Milford chronicle., 1893-03-10
AT THE TABERNACLE.
THE DECADES FROM 20 TO 70 HAVE
SUCCESSIVE LESSONS FOR MAN.


Natures Usual Limit.
BROOKLYN, March 5.-A most strikin
and characteristic sermon was preached b
Rev. DR.. Talmage to a great audience il
the Tabernacle today, the subject an
: nOunced being From Twenty to Seventy.
E The text selected was Psalm xc, 10, 9Th
0 days Of our years are threescore and ten"
e The SEVENTEEN milestone of life is her
D planted as at the end of the journey A few
go beyond it; pultitudes never reach it. Tn,
oldest person Of modern times expired a
100 years. A Greek Of the name Of Strava
ride lived to 1872 years. An EnglishmaI
of the name of Thomas Parr lived l5
years. Before the time Of Moses peopli
lived $50 years, and if you go far enough
hack they lived 500 years. Well, that wa.
necessary, because the story Of the worlt
must come down by tradition, and it needed
long life safely to transmit the news of thG
past. If the generations had been shor
lived, the story would 50 often have
changed lips that it might have got all
astray. But after Moses began to write II
down and parchment told it from century
20 century It was not necessary that people
live so long in order to authenticate the
events Of the past. If In our time people
lived only 25 years, that would not affect
history, since 1t is put in print and Is no
longer dependent on tradition. Whatever
your age, ] will today directly address you,
and shall speak 70 those who are in the
/ twenties, the thirties, the foPties, tho fif-
ties, the sixties, and 10 those who are in
the seventies and beyond.
REJOICE, YOUNG MAN, IN THY STRENGTH.
| First, then, accost those of you who are
in the twenties. You are full Of expscta-
| tion, You are ambitious-that is, II you
amount to anything-for some kind Of sue
cess, commercial or mechanical or profess
sional or literary or agricultural or social or
moral. If I find some one in the twenties
without any sort of ambition, feel like
saying; MY friend, you have got on the
wrong planet. This is not the world for
you. You are going to be in the way. Have
you made your choice Of poorhouses2 You
will never be able to pay for your cradle.
Who is going to settle for your bOard9
There is mistake about the fact that you
were born at ALL" But, supposing you have
ambition, let me say to all the twenties:
Expect everything through Divine manip-
ulatiOn, and then you will get all you want
or something better. Are you looking for
wealth? Well, remember that God controls
the money markets, the harvests, the
droughts, the caterpillars, the locusts, the
sunshine, the storm, the land, the sea, aud
you will get wealth. Perhaps not that
which is stored Up In banks, in safe depos-
its, in United States securities, in houses
and lands, but your clothing and board and
shelter, and that is about all you can ap-
prOpriate anyhow You cost the Lord a
great deal TO feed and clothe and shelter
you for a lifetime requires big sum Of
money, and If you get nothing more than
the absolute necessities you get an enor-
nous amount of supply. Expect as much
as you will Of any kind of success. If you
expect it from the Lord, you are safe. De
pend on any other resource, and you may
be badly chagrined, but depend on God,
aud all will be well. It is good thing in
the crises of life TO have a man of large
means back you up. 1t is great thing to
have n moneyed institution stand behind
you in your undertaking. But it is a
mightier thing to have the God of heaven i
and earth yourcoadjutor, and you may have ?
him. | am so glad that meet you while
you are in the twenties. You are laying
out your plans, and all your life in this {
WIN anu NnE AAGN1 AOA ouutONogVuV years VI I
your existence will be affected by those .
plans. 1t is about O'Clock in the morning
of your life, and you are just starting out.
Which way are you going to start2 Oh,
the twentiesr'
THE TWENTIES IN THE BIBLE.
"T'wenty" is great word in the Bible.
Joseph was sold for 20 pieces of silver.
Samson judged Israel 20 years. Solomon
gave Hiram 20 cities. The flying roll that
Zechariah saw was 20 cubits. When the
sailors Of the ship on which Paul sailed
sounded the Mediterranean sea, it was 20
fathoms What mighty things have been
done in the twentiesl Romulus founded
Rome when he was co. Keats finished life
ut %. Lafayette was 4 world renowned
soldier Rt %. Oberlin accomplished his
chief work by o. Bonaparte was victor
over Italy at 20. Pitt was prime minister
Of England ut %. Calvin had completed
his immortal institutes" by the time he
was 90. GrOtius was attorney general at "a
Some Of the mightiest things for God and
eternity have been done in the twenties.
As long as you can put the figure ''2' be-
'oro the other figure that helps describe ,
1ouF age ] haYe high hopes about you. :
,ook out for that figure 80" Watch its
continuance with as much eaFnestness as
7ou ever watched anything that promised !
Tou salvation or threatened you demolition !
What critical time, the twentiesl While !
hey continue you decide your occupation ,
md the principles by which you will be I
guided. You make your most abiding ,
You arrange your home life I
You fix your habits Lord God Almighty, I
or Jesus Cbrist's sake have mercy on aH !
he men and women in the twenties =
Next accost those in the thirties. You /
re at m age when you find what tough :
hing it Is to get recognized and established !
D your occupation or profession. Ten years !
go you thought all that was necessary for
uccess was to put on your shutter the sign :
I physician or dentist or attorney or broker n
+ agent, and you would have plenty of :
usiness. How many hours you sat and n
1aited for business and waited in vain, !
hree persons only know--God, your wife !,
nd Yourself. In commercial life you have y
OF had the promotion and increase in salary
on anticipated, or the place you expected
D occupy in the firm has not been vacated
he produce of the farm, with which you
xpected to support yourself and those de
ending on you and to pay the interest on
he mortgage, has been far less than you
OF the prices were down, or
Decial expenses for sickness made drafts
D your resources that you could not have
Ipected. In some respects the hardest dec
de of life is the thirties, because the re-
Its are generally so far behind the antici-
ations, It is very rare indeed that a young
ian does as did the young man last Sunday b
ight, when he came to me and said, y have n
cen so marvelously prospered since came n
this country that feel. as matterOf graf Fl
ude, that l ought to dedicate myself to I.
Cd" Nine-tenths of the poetry of life has 81
zen knocked ont of you since you came into G,
le thirties Men in the different professions Il
al occupations saw that you were rising, d,
I'D they must put an estoppel on you or Il
u might somehow stand in the way. They ii
ink you must be suppressed. From soto Ii
it is an especially hard time for young u
lctors, young lawyers, young merchants, es
,ung farmers, young mechanics, young n
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