Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-03-14
TALMAGES QUESTION.
WOULD YOU LIKE TO LIVE YOUR
LIFE OVER AGAlN?"
An Able Discourse from the Text GAN
that a Man hath will he Give for his
Life" job ii, d-Don't Look to the
Past but Gaze into tho Future.

tTaluage, D. D., preached in the Academy of
Music, Brooklyn, this morning, to an over
noy$ng congregation. After expounding ap
propriate passages of Scripture he announced
his subject to be: would You Like to Live
Your Life Over Again" His text was job
Ii, 4: IAN that man hath will he give for
his life He said;
That suntrue The Lord did not say il, but
Satan said it to the Lord, when tho evil one
wanted Job still more afflicted. Ike record
is: $50 went Satan forth from the presence
of the Lord and snote Job with sore bois.n
And Satan has been the author of all erup-
tive diseases since then, and he hopes by poi
soning the blood TO poison tho soul. But the
result of the dabolical experiment which
left Job victor proved the fasity Of the Sa-
tanic remark: "All that a man hath will he
give for his life Many captain who has
stood on the bridge of the steamer till his
passengers got OFF and he drowned; many an
engineer who has kept his hand on the throt-
tie valve or his foot on the brake until the
most of the train was saved, while he went
down to death through the open drawbridge;
many fireman who plunged into n blazing
house to get Il sleeping child out, sacrificing
his life in the attempt and thousands of mar
tyrs who submitted to fiery stake and knife
of massacre and headsmau's AK and guillo-
proved that in many a case my text was not
true when it says: "All that a man hath
will he give for his life
BUT Satan'5 falschood was built on a 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 90
everything to prolonr it. Hence all sanitary
regulations, all study Of hygiene, all fear of
draughts, all waterproofS. all doctors. all
medicines, all struggles in crisis of accident
An admiral Of the British navy was court
martialed for turning his ship around in
time of danger and SO damaging the ship. 1t
was proved against him. But when his tiiNc
came to be heard he said: "Gemtlemen, ! did
turn the ship around and admit it WINS dana
aged; bat do YOU wan, to know why turned
ii. There was man overheard, and wanted
to save him, and did save him, and / con
slider the life of one sailor worth all the v's-
scs Of the British navy" 10 wonder Inc was
viudicated. Life is indeed yer; precious.
Yea. there are those WHO deem life so pro-
cious they would like to repeat it, they WON.
ike to try 1t again. They would like to gu
back from seventy to sixty, from sixty t.
Iilty, from fifty to forty, from forty to
thirty from thirty to twenty. / purpose for
very practical and useful purposes, as viii
appear before get through, to discuss tie
question have all asked OF others, ami
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