The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, December 5, 1895, Page 2

| the center of the earth will begin to life. Ishould not wonder if there | |lightnings of the heaven struck the jheave and rock and upturn itself! were a rotten beam in that palace. I) Facon 10S |barnand away went his Sunday A Timely and Eloquent Niscourse | until it comes to the resurrection of should not wonder if God should! ' aime Bates County Bank on Safety for Young Men. | damnation. “As the partridge sitteth jsmite him with dire sickness, and, | ' | Heavy and Shelf Hardware. Cutlery and Gans} ‘There is another safeguard that I ~ THE TALMAGE |on eggs and hatcheth them not, so/| pour into his cup a bitter draught) Tinware and Stoves. Field and Garden cage i sore ul ‘he that getteth riches and not by | that will thrill him with unbearable “*Stechinets, fagom, wo -work, Iron, WER Obintitl US Gh BUTLER, MO. Wire, The Death of Absalom and David's until the last because I want it to) | be the more emphatic. The safeguard for every young i jthe Chnistian religion. Nothing can | Eates Co. National Bank. | take the place of it. You may have | | gracefulness enough to put to the | Established iu 1870. | blush Lord Chestertield, you may | Paia up capital jhave foreign languages dropping | right shall leave them in the midst /agony. of bis days, and at his end shall be; a fool.” I should not wonder if that} ts hine 2OiL. men’s children grew up to be to him Groceries and Farm Produce ja disgrace, and to make his tife a, |shame. I should not wonder if that! man died a dishonorable death, and | {were tumbled into a dishonorable | | grave, and then went into the gnash-| jing of teeth. great! Successor to> man is Grief—Safeguards Surrounding Youth are Love of Home, Respect for the Sabbath and High Idea of Life. | Now, what are the safeguards of Washington, D. C., Nov. 24—In | young men? The first safeguard of his sermon to day Rev. Dr. Talmage, | which I want to speak is the love of | $125,000 preaching to the usual crowded audi-| home. There are those who have The way of the un-| \ | ence, took up a subject of universal | interest to young men. His text was selected from I1. Samuel, xviii., 29: “Is the young man Absalom safe?” ‘The heart of David, the father, was wrapped up in his boy Absalom. He wasasplendid boy, judged by the rules of worldly criticism. From the crown of his head to the sole of his foot there was not a single blem- ish. The Bible says he had such a luxurious shock of hair that when once a year it was shorn, what was cut off weighed over three pounds. But, notwithstanding all of his bril- liancy of appearance, he was a bad boy, and broke his father’s heart. He was plotting to get the throne of Israel. He had marshaled an army to overthrow his father’s govern- ment. The day of battle had come. The conflict was begun, David, the father, sat between the gates of the palace waiting for the tidings of the conflict. Ob, how rapidly his heart beat with emotion. Two great ques- tions were to be decided; the safety of his boy, and the continuance of the throne of Israel. After awhile, a servant, standing on the top of the house, looks off, and sees some one running. He is coming with great speed, and the man on top of the house announces the coming of the messenger, and the tather watches and waits, and as soon as the mes- senger from the field of battle comes within hailing distance, the father cries out. Is it a question in regard to the establishment of his throne? Does he say: “Have the armies of Israel been victorious? Am I to con- tinue in my imperial authority? Have I oyerthrown my enemies?” Oh! no. There is one question that springs from his heart to his lip, and from the lip into the ear of the besweated and bedusted messenger flying from the battle field—the question, “Is the young man Absa- lom safe?” When it was told to Da- vid, the King, that, though his armies had been victorious, his son had been slait, the father turned his back upon the congratulations of the nation, and went up the stairs to his palace, his heart breaking as he went, wringing his hands some- times, and then again pressing them against his temples as though he would press them in, erying: “Oh, Absalom! my son! my son! Would God I had died for thee, Oh, Absa- Tom! my son! my son!” My friends, the question which David, the King, asked in regard to his son is the question that resounds to-day in the hearts of hundreds of parents. Yea, there are a great mul- titude of young men who know that the question of the text is appropri# ate when asked in regard to them. They know the temptations by which they are surrounded; they see so many who started with as good res- olutions as they have who have fall- en in the path, and they are ready to hear me ask the question ef my text: “Is the young man Absalom safe?’ The tact is that this life is full of peril. He whoundertakes it without the grace of God and a proper understanding of the conflict into which he is going, must certain- ly 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 life with every advantage. Look at those who have dropped from high social position, and from great for- tune, disgraced for eternity. All who sacrifice their integrity come to overthrow. Take a dishonest dollar and bury it in the center of the earth, and keep all the rocks of the mountain on top of it; then cov- er these rocks with all the diamonds |centrate around that word “home.” owed with vice or poverty. Harsh words, and petulance, and scowling may have destroyed all the sanctity of that spot. Love, kindness and self sacrifice, which have built their altars in 80 many abodes, were stran- gersin your father’s house. God pity you, young man; yon never had ahome. But a multitude in this audience can look back to a spot that they can never forget. It may have been a lowly roof, but you can not think of it now without a dash of emotion. You have seen nothing on earth that so stirred your soul. A stranger passing along that place might see nothing remarkable about it; but, ob! how much it means to you. Frescoon palace wall does not mean so much to you as those rough-hewn rafters. Parks and bowers and trees on fashionable watering-place or country seat do not mean so much to you as that brook that ran in front of the plain farm house, and swinging under the weeping willows. The barred gate way swung open by porter in full dress, does not mean as much to you as that swing gate, your sister on one side of it, and you on the other; she gone fifteen years into glory. That scene coming back to you to-day, as you swept backward and forward on the gate, singing the songs of your childhood. But there are those here who have their second dwelling place. It is your adopted home. That also is sacred forever. There you estab. lish the first family altar. There your children were born. In that room flapped the wings of the death angel. Under that roof, when your work is done, you expect to lie down and die. There is only one word in allthe language that can convey your idea of that place, and that word is “home.” Now let me say I never knew a man who was faithful to his early and adopted home 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 art salon, than you do in these un pretending home pleasures, you are on the road toruin. Though you may be cut off from your early as- sociates, and though you may be separated from all your kindred, |young map, is there not a room somewhere that you can call your own? story of a third class boarding house tures, and a harp. Hang your moth- er's picture over the mantle. Bid unholy mirth stand back from that threshold. Consecrate some spot in that room with the knee of prayer. By the memory of other days, a father’s counsel, a mother’s and a sister's confidence, home. loye eall i Another safeguard for these young ; men is industrious habit. There are agreat mapy people trying to make their way through the world by their wits instead of by honest toil. There is a young man whe comes from the country to the city. He fails twice | before he is as old as bis father was | when he first saw the spires of ihe | great town. He is seated in his jroom ata rent $1,000 a year, wait- jing for the banks to declare their | dividends and the stocks to run up. | tries to improve his penmanship by | making copy-plates of other merch- jants’ signatures! Never mind—all jis right in business. After awhile he has his estate. Now is the time no idea of the pleasures that con-| Perhaps your early abode was shad-| Though it be the fourth | into that room gather books, pic- | godly shall perish | | Ob! young man, you must have | industry of head, or hand, or foot, or perish. Donot have the idea} that you can get along in the world by genius. The curse of this coun- try today is geniuses—men with large, self conceit and nothing else. The man who proposes to make his living by his wits probably has not any. I should rather be an ox, plain and plodding and useful, than be an eagle, high flying and good-for-noth- ing but to pick out the eyes of car- casses. Even in the Garden of Eden it was not safe for Adam to be idle, so God made him a horticultdrist; and if the married pair had kept busy dressing the vines, they would not have been sauntering under the trees, hankering after fruit that ruin ed them and their posterity! Proof positive of the fact that when peo- ple dont attend to their business they get into mischief. “Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways | and be wise; which, having no over- seer or guide, provideth her food in the summer and gathered her meat in the harvest.” Satan is a roaring lion, avd you can never destroy him by gun or pistol or sword. The weapo:.s with which you are to beat him back are pen, type and hammer and adze, and saw, and pickaxe, and yardstick, and the weapon of honest toil. Work, work or die. GRINDING A TOOL Depends more upon the tool than it does upon the grindstone. This may be new to you, but it’s true enough to make it worth your while to buy good tools and coming to us will make thateasy. Tools bave always been one of our specialties and good tools our hobby: we also sell first class locks and door and window fast- enings. Infact, there isno branch of hard- ware we sre novinterestedin Bonght astove yet? Come and see our Round Oak; best made. ENTERPRISE MEAT CUTTERS. We have them in all sizes. They are the best gouds manafacture i, we like to sell any goods made by the Enterprise