Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-08-08
REE. DR.. TALAAGR.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN
DAY SERMON.
Subject: "Worth Living"
TEXT: Wherefore doth living man com
plainY-Lamentatioas i'll. 80.

puma llI.
If we leave to the evolutionists to rness
where we came from, and to the theolop;ans
TO prophecy where wa are going to, We still
have left for consideration the important
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. So am not sur
prisad that everybody asks the question, SIS
life worth 'livingP
Solomon in his uahappv moments saws il
Is not. "Yanity." "vexation of spirit, !" "no
Soof," are his estimate. The fact Is that
Solomon was ut one time n polygamist, an
that soured his disposition. One wife makes
man happy, more than one makes him
wr"tched- But Solomon was converted from
Do'ygamyto to mousyamy, and the last words
he ever wrote, as far rs cln read them,
were the words "mountlins Of spices" But
jeremiah SAYS in my text life is worth living.
IN book supposed to be doleful and
luGubrious and sepulchrai AMI entitled
demonstrations" he plainly intimates that
the blessing OF merely livin ia great and
grand n blessing that though a man have
piled on him all mis- 'ortuueS AMI disasters
he has no right TO complain. The author OF
my text cries out in startling intonation to
al lands and to all centuries, "Wherefore
doth living man eomp'I;n| A diversity
OF opinion in our time rs well as in oiden
time Here is a young man of light hair
and blue eyes an sound digestion and
generous salary and happily affi1nced and
in the way to become the partner in n COM
m-rcial firm OF which he * an important
clerk. Ask him whether life is worth living
He will laugh in your face an say, ''Yes,
yes, Yes !" Here IS Il man who has come to
the foriies. He is at the tip.oD OF the hill! OF
life. Every step has been 4 stumble and
bruis'. The people he trusted have turned
out dcs 'rter9. IN the money he has honestly
l.. \
nerves are ont OF tune. He has poor
appetite. ani al the fool he docs eat does
not aszir1Iatc. Forty miles climbing up the
hill o lie have been TO him like climbing
tho Ma;terhOrn, an / there are forty miles
yet to 20 down, and descent is always more
life is worth living, anl ne will drawi out in
shivertas AMI lugubrious and appalling
negative ''NO, no, nor
How are W. to decide this matter right.
eousiyGnd iEtrlligently7 You will find the
SANE man vacillating. oscillatina. in his opin.
ion from detection to exuberlnce, an if he
lie very Gnercurial in his temper iment it vii.
depend very much n0on which way the
wind blows. II the wind blow froa the
northwest, and you asS him, he will say,
Eyes. AMI if it blow from the northeast,
anj YOU ask him, he viii say no" How
are We, then. 10 get the question riGhteously
answeredI Suppose We c1il all nations to-
eether in great convention on eastern OF
western hemisphere an let all those who
are in the affirmative say A." AMI all
those who are in the negative say "No."
While there woui1 he hundreds OF thou
sands who would answer in the affirmative,
there would be moro millions VINO would
answer in the negative, AMI because OF the
greater number who have sorro Y and mis-
fortune and trouble the mo IS would have
II. The answer l shall Civs Will be different
from either, and yet it will commend itself
TO all who hear me this day rs the right an
swer. If you ask me. .'Is life worth living?"
answer, it all depen Is upon the kini oflife
YOU live.
In The first place, I remark that life of
mere money getting is always n failure, be-
cause YOU will never get as much as you
want. Tho poorest people in this country
are the richest, and the next to them those
VINO are half as rich. There is not scis-
sor5 grinder on the streets OF New York or
ErooElyn who is so anxious to make money
ms these men VINO have piled up fortunes
year after year in storehouses, - govern
ment securities, in tenement houses, in
whole city blocks.
You ought to SEQ them jump when they
hear tho firsbe!l ring. You ought to see
them in their excitement when some bank
cSplo les. You ought 10 SEQ their agitation
when there is prsposel n reformation in
the tariff. Their nerves tremble like harp
strings, bnt no music in tho vibration. They
read tho reports from Wall street in tho
morning with 4 concernment that threatens
Paralysis or apOpleNy, or, more probably.
they have a telegraph or = telephone in their
house, SO they eaten every breath of change
in the money market. Tho disease of accu-
mutation has eaten into tn .m-eaten into
their heart. into their lungs. into their
spleen. into their liver. into their bones.
Chemists have sometimes analysed the hu-
man body. and they say 1t is so much mag
nesa, so much lime. 50 much chlorata OF po-
fassum. II some Christian chemist would
analyze one OF these financial behemoths, he
would find he is made up OF copper and gold
and silver and zinc and lead and coal AMI
iron. That is not life worth living. There
are too many earthquakes in IT. too many
aSonies in it, too many parlitions in it. They
bald their castles. and they open their pict-
ur2 galleries, and they summon prima dom
ras, AMI they offer every inducement for
happiness 10 come AMI live there, but happi.
ness will not come.
They senI footmannei AMI postillioned
cquiplye TO bring her; she viii not ride to
their door. They send psincely escort she
will not takc their arm. They mako their
rateways triumphal arches. she will not
lid" under them. They SET n golden throne
IofCro 4 golden plate she turns away from
tho Inquot. They call to her from up
Iol-tcred balcony sho will not listen. Mark
~. this sthe failure ottho5e who have had
lar-e accumulation.
And then YOU nlust take into consideration
that the vast MAJ jority Of those who make the
dominant idea Of Iiie mrnHy gettin, fall far
short of a1luencc. II is estimated that only
about two ont OF hundrcl business men
have anythin. worthy the mama OF success.
man vino spenIs his life with one doni-
nant idea of financial accumulation spends
life not worth living.
So the idea Of worldly approval. II that
bo dominant in mans life, he is miserable.
Tho two most I'm Tor. unate men in this coun-
try for the six months of next presi iential
campaign will bo tho two men nominatei
for the presidency. The reservoirs of abuse
end diatribe AMI maleiiction will gradually
I'll up, gallon above gallon, hcysheai above
hoSshead, an about autumn hes two reser-
yoirs will be brimmiUc full, and y hose will
Es attached TO each one, and it will play
away on these nominees. and they will have
TO stand it and take the abuse, and the false
hood, and the caricaturc, and the anathena,
and the caterwauin-, and the fifth, and they
will be rolled in it and rolled over and over
In i; until they are choEel and submerged
and stTanSulated, and at every sign OF re-
turning consciousness they will be barked
at by all the hounds OF political parties from
ocean TO oceln,
And vet there are hundred men to-day
struggling for that privilege, aud there are
thousands OF men who ara helping them In
tne struggle. Now, that is not lie worth
flSlng. 1Cu can EJl Si'lnutIth at-A'A 'Apo,oN
cheaper than that Take it on smaller
scale. Do not be SO ambitious to haVe
whole reservoir rolled over on You. But
what you see in the matter OF high polltI-
cal preferment you see in every com.
munity in the struggle for what Is called
social position.
Teus of thousands of people trying to get
into that realm, and they are under terrific
tension. What is social position? 1t is Il
difficult thing to define, but we all know
what II j.. Good morals an intc!h -ence are
not necessary. but wealth or the show o.
wealth is absolutely Indispensable. There
are :neu to-day as notorious for their libcr-
tinlsm as the night is famous for IT'S dark.
ness who move in what Is called high social
position. There arc hun Ire Is o. ont an ont
takes in American society who's, names are
mentioned among tpa DISTINGUISHED guests
ut the great leyees. They have annexed all
the known human vices and are longing foi
other worlds of diabolsm TO conquer. Good
morals are not necessary in many Of the ex.
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