The Brookhaven leader., 1890-03-20
! PERTINENT QUESTION.
J., interesting Sermon by Rev. I.
" Dewitt Talmage.
v. Can Not Live Our Lives Over
" lain. Let Us Atone for the Past
BY Redoubled Holiness
and Industry.

Paw T. Dewitt lalnaBo Vn "no
~. I nWould You Like to Live Your
ISte Over Again" His text was:
,utbat man hath will he give for b ls
llfe.-Job ill.,, -,
That ia untrue. The Lord did not say
:. hut Satan said it to the Lord, when
,he evil one wanted Job still more az
sicted. The record is: $50 wentSatan
18th 18th from the presence OF the Lord and
.uaote lob with sore boils." And Satan
hoe been the author of all eruptive dis
a.oes since then, and he hopes by pois-
oninr the blood to poison the soul. But
the result of the diabolical experiment
which left Job victor proved the falsity
Of the satanic remark:
AM that man hath will he give for hts life.
Many a captain has stood on the
bridoe of the steamer till his passen-
GERS got off and he drowned; many an
enpineer has kept his hand on the throt-
tle valve or his foot on the brake until
the most of the train was saved, while
he went down to death through the open
draw-bridge; many q fireman has
plunged into a blazing. house to get
sleeping child out, sacrificing his own
Life in the attempt, and thousands OF
martyrs have submitted to fiery stake
and knife of massacre and headsman's
axe and guillotine rather than surren-
der principle, proving that in many a
case my text was not true, when 1t says:
All that man hath will he give for his life.
But Satans falsehood was built on
truth Life is very precious, and If we
would not give up all there are many
things we would surrender rather than
surrender it. We see how precious life
is from the fact that we do every thing
to prolong it. Hence all sanitary regu-
lations, all study of hygiene, all fear of
drafts, all water-proofs, all doctors, all
medicines, all struggle in crisis of acci-
dent An Admiral of the British navy
was court-martialed for turning his ship
around in time of danger and so damag-
ing the ship. 1t was proved against
him. But when his time came to be
beard he sail:
'Gentleme.,, /, ] did turn the ship around
and admit that it was damaged, but do.
.ou want to know why l turned it?
There was a man overheard, and
wanted to save him, and Ibid save him,
and consider the life of one sailor
worth all the vessels of the British
navy"
No wonder he was vindicated. Life
Is indeed very precious. Yes, there are
those who deem life so precious they
] would like to try it again. They would
/ like to go back from seventy to sixty,
from sixty to fifty, from fifty to forty,
from forty to thirty, from thirty to twen-
E purpose for very practical and
useful purposes, as will appear before
get through, to discuss the question
We have all asked of others, and others
have again and again asked of us, would
you like to live your life over again?
The fact is that no intelligent and
nghtfearing man is satisfied with his
paStlife Wehave all made so many mis-
takes, stumbled into so many blunders,
SAID so many things that ought not to
nave been said, and done so many things
that ought not to have been done, that
we can suggest at least ninety-five per
cent OF Improvement. Now, would it
lot be grand if the good Lord would say
20 you:
You can go back and try 1t over
again will by word turn your hair
y brown or black or golden, and smooth
VI the wrinkles out of your temple and
fneek and take the bend out of your
snOulders, and extirpate the stiffness
'iom the joint and the rheumatic twinge
rom the foot, and you shall be twenty
oae years of age and just what you were
'nen you reached that point before"
IL the proposition were made think
many thousands would accept it. That
'eehng caused the ancient search for
snat was called the Fountain of Youth,
'le waters of which taken would turn
'ne hair of the octogenarian into the
'uriy locks of boy, and however old
person who drank at that fountain he
would be young again. The island was
,aia 70 belong to the group of the
~ ppssnamas, but lay far out in the ocean.
I Isas great Spanish explorer, Juan Ponce
y " Leon, fellow voyager with Columbus,
,aass no doubt felt that If he could
~scover that Fountain of Youth he
sOslu 10 as much as his friend had done
= discovering America. So he put out
iOis from Porto Rico and cruised
DOu. among the Bahamas in search of
II s fountain. ! am glad he did not find
inefe Is no such fountain, but If there
soa s.e ana Its waters were bottled up and
ho.., Nv abroad at one thousand dollars
So, the demand would be greater
h.s h4 'ne supply, and many man who
and eome through life of uselessness,
shs pefhaps sin, to old age would be
vs.a ng up the potent liquid, and if he
snoo., u,rected to to take only tea
aps,a saiui alter each meal would be SO
taLa tLVus 70 make sure work he would
taLs @oiespoonful, and If directed to
fnl tablespoonful would take glass
h.o,. Due some of you would have to go
Of 49, sursner than TO twenty-one years
ase 70 make fair start. for there ara
fora !. u VINO manage to get all wrong be-
fai, s.. -as period. Yes. in order to get
to r. some would have to 20 back
eor,ao.a .a.her and mother and get them
rraeu, rranas yea, to the grandfather and
rectss tueener and have their life cor
f,e.s fu, lor some of YOU are SUFFERING
startea au hereditary Influences which
ron, - 49, : hundred years ago. Wen, If
aeain ssasutather lived his live over
arair your father lived his life over
arair s anu you lived your life over
world .'a @nas clnttered up place this
erabla .valo a.a BE- place filed with mis-
tbinS ss attempts at repairs. begin "a
ton to as sas y Is better for each genera