Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-07-21
DIR. TALMAGE'S SERMON.
Mistakes for Mortals to Wish to Live
Their Lives Over Again.
They Might DO Worse Instead of Hetter-
Satan Would Know the Path They
Travelled BEFORE, aud Could
Adroitly Lay Entails.

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satan Would Know the Path They
Travelled BEFORE, aud Could
Adroitly Lay Pitfalls.
The text of DR. Talmage Sunday
will he give for hi, life" That is un-
true. The Lord did not say it, but
Satan said it To the Lord when the evil
one wanted Job still more afflicted.
The record is: 80 went Satan forth
from the presence Of the Lord and
smotc Lob with sore hoilS.' And Satan
has been the author of all cruptjvc
disease since then, and I've hopes by
poisoning the blood to olson the soul.
Eut the result Of the diabulical expert
mcnt which left Job victor proved the
falsity Of the Satanic remark; 'All
that "a man hath will he give
for his life" Many captain
who has stood on tine bridge of
the steamer till his passengers got OFF
and Inc drowned; many an engineer
who has kept his hand on the throttle
valve or his foot on the brake. until
the most of the train was saved, while
he went down to death through the
open drawbrid~c; many fireman who
plunged into "A blazing house tn get
sleeping child out, the fireman Sacri-
ticing his life in the attempt, and the
thousands Of martyr, who submitted
To- fiery stake and knife of ma ,sacre
and hcadman's aX and guillotinc rather
than surrender principle, proving that
in mar" 3D. use my text was not true
VIII" = sEr- "All that mau hath
WI o. ,''E or his life
.,ut -. 'al>chuOd 49, buIIt on a
tru,T la., be very precious, and if we
would @. s.r. up all, there are many
TIA. Sc. .uuli surrender rather than
SURRENDER il. We see how precious life
B., rr.n the fact that W. do everything
,N -rolong il. Hence all sanitary rSgu-
lationS, all study of hygiene, all fear
of draught>, ali watcrnroIf>, all doc
tors, all medicines. all struggling in
crisis or accident An admiral of the
british navy was court martialrd for
turning his ship around in time of
danger and 81 damaging the ship. 1t
was proved against him. But when
his time came to be heard he said:
Gentlemen, | did turn the shin
around, and admit that it was dam
aged, but do YOU want to know why
turned il? There was man over
board, and | wanted to save him. and
did save him, and l consider the life
of one sailor worth all the vessels of
the British navy No wonder he was
vindicated. Life is indeed very pre-
ciouS. Yea, there are those who deem
life so precious they would like 10 re-
peat it; they would like TO try it over
again. They would like To go back
from 20 To 60, from 90 to 20, from 30 to
~. from 40 To 80, and from so to 20
propose for very practical and useful
purposes. as will appear before | get
through, to discuss the question have
asked of others, and others have again
and again asked of us. Would You
like TO live your life over again?
The fact that no intelligent and
right-feeling man is satisfied with his
past life. However successful your
life may have been, you are not salts
fed with it. What is success? Ask
that question of a hundred different
men and they will give IL hundred diff
success is a million dollars;" another
will say, Success is worldwide public
ity;" another will say, success is
gaining that which You start
ed for" But as it is free
country l give my own definition
and say, success is fulfilling the par
ticular mission upon which you were
sent, whether to write n constitution
or invent new style of wheelbarrow
or take care of a sick chilli Do What
COD calls yc1 to 5reaaai 1H-.A sue
cess, whether you leave a NJ. 'oA-
lars at death or are buried at public
expense, whether it takes Is 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 ger cent of
improvement. Now, would it not be
grand if the good Lord would say to
you: You can go back and try it over
again. 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 rheu-
matte twinge from the foot, and you
shall be 81 years of age, and just what
you were when you reached that point
before" If the proposition were
made l think many thousands would
accept it.
That feeling caused the ancient
search for what was called the Foun-
tain of Youth, the waters of which,
taken, would turn the hair of the
octogcnarian into the curly locks of a
boy, and however old person who
drank at that fountain he would be
to belong to the group of Bahamas,
but lay far out in the ocean.
The great Spanish explorer, JuaR
Ponce de Leon, fellow voyager of Co.
lumtus. have no dopbt, felt that if
he could dis -;-,.' that fountain of
vnp'h ne would do as much as his
friend had done in discovering Ameri-
ca. SO he put out in 1919 from Porto
Rico and cruised about among the Ba-
hamas in search of that fountain.
am glad he did not find il. There is no
such fountain. But if there Were, and
its waters were boiled up and
sent abroad at thousand dol
lars bottle, the demand
would be greater than the supply; and
many who has come through life of
usefulness, and perhaps sin, to old age
would he shaking up the potent liquid,
and if he were directed to take only a
teaspoonful after each meal, would be
so anxious to make sure work he would
take Il tablespoonful. and if directed to
take tablespoonful, would take glass
full.
But some of you would have to go
back further than to 81 years of age to
make n fair start, for there are many
who manage to get all wrong before
that period. Yea. in order to get a
fair start, some would have to go back
to the father and mother and get them