people,all goods made by them are first class and sure to please you. CHRISTMAS ja nearly here, and please remember that we have the largest line of pocket knives, table knives and forks, Rogers tripple plated ‘goods, scissors, razors, straps, carving knives, deco rated tea and coffee pots, all copper, nickle plated tea and coffee pots, boys’ express wag- ons, Barney and Berry’s New York club skates Wapacut butcher knives, call bells, loaded shells, candies, frnits and nuts. Another safeguard that I want to present to young men is a high ideal of life. Sometimes soldiers going into battle shoot into the ground ia- stead of into the hearts of their ene- mies. They are apt to take aim too low, and it is very often that the cap- tain, going into conflict with his men, will cry out, “Now, men, aina high!” The fact is that in life a great} DEACON BROS. many men take no aim at all. The artist plans out his entire thought |- before he puts it upon canvas, be |able bodies, that God should demand fore he takes up the crayon or the|one day for the feeding and clothing chisel. An architect thinks out the|of the immortal soul? entire building before the workmen| Our bodies are seven day elocks, begin. Although everything may jand they need to be wound up, and seem to be unorganized, that archi-|if they are not wound up they run tect has in his mind every Corinthian | down into the grave. No man can column, every Gothic arch, every|continuously break the Sabbath and Byzantine capital. A poet thinks|keep his physical and mental health. out the entire plot of his poem be-|Ask those aged men and they will fore he begins to chime the cantos/tell you they never knew men who of tinkling rhythems. And yet there |continuously broke the Sabbath who are a great many men who start the/|did not fail in mind, body or moral important structure of life without| principle. A manufacturer gave his knowing whether it is going to be a/experience. He said: “I owneda rude Tartar’s hut, ora St. Mark’s| factory on the Lehigh. Everything Cathedral, and begin to write out} prospered. I kept the Sabbath, and jintricate peom of their life without|everyting went on well. But one knowing whether it isto be a Ho ‘Sabbath morning I bethought my- mer’s “Odyssey” or a rhymester’s| self of a new shuttle, and I thought botch. Out of one thousand, nine-| I would invent that shuttle before ;ty-nine have no life-plot. Booted| sunset; and I refused al! food and land spurred and caparisoned, they | drink until I bed completed that | hasten along, and run out and say:/shuttle. By sundown I had com. |Hallo, man! Whither away?” “No-/ pleted it. The next day, Monday, I vhere!” they-say. Ob! young man,/showed to my workmen and friends jmake every day's duty a filling up/this new shuttle. They all congrat- | of the great life-plot. Alas! that|ulated me on my success. I put | there should be on this sea of life so| that shuttle into play. Tenlarged jmany ships that seem bound for no| my businese: but sir, that Sunday's port. They are swept every whither | work cost me $30,000. From that jby wind and wave, up by the moun- | day everything went wrong. I fail. jtains and down by the valleys. They |ed in businese, and I lost my mill.” | sail with no chart. They gaze on} Ob, my friends, keep the Lord's day. {mo star. They long for no harbor. | Ob! young man, have a high ideal | but I give it to you now: jand press for it, and it will bea|ber the Sabbath day and keep it {mighty safeguard. There never | holy. Six days shalt thou labor and | were grander opportunities opening |do thy work; but the seventh is the | before young men than are opening | Sabbath of the Lord, thy God: in it jnow. Young men of the strong arm, |thou shalt not do apy work.” somnre Chase and Sanborn’s Fine Boston Coffees. & CO. Low Price Hardware and G-ocery House. 2 “Remem- for a great achievement | I shall raise a Sunday crop.” And |he plowed the field on the Sabbath, Another safeguard is a respect for and then he put in the seed on the! the Sabbath. Tell me how a young |Sabbath and | You may think it oll fogy advic2, | from your tongue, you may discuss | laws and literature, you may have a | pen of unequaled polish and power, }you may have so much busmess tact | that you can get the largest salary }in a banking house, you may be as sharp as Herom and as strong a8 long locks as those which hung Ab- salom, and yet you have no safety against temptation. Some of you look forward to life with great de- spondency. I know it. I see it in your faces from time to time. You say: “All the occupations and pro- fessions are full, and there's no chance for me.” Ob! young man, cheer up. I will tell you how you can make your fortune. Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all other things will be added. I know you do not want to be mean in this mat- ter. You will not drink the brim- ming cup of life, and then pour the dregs on God's altar. To a gener- ous Savior you will not act like that you have not the heart to act like that. That is not manly. That is not honorable. That is not brave. Your great want is a new heart, and in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ I tell you so to day, vnd the blessed Spirit presses through the solemni- ties of this hour to put the cup of life to your thirsty lips. Ob! thrust it not back. Mercy presents it— bleeding mercy, long suffering mete ey. Despise all other friendships, prove recreant to all other hargains, but despise God's love for your dying soul—do not do that. There comes a crisis in a man’s life, and the trouble is he does not know it is the crisis. I got a letter in which a man says to me. “I start out now to preach the Gospel of righteousness and tem- perance to the people. Do you ree member me? I am the man who appeared at the close of the service when you were worshiping in the chapel after you came from Philadel- phia. Do you remember at the close of the service a man coming up to you all a tremble with convic- tion, and crying out for mercy, and telling you he had a very bad busi- ness, and he thought he would change it? That was the turning- point in my history. I gave my heart to God, and the desire to serve him has grown upon me all these years, until now woe is unto me if I don’t preach the Gospel.” That Sunday night was the turn- ing point of that young man’s his- tory. This very Sabbath hour will be the turning point in the history of a hundred young men in this house. God help us. I once stood on an anniversary platform with a clergyman who told this marvelous story. He said: “Thirty years ago two young men started out to attend Park theatre, New York, to see a play which made religiou look ridiculous and hypo |¢eritical. They had been brought up jin Christian families. They started | for the theatre to see that vile play, |and their early convictions came | back upon them. ‘They felt it was | net right to go, but still they went. They came to the door of the thea- j ter. One of the young men stopped jand started for home, but returned jand came up to the door, but had |not the courage to goin. He again jstarted for home, and went home | The other young man went in. He | went from one degree of temptation jto another. Caught in the whirl of | frivolity and sin, he sank lower and jlower. He lost his business posi jtion. He lost his morals. He lost this soul He died a dreadful death, jnot one star of mercy shining on it. A) I stand before you to-day,” said the | After awhile he gets impatient. He 804 of the stout heart, and of the|man said that he would prove that | minister, “to thank God that for| | bounding step, I marshal you to-day all this was a fallacy, and so he said, twenty years I have been permitted | am the |to preach the Gospel. [I | other young man.” Ob: you see that was the turning point—the one went back, the other be cultivated the} went op. The great roaring world jfor him to retire to the country, |™22 Spends his Sabbaths, and I will | ground on the Sabbath. When the of business life will soon break in| A general banking business trang. | acted. i iFoy DYGARD) - — - President, HON. J. B. NEWBERRY ,} Vice-Pres, J.C. CLARK - - Cashier T. J. Sarrn. A. W. Trorman SMITH THURMAN. LAWYERS, Office over,Bates County Natn’l Bank. Butler, Missouri, RAVES & CLARK, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Office over the Missouri State Bank North side square. Silvers & Denton ATTORNEYS ‘AND COUNSELORS AT LAW BUTLER, MO. Office over the Farmers Bank. T C. BOULWARE, Physician and e Surgeon. 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BROOKS clean linen and right treatment, a call, 29tf In Poor | means so much more than you imagine—serious and fatal diseases result from trifling ailments neglected. Don’t play with Nature’s greatest gift—health. Tron Bitters hausted, nervous, It Cures have no appetite and can't work, begin at oncetak- ing the most relia- ble strengthening medicine, which is Erown’s Iron Bit- . A few bot- { | } | i | ic fa. ‘tell you what are his prospects in harvest was ripe b i ye| UPR you, young men. Will the| : ji i s of Golconda, and all the silver of parse Ad — aa — wits and I will tell tis etal fabtath and je sages md peal wave dasty ont the impressions Flier —— aoe ee Nevada, and all the gold of Califor- nora eens Vet E Z i 2 “i into the! of this day as an ocean billow dashes Zia, roubles, Now the young men who were his schoolmates in boyhood will come, ‘and with their ox teams draw him jlogs, and with their hard hands will |help to heave up the castle. That|bitant, after giving six days to the | nered.” After awhile a storm came is not fancy sketch; it is everyday feeding and clothing of these perish-! up, anda great darkness, and the are oo prospects for the eternal mow on the Sabbath. and then be | letters out of the sand on the beach?! world. God has thrust into our | stood out defiant to his Christian | You need something better than this! busy life a sacred day when we are neigbers aud said, “There, that is| World can give you. I beat on your | to lock after our souls. Is it exor-' my Sunday cre’*-and it is all gar-| heart net pounds tallow: Yon iiss ~ | want something great aud grand and | glorious to fill it, and here is the re-| ligion that can do it, God save you. Constipation, Bad Blood nia and Australia,and put on the Malaria, Nervous ailments top of these all banking and money- ed institutions, and they can not keep down that one dishonest dol- lar. That one dishonest dollar in Women’s complaints.