Connecticut western news., 1884-05-21
IS LIFE WORTH LIVING?
Dr. TnlmaRe Says That 1t Depends Entirely
 on the Kind of Life One Lives.

Dr. Talmage preached on Sunday on the question "Is Life Worth Living ?' l If we leave to the eyolutionists to guess where We come from, said he, and to the theologians to prophecy where we are l going, we still have left for consideration the fact that we are here. am not surprised that everybody asks the ques- ton, "Is life worth living ?" Solomon says it is not, but Jeremiah says it is. A diversity of opinion exists in our time also. A young man with great prospects will say "Yes;' man forty years of age, whose every step has been stum- ble, will say ''No." IT you ask me the question I answer, It depends on the kind of life you live.
 Jn the first place, I remark that life of mere money-getting is always fail ure, because you will never get as much as you want. The poorest people in this country are the millionaires, and next to them those who have half a million. There Is not a scissors grinder in New York or Brooklyn so anxious to make money as those men who have piled up fortunes for years. The disease of accu- mutation has eaten into them. That is not life worth living. There are too many earthquakes in it, too many shipwrecks, too many perditions. They build their castles and open their picture galleries and make every inducement for happi- ness to come, but she will not.
 So also life that chiefly strives for worldly approval is failure. The two most unfortunate men in the United States for the next six months will be the two Presidential nominees. Two great reservoirs of malediction have been gradually filling up, and about midsum- mer they will be brimming full. and hose will be attached to them and they will begin to play OH the two nominees, and they will have to stand and take it the falsehood, the caricature, the venom, the filth, and they will be rolled over in it and choked with it. To win that priv ilege hundred candidates are striving.
 The same thing is seen on a smaller scale in the strife for social position. Good morals and intelligence are not necessary; but wealth, or the show of wealth, Is absolutely indispensable. It don't make any difference how you get your wealth, if you only get it. Per haps you get it by failing four or five times-the most rapid way of accumula- ton ill this country. If a man fails once he is not so very we'll off; but if he fails twice he is comfortable, and by the time he fails three times he is affluent. But when you really lose your money, how quick they drop you High social life Is constantly ill a change-insecurity dominant, wretchedness enthroned and a life not worth living. A life of sin, life of pride, life of worldliness, life of indulgence, life consecrated to the world, the flesh and the devil, is fail ure, an infinite failure.
 Now I will show you life that is worth living. A young man says:-'I am here at twenty years of age. I have sixty years to live. How many kind words can I say and how many kind deeds can I do? will try. will de- velop this body by all good habits and keep this soul swept and garnished. Then I must remember that these eighty years are only a brief preface to my chief existence" That young man en- ters life, is buffeted and perplexed, falls but rises again. The main course of his life is in the right direction. You can chisel on his tombstone the worlds "His life was worth living" A life for God, useful life, life for others, is always worth living. Whether your life be conspicuous or inconspicuous, it is worth living if you live aright. Remem- Der that this life is only introductory to an eternal life. The last letter of the word Time is the first letter of the word Eternity