Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1894-08-11
REV. DR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DTVINE'S SUN
DAY SERMON

~ SO leave TO the evo'utionls.s 70 cness
There We came nom, and TO the theoiogiana
10 prophecy whore we are going TO. we still
have iet for confederation the important
fnrt that We are here. There may he some
doubt nbout where the river rises, AMI
sone doubt about whore the river an ties.
hut there can STE no DOUBT about the fart
that We are sailing on il. SO l AN no. sur
prs"dthat everybody asks III" question, lis
he worth living"
Noonon. in his unhappy moments savs =
Is not. VANITY ''v@xation Of spirit. :" mo
coof, ar" his .stimate. The fac, is thu,
solomon was NJ one tim" a p~oly:anist. AMI
that sonrei his disposition. One wife makes
hThn happy; moro than one makes him
wr"'ch@i. Ru' solomon vas converted from
polyCanyto and the last woris
he ever wrote. 1s far AZ W. can read them.
w"r" the w0ris .nountains % spires. Bu.
jeremiah saws in nv text life is worth living.
In n book SUPPOSED to be dolefui and
ngu' r.ofis nnt s"pulchrai and entitled
Lamentations h. plainly intimates that
the blessing o merely living Is 80 great and
grand 4 blessing TINT though a man hav,
pil"l on him all nlistortunes AMI disasters
he has no right to complain. The author u
ny text "ri"s ont III startling intonation -
All lands AMI 70 all centuries, 'Hher"iora
doth n living man "onplain2' A diversity
% opinion IN our time AS well as in olinn
nm. Tier" y i young nan % iicht hair
ana 'ihF eyes m SOUND DIGESTION AMI
t"hHroi. salary ana happily am inHed and
in the way 10 become the partner in a COM
m@r"iat firm 81 which he Is an important
r'"rs. Ask him whether life is worth living.
H. will laugh in yonr fac" AMI say. ''Yes.
N"e, YES here Is "A man VINO has come TO
u" iorta"s. IT" Is at th"tirtop o. the hi. OF
ne. EN"rN step has been a stumble and 4
truis". The people he trusted have turned
It,t tiea.Ff.rG py.l IN MONA ba HOG kap.u.I,
mai" b" hrs been cheated ont o.. His
n"rv"a ar" out OF tune He has poor
hpp"tlt". mi all the 700 h" DO : eat doas
nov asslf1'at". Forty miles climbing up the
mn % III" have been 10 him like climbing
IN" Matterhorn. AMI Their" ar" forty miles
vet 70 90 down. AMI descent IS always NOR"
dangerous than ascent Ask him whether
IL" i worth living. AMI he will irawl ont in
shiv"rtn. AMI LUXURIOUS and appalling
D':ottNr. \ 10. no.!
HOW ar" W." to decide this matter right
rol~ly and int"liigently? lon will find the
san" man vtrillating. oseillating in his opin-
ION from detection TO "ylb"ranre, AMI if he
/" YER. m"rrurial IN his temperament IL will
depend very much upon which way the
northwest. and you ask him. he will say,
Yes. AMI II II blow from the northeast.
AM YOU ask him.. he will say No How
are We. then. 10 get the question rlghteOuSly
answered.? Suppose we call all nations to-
gethcr in a great convention on eastern o.:
western hemisphere and let all those who
are in the Affirmative say aye and all
those who are in the negative say NO"
While there would be hundreds Of thou
san Is who would answer in the affirmative.
there would be more millions who would
answer in the negative, AMI because OF the
! greater number who have sorrow and mis-
fortune and trouble the noes would have
1t. The answer | shall give will be different
from either, and yet it will commend itself
TO all who hear methis day as the right an
swer. II YOU ask me. as life worth l~iyinp?'
I answer. it all depends upon the kind oflfe
you live.
In the first place. / remark that a life Of
mere money getting is always a failure. be.
cause YOU will never get as much as YOU
want. The poorest people in this country
are the richest, and the next TO them those
who are half as rich. There is not a scis
sors grinder on the streets OF New York o,
BrookIvn who is so ANXIOUS 70 make mona,
rs these men who have piled up fortunes
year after wear in storehouses. in govern.
ment securities, in tenement houses, II
whole city blocks.
Won ough to 900 them hmm whom tbay
hear the irebell ring. You ought to .at
them in their excitemenr when some banl
exnlo loo You OUGHT 10 see their ayitat;o,
when there ia proposed n eformation i,
the tariff. Their nerves framble like harr
strin-s hut no music in the vibration The,
road tho renorts from Wall street in m,
morning witb a conrernment that threatan
paralysis or apoplexy. or. more probably
they have n telegraph ora telephone in tibet
house. so they catch every breath of chang
I'm the money market The disease of acc,
mutation has eaten into them-eaten into
their heart. into their lungs. into thei
splrnn into their liver into their homes.
Chemists haye sometimes analyzed the hu
nan to1v and tb.v cav II is 40 muoh mao
nesIa. so much lime. so much chlorate of 20
tassiun. If some Christian chemist wouI
~an,lyza one OF these financial behemoths. h
wouIi ind he is made up OF conner and pOl,
AMI silver and zinc and lead and coal an,
iron. That is not a life worth living. Their
are too many earth1uakes in il. too man,
nronics in II, too many perditions in it. The
build their castles, and they open their pict
ure galleries., and they summon prima don
ms, and they offer every inducement 70
hardness TO come and live there. but hapDi
ness will not come.
They sent footmannei and postillione
euuiuayet 10 bring her she will not ride t
their door. lhev send pr,nrnly as,or, sh
will not take their arm. They maxi, thai
gatrwavs %triumphal arches she Will ne
ride unier than. They set "A golden thron
before "A GOLDEN D'ute an. turns ou,, fro,