Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-07-23
FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH.
REV. OR. TALMAeE SAYS WE DO NOT
NEED REMUNERATION.

His Succcss-IIo Shows How Unpleasant
1t Would De to Live LILO Over Again.
copyright. 1913. by American Press Asso-
ciatlon.l
WASHINGTON, July 17.-This dis
course of DR.. Talmngo extols our present
opportunities so that more opportunities
than wc enjoy in this life do not seem
desirable; tho text, Job II, 4, "All that
man hath will DO give for his life. p"
That Is untrue. The Lord did not say
il. but satan said 1t to the Lord when
tho evil one wanted job still more af-
fiicted. The record is, $50 went satan
forth from tho presence of the Lord and
smote Job with sore boils. /" And satan
has been the author of Ill eruptiye dis
case since then, md he hopes by poison
ing the blood to poison the soul. But
the result Of tho diabolical experiment
which left Job victor proved tho falsity
of the satanic remark. "All that man
hath will he give for his life. Many
a captain who has stood on the bridge
of the steamer till his passengers got or
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 no
went down to death through the open
drawbridge many fireman who
plunged into blazing house to get a
sleeping child out, the fireman sacritlc-
ing his life In tho 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 case my text wRs not true when
it says, "All that man hath will no
give for his life. -
But satan's falsehood was built on a
truth. Life is very precious, and it wo
would not give up all, there are many
things we would surrender rather than
surrender it. We SEQ how precious life
is from the fact that we do everything
to prolong It, Hence Mi sanitary regu-
lations, all study of hygiene, all fear of
drafts, all waterproofs, all doctors, all
medicines, all struggle In crisis or acct
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. 1t was proved against
him. But when his time came to bo
heard he said: Gentlemen, did turn
the ship around, and admit that it WAS
damaged, but do you want to know why
7 turned it? There was man overheard,
and wanted to save him and l did
save him, and consider the life OF one
sailor worth all the vessels of the Brit
ish navy" No wonder he was vindicat-
ed Life is indeed very precious. Yea,
there arc those who deem life so precious
they would like to repeat 1t, they would
like to try it over again. They would
like to go back from 70 to 60, from GO
TO so, from so to 40, from 40 to 80 and
from 80 to 20. propose, for very prao-
tical and useful purposes, rs will appear
before I get through, to discuss the
question wo 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
may have been, you arc not satisfied
with it. What is success? Ask that
question of hundred different men,
and they will give hundred different
answers. Ono man will say, Success
is 81 900, oOO;;" 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 give my own definition, and
say, Success is fulfilling the particular
mission upon which you were sent,
whether to write constitution or in
vent q 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, 900 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 plumbers, 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 ont of your
shoulders, and extirpate the stiffness
from tho 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, l 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 tho hair of the octogenarian
into the curly locks of a 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 dc Leon, fellow voyager of Co.
lumbus, have no doubt felt that If ne
could discover that fountain of youth be
would do as much as his friend had
done in discovering America. So he put
out In 1919 from Porto Rico and cruised
about among the Bahamas in search OF
that fountain 1 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 81, 900 bot
tie, the demand would be greater than
the supply, and many man who has
come through q life of uselessness and
perhaps sin to old age would be shaking
up the potent liquid, and if he were ol-
rected to take only a teaspoonful after
each meal would be so anxious to make
sure work he would take tablespoon