The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1894-08-02
LIVES WORTH LIVING.
Those That Lead t, an lex ,s,enco That
Nevsr Ends.

IhOso Ihat LeRu u an ExslenCc IhaC
Nevsr Ends.
BROOKLYN, July 22.-Rev. DR.. Tai :
mage, who is now touring in tho Aus-
tralian cities, has chosen as the cub act
for today's sermon through the press
"Worth LIVING" tho text being taken
from Lamentations Iii, 80, "Whcrciore
doth living man complaint"
If we live 10 the egoutionists to guess
where we came from aud 10 tho the olo.
gians to prophesy where we arc going TO,
we still have left for consideration the
important fact that we are here. Thorc
may be somo doubt about whero the
river rises and somo doubs about whore
the river empties, but there can be no
doubt about the TACT that we arc sailing
on it, 80 am not surprised that every
body asks tho question, lis life worth
living2"
Solomon in his unhappy moments
says 1t is not. "Vauity," s'vexation OF
spirit" mo good" arc his est innate,
The TACT ID that Solomon was nt ono
time a polygamist, and that soured his
disposition. One wife makes a man hap.
pN; more than ono makes him wretched.
But Solomon was converted from poly.
gamy to monogamy, and the last words
he ever wrote, as far rs we can rend
them, were the words, "Mountuins of
splces." But jeremiah says in my text
hfe is worth living.
In q book supposed TO be doleful and
lusubrlous and sepulclral and entitled
"Lamentations" he plainly intlmates
that tho blessing Of merely living is 40
great and grand blessing that though
a man have piled on him all mislortunes
ana disasters he has no right TO complain,
The author ef my text cries out in start
ling lntonatlon TO all lands and 10 all
centuries. "Whe1eforc doth living man
cohplalb?" A diversity OF opinion in
our tlmes as we'll as in olden time. Hero
ls young man light hair and blue
eyes and sound digestion and generous
salary and happily atlianced and on tho
way TO become partner it % commercial
nrm OF which he is an important clerk,
Ask him whether lie is worth living
Me will laugh in your face and say
Yes, yes, yes!" IIore is n man wht
has come to the torlies. lie is at tn,
tiptop Of the hill of life. Every stop has
been stumble anr q bruiae. The pco
pie he trusted have turned out desertors
and the money he hns honestly made he
has been cheaten out Of. His nerves arc
out Of tune. He has O poor appetile.
and all the food he eaj does not assimi.
late. Forty miles climbing up tho hill
of lie have been to him like climbing thc
MaLterhor, and thoro arc 10 miles vet
10 60 down, and descent is always M ore
dangerous than ascent. Ask him whe
ther life is worth living, and he will
draWl out In shiverlng and lugubrious
and appalling negative, "No, no, uo!n
How are we TO decide This matter
r'ghteously and intelligently? You will
nnd the same man VaCillating, oscilloL-
ing in his opinion from detection to eXu.
Derance, and ii he be very mercurial in
his temperament il will depend yerv
much upon which way the wind blows.
II the wind blow from The northwest.
and you ask HIM, lie will say "Yes, y
and if ii blow from tue uorLhcast. and
you ask him, he will say "No." How
are we, then, to get The question right
eouly answered? Suppose we call all
naIlons together in great convention
Dn eastern or western hemisphere and
let all those who are in the affirmative
say aye" and all those who are in tbo
negative say mo"
While there would he hundreds of
thousands who would answer in the af-
nfmatlVe there would be moro millions
VINO would answer in the negative, and
because OF the greater number who hive
sorrow and misfortune and trouble the
noes" would have it. The answer
snail give will bo different from either.
and yet 1t will commend itself to all who
hear me this day as the right answer, If
you ask me, us life worth livine?O I
answer, it all depends upon the kind of
life you live.
In the first place, | remark that life
OF mere money getting is always q fail.
ure, because you will never get as much
as you want. The poorest people in
ibis country are tho richest and next to
them those who are as rich. There
10 not scissors grinder on the streets
OF New York or Brooklyn who is so
anxious to make money as these men
VINO nave piled up fortunes year after
Year IN storehouses, in government secu.
ntles, IN tenement houses, in whole city
DOCKS. You ought TO see them lump
"hen tney hear the fire bell ring. You
ought 70 aee them in their excitement
when some bank explodes. You ought
70 sec thelr agitation when there fs pro.
poseo reformation in the tariff. Their
norVes lremble like harp strings but no
nusic IN the vibration. They read the
reports irom Wall street in the morning
,u:n mitn concernment that threatens para
it5nis VI apoplexJ, OR more probably thew
nave telegraph or telephone in their
own mouse, 30 they catch every breath
u S;.o Snange IN the money market. The
aasNso than.eiaaa'c Of accumulation has eaten into
iuons Ieaten ;nsu n, into their heart, into their
;uta iaags, !, INTO their spleen, into their liver.
4 .hS Chem!sts hna have sometimes analyzed
mah saS human body and They say It Is $50 so
nh9orata on tn"gaaesla, aa 80 much time, 50 much
tian chemist would analyzo ono o Of I,tas theso
nnancial IDohemoths, he would find he
is made up Of copper and gold and I silver Ir
! ana eSea. znc ~ ca and lead and coal and iron.
That is not life worth living, There
care too many earthquakes In if. too
many perditions In it too NAM