The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-10
LIVING LIFE OVER AGAIN
TALMAGE SAYS MOST PEOPLE
WOULDN'T CARE TO DO IT.

ODS WOulOn SdTS To OuuSTRO a
Second Time-Heaven Would be Just
that Much Farther Away.
BROOKLYN, March 9.-The Rev. T. De-
Witt Talmage, D. D., preached in the
Academy of Music. Brooklyn, this morn
ing, to an overhowing congregation. After
expounding appropriate passages Of Script
ure he announced his subject to be:
"Would You Like to Live Your Life Over
AgainF His text was Job IL. A: "All that
a man hath will he give for his life.n He
said:
That is untrue. Lhe Lord did not say it,
but Satan said it 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 smote Job with
sore boils.n And Satan has Leen the author
of all eruptive disease since then, and he
hopes by poisoning the blood to poison the
soul. But the result of the diabolical ex-
pertinent which left Job victor proved the
falsity of the Satanic remark, GAN that
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 throttle valve or his
foot on the brake until the most Of the train
WAS sdN6u, NAitlO uG h6lb upWu W ue0Iu
through the open dr6w-bridge: many
fireman who plunged into blazing house
to get sleeping child out, sacrificing his
life in the attempt, and thousands of
martyrs who submitted to fiery stake and
knife of massacre, and headman's ak and
gulllotine rat than surrender principle,
| proving that in many case my tsxt was
| not true, when il says: "All that a man
hath he will give for his life.n
Rt1f Gatoofe IA xuoc huiIk a
truth. Life is a very precious, and il we
would not giveup all there are many things
we would surrender rather than surrender
! it. We see how precious life is from the
| fact that we do everything to prolong It.
Hence all sanitary regalations,sa gall study of
| hygiene, all fear OF draughts, all water
proofs, all doctors, all medicines, all strug-
| gle in crisis of accident. An admiral of
the British navy was court-martialed for
| turning his ship around in
time Of danger and SO dam
| aging the ship. It was proved against him.
| But when his time came 10 be heard ne
said: "Gentlemen, l did turn the ship
around, and admit that it was damaged.
but do you want to know why turned it!
There was a man overheard, and wanted
to save him, and l did save
of one sailor worth ali the vessels of
the British navy.n No wonder he was
vindicated Life is indeed very pre-
cious. 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 60 back from seventy to sixty, from
sixty to fifty, from fifty to forty, from forty
to thirty, from thirty to twenty. | purpose
for very practical and useful purposes, as
will appear before l get through, to discuss
the question We have all asked of others,
and others have again and again asked of us,
W uld you like 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 made so many mistakes, stum-
bled into so many blunders, and said 50
many things that ought not to have been
said and done so many things that ought
not to have been done, that we can suggest
at least ninety-five per cent of inn
rrovement. Now would il not be grand If
the good Lord should say to you: "You
can go 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
take the bend out of your shoulders, and
extirpate the stiffness from the joint and
the rheumatic twinge from the foot and
you shall be twenty-one years Of age and
Just what you were when you reached that
point before" If the proposition were
made [ think many thousands would &C
cept it. That feeling caused the ancient
search for what was called the foun-
tain Of youth, the waters of which
taken would turn the hair of the octo-
genarlan into the curly locks of a boy
and, however old a person who dranl
at that fountain, he would be young again
The island was said to belong TO the grour
of the Bahamas, but lay far out in the ocean
The great Spanish explorer, Juan Ponce d.
Leon, fellow voyager with Columbus, have
| 1 f1f% 90 i
fountain of youth he would do as much a.
his friend had done in discovering America
So he put out in 1919 from Porto Rico anC
cruised about among the Bahamas IN searci
of that fountain. am glad he did no
find it, There il no such fountain
But if there were and its wa ers were
bottlde 10 aud sent broad at a thousand
dollars a bottle, the demand would b.
greater than the supply. and many MAI
who has come through life Of usefulnes;
and perhaps sin to old age would bC
shaking up the potent liquid, and if he were
directed to take only teaspoonful aftel
each meal, would be 80 anxious to maxi
sure work ne would take tablespoonful
AID if directed to take a tablespoonful
/. would take a glassful. But some o
, YOU would have TO 60 back fur
: ther than to tweaty-one years 0
age to make fair start, TO
there are many who manage to ge
, all wrong before that period. Yea, III orde
to get fair start some would have to Y
back to the father AID mothe- and get then
, corrected; yea, to the grandfather anC
grandmother and have their life corrected
tor some of you are suffering from bat
hereditary influences which started hun
dred years ago. Well, If your grandfathe
: lived MS life over gain, and y ur fathe
lived his life over again, ana you lived you
life over again, what cuttered up placl
this world would be, place filed witt
miserable attempts at repairs. | begin Il
4 think that it is better for each generation
? to have only one chance, and then for then
, to pass of and give another generation
chance.
Besides that, il we were permitted:.to liv
. life over again, it would be stale ant
stupid experience. The zest and spur ant
enthusiasm Of life come from the fac tina
5 we have never been along this road before
Q and everything is new, and we are alert TO
+, what may appear at the next turn OF th
) road Suppose you, man in mld-life o
old age, were, with your present feeling
and large attainments, put back int
the thrtles, or the twenties, or int
the teens, what a nuisance you woul
/. | be to others and what an unhapplnes
to yourself. Your contemporaries woul
not want you and you would not want them
1 Things that in your previous journey o
|. life stirred your healthful mbition, or CAV
J YOU pleasurable surprise, or led you int
| e.