The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1894-01-04
TEMPTATIONS OF SUCCESS.
REV. DR.TALMAaE BREACHES ON
SHORTENED LIVES.
Too Much Time Spent in Panagyric OF
Longevity. Compensations OF
Death. The Worth of
aClear Consci-
ence.

AT the Brooklyn Tabernacle. Sunday
Rev. DR.. Talmage preached on the subject
vf Shortened Lives; or. A Cheerful Good
bye to ls93" The text selected was lsaiah
lvu. i, "lhe righteous is taken away from
the evil TO come"
We have written for the last time at the
head of our letters aud business documents
The figures is93. With this day closes the
year. In January last We celebrated It's
birth. Today we attend its obsequies. An
other ~ months have been cut out of our
earthly confinement, and u Is time LOT
absorbing reflection.
We all spend much time in panegyric OF
longevity. We consider ita great thing 10
live to be an octogenarian. II any onedies
In youth we say What a pityl Dr.
Muhlenberg in old age said that the hymn
written in early life by his own hand no
more expressed his sentiment when 1t
said,
iwonld notl live a way.
II one be pleasantly circumstanced, he
never wants 10 go William Cullen Bryant
the great poet, o. 81 years Of age, standing
In my house in n fcstsl group reading
"rtana,opsis," without spectacles, was Just
rs anxious to live as when at Is years OF age
he wrote the immortal threnody. Cato
feared at 50 years OF age that he would not
live TO learn Greek. Monaldesco at lilo
years. writing the history OF his time, feared
collapse. Iheophrastus writing book at
90 years OF age was anxious TO live to COM
plete it. Thurlow Weed at 80 years OF age
found life as great desirability as when ht
snuGed out his first politician.
Albert Barnes, so well prepared for the
next world, at 20 said he would rather stay
here. so II is all the way down. suppos,
that the last time Methuselah was out o
doors in storm he was afraid of getting
his feet wet lest IL shorten his days. Indeed
some time ago preached sermon on the
blessings OF longevity, but in this. the las
n a f.f nj ttst
sadness at the thought that another chapte
of their life is closing, and that have hav'
J65 days less TO live, propose 10 preach L
you about the advantages OF an abbreviated
earthly existence.
III were an agnostic, | would say a maj
Is blessed in proportion TO the number o
years he can stay on terra iirma, becaus
alter that he falls of the deck. and IL ever h
is picked out OF the depths II Is only to b
set up in some morgue of the universe I
see il any body will claim him. IL Though
God made man only to last AZ or 90 or 10
years and then he was to go into annihila
ton, | would say his chief business ough
to be to keep alive and even in good wealth
er to be very cautious and TO carry an uu
LA and take overshoes and life preserveI
bronze arinor and weapons OF deiens
he fall off Tito nothinguess and oblite
t, my friends, you are not agnostic
believe in Immortality and the eterni
ence of the righteous IN heaven, an
,ore first remark that an abbreyiate
existence is TO be desired, and is
~ because il makes ones life wor
compact.
le men 10 TO business at o'clock |
orning and return at in the evening
Igo at : o'clock and return at 1
10 at 10 and return at 4. | ha'
$ who are ten hours n dav 1T busine
,who are five hours, others who al
our. They all do their work we'll
do their entire work and then they n
Which position do you think the mo
.abe2 Yen say. other things beir