Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va) 1886-1890, 1890-03-11
DIR. TALMAGES DISCOURSE.
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GIVE FOR HIS LlFE,a TIE TEXT.

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A Sermon for the People Who Would Lille
to Live Their Lives Over Aacai,,--False
Reasoning which Could but Result iu
disappointment.
BROOKLYN, March 9.-The Rev. {.
D. Witt Talmage, D. D., preached in
the Academy of Music, Brooklyn, this
morning, to an OVERLOOKING congrega-
ton. After expounding appropriate
passages of Scripture ne announced
| his subject to be: Would You Like
to Live Year Life Over Again9 Ills
text was Joo ii, A "All that man
bath 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 tine evil one wanted Job still
more afflicted. The record is: so went
Satan forth from the presence OF TIE
Lord and smote Job with sore boiis
And Satan has been the author OF all
eruptive disease since then, aud lie
/ hopes by poisoning the blood to polSoa
/ the soul. But the result OF the dlabo!!-
cal experiment which left job victGr
/ proved the falsity of tie Satanic ~
/ inark-"All that q man hath will lie
give for his life" Many q captain
/ Who has stood on the bridge OF the
steamer till his passengers gototf ara
i 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 q fireman who plunged
/ into n blazing house to get q sleeping
child out, sacrificing his life III the nc
tempt, and thousands OF martyrs WHO
submitted to fiery stake and knife OF
massacre and headsman 5 AK and quiz
lotine rather than sUrrenderprincipl&,
/ proving that in many a case my te,1t
was not true, when it says: All thiet
/ q man hath will he give for his lie.
But Satan's falsehood WAS built on ,
truth. Life is very precious, ana
/ if we would not give up all there ale
many things we would surrender
rather than surrender it. We see hos
/ precious life is from the fact that we
do everything 10 prolong it. Hence
all sanitary regulations. all study q
! hygiene. all fear of draughts, ell
waterproofs, all doctors, all meal
cines, all struggle in crisis OF acclGens.
An admiral of the British navy was
court martialed for turning his ship
around in time of danger and so dana
aging the ship. 1t was proved againEt
him. But when his time came to lie
/ heard he said: Gentlemen, did turn
the ship around and admit that II Was
damaged, but DO you want know why
turned it, There was man over
board, and / wanted 10 save him, anG
| did save him, and consider the HE
of one sailor worth all the vessels OF
the British navy" Nowonder he wis
vindicated. Life is indeed very pro-
cious. Yea. there are those who deem
life so precious they would like to rs-
peat it. they would like to try itagaill.
They would like 10 90 back from seT-
entv to sixty. from sixty TO fifty. from
fifty 10 forty, from forty TO thirty,
from thirty to twenty. l purpose for
very practical and useful purposes, IS
will appear before l get through, 10
discuss the question we have all asked
of others, and others have again and
again asked of Us-would you like 10
live your life over again!
The fact is that 40 intelligent ami
right fearing man is satisfied with his
past life. We have all made 50 many
mistakes, stumbled into SO many blur
ders, said SO many things that ought
not have been said and done 50
many things that ought not 10 have
! been done, that we can suggest at leaar
ninety-fve per cent. of Improvement:
Now would it not be grand if the good
Lord would say to you: You can 50
back and try it over again. | will by
a word turn your hair to brown or
black or golden, and smooth ali 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
twinge from the foot, and you snail re
twenty-one years of age and just what
you were when You reached that point
before" If the proposition were made
l think many thousands would accept
it. That feeling caused the ancient
search for what was called the Four
tain of Youth, the waters OF which
taken would turn the hair of the octt-
genarian into the curly locks OF boy,
and however old a person who drank
at that fountain lie 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 Spall-
ish explorer, Juan Ponce de Leor:,
fellow voyager w:ta Columbus. have
no doubt felt that if he could discover
that Fountain OF Youth he would do
as much as his friend had done III dis
covering America. So he put cut IL
1912 from Porto Rico and cruised
about among the Bahamas IN search Of
that fountain. am glad lie did not
find it. There is no such fountain.
But if there were and its waters were
bottled up and sent abroad at a thou.
sand dollars bottle, the demand
would be create t,.;,l the supply, and
many a man who has come through g
life Of uselessness, and perhaps sin, to
old age would be shaking up the pc
tent liquid, and if he were directed to
take only a teaspoonful after each
meal would be so anxious to make
sure work he would take tablespoons
full, and if directed to take q table
spoonful would take q glassful. But
some of you would have TO so back
further than to twenty-one years
of age TO make fair STAR,
for there are many who manage to ge:
all wrong before that period. Yea, ia
order to get a fair start some would
have to go back to the father and mo-
Their and get them corrected; yea, to
the grandfather and grandmother and
have their life corrected, for some CT
you are suffering from bad hereditary
Influences which started a hundred
years ago. Well, if your grandfather
lived MS life over again and your fas
ther lived his life over again and you
lived your life over again, what 8
cluttered up place this world would
/ no n ,,laced filled with miserable ar