HOW TO BECOME NEW MEN

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 21, 1888

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 14, No. 49.

HOW TO BECOME NEW MEN.

THE following is from one of Talmage's sermons, and is one of the truest things he ever said. Those who will read the fifty-eighth chapter of Isaiah will find the divine authority for the statements here made:—

"O ye overweighted, successful business men, whether this sermon reach your ear or your eye, let me say that if you are prostrated with anxieties about keeping or investing these tremendous fortunes, I can tell you how you can do more to get your health back, and your spirits raised, than by drinking gallons of bad-tasting water at Saratoga, Hamburg, or Carlsbad,—give to God and humanity the Bible, and 10 per cent. of all your income, and it will make a new man of you, and from restless walking of the floor at night you shall have eight hours, sleep without the help of bromide of potassium; and from no appetite you will hardly be able to wait your regular meals, and your wan cheeks will fill up; and when you die the blessings of those who but for you would have perished, will bloom all over your grave with violets if it be spring, or gladiolas if it be autumn."