Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1898-07-22
FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH.
REV. DR.. TALMAGE SAYS WE DO NOT
NEED REGENERATION.

1t Would he to Live Life Over Again.
copyright. 1898, by American Press Asso-
ciationl
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, 4, "All that
man hath will be give for his life. "
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-
hicted. The record is, 80 went satan
forth from the presence Of the Lord and
smote Job with sore boils. " And satan
has been the author of all eruptiye dis
ease since then, and he hopes 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. D." Many
n 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 the
most of the train was saved. while he
went down to death through the open
drawbridgo; many a fireman who
plunged into a blazing house to get a
sleeping child out, the fireman sacrific-
ing his life in the attempt, and the
thousands of martyrs who submitted to
fiery stake and knife Of massacre and
headman's AK and guillotine rather than
surrender principle, proving that in
many a case my text was not true when
it saws, "All that man hath will he
give for his life.
But satan's falsehood was built on a
truth. Life is very precious, and II 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
Co 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. IN 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, l did turn
the ship around, and admit that it was
damaged, but do you want to know why
| turned il? There was a man overheard,
and wanted TO save him and l did
save him, and l consider the life OF one
sailor worth all the vessels Of the Brit
ish navy" No wonder he was vindlcat-
ed. Life is indeed very precious. Yea,
there are those who deem life so precious
they would like tOrepeat it, they would
like to try it over again. They would
like to 20 back from 20 to go, from go
to 80. from 80 to 40, from 40 to 30 and
from 30 to 20. propose, for very prac-
tical and useful purposes, as will appear
before / 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 again?
No Man Satisfied.
The fact is that no intelligent and
right feeling man is satisfied with his
past life. However successful your life
NAV have been, you are not satisfied
with it, What is success? Ask that
question Of hundred different men,
and they will give a hundred different
answers One man will say, Success
is 81, 900, ,00O;" another will say, "Suc-
cess is worldwide publicity" another
will say. Success is gaining that which
Won started for" But as it is free
country l give my own definition, and
say. Success is fulfilling the particular
mission upon which you were sent,
whether to write a constitution or in
vent a new style Of wheelbarrow or take
care Of a sick child" Do what God
calls you to do, and You are success,
whether you leave 81, 900, 600 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 90 per cent of i'm
movement. Now, would it not be grand
if the good Lord would say to you'
"You can 90 back and try it over again.
I will. by a word, turn your hair 20
black. or brown, or golden, and smooth
all the wrinkles out of your temple OF
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
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 fountain OF
vouth. the waters of which, taken,
would turn the hair of the octogenarlan
into the curly locks Of boy, and, how
ever old a person who drank at that
fountain, he would be young again. Inc
island was said to belong to the group
of Bahamas, but lay far out IN the
ocean. The great Spanish explorer Juan
Ponce dc Leon, fellow voyager OF 20
lumbus, have no doubt felt that II nc
could discover that fountain Of youth ne
would do as much as his friend hao
done in discovering America So he pu,
ont in 1912 from Porto Rico and cruiseo
about among the Bahamas IN searcn o.
that fountain. am glad he did moi
find IT, There is no such fountain. Bu'
if there were. and its waters were Dot
tied up and sent abroad at Sl.OOO DOT
tie the demand would be greater thar
the supply, and many man VINO MAJ
,ome through life of uselessness ano
lerhaps sin to old age would be shaking
up the potent liquid, and II he were oil
rected TO take only q teaspooniui ai,el
each meal would be so anxious 10 max
| -. III, h.. .vould take tablespoon