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ONE LIFE Is ENOUGH.
A SECOND JOURNEY WOULD SURELY
BE A FAILURE.
DIR. Talmage Shows the Importance of
Present Opportunitics-Lesson Drawn
From Different Kinds of Lives -Buoys
to Mark the Right Channel.

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copyright. 1898. by American Press Asso-
ciaton1
WASHINGTON, July 17.-This discourse
of DR.. Talmage extols our present oppor-
turities so that moro opportunities than
we enjoy in this life do not seem desirable;
the text, Job Ii, 4, IAN that man hath
will he give for his life"
That Is untrue. Tho Lord did not say
it, but satan said it to tho Lord when tho
evil ono wanted Job still moro afflicted.
TIE record is, 80 went satan forth from
the presence Of tho Lord and smote Job
with sore boils" And satan has been the
author Of all cruptive disease since then,
and he hopes by poisoning the blood to
poison the soul. But the result OF the di-
abolical experiment which left Job victor
proved tho falsity of tho satanic remark,
IAN that man hath will he give for his
life" Many captain who has stood on
the bridge of the steamer till his passcn-
gers got of and he drowned, many an
engineer who has kept his hand on tho
throttle valve or his foot on tho brake UNI
til the most of the train was saved while
he went down to death through tho
open drawbridgo, many fireman who
plunged into blazing house to get a
sleeping child out, the fireman sacrificing
Of martyrs who submitted to fiery stake
and knife of massacre and hcadman S AK
and guillotine rather than surrender prin-
ciplc, proving that In many a case my text
was not true when it says, "All that a
man hath will he give for his life.
But satan's falschood was built on
truth. Lifo Is very precious, and If wo
would not give up all there are many
things VIC would surrender rather than
surrender 1t. We see how precious life is
from tho fact that we do everything to
prolong it. Hence all sanitary rcgula-
lions, all study of hygiene, all fear of
drafts, all watcrproofs, all doctors, all
medicines, all struggle in crisis or acct
dent. An admiral of the British navy
was court martialed for turning his snip
around in time of danger, and so damag
ing tho ship. 1t was proved against him,
but when his time camc to bo heard ho
said: "Gentlcmen, / did turn the ship
Ground and admit that 1t WAS damaged,
but do you want to know why turned 1t?
There was man overheard, and wanted
to save him, and did save him, and
consider the life of ono sailor worth all
the vessels Of the British navy" No Won
der he was vindicated. Life is indeed very
precious. Yea, rhcro are those who deem
lifo so precious they would like to repeat
it. They would like to try it over again
They would like to 20 back from 70 to 60,
from GO to co. from 90 to 40 from 40 to
30 and from 80 to 90. I propose for very
practical and useful purposes, as will ap-
pear before l get through, to discuss tho
question wo have all asked of Others and
others have again and again asked of US,
Would you like to live your life over againY
What Is Success?
Tho fact is that no intelligent and right
feeling man is satisfied with his past life
However successful your life may have
been, you ere not satisfied with it. What
is SUGGEST Ask that question Of n hum
drcd different men, and they will give n
hundred different answers. Ono man will
say, Success is $1,000 000." Another
will say, Success is worldwide publicity"
"Anothcr will say, Success is gaining
that which you started for" But as 1t is
FREQ country I give my own definition
and say, Success Is fulfilling the particu-
lar mission upon which you were sent,
whether to write q constitution or invent
q new style of wheebarrow or take care
of sick child" Do what God calls you
to do, and you are success, whether you
leave 81 900, 900 at death or arc buried al
public expense, whether it takes ! 5 pages
of an encyclopedia to tell the wonderful
things you have done or your name /:
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 Sc
many things that ought not to have beer
said and done so many things that ough
not to have been done that we can suggcs
at least 95 per cent of Improvement Now
would it not be grand If the good Lore
would say to you: "You can 60 back anc
try 1t over again. will by u word turi
your hair to black or brown or golden, an1
smooth all the wrinkles out of your TEN
plo or check, and take tho bend out O
your shoulders, and cxtirpatc the stiffness
from the joint, and the rheumatic twing
from the foot, and you shall be 81 years o
age and just what you were when you
reached that point before" If the PROPOSE
ton were made, l think many thousand
would accept 1t.
That feeling caused the ancient scare
for what was called tho fountain G
youth, tfO waters of which, taken, woul
turn the hair of the octogenarian into tn
curly locks of n boy, and, however old
person who drank at that fountain, Ii
would DO young again. Tho island wa
said to belong to tho group of Bahamas
but lay far out In the ocean. Tho grca
Spanish explorer, Juan Ponce dc LeoI
fellow voyager of Columbus, / have L
doubt felt that II he could discover th'
fountain Of youth he would do as muc
as his friend had dono in discoverin
America So no put out in 1912 frol
Porto Rico and cruiscd about among tt
Bahamas in search Of that fountain. | al
glad he did not find it. There is no sue
fountain. But If there were, and Its WI
tiers were bottled up and scnt abroad |
$1,000 bottle, tho demand would
greater than the supply, and many ina
who has come through life of uselcssnc
and perhaps sin to old age would be shal
ing up the potent liquid, and II he we
directed to take only teaspoonful aft
each meal would be so anxious to nal
sure work he would tako tablespoonful
and IL directed to take tablespoon
would take glassful,
Generations Back.
But some of you would have to go ba'
further than to 81 years of age to make
fair start for there are many who mana
to get all wrong before that period. Ye
in order to get fair start some Won
have to go back to the father and moth
and get them corrocted-yea, to tho gran
father and grandmother and have the
life corrected, for some Of you are suffC
ing from bad hereditary influences wifi
started 100 years ago. Well If your gran
In 70 In