Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-03-11
YOUTH AND OLD AGE.
DIT. Talmage breaches to the Young,
Middle-Aged and Old.
The Plans, Disappointments, Discoveries
and Iiarvests of the Various Periods OF
Mans Life-Oid Age and Its
Many blessings.

Dewitt Talmagc took for his subject,
''From Twenty to Seventy" The text
selected was Psalm nc. 10: 1.-THE days
of our years are three score and ten. !"
The preacher said:
The SEVENTEEN milestone of life is
here planted as ut the end of the journey.
A few 20 beyond it; multitudes never
reach it. The oldest person of modern
times expired Mt 1863 years. A Greek,
by the name of Stravaride, lived to 1872
years An Englishman, by the name
OF Thomas Parr, lived 15a years. Be-
fore the time of Moses people lived $50
years, and if you go far enough back
they lived 500 years. Well, that was
necessary, because the story OF the
world must come down by tradition,
and it needed long life safely to trans
init the news of the past. If the gem
erations had been short-lived, the story
would SO often have changed lips that
it might have got all astray. But after
Moses began to write it down and parch-
ment told it from century to century,
it was not necessary that people live so
long in order to authenticate the events
of the past. II, in our time, people
lived only twenty-five years, that would
not affect history, since it is put in
print and no longer dependent on tradi-
ton.
First. then, I accost those of you who
are in the twenties. You are full OF
expectation. You are ambitious-that
Ii, if you amount to anything-for some
Kind of success, commercial, or mechan-
zeal, or professional, or literary, or
agricultural, or social, or moral. If /
find some one in the twenties without
any sort of ambition, feel like saying:
.'My friend, you have got on the wrong
sIanct. This is not the world for you.
You are going to be in the way. Have
sou made your choice of poor houses?
You will never be able to pay for your
cradle Who is going to settle for your
board? There is mistake about the
fact that you were born at all" But
supposing you have ambition, let me
sny to all the twenties, expect every
thing through divine manipulation, and
then You will get all you want or some
thing better Are you looking for
wealth? Well, remember that God
controls the money markets, the har-
vests the droughts, the catcrpillars, the
locusts, the sunshine, the storm the
land, the sea, and you will get wealth.
Perhaps not that which is stored up in
banks, in safe deposits, in United States
securities. in houses and lands, but
your clothing and board and shelter,
and that is about all that You can APP
propriate anyhow. am so glad that l
met YOU while You are in the twenties.
You are laying out your plans and all
your life in this world and the next for
800, 600, 900 years of your existence will
be affected by those plans. 1t is about
9 o'clock in the morning of your life,
and you are just starting out. Which
way are you going to start? Oh, the
twcnties!
Twenty" is great word in the BIZ
Ole. Joseph was sold for twenty pieces
of silver Sampson judged Israel
twenty years. The flying roll that
.Zechariah saw was twenty cubits
When the sailors on the ship on which
Paul sailed sounded the Mediterranean
sea it was twenty fathoms. What
mighty things have been done in the
fwenties Romulus founded Rome
when he was 90. Keats finished life
at s5. Lafayette was world re-
,nowned soldier at 90. Obcrlin accom-
,pIished his chief work by 81. Bona
parte was victor over Italy at &c. Pitt
was prime minister of England at "a.
Calvin had completed his immortal
Institutes" by the time he was ~
GGrotius was Encouragement at pa
Some of the lnightiest things for God
and eternity have been done in the
twenties.
Next / accost those in the thirties.
You are at an age when you find what
a tough thing it is to get recognized
and established in your occupation or
profession. Ten years ago you thought
all that was necessary for success was
70 put on your shutter the sign OF
physician or dentist or attorney or
broker or agent, and you would have
plenty of business. How many hours
YOU sat and waited for business and
waited in vain, three persons only
know-God, your wife and yourself.
In commercial life you have not had
the promotion and increase Of salary
you anticipated, or the place you ex-
pected to occupy in the firm has not
been vacated. The produce Of the farm,
with which you expected to support
yourself and those depending on you,
and to pay the interest on the mort
rage, has been far less than you antici-
ypated, or the prices were down, or
special expenses for sickness made
drafts on your resources that you
could not have expected. In some re-
spects the hardest decade of life is the
fhirties, because the results are gener'