Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1893-03-17
REV. DR.. TALMAGE.
Ths Eminent Brooklyn Divine's Sum-
day Sermon,
Subject: "From Twenty to Seventy"


ycore and ten Psalm xc., 10
The SEVENTEEN milestone Of life Is here
planted as at the end of the journey. A Few
90 beyond it; multitu les never reach it. The
oldest erson of modern times expired at
1863 wears. A Gree5 OF the name OF Strava,
ride lived to 1872 years. An Englishman OF
the name Of Thomas Parr livet l52 years.
Before the time of Moses people lived 10!
wears, and if you 90 far enough back tney
lived TOO wears, Well. that was necessary,
because the story of the world must come
down by tradition, and it needed long ire
eafey to transmit the news OF the past. IL
the generations had been short lived, tne
story would so often have changed lips that
it might have got all astray.
But after Moses began to write IL down
and raj chment told 1t from century 70 cen
tury it was not necessary that people live SO
long in order to authenticate the events or
the rast. If in our time people lived only
TWENTY-FIVE wears, that would not affect his
tory, since it is put in print and is no longer
dependent upon tradition. Whatever your
age, will tod directly address you, ana
| shall sneak to those who are In the TWEEN
ties, the thirties, the forties, the ftties, the
sixties. and to those who are in the severn
ties ami beyond.
First, then, l accost those of you who
are IN the twenties. You are full or expec-
tat:op, You are ambitlo1s--that il, II you
amount to anything-for some kind OF sue
cess, commerc al or mechanical or proieS'
sionai or literary or agricultural or sociai OF
moral. Ii find some one in the twenG,es
without any sort OF ambition, leei me
saving; my friend, you have goa on tns
wrong. planet. This is not the worla ior you.
You are going to be il the way. Have you
mace your choice OF poorhousssf You Will
never be able to pay for your cradle. VINO
is going to settle Tor your boaro? There IS
mistake about the fact that you were norm
at ALL" ,...
But supposine you have ambition, let me
sov to ali tie twenties: Expect everything
through divine manipulation, and then you
will get all you want or something De1ter'
Are YOU looking for wealth. wen, remen'
Der that God controls the money markets.
the harve,ts the droughts, the caeerpiliarSs
the locusts, the sunshine, tho s1orm' Ine
land, the sea, AMI you will get wealth. fer-
has not that which is stored up IN banks, ID
safe deposits, in United States securities, III
houses and lands, but your clothing AMI
board and shelter and that IS about all you
can appropriate anyhow. You cost the
Lord a great deal. To feel and cloths and
shelter for lifetime requires big su OF
money. and If you get nothing more tnan
the absolute necessities you get an enormous
amount OF supply.
Expect as mucn as you will OF any kind OF
gucc SIS; il you expect it from the LORD, you
are safe. Depend on any other resource ana
YOU may be batly chagrlnej, but depend on
God ami all will be vel. IL Is COCA tnlng
in the crisis of life to have man OF large
means back you up. 1t Is grtat Inihg "
hava a moneyed institution stand benlnd
Won in your undertaking. But it is a might.
| Ter thing to have the God OF heaven and
earth YOUR coadjutor an you may have
! Him. I am so glad that | meet you while
vou sre in the twenties You are laying out
vrrr mans. and all your life in this world
and the next Tor 500, 600, 900 years OF your
Existence will be aft acted by those plans IL
is about s o'clock in the morning OF your
hf,. and you are just starting out. Which
wav are you going to startS Va, tne 1"en'
ties! Dill.
Joseph was sold Tor ~ pieces OF SILVER, sam u.
son Judged Israel p years solomon gave
Hiram 20 cities. line flying roll that
Zacbarjaa saw was 20 cublrs When the
sailors OF the ship on which Paul saile1
sounded the Mediterranean Sea, 1T was ~
tathons. WHAT mighty things have been
done in the twenties Romulus tounded
Rome when he was 20. Keats finished lite
MT g. Lafayette was a world renowned
soldier at 23. Oberlin accomplished his
chief work Dy 81. Bonaparte was victor
over Itaiy at g. Pitt was prime minister
of England at %. CALVIN had compiete1
his immortal institute" by the time ne
was 26. Grotius was attorney general al "a
some of the mightest things for God and
eternity have been done in the twentles. As
! long as YOU can put the figure wy before tne
other figure that helps describe your age
have high hopes ABOUT you. L)oK out Ioi
that fSnre %" Watch its continuance
with as mucn earnestness as you ever
watched ANYTHING that promised your salva'
tion or threatened you demolition. WnaC q
critical time. the twentiesl While they con
finue YOU decide your occupation AMI tne
nrinciu,es by which you will he guided. \ OF
make YOUR most abiding frIen isnlps. 1oI
arrange your homo life. You nix you
habits. Lord Col Almighty, Tor jesus
Christ's SAKE, have mercy on all Tue inei
and women in the twentlesl
Next accost those in the thirtles. Vol
are AT an ace when you find what toug
thing it is to get reco ynizs1 and establishes
in YOUR occupation or profession. Ten year
ago YOU thought all that was nee assary 10
success was to put on your shutter the sig
of physician or dentist,o or attorney or DroSe
or agent, aud you would have plenty OF bus
ness How many hours you sat and waite
for nusiuess and waited in Vain thre9 pei
sons only know-God, your wife an
vourself. In commercial life you have no
had the promotion an the increase IN saiar.
YOU anticiDated, or the place you expecOe
to occupy in the firm has not been vacated
The prodr &c of the farm, with which yoG
expected 10 support yourself and tnose DC
men NJ on YOU, and TO pay the interest Oh
the MORTGAGE. has been far less than 20
anticipated, or the prces were down, or spe
cial expenses for sickness made drafts o.
your resources that you could not have ex
pected.
In some respects the hardest decade o
life is the thirties, because the results ar
generally so far behind the antlclpatlonS.
Is very rare indeed that young man doc
as did the Young man last Sunday night
when he came to me and said: II nave bse
so mqrvelously prosperei sincs l came u
this country that l feel, as a matter {
gratitude. that I ought to dedicate mySei
to God" Nine-tenths OF the poetry or III
J has been knocked out OF you since you cem
into the thirties. Men in the different pro
LESSONS and occupations saw that you "er
rising and they musJ put an estoppel on 20
or WI, might somehow stand in the way
They think you must be suppressed.
From 30 to ~ it is an especially hard tim
for Young doctors, young lawyers. youn
merchants, young farmers, young mecnan
| les Young ministers The struggle of tn
thirt.es i, for honest and helpful and re
munerative reco milton. But few old pei
Die know how to treat youn gpeopl withou
pstronizing them on the one hani or smut
hing them on the other. Oh, the thlrtle;
joseph stood before Pnaraon at 30. DAvr
was 30 years old wnen he bsgan to regr
The height of Solomon's temole was 81 c.
bits. Christ entered upon His active mlnlstI
at 30 years of age. Judas sold himself fo
80 pieces of silver
Oh, the thirties What word suggestiy
of triumph or disaster Your decade is ii
%ho IA