The Baptist headlight., 1894-08-08
"WOrth Living"

Y as'I.,rh the press Worth Living u
tnIpuS IaSyt being taken from Lamenta-
ins iii 49, "WherefOre doth a living
msn s complain"
pau awe leave to the evolutionists to
.s where we came from and to the
gueoIogians to prOphesy where we are
'.in .oing to, we still have left for consid-
s~r;9 sat;on the important fact that we are
81 'sa There may be some doubt about
ue Isore the river empties, but there
srS u he no doubt about the fact that we
eaa sailing on it. So I am not sur
u, aa,r;.ed that everybody asks the ques-
IN 'Is life worth living?"
colomon in his unhappy moments
,.ys.it is not. t''Vanity," 'vexation Of
'o;riit, T9iii mo good are his estimate.
abe fact is that Solomon was at one
ime m polygamist, and that soured his
5as-nvosition. a-v One wife makes a man
tapnv. more than one makes him
rrpttcshed. But Solomon was con
rprsed from pOlygamy to mOnOgamy,
snd the last words he ever wrote, as
srasw we can read them, were the
rords mountains of spices" But
4 jeremiah says in my text life is worth
I living.
me book supposed to be dolefuI and
lrcnbrlous and sepulchral and en-
dtIed Lamentations he plainly III
amates that the blessing of merely
TTing is 50 great and grand a blessing
I HAT though man have piled on him
\ III misfortunes and disasters he has
Il right to complain The author Of
Nv text cries out in startling intona-
ton to all lands and to all centuries,
Wherefore doth a living man com
Iain2" "A diversity Of opinion in our
lime as well as in olden time. Here is
Young man Of light hair and blue
eyes and sound digestion and generous
aIay and happily atfianced and in the
ray to become the partner in com
nercial firm Of which he is an import
ant clerk. Ask him whether life is
Worth living. He Will laugh iii your
Ace and say, "Yes, yes, yes." Here Is
inanwho has come to the forties. He
at the tiptOp Of the hill Of life.
Every step has been a step and a
ruise The people he trusted have
lrned out deserters, and the money
Be has honestly made he has been
sHeated out of. His nerves are out Of
lle He has poor appetite, and all
he food he does eat does not assimi-
lte Forty miles elm bing UP the hill
flfe have been to him like climbing
AAe AeMatterhOrn. and there are forty |
piles yet TO 60 down. and descent il |
Fays more dangerous than ascent. |
Tx him whether life is worth living. |
be will drawl out in shivering and /
EuDrlous and appalling negative, |
To- no, no."
It Depends Upon the Kind OF Life.
low are we to decide this matter
Rghteously and intelligently? You
III md the same man vacillating,
sllatlng in his opinion from deiec-
a 10 eXuberance, and if he be verv
Afcurlal in his temperament it will
sEend very much upon which way the
'nO blows. If the wind blow from
" " northwest, and you ask him. he
saay, "Yes, land if it blow from the
eslneast, and YOU ask him, he will saw
40 How are We, then, to get the
guesnon righteously answered? Sup
Nse We call all nations together in q
sFa convention on Eastern or West
erl hemisphere and let all those who
m N Il n the affirmative say AYE" and
N N. saOse who are in the negative saw
~ While there would be hun
I aes n thousands who would answer
a;,s i aae a1rmative. there would be more
raala nalons who would answer In the
snsssaFe, ana because of the greater
rsaiOer tau who have sorrow and misfOr-
D bsrs and trouble the ''nOes" would !
\ " %l e1 The answer Shall give will
,0sI 4 Sllerent from either. and vet it will
s-llend n itself to all who hear me this
|. |. Y Y, tle right answer. If YOU ask
N, \ is life worth living?" answer. it
4 n aepends upon the kind Of lite YOU
4 ~ !. we nrst place, I remark that a
INT 4 mere money getting is always a
80 NM because You will never get as
stu ~ you want. The poorest peo-
] i sais country are the richest. and
Il ~ Az 70 them those who are half as !
III mere is not a scissors grinder
IL m stfeets of New York or Brook !:
49, h@no ls SO anxious to make money ]
u ,aese men who have piled up for !
~ pssss year after year in storehouses, in |
~ inent securities, in tenement Z
i, IN, 10 whole city blocks. !, |
u ousht to see them lump when !
III 4 neaf the tirebell ring. You ought e
N a Slem In their excitement when I
II II ak uank explodes. You ought to see !
Ioatlon when there is proposed L
W. in the tariff. Their 4
nna; M eremble like harp strings, but {
80 ~ n the vibration. They read 4
N; i;epofts from Wall street in the .
pa.ag a,ug with a concernment that L
,a,ens 4 aa paralysis Or apopleSy. Of, Y Y
NJ prooable, they have telegraph II
II ephone in their house. 50 tney !
II III every breath OF change in the HI
M AZ market. The disease Of accu-
an fho mas eaten into them eaten
II 81 heart, into their lungs. into n,
II 'pieen, into their liver, into their Y;
h. dominant Ideas III
lbOnists bn,ist have sometimes analvzed u
4 n man body, and they say it i 50 81
ra,a nesla, so much lime, SO much IL
IN ~ VI potassium. IF some Chris Il