The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1883-01-17
TALMAcE ora LIFE.
Reasons Why IL May be Bet.
ter 10 Die Young than
to Live to be Old.

From the New York Sun.
Ifany one dies in youth" said DR..
Talmage yesterday morning, "we say,
What II pity p If one be in pleasant
circumstances he never wants to 60.
William Cullen Bryant at eighty-two,
standing in my house and reading
'ThanatopsIs without spectacles, was
just as anxious to live as when he wrote
that immortal threnody. Cato at ninety
was afraid he wouldn't live to learn
Greek Thurlow Weed at eighty-nine
found life as great pleasure as when
he snuhed out his first politician. |
suppose that Mcthusaleh at $50 was
afraid to 60 out in storm and get his
feet wet lest he should shorten his
days"
DR.. Talmage said that if he were an
asnostic he would call man blest ac-
cording to the number of years he could
stay on terra frma. But, since men
believe in immortality, an abbreviated
existence on earth is blessing because
it makes one life more compact. Some
men can do their days work in ten
hours, some in five, and some in one !;
and, other things being equal, the man
is to be congratulated who can get
through his work in one hour. If a
person dies at years he gets through
his work at 8 o'clock in the morning !;
if he dies at 40 he gets through at noon;
if he dies at 70 he gets through at in
the afternoon, and if he dies at 80 he
has to toll up to II o'clock at night.
"All We ought to be anxious about is
to get our work done, and we'll done"
said DIR. Talmage, land the sooner the
better. The number of men who fall
into ruin between fifty and seventy
years of age is simply appalling. If they
had died at thirty it would have been
better for themselves and for their fam
lilies. The great temptation of u mans
life sometimes comes far on in middle
life. AT about forty-fve years ofage
mans nervous system changes. BY the
advice of some friend he takes stimu-
liant to keep him up, and he goes on Ia
king stimulant until it keeps him down.
Conc crning n vas. multitude, it seems
as if it would be better for them to en-
bark from this earth early in life Why
do so many die before they are thirty
years old? Because God secs the storm
C )ming up from the Caribbean and runs
them into the first harbor. If a soldier
who has been on guard all night is glad
when some one comes to relieve him,
ought not that man to shout for joy who
can put down his weapons and 20 into
the kings castle?"
Illustrating how men escape perils
early in life and fall in with them later,
DR.. Ialmage said: "l'he fist time |
crossed the Atlantic Ocean it was as
smooth as n mill pond, and wrote n
magazine essay on the calm sea. If
hadn't written it then, before | cross
ed the ocean again, l never could have
written it,"
Another reason why it is blessing to
lie early, DIR. Talmage said, is because
hose who die in youth escape so many
lrthly bcreavements. lie enumerated !
)me of the sorrows which King David !
ould have escaped if he had been ia
en- from life in youth, and said that he
ould also have escaped the crimes of =
ncleanliness and murder. "When G
cd takes little Children" the preacher "
'ntlnued, "He usually takes the j.,
'ightest. Why2 Because they would +
I'VE the greatest capacity for suffering n
permitted to live"
Again, to die early in life" DR..
almage said, "brings one so much the
'oner to the centre of things. All as :
'onomers agree that the universe
wings around some great center. Gods
.vorte figure in geometry is the circle.
is the great hub around
hich the wheel of the universe turns
I'd that is heaven. Our standpoint in
lis world is detective. We are down
the cellar of life, and yet trying to
an the broad heavens of Immortality
lille our departed Christian friends Y
I'VE gone up stairs to study it. The
Md who died at five years of age
W days ago, at whose funeral | off.
ated, knows more to-day Of God than
ndover or Princeton or Edinburg or j.
the theologians Of the world. Yet
en- are rushing around among the
'othecaries, wondering if this medicine
good for neuralgia, and that for III
eumatIsm, and other for other dis. "
ses, lest they should be suddenly usb. :
'd into heaven. Men ought not 70
around grooming, because another -
ar is gone. We ought to be living
t according to the old maxim. which
's men should live as though every an
y might be their last, but rs tbonaII "nI
were to live forever. But don't iet vel
be nervous, lest we should have to gro
We out of a shanty into an Alham. -
of
\ resolution has been introduced IN IN
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