New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-03-19
;SALMAGE INQUIRIES.
Would You Like to Live
Your Life Over
Again?
The Best Use Should Be
Made Of This
Life.

BROOKLYN, Spocial.-The Rev T. D. Witt
-Talmage, D. D., preached in the Academy of
Music, Brooklyn, to an Overlooking congre-
CATION. After expounding appropriate pas
sages OF scripture he announced his. subject
to be: 'sWould You Like to Live Your Life
Over Again." His text was j. OBJ H. 4: "All
that 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 more afflicted The record
is. so went Satan forth from the presence
OF the Lord and smote Job with sore boils''
and Satan has been the author of all eruptive
disease since then and he hopes by poison
ing the blood to poison the soul. But the
result of the diabolcal experiment which left
Job victor proved the falsity of the Satanic
remark-''All that man hath will he give
for his life.o Many a captain who
has stood on the bridge of the steam
till his passengers 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 throughth the open
drawbridge many fireman who plunged in
to house to get sleeping child out, sacri.
tclng his life at the attempt, and thousands
of martyrs who su omitted to fiery stake and
knife of massacre and iheadsman's AK and
guillotine rather than surrender principle,
proving that in many a case my textwas not
true. when it says: 'All that man hath
will he give for his life."
The fact is that no intelligent and right
fearing man is satisfied with his past life. We
have all made SO many mistakes, stumbled
into SO many blunders said 80 many things
that ought not to have been said and done
sgO ms hot ,ohf NJ To how hoor
done, that we.can suggest at least 95 per
cent of Improvement. Now'would it mot be
grand if the good Lord would say to you:
You can go back and try'it over again. |
will by word turn yourhair to brown or
black or golden, and smooth all the wrinkles
outof your temple and cheek, and take the
bend out of your shoulders, and extirpate
the stiffness from the joint, and the rheumatic
twingefrom thefoot, and yogsh be 21years
ofage and just what youweIs when you reach
ed that point before" I@ the proposition
were made think many, thousands would
acceptit. 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 octogenarian into the
curly locks OF boy, and however old a per-
young again. The island was said to be-
iongto the group of the Bahamas, but
lay far out in tie ocean. The
great Spanish explorer, Juan Ponce de
Leon, fellow yoyager with Columbus, / have
no doubt felt that if 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 512 from Porto
Rico and ecruised about among the
Bahamas in search of that foun-
tain. There is no such fountain But if
there were and its waters were bottled up
and sent abroad at athousand dollars bot
tie, the demand would be greater than the
supply, and many O man who has come
through life of uselessness, and prehaps sin.
to old age would be shaking up the potent
liquid, and if he were directed to take only q
teaspoonful after each meal would be so anx-
ious to make sure work he would take table
spoonful and ifdirected to take Tablespoon
ful would take glassful. But some of you
would have to go back further than to TWEEN
ty-one years of age toniake 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 to go back
to the father and mother and get them cor
rected; YEA to the grandfather and grand
mother and have their life corrected, for
some of you are suffering from bad heredita-
~ influences which started n hundred years
ago. Well, if your grandfather lived his life
over again and your father lived his life over
again and you lived your life over again,
what cuttered up place this world would
be. place filled with miserable attempts
at repairs. begin to think that 1t is bet
one chance and then for them to pass OFF
and give another generation achance.
Besides that, if We were permittedlto live
life over again, itywould be stale and stupid
experience. The zest and spur and enthusi-
assn OF life come from the fact that We have
never been along this road before, and every
thing is new. and we are alert for what may
appear at the next turn OF the road. Sup
pose you, man in middle or old age, were,
with your present feelings and large attain
L L. l. s,.4sz L..
tjWenties. into the teens, what a nuisance
you would be to others andwhat an unhappi-
ness to yourself Your contemporaries
would not want you and you would not want
them. Things thatinyour previous journey
oflife stirred your thealthful ambition, or
gave you pleasurable,surprise, or led YOU in
to happy Interrogation, would only call forth
from you adisgusted "Ohpshaw! You would
be blase at thirty and q misanthrope ;at for
ty and uncomfortable :at fifty. The most in
sane and stupid thingimagina BILE would be
second Journey of life. 1t is amusing to hear
people say: 81 would like to live my lie over
again. if | could take my present experience
and knowledge of things back with me and
. begin under those improved auspices" Why,
what an embarrassing boy you would be With
;-Epur present attainments in chlldSs mind.
1s6 one would want such Il boy around the
house:
A philosopher at twenty, "a scientist at fif-
teen, an archaologist at ten and o domestic
nuisance all the time. An oak crowded into
an acorn. A Rocky mountain eagle thrust
back into the egg she'll from which it was
Matched.
Beside that, would you want to risk the
temptations of life over again? From the
fact that you are here conclude that though,
in many respects your life may have been I'M
fortunate and uuconsecrated you have got
on so far tolerably we'll, ifnothing more than
tolerable. AS for myself, though my life has
been far from being as coDsecrated as l
would like to have had it, would not like to
try it over again, lest next time would do
worse Why, just look at the temptations
-Se have passed through and just look at the
multitudes who have gone completely
under. Just call over the rall of your
school mates and college mates, the
clerks who were with you in store or
bank, or the operatives in the same factory
with inst as good prospects asyou, who have
come to complete mishap. Some young
man that told you that he was going to be
millionaire and own the fastest trotteIs on
Westchester turnpike and retire by the time
he was 35 years OF age, you do not hear from
him Tor many years, and know nothing about
l.; do, no. inf uop cfop