Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1883-02-07
Talmage on Length of Life.

IF any one dies in YOUTH said DR..
Talmage Sunday morning we say What |
a pity! Ifone be in pleasant circum-
stances he never wants 10 go. William
Cullen Bryant al 81, standing in my
house reading 'Thanalopsis' without
,pectacles, was just as anxious to 1--we
rs when he wrole that immortal thren-
ody. Cato was afraid that he wouldn't
live to learu Greek. Thurlow Weed at
SO found life as great pleasure as when
be snuffed out lis first politician. | sup
pose that Melhusaleh at 999 was afraid
to 20 out 10 the storm aud get his feet
vet lest he should shorten his days.
DR.. Talma!e said that # he were an
a1nosuc he would call a man best ac-
cording to the number OF days he could
.tay on terra 6rms. But since men be-
Iieyc IN immortality, an Abbreviated
existence on earth IS a blessing be"
earse in makes ones life more compact
Some men eau do their days wold Ii
ten hours. some 10 ave aud some il
one; sod, other things being equal, lht
man 10 to be congratulated who can gel
through his work in one hour. Ii
per.on dies at hYe years he gets through
mis- work al 9 iu tie N orniug; he dies
at 20 he gets through at in the after
noon. and if he dies a! 90 lie has o toll
up to II o'clock at night
All we ought to be anxious abou'
ls to get our work done and well done,
| said DR.. Talmage, 'and the sooner the
better. The number of men who fall
into ruin between so and 70 years OF
age is slmply appalling. II they died
at 30 il would have been better for them
selves and for their families ; the great
temptation of mans life sometimes
comes far on 10 middle OF life. Al
about As years of age a mans nervous
system changes. By the advice OF some
friend he takes stlmulant TO keep him
no aud he goes on taking stlmulant
uutili il keeps him down. Concerning
a vast multitude. it seems as if it would
do better for them to embark from this
earth early in life. Why do so many
die before they are thirteen years old
Because God sees The storm coming up
from the Carrl5ean and runs them into
the first harbor. If soldier who has
been on guard ali night is glad wheu
some one comes to relieve nim, ought
not that man 10 shout for JOY who can
put down his weapons and go into the
Kings garden 2
Illustrating how men escape perlls
early 10 life and fall with them later
IDr. Talmage said: The first time l
crossed the Atlantic Ocean it vas as a
mill pond, and l wrote a magazine
essay on the calm sea: II l hAdn't
written It then, before l crossed the
ocean again, 1 never would have writ
ten IT,
Another reason why it is a blessing
to die early. DR.. Talmage, SAID, is be-
, cause those who die in youth escapes
so many earthly bereayements. HI
enumerated some Of the sorrows which
King David would have escaped if he
had been taken from life in youth, and
said he would have escaped unclean-
p ness aud murder. When God takes
: little children, the preacher continued
He usually takes the brightest. Why
f Because :hey would have the greatest
capacity for suffering if permitted Il
= live.'
k Again, to die early in life DR.. Tai
5 mage said, brings one so much th
: sooner to the ceutre of things. All as
A tronomers agree that the universe
swings around some great centre. God
. favorite figure in geometry is the circle
=, Somewhere is the great hub aroun'
which the wheel Of the uniyerse turns
and that is heaven. Our standpOlntiI
!. this world is defective. We are at tn
wrons end Of the telescope. We al
o down in the cellar OF life and yet Iryin.
t to scan the broad heavens Of immortal
$ ity, while our departed Christian friend
have gone up stairs 10 study il. I'm
# children who died at six years Of age
t few days ago, at whose funeral | ofiieia
ted. know more to-day OF God than
Andoyer or Princeton or Edinblrg O
all The theolosians OF the worl
= Yet men are rushing amOas the apoth
;. carries, wondering if this medicine
e good for neuralgia aud that Tor rheuna
&C tism, aud Others for other diseases, les
u they should be suddenly ushered iS'
4 heaven. Men ought nol 10 90 roam
n groaniug because another year Is gone
We ought to be living not according
the old maxim, which says men shoul
p live as though every day might be the
l. last, but as though We were to live Tor
. ever. But don't let US be nervous les
J we should haye to move on. Of d shant,
i into sn Alhamhia
K. served the Dentist Right
,e Tue boys said that it served ol
- Doctor Toothstuffer right, when he ha
l. the tooth-aGhe so badly that he couldn