and wave, they go up by the mountains, they go down by the valleys and are at their wits’ end. Tiny sail by no chart, they watch no star, they Jrpg for no barber. I beg ev ery young man today to draw out a sketch (f what, by the grace cf God, ho 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 wiil find himself incased from a thou sand temptations. There are magnifi cent possibilities before, each of you young men of tho stoat heart, and the buoyant step, and tho bounding spirit. I would marshal you for grand achieve ment. God now provides for you the field, and the armor, and the fortifica tion.?. Who is ou tho Lord’s side? A captain in ancient times, to encourage hi., men against tho immense odds on the side cf ilioir enemies, said: “Come, my men, look these fellows in the face. Tiny are G, ()t)0; you are 300. Surely the match is even. ” That speech gave them the victory. Be not, my hearers, di mayed at any time by what seems an immense odds againat you. Is fortune, is want of education, are men, are dev ils, against you, though the multitudes of earth and hell confront you, stand up to the charge. With 1,000,000 against you tin* match is just even. Nay, you have a d< rided advantage I If God be for us who can be against us? Thus pro- te ted, you need not spend much tunc in answe*ing your assailants. Many years ago word came to me that two impostors, ns temperance lecturers, had been speaking in Ohio in various 1 lacf ; and giving their experiepcc, and tiny told their audience that they had long been intimate with me and had beeon.e, drunkards by dining at my ta ble, v. Ju re ’ always had liquors of all sorts, indignant to tho last degree, I went down to Patrick Campbell, chief of Brooklyn police, saying that I was going to i,(art that night for Ulilo to have those villains arrested, and I want ed him to t r lI me how to make the nr- n t. Ho smiled and said: “Do not wa-ito your time by chasing these nu n. Go home and do vour work, and they can do you no harm " 1 took his coun sel, and all was well. Long ago I made up my mind that if one will put his tru t in God and be faithful to duty in* need not fear any evil. Have God on your side, young man, and all the com Lin t forces of earth and hell cun do you no damage. lU'll2lnn» rrlnclple. And this leads mo to say that the n ;;l.tu*t defense for a young man is tin possession of religious principle. Nothing can take the place of it. He tuny have manners that would put to shame the gracefulness and courtesy of a Lord Chesterfield. Foreign languages may drop from his tongue. He may be able to discuss literature and laws and foreign oufttom*. He may wield a pen of umirualcj polish and power, lli^ | quietness and tael may qualify him for muting house, rod and us I *tro j as Samson, with ns flue locks ns 1 there which hung Absalom, still he is ; not safe from contamination. Tho.more | elegant his manner and tho more fascin- ! a ting bis dress the more peril. Satan does n«t care for the allegiance of a coward ly and illiterate being. Ho cannot bring him into efficient service. But he loves to storm that castle of character which has in it the most spoils and treasures. It was not some crazy craft creeping along the coast with a valueless cargo that the pirate attacked, but the ship, I full winged and flagged, plying between great ports carrying its millions of spe cie. The more your natural and acquired accomplishments the more need of tho religion of Jesus. That does not cut in upon or hack up any smoothness of dis position or behavior. It gives symme try. It arrests that in the soul which ought to be arrested and propels that which ought to be propelled. It fills up the gulleys. It elevates and transforms. To beauty it gives more beauty, to tact more tact, to enthusiasm of nature more enthusiasm. When the Holy Spirit im presses tho imago of God on the heart, ho does not spoil the canvas. If in all the multitudes of young men upon whom religion has acted you could find one nature that had been the least dam aged, I would yield this proposition. You may now have enough strength of character to repel the various tempta tions to gfoss wickedness which assail you, but I do not know in what strait you may be thrust at some future time. Nothing short of the grace of tho cross may then be able to deliver you from the lions. Yon are not meeker than Moses, nor holier than David, nor more patient than Job, and you ought not to consider yourself invulnerable. You may have some weak point of character that you have never discovered, and in some hour, when you are unsuspecting, the Philistines will be upon thee, Samson. Trust not in your good habits, or your early training, or your pride of charac ter. Nothing short of the arm of Al mighty God will ho sufficient to uphold ycu. You look forward to the world sometimes with a chilling despondency. Cheer up; l will tell you how you may make u fortune. “Heck first the king dom of God and his righteousness, and all other things shall be added unto you.’’ I know you do not want to bo mean in this matter. Give God tho freshness of your life. You will not have the heart to drink down tho brim ming cup of life and then pour tho dregs on God’s altar. To a Saviour so in finitely generous you havo not the heart to act like that. That is not brave; that is not honorable; that is not manly. Your rn atest want in all the world is a new heart. In God’s name, I tell you that. And the Blessed Spirit presses through the solemnities and privileges of tills holy hour. Put the cup of life eternal to your thirsty lips. Thrust it not back. Mercy otters it—bleeding mercy, long suffering mercy. Reject nil oilier friendships, ho ungrateful for ail other kindness, prove recreant to uli other bargains, but to despise God’s lovo for your immortal soul—do not do that. * Two Kigoboanls. I would like to see some of yon this hour press out of tho ranks of the world and lay your conquered spirit at tho feet of Jesus, This hour is no wandering vagabond staggering over the earth. It is a winged messenger of th ) skies whis pering mercy to thy