The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-03-08
AT THE TABERNACLE.
THE DECADES FROM 20 TO 70 HAVE
SUCCESSIVE LESSONS FOR MAN.

Age OF the Patriarchs-The Years Allotted
ceeded Them. Yet Seventy Years Are
Natures Usual Limit.
BROOKLYN, March 5.-A most striking
and characteristic sermon was preached by
Rev. Dr. Talmage to great audience in
the Tabernacle today, the subject an
nounced being From Twenty to Seventy"
The text selected was Psalm &c, 10, 1.-The
days OF our years are threescore AND ten"
The seventeen milestone of lire is here
planted ss at the end of the journey. a few
go beyond it: multitudes never reach it. The
oldest person of modern times expired at
169 years. A Greek of the name OF Strava-
ride lived to 1872 years. An Englishman
of the name of Thomas Parr lived 152
years. Before the time o. Moses people
lived 10 years, and If you go lar enough
back they lived 500 years Wei that wsf.
necessary. because the story Of the vorlt.
must come down b. tradition ard = needol
long life safely 20 transmit tn news Of ne
past Ii the generations ha1 been SD ort
lived. the story would so otter lave
changed lips that 1t might have 81 { a..
astray. Bur after Moses BEGAN to W rte il
down and parchment told IL from c2uurv
10 century it was not necessary thu, people
live so long IN order to autherTicite the
events OF the pass If in our tiBae people
lived ONLY - wears. that would not Affect
history since it is put in prir6 and is no
longer depend ert on tradition. Whatever
your age, l VIII todiy directly address YOU,
and ! shall speak 20 those who are in the
twenties. the shirties, the fDrties, the fif-
ties, the sixties ard to thtse VINO sre in
the seventies ard beyond.
REJOICE. VOTING siAS, rs THY STRENGTH
First, then. / accost th9se OF you WHO are
in the twenJies. You gre full OF expecta-
ton You are ambit yOus-that is. If you
amount to auythiug-lor some kind of suc-
cess, commercial or mechanical OF pTofes-
siOnai or literary or ayricu ltuTal or social or
moral If I find s9Inc one in the twenties
without any SORT Of ambition, ! feel like
saving: My friend you have got on the
wrong planet This is not the world for
YOU. You are going 60 be in the way Have
you made your choice Of poorhOuses? You
will never he able 10 pay for your cradle
Who * going to settle Tor your board?
There Is a mistake about the fact that Won
were born ut all" But, supposinz you have
ambition, let me say TO all the twenties:
t'Fxpec5 everything through Divine manip-
t1lation 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
slroughts. the caterpillars, the locusts the
tdnsnrr.. the storm, the land, the sea, and
you will ger wealth Perhaps not that
which IS stored up in banks, in safe depos-
It's, in United States securities, in houses
and lands, but your clothing and board and
shelter, and that Is about ali you can APP
prOpriate anyhow. You cost the Lord a
great deal 70 feed and clOthe and shelter
you for a lifetime requires big sum Of
money. alc If you get nothing more than
the absolute necessities you get an enor-
NOUS amount of supply. Expect as much
Es you viii of any kind of success. II you
expect Il from the Lord, you are safe De
pend Gu any other resource, and You may
be badly chagrined, but depend on God,
and al will be well IL is q good thing in
the crises OF life TO have a man OF laroe
means back you up 1t is a great thing to
have a moneyed institution stand behind
you in your undertaking But it is a
nightieT thing 10 have the God Of heaven
pnd earth your coadjutor, and you may have
him. am so glad that | meet you while
sou are in the twenties. You are laying
Dut your plans and all your life in this
world and the next for 500, coo, 900 years Of
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 starts Oh,
the twenties"
TIE TWENTITS IN THE BIBLE.
Twenty" is a great word IN the Bible.
Joseph was sold for 90 pieces Of silver.
samson judged Israel 20 years. Solomon
gave Hiram 20 cities. The flying roll that
Zecharah saw was % cubits When the
Sailors Of the ship on which Paul sailed
bounded the Mediterranean sea- it was %
fathoins. What mighty things have been
1one IN the twenties! Romulus founded
Rome when be was 20 Keats finished life
et - Lafayette was a world renowned
soldier at %. Oberlin ACCOMPLISHED mis-
chief work by % Bonaparte was victor
oyer Italy at q. Pitt was prime minister
Of England at %. Calvin had completed
his immortal Institutes By the time lie
was -. 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
fore the other figure that helps describe
POUR age l have high hopes about YOU.
Look out for that figure SO" Watch its
continuance with as much eaTnestness as
you ever watched anything that promised
ron salvation or threatened you demolition.
v hat n critical time, the twentiesl While
lhey continue you decide your occupation
and the principles by which you will be
g1Iided. You make your most abiding
Friendships. You arrange your home life.
You fix your habits Lord God Almighty.
Tor Jesus Christ's sake have mercy on az
the rien and women In the tweuties!
Next ] accOst those In the thirtes You
are ~ an age when you find what a tough
thing Il Is 70 get recognized and established
In your occupation or profession Ten years
ago you thought all that was necessary for
success was TO 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 nave
not had the promotion and increase Ia salary
you anticipated, or the place you expected
60 occupy III the firm has not been vacated
The produce Of the farm, with which YOU
expected 70 support yourself and those de
pending on you and TO pay the interest on
the mortgage, has been far less than you
anticipated, or the prices were down, or
special expenses for sickness made drafts
Oh your resources that you could not have
expected. Ia some respects the hardest dec
ade Of life - the thirties, because the re-
suits are generally 80 far behind the antici-
pations. 1t Is very rare indeed that young
man does as did the young man last Sunday
night, when he came 20 me ana said, II have