The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1890-03-12
WHAT LIFE IS WORTH.
Rev. DR.. Talmage Preaches About
Living Life Over Again.
Nearly Every One would Like to Do It
n Possible : what Such an Oppor-
tunity Would Mean to tho Aver
age Mortal. 4t f-r

The subject Of Rev. DIR. Talmage's re-
cent sermon at the Brooklyn Academy
OF Music was: Would You Like to Live
Your Life Over Again2" and his text,
Job H., 4: "All that man hath will he
give for his life." The preacher said:
That is untrue. The Lord did not say
it, but Satan said it to tho Lord, when
the Evil One wanted job still more af-
ficted 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 all eruptive dis
eases since then, and he hopes by pois-
oning the blood to poison the soul. But
the result Of the diabolical experiment
which left job victor proved the falsity
Of the Satanic remark: "All that man
hath will be give for his life." Many
captain who has stood on the bridge OF
the steamer till his passengers got of
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 plunged
INTO a blazing house to get sleeping
child out, sacrificing his life in the at
tempt, and thousands Of martyrs who
submitted to fiery stake and knife OF
massacre and headman's axe and guillo-
tine rather than surrender principle,
proving that in many q case my text was
not true, When it says: "All that man
hath will be given for his life"
But Satan's falsehood was built on a
truth. Life is very precious, and II 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
lraughts, all waterproofs, all doctors,
all medicine, all struggle in crisis of ac-
,ident An Admiral Of the British navy
was court-martialed for turning his ship
around in time of danger and so dam
aging the ship. 1t was proved against
him. But when his time came to be
heard he said: Gentlemen, did turn
the ship around and admit that it was
damaged, but do you want to know why
! turned 1t? There was man over
board, and wanted to save him, and
did save him, and consider the life of
one sailor worth all the vessels Of the
British navy" No wonder he was vim
iicated. Life is indeed 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 go back from seventy to
sixty, from sixty to fifty, from fifty to
forty, from forty to thirty, from thirty
TO twenty. Ipurpose for very practical
and useful purposes, as will appear be-
fore get through, to discuss the ques-
tion we have all asked OF others, and
others have again and again asked of us
would you like to live your life over
Again2
The fact is that no intelligent and
right feeling man is satisfied with his
past life. We have all made so many
mistakes, stumbled into so many blum
iers, said so many things that ought not
have been said and done so many things
that ought not to have been done, that
we can suggest at least ninety-hve per
cent. OF improvement. Now would ii
not be grand II the good Lord would say
10 you: "You can go back and try 1t over
again. l will by word turn your hair
TO brown or golden, and smooth all the
wrinkles out Of your temple and check,
and take the bend out Of your shoulders,
and extirpate the stiffness from the
Joint and the rheumatic twlnge from the
foot, and you shall be twenty.one years
Of age and Just what you we're when you
reached that point before" II the prop
osition were made think many thou
sands would accept 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 octogenarian into the curly locks Of
boy, and however old person who
drank at the fountain he would be young
again. The island was said to belong 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, / have no doubt
felt that II he could discover that Foun-
\ tain OF Youth he would do as much as
his friend had done in discovering
America. So he put out in 1919 from
Porto Rico and cruised about
among the Bahamas in search OF
that fountain. l am glad he did
not find II. There is no such fountain.
But II there we're and Its waters were
bottled up and sent abroad at thousand
dollars q bottle, the demand would be
greater than the supply, and many a
man who has come through life Of use.
lessness, and perhaps sin, TO old age,
would be shaking up the potent liquid,
and II he were directed TO take only a
teaspoonful after each meal would be so
anxious TO make sure work he would
take tablespoonful, and II directed TO
take tablespoonful would take glass
full But some Of you would have to 60
back further than TO twenty-one years
OF age TO make fair start, for there are
many who manage TO get all wrong be-
fore that period. Yea, In order TO get q
fair start some would have to 20 back
TO their father and mother and get them
corrected; yea, to the grandfather and
grandmother and have their life cor
rected, for some OF you are suffering
from bad hereditary influences which
started hundred years ago. Wen, II
your grandfather lived his life over
again and your father lived his life oyor
again and you lived your life over again,
what cluttered up place this world