Connecticut western news., 1898-07-21
FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH.
REV. DR. TALMAGE SAYS WE DO NOT
 NEED REMUNERATION.

One Life Is Enough to Live on Earth-No
 Man Is Satisfied, No Matter How Great . His Success-He Shows How Unpleasant
 It Would Be to Live Life Over Again. Copyright 1sss' by DIatinn American Press Ass0-
 WASHINGTON, July 17.-This dis course of Dr. Talmage extols our present opportunities so that more opportunities than we enjoy in this life do not seem desirable; the text, Job ii, 1, "All that a man hath will be give for his life. y
 That is untrue. The Lord did not say it, but satan said it to the Lord when the evil one wanted Job still more af- f1icted. The record is, "So went satan forth from the presence of the Lord and smote Job with sore boils." And satan has been the author of all eruptive dis ease since then, and he hoper by poison ing the blood to poison the soul. But the result of the diabolical experiment which left Job victor proved the falsity of the satanic remark, "All that a man hath will he give for his life. Y" Many captain who has stood on the bridge of the steamer till his passengers got off and he drowned; many an engineer who has kept his hand on the throttle valve or his foot on the brake until tho most of the train was saved, while he went down to death through the open drawbridge; many fireman who plunged into blazing house to get sleeping child out, the fireman sacrific- ing his life in the attempt, and she I, 1f -hn cr1.r tod fc fiery stake and knife of massacre and headman's s ax and guillotine rather than surrender principle, proving that ill many & case my text was not true when it says, "All that 8 man hath will he give for his life"
 But satan's falsehood was built on truth. Life is very precious, and if we would not give up all, there are many things we would surrender rather than surrender it. We see how precious life is from the fact that we do everything to prolong it. Hence all sanitary regu- lations, all study of hygiene, all fear of drafts, all waterproofs, all doctors, all medicines, all struggle in crisis or acci- dent An admiral of the British navy was court martialed for turning his ship around in time of danger and so damag- ing the ship. It was proved against him. But when his time came to be heard he said: "Gentlemen, I did turn the ship around, and admit that it was damaged. but do you want to know why I turned if? There was man overheard, and I wanted to save him and I did save him, and I consider the life of one sailor worth all the vessels of the Brit ish navy" No wonder he was vindioat- ed. Life Is indeed very precious. Yea, there are those who deem life so precious they would like to repeat it, they would like to try it over again. They would like to go back from 70 to 60, from 60 to 50, from 50 to 40, from 40 to 80 and from 80 to 90. propose, for very prao- tical and useful purposes as will appear before I get through, to discuss the question we have all asked of others and others have again and again asked of us, Would you like to live your life over againp
 No Man Satisfied.
 The fact is that no intelligent and right feeling man is satisfied with his past life. However successful your life may have been, you are not satisfied with it. What is success? Ask that question of hundred different men, and they will give hundred different answers One man will say, Success is $1, 900, 000;" another will say, Sue cess is worldwide publicity" another will say, Success is gaining that which you started for.'' But as it is free country give my own definition, and say, Success is sfulflling the particular mission upon which you were sent, whether to write constitution or in- vent new style of wheelbarrow or take care of sick child" Do what God calls you to do, and you are a success, whether you leave $1, 900, 900 at death or are buried at public expense, whether it takes 15 pages of an encyclopedia to tell the wonderful things you have done or your name is never printed but once, and that in the death column. But whatever your success has been you are not satisfied with your life.
 We have all made so many mistakes, stumbled into so many blunders, said so many things that ought not to have been said and done so many things that ought not to have been done that we can suggest at least 95 per cent of i'm provement Now, would it not be grand if the good Lord would say to you: "You can go back and try it over again. I will, by word, turn your hair to black, or brown, or golden, and smooth all the wrinkles out of your temple or cheek, and take the bend out of your shoulders, and extirpate the stiffness from the joint, and the rheumatic twinge from the foot and you shall be 21 years of age and just what you were when you reached that point before. '' If the proposition were made, think many thousands would accept it.
 That feeling caused the ancient search for what was called the fountain of youth, the waters of which, taken, would turn the hair of the octogenarian into the curly locks of boy, and, how ever old person who drank at that fountain, he would be young again. The island was said to belong to the group of Bahamas but lay far out In the ocean. The great Spanish explorer, Juan Ponce de Leon, fellow voyager of Go lumbus, have no doubt felt that if he could discover that fountain of youth he would do as much as his friend had done in discovering America. So he put out in 1512 from Porto Rico and cruised about among the Bahamas in search of that fountain. I am glad he did not find it. There is no such fountain. But if there were and its waters were bot tied up and sent abroad at $1, 900 bot tie, the demand would be greater than the supply, and many man who has come through life of uselessness and perhaps sin to old age would be shaking up the potent liquid, and if he were di- reoted to take only a teaspoonful after each meal would be so anxious to make sure work he would take tablespoon ful, and if directed to take a tablespoon ful would take glassful
 Stale and Stupid.
 But some of you would have to go back farther than to 21 years of age to