Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-03-14


give for his life" He said:
That Is untrue. The Lord did not say 1t,
but Satan said it 10 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 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-"All that
man hath will he give for his life" Many u
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 mis- foot
on the brake until the most of the train was
saved while he went down TO death through
the open drawbrdge; many fircman who
plunged into blazing house to got sleep
ing child out, sacrificing his life in the at
tempt, and thousands OF martyrs who sub
mitted to fiery stake and knife of massacre
and headsmans AK and guillotne rather
than surrender principle, proving that in
many case my text was not true, when it
says: "All that man hath will he give for
his life"
But Satan's falsehood was built on
truth. Life is very precious, and IL 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 everything to prolong it.
Hence all sanitary regulations, all study of
hygiene, all fear of draughts, all water
proofs, all doctors, all medicines, all strug-
giles in crisis of accident An admiral
OF the British navy was court
martaled for turning his ship around
In Of nd 1a,,
ing the ship. 1t was proved against
him But when his time came to be heard
he said: Gentlemen, l did turn tho ship
around and admit that it was damaged,
but do you want to know why l turned it!
There was man overheard and 1 wanted
to save him, and / did serve him
considered the life OF one
sailor worth all the vessels of the
British navy" No wonder he was vindi
Gated. Lifeis indeed very precious. Yea,
there rare those who deem it 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. / purpose for very
practical and useful purposes, as will APP.
pear before l get through, to discuss the
question we have asked of others, and
nave again dSHeu Oh uS-WOulQ you ike 10
live your life over agains
The fact is that no intelligent and right
fearing nan is satisfied with his past life.
We have all made so many mistakes, stu m
bled into Sd many blunders, said so many
things that ought not to have been said and
done 80 many things that ought not to have
been done, that we can suggest at least
ninety-five per cent of Improvement Now
would it not be grand if the good Lord
would say TO you: you can go back and
try 1t over again. / will by u word turn
your hair to bro yn 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 AMI the rheumatic twlnge
from the foot, and you shall b, twenty-one
years OF age and just what you were whom
you reached that point before" IF the
proposition were made think many thous.
ands would accept it. 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 octoge-
marian into the curly locks of boy, and
however old person VINO drank at that
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, 1 have
no doubt felt that IL 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 1912 from Porto
Rico and cruised about among the BAHIA
mas in search Of that fountain. am glad
he did not find it. There is no such foun-
tain. But IL there were and its waters
were bottled up and sent abroad at thou
sand dollars bottle, the demand would be
greater than the supply, and many a man
who has come through life Of uselessness,
and perhaps sin, to old age would
be baking up the potent liquid,
and If he were directed to
take only q teaspoonful after each meal
would be so anxious to make sure work he
would take a tablespoonful, and if directed
to take a tablespoonful would take glass
full But some OF you would have TO go
back further than to twenty ono years or
age to make a 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 corrected; yea, to
the grandfather and grandmother and
have their life corrected, for some OF you
are suffering from bad hereditary influ-
ences which started hundred years ago.
Well IL your grandfather lived his life
over again and your father lived his life
over again and you lived your life over
again, what cluttered up place this world
would be, q place filled with miserable at
tempts at repairs. begin to think that 1t
Is better for each generation 10 have only
one chance and then for them to pass oil
and give another generation a chance.
Beside that, il you took life over again,
you would have TO take its deep sadness
over again. Would you want to try again
the griefs and the heart breaks and the be-
reavements through which you have gone,
What mercy that we shall never be- called
TO suffer them againl We may have others
bad enough, but those old ones never again.
Would you want to go through the process
Of losing your father again or your mother
again or your companion in life again or
your child againi IL you were permitted
TO stop at the sixtieth milestone or the If
tieth milestone or the fortieth mile
stone and rctraco your stops to the
twentieth, your experience would be
something like mine one day last Novem-
Der in Italy. walk ID through great
city with friend and two guides, and
there were in all the city only four
persons and they were those of our own
group. We went up and down the streets,
we entered the houses the museums the