The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-07-25


traIlan cities. has chosen as the subject
Tor today's sermon through the press
Worth Living" the text being taken
from Lamentations jill, 90. Wherefore doth
a living man complain
IF we leave 10 the ev0luti<nists TO guess
where we came from and To the theolo-
gians To pr0phesy where We are going to,
we stil have left for consideration the i'm
portant fact that we are here. There may
be some doubt about where the river rises
and some doubt about where the river
empties, but there can be no doubt about
the fact that we are sailing on it, 80 | am
not surprised that everybody asks the
question. rs life worth living?"
solomon in his unhappy moments says
fl is not. VANITY" "yexatlon of spirit"
no good" are his estimate. The fact is
that Solomon was at one time a p0lyg-
amist, and that s0ured his disposition.
one wife makes man happy; more than
one makes him wretched. But solomon
was converted from polygamy 10 monog-
amy, and the last words he ever wrote,
as far as we can read them, were the
words, Mountains Of Spices But
Jeremiah says I'm my text life is worth liy-
ing.
In a book supposed To be doleful and
luglIbri1us and s.ulIcbrtI and entitled
"Lamentations" he plainly intimates that
the blessing ~ merely living IS 50 great
and grand a blessing that though a man
have piled on him an misf)rtunes and
disasters he has I'D right u complain. The
author Of nay ,eNt cries ont in startling
lntonduun % al lands and 10 all CEN
turtles ''Whercflre doth living man
complaint a diversity II opinion in our
rFr -..|N frr % NF.afsl il
young man ut light hair and blue eyes
and @ound digestion ana generous salary
ana hdpply aihtuo,d ANA on the way -
become partner u commercial firm or
which he is ana Important clerk. Ask him
whether lige is worth living lie Will
laugh In your face and say Yes, yes
yest He.a is a man who has come to
the forues. lie is at the uptop Of the hin
~ ne Every step has been a stumble
ana nruls, la' people ht trusted nave
turned out ac-erters. and the money he
mas h'htotiy maie -H' mas oeeu cheated
out or Ills NERVES are 1u, " tune. lie
has poor appetite. and an the food he
does eat dos not as-.,nl. tte. Forty miles
cllmolns up le hlu oI Lie nave peen u
him Ike climbing thr Mattgrhorn. and
Ihere are Iufly uiieS Iet - 60 down, and
ussC-.' y i've I' u'i.e gus MI
living. ana De- win drlvi ont in shiverfnl,
and llgubrious and appalling negative,
No no. no'
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ma me s,ma man ,.a,iiI,fin. ossilI.,iI
Ing in his opinion from detection 10 ex-
uberance. and 81 he be very mercurial in
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Lie of ANnriCc,
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az y,or, No.. ,-..t+tr-- a.. -,
i"'i-
ure, because you VIII never get as much
"a YOU want. The poorest people in this
country are the richest ard next 10 them
those who arc hair "a rich Tbare IL mot
Si4iiuei OH 'ie stIeets or New
1VIh OF bto"hl1h VINO is so anxious 20
make money as these men who have
piled up fortunes ycIr after year in
Btorehouses, i'm government securities. i'm
tenement houses. iu whole city blocks,
You ought 90 see them Jump when they
hear the fire bell ring You ought to se~
them i'm Their excitement when some bank
eXplOdes. You ought TO see their agita-
ton when there is proposed q reformation
Ia the tariff Their nerves tremble like
harp strings, but no music i'm the vibra-
ton. They read the reports from Wall
~. in the morning with "a conccrnnlent
that threatens paralysis or ap0plexy, or
more probably they have a telegram or
a telephone in their own house 81, thou,
catch every breath Of change in the
money market. The disease of accumu-
l8tiQn has eaten into thcm-eaten into
their heart into their lungs, into their
spleen, INTO their liver into their bones.
Chemists have sometimes analvzed the
human body. and they say Al is so much
nasnesla, SO much lime. SO much chlor-
ate OF potassium IL some Christian
chemist would analyze one Of these fnan-
cal behmoths, he would find he is made
UP or copper and gold and silver and zinc
anu lead and coal and iron. That is not
a lie worth living. There are too many
earthquakes IN IL; too many agonies in
IL too many perditions I'm 1t. They build
their castles, and they omen their Dicture