The Forrest City times., 1890-03-15
SATANIC FALSEHOOD.
All That Man Hath Will H. Give for
 His Lfa."
Rev T De Witt Talmage Brands a Common Error-Life Is PresiOus But How Many Lay It Down as Willing sacfiass In Nohle Causa


 Noble Cause
 In tho Brooklyn Academy of Music last Sunday niorIng Dr TalmAge took as tho subject Of his discourss, "Noul You Like to Live Your Life Over AgainF' lis text was Job ii, i; All that man hath will ho give for his life. He said,
 That is untrue. The Lord did not say it but Sataa said it to the Lord, when the evil ono wanted Job stu moro afflicted. The record is: 'So went Satan forth from tho presence of the Lor6 and smoto Jch with sore hoils" And Satan has been tho author of all eruptve disease since then, and he hopes by poisoning the blood to poison tho soul. But the result of tho diabolcal OK pertinent which left Job victor proved the falsity of the Satanic remark -"Au that man hath will he give for his life ? Many a captain who has stoo on the bridge et the steamer till his passengers got on 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 drawbrldge; many fireman who plunged into blazing house 10 got a sleep ing child out sacrificing hls life in the at tempt and thousands of martyrs who sub mitted to fiery stake and knife of massacre and headsmau's ax and guillotuo rather than surrender principle, proving that in many a ease my text was not true, when it says: All that man hath will he give for his life"
 But Satan's falsehood was built on a truth. Life is very precious, and if we would not give up all there are mauy things we would surrender rather than surrender iL We see how precious lfo is from the fact that we do everything to prolong it. Hence all sanitary regulations all study of hygiene, all fear of draaEhts, ali water proofs, all doctors, all medicines, all strug- gles iu cris.s of accident An admiral of the British navy was court. martialed for turning his ship around in time ot danger and so damag. ing the ship It was proved against him. But when his tune came to bo heard he said "Gentlemen, 1 did turn the ship around and admit that it was damaged, but do you want to know why turned itl There was man overheard. and I wanted to savc him, and l did serve him l considered the life of one sailor worth all che vessels of the British navy No wonder he was vin1i- cated. Life is indeed very precious. Yea, there Iare those who deem 1t so precious they would like 10 repeat il, 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 twenty. l purpose for very practical aud useful purposes, as will ap. pear before l get through to discuss the question wo have askel of others, and have again asked of us-would you like to live your life over agaial
 The fact is that no intelligent and right fearing man is satisfied with his past life ta ,Il bled into So many blunders, said so many things that ought not to have been said and done 80 many things that ought not to nave been done, that we can sugrs st at least ninety-hve per cent Of improvement Now would 1t not be grand if tho good erd would say 10 you; You can go back and try it over again. l will by a word turn your hair b brown or black or gClden and smooth all tho wrinkles out of your temple and cheek, and take the bond oat of yunr shoulders, aud extirpale the stiffness from the jo.nt and tue rheumatic twlnss from the fo0t and you shall ba twentv-one years of age and just what you were when you reached that point before" II the proposition were made l thiuS many thous ands would aceept 1t That feeling caused the ancient search for what was called the Fountain of Youth the waters of which taken would turn the hair of the octoge marian into the curly locks of q boy. anu however old person wno drank at that fountain he would be young again The island was said to belong to the grouo of the Bahamas but lay far out in the ocean The great Spanish cXplorer, Juan Poase de Leon fellow voyager with Columbus | have no doubt felt that if ha could discover that Fountain of Youth he would do as much as his friend had done in discovering America So he put out in 15i2 from Porto 'Rico and cruiscd about among the Raha mas in search of that fountain l am glad he did not find it There is no such faun. tain. But if there were and it's waters were bottled up and sont abroad at a thon- sand dollars bottle, thedemanl would be greater than the supply and many a man who has come through a life oi uselessness and perhaps sn, to old ago would be shaking up the potent nquid. and II he were directed to take only toaspoonful after each meal would be So anxious to mako sure work ho would take tablespoonful and If directed to take tablespoonful would take class full But some ot you would have t3 go back further than to tsyenty-one years of age to make feir start for thera arc many who manage 10 got all wrong before that period lea, m order 10 got a fair start SpHtc NthAt HbNN 10 go hACA tA tdn lAtIpF and mother and got them corrected yea. 10 tho grandfather and grAudmother and have their lifo corrected for samo of von arc suffering from bad here iltarv inau. ences which started hun irsl years ago Well, if your grandfather lived hs llfs over again and your father lived his life over again and you lived your life over again, what ciutterad up p,acc tAis world would b., place filled wish miserabl e at. temnts at repairs. | begin Ca think that it is better for each generation ,o hlva only one chance and then for them to pass of and give another generation a chance.
 Besides thatif we were permiuei to 1.-Two lifeo again, il would ba a stale and seu. pid experience Tho 5estaad spur an enthu. siam of life conn from tna fact that we have never been along this road before. auI everything is nety, and we are abort for what may appelr at iho uaNt turn of the road. Suppose you a man ln mli llfo or old age, were. with your prevent fesHngs and large attainments put back into the thir- ties, or the ;weaties CT into ths teens, what a nuisance yoa woull b. to others and what an unheppinosS 10 yoursslf Your contemporaries wadld not want you and you would not want tasm Things that in your previous io3rney of Hfa strtod your healthtw ambition, or gave you pleasurable surprise, or lad yol into happy mterrara ton, would only csH forth from you B dis gustod "oh pshawln Non would be biase at thirty and a mlsAnthropa at forty and uncomfortable at fifty. The most inane and stupid thing imaginable would he a second ioaroey Of lilo, lt Is amusing to hear people say "l would iixo ta live rv life over aga8n, Il l could ta,c my prosant experience and knowledge ot taings back with mo and hAgff. us,las tftna. s,s-ra,s,.4 auspices" Why, what an Hnlntarastine boy you would bo with those present attain ments in a chlld's mind No enc weuid want such toy around ths h0ase X uhl iosopher at twenty, scientist Il httcan an archmologlsl at ten and a domestle nat sance all Inc tme An oak crowded fnto an acorn A Rocky mountain caRte thrust into tho egg shell From which lt was hateh ct,
 Beside that, if you took lilo over again. you would have 10 take it's dsep saaneSs over again Waui1 vau ,,y..pt fe, ,-.. ..... .s