soul. Lifo is smooth now, but after awhile it may be rough, wild and precipitate. There comes a crisis in the history of every man. We seldom understand that turning point until it is far past. Tho load of life is forked, and I read on two signboards: “Tiiis is the way to happiness.” “This is tho way to ruin. ” How apt we are to pass the fork of the road without think ing whether it conies out at tho door of bliss or the gates of darkness! Many years ago I stood cn the anni versary platform with a minister of Christ who made this remarkable state ment: “Thirty years ago two young men started out in tho evening to at tend the Park theater, New York, where a play was to be acted in which tho cause of religion was to bo placed in a ridiculous and hypocritical light. They came to he steps. Tho consciences of both smote them. One started to go home, but returned again to tho door, and yet had not courage to enter and finally departed. But tho other young man on tori _ tho theater. It was tlie turning point in the history of these two young men. The man who entered was caught in the whirl of timptnticn. He sank dee pi r and deeper in irfiuuy; ho was lost. That other young nan was saved, and he now stands before yon to bless God that for 20 years ho has been permitted to preach tho gospel. ” “Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth, and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth. But know then that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment. ” N ervous Troubles arc due to impoverished blood. Hood’s Sar saparilla is the One True Blood Purifier and NERVE TONIC. th I:! /licit 'alary of the emu He u;.\' be .s shutp us 111 I < ! - Shingles! DRESSED LUMBER ! Sash, Doors, Blinds, Brackets, Mouldings, and All Kinds of Building Materials, For Sale at Lowest Cash Prices. No charge will bo made for infor mation us to amount required for building. Call on L. BAKER. Gleanings of the Gleaner. (Correspondence of Tho Ledger.) Rev. C. M. Teal, of Hlcksville, N. C., was in Gaffney lust Thursday. He is a strong new county advocate, though living in the extreme, up^tr corner. He says he can see no re. son why every man in the bounds should not vote “yes” GafTney-I Mile stone, for it c.io lav no burden on this generation that will not be out balanced with the advantages it will give, and it will he a lusting benedic tion for the good to the nnhornod. One of our citizena on Victoria Avenue has introduced a new ’id u for sport, pastime or profit—that of cat hunting by moonlight. It is amusing and shows that you are in terested in your personal property to call at your u ighbors U»r your cat. I think it well enough to keep your cat at home to devour your own ver- mine before you let it go out to look after your neighbors rat killing. The Colonel says John eaaglit hi.-> bird last Sunday on the wing, but if Peter bad kept quiet Miss Cud would not havo Hew. He hoped them a i glorious picnic and trusts his absence ! was excused. We heard a gentleman in eonver. a- | tion today say while talking on the times in general. Will I can tell very Will when .Sunday comes win re I live by the general disorder of hol lering, swearing, shooting Ac., with which the Subbath is ctdebralod. That expression saddened my heart for the man did not live a dozen rniii from Gaffney and he is a truthful man. 1 said “Kind sir, what kind of government will wo have when tinge youspeak of turn tlieNvheels of state?” He ivplyed they will only furnish material fur the lower wheels to grind, on forj-in is grinding, uml tiu.ii again the highest huth said ’The wicked .shall not live out. half their days.” Ob clear b >y-, bow long before you accept this truth? We saw a colored man today that had much to say about hard Bines. Ire said In- knew wii.it. the burden of debt that was for i h:nl falionjm him with such crushing weight that he hail not money to pay his tax and that he had actually given a mortgage to se cure time dollars. Now this was very sad for 1 thought Hie man cou d havo borrowed that amount There was a man present whom the darkey owed a small amount. By this time some men came up in the presence, and sin always wants com pany. The old darkey drew from his pocket not a knife lo cut his own throat, nor a pistol with which to slay his fellow man, but worse a pint of bO proof lo dam and to furl.her ruin. But the man whom he ow<?“d ordered him not to break the S-. ul and he pass, d on, and I said amen. G I.KANOJi. -• «- Where Are Oar Leaders? (Correspondence of The Ledger.) V here shall ,vc look for Christian leaders now? This itself is a matter i f no sn a!i imp nance as there are- so many men and women made to wonder, where is our protection? Whom can wo trust? This is said II Lc v region where the guspol is preached. And it is said, “Ho oc- cun o i his pulpit Sunday to the di- ligl.t and id fi- a! ion of his flock," but just meet that ‘ flock’’ in a business way then you will see bow long the S Timm la.-ted ; as tin* suyingjgocs, “in at one ear and out at the other." Where are our safe and loyal leaders of our young j oi.ple? It is a great grief to me whin 1 see a member of any (Jbristian church walking un- unworthily of the gospel of Christ, but I am frank to say that wrong conduct on the part of my own church gives me particular pain. What do they mean when they give the sanction of their presence at all so culled worldly amusements? What do they mean? Have they forgotten their vows to renounce the dev:l and all Ids works the vain pump and glory if the world, or what is the inulti r? Where are our preachers that used to visit us and talk with us and to our children that gave us gn at pleas ure? Gone to town where their miiiintcriul work is so much needed. W here are some of our other promi nent men in whom we had confidence. Wo!!, gone to the “circus." They that honor me, I will honor saitli the Lord. • Mus. R. Ann Vatkkh. . - WliJ- Will yen !>::>• lilt tIT III! il-.eat Hie tenii's ivliea Grove 1 !* fa.'l.'Ioss Chill Tonic In :u. pli as- nin :in I - me.i Syrup. 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