The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-18
TALMAGE breaches ON LIFE.
MOST PEOPLE WOULD LIKE TO
LIVE THEIRS OVER AGAIN.

would Entail n Repetition of All
Its Gricfs and Hardships-There
Would Also BE the Risk of Having
TO Resist Its Temptations Again.
Washington, July 17.-This discourse of
DT. Talmage extois our present opportun-
tiles so that more opportunities than We
enjoy in this life do not seem desirable. The
text. Job "a: All that a man hath win he
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 afflicted. The
record Is: 80 went satan forth from the
presence of the Lord, aud smote Job with
sore boiis." And satan has been the au-
thor of all eruptiye disease since then, and
he hopes by poisoning the blood to poison
the soul. But the result Of the diabohcal
experiment which left job victor proved the
falsity of the satanic remark: "All that a
man hath will he give for his life" Many
a captain who has stood on the bridge of
the steamer till his passengers got off and
he drowned; many an engineer who mas
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 draw-bridge; many
a fireman who plunged into a blazing
house to get a sleeping child out. the fire
man sacrificing his life in the attempt and
the thousands of martyrs who submitted
to fiery stake and knife of massacre and
headman's ak and Eulllotine rather than
surrender principle, proving that in many
my pNt ufn trJIp wi <
''Al that a man hath win he give for his
HE"
I5ut satan's falsehood was built on a
truth. Life is very precious, and if we
would not give up all, there are many
things we would surrender rather than
surrender 1t. We see how precious life is
from the fact that we do everything to
prolong it. Hence all sanitary regulations,
all study of hygiene, all fear of draughts,
all waterproofs, all DOCTORS all medicines,
all struggle in crisis or accident. An ad-
miral of the British navy was court mar
tailed for turning his ship around i'm time
of danger, and so damaging the ship. 1t
was proved against MIN. But when his time
came TO be heard nc said: Gentlemen, /
did Turn the ship around, and admit that it
was damaged, but DO you want 10 know
Why l turned it? There was "a man over
board and l wanted to save him and l did
save him, and l consider the life of one
sailor worth all the vessels of the British
navy" No wonder he was INDICATED. Life
is indeed very precious. Yea, there are
those who deem life so precious they would
like to repeat IA; they would
like to try II over again. They would like
TO go back from seventy to sixty, from
sixty to fifty, from fifty to forty, from for
~ TO thirty, from thirty to twenty. / pro-
as will appear before | get through, to dis
cuss 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?
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 IL.
What is success? Ask that question of a
hundred different men, and they VIII give
hundred different answers. One man
win say, Success is a million dollars"
another will say, Success is world wide
publicity" another will say. Success is
gaining that which you started for" But
as IL is free country l give my own def
milton, and say, Success is fulfilling the
particular mission upon which you were
sent whether to write a constitution, or
Invent a new style of wheelbarrow, or
take care of a sick child" Do what God
calls you 10 do, and you are a success,
whether you leave a million dollars at
death or are buried at public expense,
whether ii takes fifteen pages of an en-
cyclopaedia 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 80 per cent. of Improvement Now
would 1t not be grand if the good Lord
would say to you: you can go back
and try 1t over again. I win, by a word,
turn your hair to black, or brown, or gold
en-, and smooth all the wrinkles out Of
your temple or cheeks, 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 p 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 the hair of the octogenaran into the
curly locks of boy, and however old a
person who drank at that fountain, he
would be young again. The island was
said to belong 10 the group of Bahamas.
hut lay far out in the ocean. The great
Spanish explorer, Juan Ponce de Leon
fellow-voyager of Columbus, l have no
doubt felt that il he could discover thar
Fountain of Youth, he would do as much
as his friend had done in discovering
America. So he put out in 1912 from
Porto Rico and cruised about among the
Bahamas in search of that fountain l am
glad he did not find il. There is no such
fountain. But il there We're and its wat.
ers were bottled up and sent abroad at a
thousand dollars a bottle the demand
would be greater than the supply: and
many man who has come through a life
of uselessness and perhaps sin TO old
age would be 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
a tablespoonful, and il directed 10 take a
tablespoonful, would take a glassful
But some of you would have TO so back
further than to p years of age 10 make