The Penn's Grove record., 1893-03-10
XIV. DR.. TALNAGE.
The Brooklyn Diyine's
Sunday Sermon.


TEXT: 'The days Of oar pears are three
' score and ten ."-Psalm xc., 10.
1 The ~seyentieth milestone OF life Is her
PLANTED as at the end Of the journey. A fea
20 beyond it: multitu les never reach il. fh.
Oldest person of modern times expired a
I6g years, A Greek OF the name of Stravi
ride lived to 1872 years. An Englishman 0
the name Of Thomas Parr lived 152 years
f Before the time of Moses people lived 10
wears, and IL you 90 far enough bacS thsy
! lived 500 years. Well, that was necessary
down by tradition, and 1t needed long life
safely to transmit the news Of the past. i
, the generations had been short lived, tn,
story would so often have changed lips tina
it might have got all astray.
But after Moses began TO write it dow
and parchment told it from century to CEN
i, tury it was not necessary that people live So
long in order to authenticate the events o.
the past. If in our time people lived only
twenty-aye wears, that would not affect his
tory, since it is put in print and is no longer
, dependent upon tradition. Whateyer you
age. l will to-dsy directly address you. m
[ shall speak to those who are in the TWEEN
ties, the thirties, the forties, the ffties til,
! sixties. and to those who are In the seven
| ties and beyond.
Frst, then. l accost those OF you who
| are IN TUE IWtulltSs 4 Aut VI fABfG7
tation. You are ambitio ls-that is, ii you
amount to anything--for some kidd OF sue
| cess, commercial or mechanical or protes'
sional or literary or agricultural or social OF
/ moral. II | find some one in the twenties
without any sort of ambition, l feel like
saying; my friend, you have got on tue
wrong planet. This is not the world for son.
You are going to be in the wav. Have yod
mace your choice OF ~poorhousesf You vii
H,,or ~, aA1a 20 ~ for uar1r n .aAla w r
is going to settle for your boardf There is
! mistake about the fact that you were bora
at all"
But supposing you nave ambition, let ms
say to ali the twenties: Expect everything
through divine manipulation, AMI then you
will get all you want or SO nething better,
Are you looking for wealth. Well, remem'
Der that God controls the money markets,
the harvests, the droughts, the caterpillar.
land, the sea, and YOU will get wealth. Per
ha not that which is stored up in banks, in
] safe deposits, in United States securities, ia
houses and lands, but your clothing an
board and shelter, and that is about all you
can appropriate anyhow. You cost the
| Lord a great deal. To feel and cloth and
shelter for a lifetime requires a big su Of
money, and If you get nothing more tnsn
the absolute necessities you get an enormous
amount OF supply.
| Expect as mucn as you will Of any kind OF
success; il you expect 1t from the Lord, you
are safe. Depend on any other resource an
YOU may be ba lily cha CRIME !, but depend Oh
| God and all will be vel. IL IS a goot thing
in the crisis OF life to have a man OF lar4e
means back you up. 1t is q gr. at thing to
have a moneyei institution stand benin
you in your undertaking. But it is a might
Ter thing to have the God of heaven and
| earth your coatjutor, AMI you may have
Him. am so glad that | meet you whjis
you are in the twenties. You are laying ou5
your plans, and all your life in this word
and the next for 500, 100. 900 years OF your
| existence will be affected by those plans. 1t
is about s O'clock in the morning Of your
lifs, and you are just starting out. Waica
way are you going to starts On, the TWEEN
tiesi
twenty" Is a great word in the Bible.
