The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-03-06
THREE SCORE AND TEN.
TALMAGE PREACHRs ON LIFE BE-
TWEEN 90 AND 20.

hehCn lJ-GiI9 huAl OF expectation
for Those in the Twenties-Those In
the Thirties Just Realizing Eow
Hard It is 60 Get Along.
BROOKLYN, March 5.-A most striking
and characteristic sermon was preached by
Rev. DR.. TalmHgo 10 great audience In
the Tabernacle, to-day; the subject am
nouneed being From Twenty to Seventy"
The text selected was Psalm xe., 10: "Ths
days Of our years are three score and ten"
The SEVENTEEN milestone Of life is here
planted as AZ the end Of the Journey. A
few go beyond it, multitudes never reach
it. The oldest person Of modern times ex-
pired az one hundred aud sixty-nlne years.
A Greek by the name OF Stravaride lived to
one hundred and thirty-two years. AN En-
gliahman by the name of Thomas PArr
lived one hundred and hfty-two years
Before the time OF Moses people lived one
hundred and fifty years, and II you 90 far
enough back they lived five hundred years.
Well, that was necessary, because the story
OF the world must come down by tradition,
and 1t needed long life safely to transmit the
news OF the past. IL the generations had
been short-lived the story would 50 often
have changed lips that it might have got
all astray. But after Moses began to write
it down, and parchment told it from cent?
ury 20 century, tt was not necessary that peo-
pie live 80 long in order TO authenticate the
events OF the past. H. in our time, people
lived only twenty-five years, that would
not affect history, since IL is put in print
and Is no longer dependent on tradition.
Whatever your age, will to-day directly
address you, and | shall speak t1 those who
are in the twenties the thirties, the forties,
the hfties, the sixties, and those who are ia
the seventies and beyond.
A q
in the twenties. You are full Of expecta-
tion. You are ambitious-that is, II you
amount TO anything-for some kind Of sue
cess, commercial, or mechanical, pr profess
slonhl, OF literary, or agricultural, or social
or moral. IL / lnd some one in the twen-
ties 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 poor housesl
You will never he able TO pay for your
cradle Who is going 10 settle for your
boardi There Is n mistake about the
fact that you were born at all.n
But supposinR you have ambition,
let me say 20 all the twenties,
expect everything through divine manipu-
lation, and then you will get all YOU want
or something better. Are you looking for
WEALTH. Well, remember that God con-
trolls the money market, the harvests, the
drouRhts, the catsrpiilars. the slocusts, the
sunshine, the storm, the land, the sea, and
you will get wealth. Perhaps not that
which 10 stored up in banks, In safe de-
poaits, in United States securities, In houses
and lands, but your clothing aud board aud
shelter. and that is about all you can ap-
preciAte anyhow. You cost the Lord q
great deal. To feed and clothe and shelter
you for lifetime requires a big sum Of
money, and II you gee nothing more
than the absolute necessities, you
get an enormous amount Of sup
ply. Expect as much as you will Of
any kind Of success. II you expect il from
the Lord you are safe. Depend on any
other resource and you may be badly
chagrined, but depend on God and all will
be well. lt Is good thing In the crisis OF
life 20 have q man Of large means back you
up. IL is a great thing to have a monied
institution stand behind you In your under
taking. But 1t 10 a mightier thing TO have
the God OF heaven and earth your coad-
jutor, 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 world and the next
for ave hundred million of wears Of your ex-
istence will be affected by those plans. Is
is about eight o'clock In the morning Of
your life. and you are just starting out.
Which way are you going to start o, the
twentiea
Twenty" is a great word in the Bible.
Joseph was sold for twenty pieces OF silver.
Samson judged Israel twenty years. Solo
mon gave Hiram twenty cities The flying
roll that Zeohariah saw was twenty cubits.
When the sailors Of the ship on which Paul
sailed sounded the Mediterranean sea IL was
twenty fathoms. What mighty things have
been done in the twenties Romulus founded
Rome when he was twenty. Keats finished
life at twenty-five. Lafayette was world
renowned soldier ab tweutythree. Oberlin
accomplished bis chief work by twenty
seven. Bonaparte was victor over Italy at
twenty-six. Pitt was prime minister OF
England at twenty-tWo. Calvin had COM
pleted his immortal "Institutesn by the
time he was twenty-six. Grotius was
attorney general at twenty~four. Some
OF the mightiest things for God and eter-
nifty have been done in the twenties. As
long as you can put the figure ''2n before
the other figure that helps describe your
age, have high hopes about you. Look
out for that figure ''2" Watch its contin-
uAnce with as much earDestness as you
ever watched anything that promised you
salvation or threatened your demolition.
What critical time, the twentiesi While
they continue you decide your occupation
and the principles by which you will be
guided. You make your most abiding
friendships. You arrange your home ME.
you nX your habits. LORD Tod Almighty
for Jesus Christ's sake, have mercy on all
the men and women In the twentiesl
Next l accost those in the tbirties. You
are at an age when you find what tough
thing IL is to get recognized and established
In your occupation or profession. Ten
years ago you thought all that was neces-
sary for success was 60 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 aud waited In
vain, three persons only know-God your
wife and yourself. In commercial life you
have not had the promotion and the in-
crease in salary you anticipated, or ths
place you expected to occupy in the nrm has
not been vacated. The produce OF
the farm. with which you expected
to support yourself and those depend
ing on you, and to pay the interest
on the mortgage, has been far less than you
anticipated, or she prices were down. or
special expenses for sickness made draughts
on your resources that you could not have
expected. In some respects the hardest de-
csde OF life Is the thirsies, because the re-
suits are generally so far behind the
anticipations. 1t is very rare, indeed, that
young man does as did the young man
last Sunday night when he came
to me and said: 81 have been
80 marveloasly prospersd since came
to shis country, that feel, as a matter
of gratitude, that / ought 70 dedi-
cate myself 60 God.n Nine-tenths of the
noakry of life has neen knocked ont cf vo,1