The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-03-26
PAST LIFE.
Il Ia Known and Admitted to DO
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Rev. 7. Dewitt Talmage, D. d.,
preached in the Academy of Music,
Brooklyn, Sunday morning to an over
flowing 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 q 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: $50 went
Satan forth from the presence OF the
Lord and smote Job with sore boils."
And Satan has been the author Of ali
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 tho Satanic remark: "All that
. 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 fireman
who plunges into blazing house to get
Z 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 a case
nv text was not true, when 1T says:
"All that man hath will he give for
his life"
But Satan's falsehood was built on
truth. Life is very precious, and IT 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,al
medicines, all struggle In crisis OF acct
dent. An Admiral Of the British navy
was court-martialed for turning his
ship around in time OF danger and
70 damaging the ship. 1t was proved
against him. But when his time
came TO be heard he said: Seen
tlemen, l did turn the ship around
and admit that it was damaged, but
do you want to know why turned 1T?
There was man overheard and l 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 60
back from 70 to go, from 80 to so, from
$50 to 40. from 40 to 80, from 80 to 90 I
purpose for every 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--would 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 mis-
takes, stumbled into so many blunders,
said so 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 95 per cent. Of i'm
provement. Now would it not be grand
If the good Lord would say to you; "You
can 60 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 the
Joint and the rheumatic twinge from the
foot, and you shall be 81 years of age
and Just what you were when you reach.
ed that point before" If the PROPOSE.
ton were made think many thousands
would accept It, That feeling caused
the ancient search for what was called
the fountain of youth. The waters OF
which would turn the hair Of the octo.
genarian into the curly locks of a
boy, and however old person who
drank at that fountain he would be
young again. The island was said to be-
long to the group of the Bahamas, but
lay far out in the ocean. The great
Spanish explorer, Juan Ponce de Leon
fellow voyager with Columbus, l have
no doubt felt that If he could discover
that Fountain of Youth he would do q.
much as his friend had done in discover
ing America. So he put out in 1915
from Porto Rico and cruised about
among the Bahapas in search of the
fountain. am glad he did not find it
There is no such fountain. But if there
were and its waters were bottled and
sent abroad at s., 900 bottle, the de
! mand would be greater than the supply
and many man who has come through
life of uselessness, and perhaps sin, t.
old age would be shaking up the potent
liquid, and if he were directed to TAXI
only a teaspoonful after each mea
would be so anxious to make sure worl
he would take tablespoonful
and if directed to take tablespoonful
would take glassful. But some of 20,
would have to 60 back further than to q
years of age to make fair start, fo
there are many who manage to get al
: wrong before that period. Yea, in ordel
to get fair start some would have to g
back to the father and mother and ge
them corrected; yea, to tho grandfather
and grandmother and have their lif,
corrected, for some Of you are suffering
from bad hereditary influence which
started hundred years ago. Well, i
; your grandfather lived his life owe
again and your father lived his life owe