Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-04-17

Time?-Dr. Talmage's sermon.
Rev. 7. Dewitt Talmage, D. D.,
preached in the Academy of Music,
brooklyn, Sunday morning to an over
moving congregation. After expound-
ing appropriate passages Of Scripture he
announced his subject to be: Would
You Like to Live Your Life Over
| Again?" His text was Job H., 4: "All
that a man hath will he give for his
life" He said:
That is untrue. The Lord did not
say it, but Satan said it to the Lord,
when the evil one wanted Job still more
afflicted. The record is: 80 went
\ Satan forth from the presence OF the
| Lord and smote job with sore boils
/ And Satan has been the author Of all
eruptive diseases since then, and he hopes
by poisoning the blood to poison the soul
! But the result of the diabolical expert
ment which left job victor proved the
falsity of the Satanic remark: "All that
a man hath will he give for his life"
Many a captain who has stood on the
bridge of the steamer till his passen-
gers got off 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 the train was saved
while he went down to death through
the open draw-bridge; many tiEeman
who plunges into blazing house to get
a sleeping child out. sacrificing his life
in the attempt, and thousands of mar
tyrs who submitted to fiery stake and
knife of massacre and headman's axe
and guillotine rather than surrender
principle, proving that in many case
my text was not true, when it says:
.'All that man hath will he give Tor
his life"
But Satan's falsehood 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 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
droughts, all waterproofs, all doctors,all
medicines, all struggle in crisis OF acci-
dent. An Admiral of the British navy
was court-martialed for turning his
shin around in time OF danger and
so damaging the ship. 1t was proved
against him. But when his time
came to be heard he said: Gen
tlemen, / did turn the ship around
and admit that it was damaged, but
do YOU want to know why / turned itP
There was man overheard and wanted
to save him, and l did save him, and
consider the life of one sailor worth all
the vessels of the British navy" No
wonder he was indicated. Life is in
deed very precious. Yea, there are
those who deem life SO precious they
, would like to repeat it, they would like
to try it again. They would like to go
back from 20 to go, from 60 to so, from
so to 40, from 40 to 80, from 80 to 90 |
purpose for every 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 againP
The fact is that no intelligent and
right-fearing man is satisfied with his
pastlife. We have all made so many mis-
takes, stumbled into so many blunders,
said so many things that ought not tc
have been said, and done so many things
that ought not to have been done, thatw
can suggest at least 95 per cent of i'm,
provement. Now would it not be grand
il the good Lord would say to you; "Hou
can 90 back and try it over again.
will by word turn your hair to brown
: or black or golden, and smooth all the
wrinkles out of your temple and cheek
and extirpate the stiffness from tho
-. Joint and the rheumatic twinge from the
foot and you shall be 81 years OF age
and lust what you were when you reach
ed that point before" II the PROPOSE
ton were made l think MANY Thousands
would accept it. That feeling caused
the ancient search for what was called
the fountain OF youth. The waters o
which would turn the hair of the octo
cenarian into the curly locks of ;
boy. and however old a person who
: frank at that fountain he would b'
Young again. The island was said to be
long TO the group Of the Bahamas, bu
lay far out in the ocean. The grea
Spanish explorer. Juan Ponce de Leon
fellow voyager with Columbus, | hav'
{ no doubt felt that if he could discove
y that Fountain of Youth he would do a
much as his friend had done in discover
ing America. So he put out in ISL
from Porto Rico and cruised abou
among the Bahamas in search OF tn
- fountain. am glad he did not find II
= There is no such fountain. But If Their
1 were and its waters were bottled ant
sent abroad at $1,000 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, t
;, old age would be shaking up the poten
LIQUID, and if he were directed to TAX
4 only a teaspoonful after each mea
: would be so anxious te make sure worl
he would take a tablespoonful
: and if directed to take tablespoonful
S would take glassful. But some of 20
. would have to go back further than to
o years of age to make fair start, 10
s there are many who manage to get al
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