Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1890-03-21
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
Weekly Discourse of the Great
Brooklyn Preacher.
TEXT: IAN That a man hath wW ne qfve
for his Efs u-Job ii

TEXT IAN that u man hath iuiH ne give
for his hre."-Job. H., 4.
That is untrue The Lord did not say il,
but Satan said il TO the Lord, when the evil
one wanted Job still more afflicted The
record is $50 went Satan forth from the
presence Of the Lord and Snote Job with sore
boils,' And Satan has been the author of all
eruptive disease since then and he hopes by
poisoning the blood to poison the soul. But
the result of the diabolcnl experiment which
left Job victor proved the falsitv Of tho
Satanic remark" All that n man hath
will he give for his life" Many n
captain who has stood on the bridge Of
the steamer TIL his passengers got or
and he drowned many an engineer who
has kept his hand on the throttle valve
or his foot on the brake until the most Of ths
u ain was saved while he went down to death
through the open drawbrldge: many a fire
man who plunged into blazing house to get
n sleeping child out sacrificing his life in the
attempt, aud thousands Of martyrs who sub
mitted to fiery stake and knife of massacre
and headsman' AK and guiliotine rather than
surrender principle, proving that IN many II
case my text was not true, when 1t says
IAN that man hath will he give for his
life
But Satan's fnlsehood was built on truth.
Life is very precious and II we would not
give up all there are many things we would
surrender rather than surrender IT, We ses
how precious life is from the fact that we do
everything 10 prolong it. Hence all sanitary
regulations, all study Of hygiene, all fear OF
draughtS, all waterproofs, all doctors all
medicines, all struggle in crisis Of accident
An admiral OF the British navy was court
martialed for turning his ship around in time
OF danger and 50 damaging the ship. IL was
proved gainSt him. But when his time came
TO be heard he said; Gentlemen, did turn
the ship around and admit that 1t was dam
aged, but do you want TO know why |
turned it, There was man over,
board, and l wanted to save him, and
did save him, and consider the life OF one
sailor worth all the vessels Of tho British
navy" No wonder he WAS vndicated. Life
is indeed very precious. Yea, there are
those who deem life SO precious they would
like TO repeat it, they would like to try II
again. They would like TO 60 back from
seventy 90 sixty, from sixty TO fifty, from
fifty to forty, from forty to thirty, from
thirty TO twenty. Ipurpose for very prar-
teal and useful purposes as will appear be-
fore get through, to discuss the question
we nave all asked Of Others, and others have
again and again asked of us-wuuld you Ike
to live your life over again.
The fact is that no intelligent and right
fearing man is satisfied with his past life. We
have all madn - many mistakes, stumbled
into 80 many blunders, said so may things
that ought not to have been said aud done 80
many things that ought not TO have been
done, that we can suggest at least nncty-itre
per cent Of Improvement. Now would IL
not be grand IL the good Lord would say 10
YOU: you can go back and try it over
again. | will by a word turn your hntr Ia
brown or black or golden, and smooth all
the wrinkles out Of your temple and
cheek, and take the bend out OF your
shoulders, and eItirpate the stiffness from
the Joint and the rheumatic twinge from the
foot, and you shall bo twenty years OF
age and lust what you were when you
reached that point before II the propo-'.
ton were made think many thousands
would accent il. That feeling caused the
ancient search for what was called the Foun.
tain of Youth, the waters Of which takNn
would turn the hair OF the octogenRrian into
the curly locks Of boy, and however old
person who drank at that fountain he would
be Young again. The island was said 10
belong TO the group Of the Bahamas, but
Law far out in the ocean. The great Span
ish explorer, Juan Ponce do Leon, fellow
voyager with Columbus, l have no doubt
felt that IL he could discover that Fountain
of Youth he would do as much as his friend
had done in discovering America. SO he put
out in 1873 from Porto Rico and cruised
about among the Bahamas in search OF that
fountain. i am glhu no ulu nOI lluu 'l-
There is no such fountain. But IL there
were and its waters we're bottled up and sent
abroad at thousand dollars bottle, the de
mand would be greater than the supply, and
many a man who has come through a
life of uselessness, and perhaps sin, TO
old age would be shaking up the po-
tent liquid, and IL he were directed to
take only teaspoonful after each meal
would be so anxious TO make sure work he
would take tablespoonful, and II directed to
take tablespoonful would take q glassful.
But some Of you would have to go back
further than to twenty-ons years OF age to
make fair start for there are many who
manage TO get all wrong before that period.
Yea In order to get fair start some would
have SO go back to the father and mother and
get them corrected; yea, to the grandfather
and grandmother and have their
life corrected, for some Of you are
suffering from bad hereditary inau-
ences which started a hundred years
ago. Well, II your grandfather
Hved his life over again and your father
lived his life over again and you lived your
life over again, what cluttered up place
this world would be, place filed with
miserable attempts at repairs. / begin to
think that 1t is better for each generation TO
have only one chance and then for them