| Joseph was sold for 20 pieces of silver. Sam
son Judged Israel % years. solomon gave
Hiram 20 cities. The flying roll that
| Zechariah saw was 20 Quits. When the
| sailors of the ship on whicn Paul sailed
sounded the Mediterranean Sea, it was p
~fathou,s. WHAT mighty things have been
done in the twantiest Ronulus founded
| Rome when he was 20. Keats finished lite
at IS. Lafavette was a world renowned
| soldier at 20. Ober.in accomplished mis-
chief work by 81. Bonaparte was victor
over Italy at %. Pitt was prime minister
of England at %. CALVIN mad comp etei
| his immortal institutes" by the time he
was 26. Grotius was attorney general at "a,
Some OF the migttiest things for God ami
| eternity have been done in the twenties. AS
long as you can put the hsure before tue
other figure that helps descrios your age l
nave high hooes about you. LIok out for
that figure %" Watch its continuance
with as much earnestness as you ever
watched anything that prom SAD youcsaly1'
ton or threatened you Demolition. Wnlt a
critical time, the twentiesl While they con-
tiuus you decide your occupation ami The
principles by which you will be guided, You
make your most abiding friendships, You
habits, Lord Goi Almighty, for Jesus
Christ's sase, have mercy OF all the men
and women in the twentiesl
Next / accost those in the thirties, Ycu
are at an age when you find what q tough
thing it is to get recognized and established
in your occupation or profession. Ten years
ago you thought all that was nee assary Tor
success was TO put on your shutter the slsn
of physician or dentist, or attorney or broker
or agent, and you would have plenty OF bust
ness. How many hours You sat aud walte1
for business and waited in vain three per.
sons only know-Sod, your wife and
yourself. In commercial life you have not
bad the promotion and the increase in salary
you Anticipated, or the place you expected
TO occupy In the firm has not been vacated,
Ths produce OF the farm, with which you
expected 10 support yourself and those de-
pending on you, aud to pay the interest on
the mortgage, has been far less than you
anticipated, or tus .c.s were down, or Spe'
cial expenses for sickness made drafts on
| your resources that you could not have ex-
pected.
In some respects the hardest decade OF
life is the thirtiss, because the results are
| generally 90 far behind the a~nticipations, II
is very rare indeed that q young man dosi
as did the young man last Sunday night,
when be came 70 me and said: II nave been
so ma~rvelously prospsret sincs l cana Co
this country that ! feel, as a matter OF
gratitude, thar I ought to dedicats myself
to Goi." Niue-tenths OF the poetry or life
has been knocked out OF you since you came
into the thirties. Men in the different pro-
LESSONS and occupations saw that you were
rising and they must put an estoppe! on you
, OF you might somehow stand in the way.
Thsy think you must be suppressed.
From 80 to - il is an especially hard time
for young doctors, young lawyers, youn5
merchants, young farmsrs. young nechau-
les, young ministers The stragsleo OF tue
thirtIes is for honest and help u and re-
munerative recognition. But few old peo'
pie know how TO treat young people wltnou-
patroDixing tnem on the n hani or snuo,
bing them on the other. o., the thlrties
joseph stood before Pnaraoa at ID. DAvld
was 30 years old waen no began to reign.
TIE height of Solomon's temple was ID Gu
bits. Christ entered upon His active ministry
at 80 years OF age. Judas so.i nNns'if for
~ pieces of silver.
Oh, the thirtiesi What a wori su ygestiye
OF triumph or disasteri Your decaie Is the
one that will probably aifori the greatest
opportunity for victory, because there i
the greatest necessity for struggle. Reai
the worlds history AMI know what are tnS
thirties for gooi or bad. Alexander Tn
Great closed nis career at 80. Frederick tot
Great made Europe renbls with hrs srnie'
at IS. Cores conquered Mexico at ~
Grant fought Shiloh and Ooneison when >
Raphael died at 81. Luther was tbs her,
of tine reformation at 30. Sir Philip Sydney
got through by H.
The greatest deeds for God and agains
Him were done within the thirtieS ami you
greatest battles are now and between ta
time wnen you cease expressing your age D.
putting nrst q figure "g and the tims when
You viii Geese expressing IL BY putting rrst
Inquire = As 1t Is the greateat time OF
the struggle. ! adjurs you, 10 Gods name
and oy 9od's grace, make il the greatest
aenievsmsne Ny prayer ID for ell those 10
as qspeAdoae ortsss 81 tAs tairtisst Ths