The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1898-08-25
THE VALUE OF A LIFE.
It is a Mistake to Desire to Live a
Second Life.
Rev. DIR. Talmage Declares that Second
Pilgrimage Oh This Earth Would
be Lonely and Sad to Him
Who Tried 1t.

All that Il man hath will he give for his life
job H., 1.
That is untrue. The Lord d'd not
.av it, but Satan said it to the Lord
when the evil one wanted Job still
more afflicted The record is: so
went Satan forth from the presence of
the LORD. and smote Job with sore
boiis." 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
diaboIical experiment which left job
victor proved the 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 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 draw.
bridge; many fireman who plunged
into Il blazing house to get sleeping
child out, the fireman sacrificing his
life in the attempt, and the thousand
of martyrs who submitted to fiery
stake and knife Of massacre and head
mans AK and guillotine rather than
surrender principle, proving that IN
many Il case my text was not tr1c when
it saws: "All that man hath will he
give for his life.
But Satan's falsehood was built on
truth. Life is very precious, and if 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
to prolong it. Hence all sanitary regu-
latiops, all study of hygiene, all fear of
draughts, all watcrproofs, all doctors,
all medicines, all struggle in crisis or
accident An admiral of the British
navy was court martialed for turning
his ship around in time of danger, and
SO damaging the ship. 1t was proved
aginst him But when his time came
to be heard he said: ''Gentlcnan, l
| did turn the ship around, and admit
that it was damaged, but do you want
to know why turned it? There was
man overheard. and | wanted to save
him. and did save him, and con-
slider the life of one sailor worth all
the vessels of the British navy. No
| wonder he was vindicated. Life is in
deed very precious. Yea, there are
those who deem life SO precious they
would like to repeat 1T; they would
like to try it over again. They would
like to 90 back from 20 to 60. from &C
| a. tn f,.n,
30 to 20. propose for very practical
and useful purposes, as Will appear be-
fore get through, to discuss the ques
ton 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 ant
past life. However successful youl
life may have been, you are not salts
fed with it. What is success? ASH
that question of hundred differen
men, and they will give hundred diff
fcrcnt answers. One man will say
Success is million dollars: anothc
will say: Success is worldwide pub
|
gaining that which you started for.
But as it is free country, | give IN.
own definition. and say: Success i
fulfilling the particular mission upol
which YOU were sent, whether to writ
I a constitution, or invent a new style @
wheelbarrow. or take care of sic
{ child" Do what God calls you to dc
| Nd
leave a million dollars at death Or ar
n buried at public expense. whether
takes fifteen pages of an encyclopedi
:. to tell the wonderful things you hay
h done, or your name IS never printc
| but once. and that in the death column
t But whatever your success has beel
O YOU al not satisfied with your life.
k We have all made SO many mistake e
stumbled into so many blunders, sal
t so many things that ought not to ha,
r been said, and done SO many thins
that ought not to have been done til;
d we can suggest at least 95 per cent.
II improvement. Now. would it not
g grand if the good Lord would say
Ii YOU: You can go back and try
T. over again. l will, by a word, tul
a your hair to black, or brown,
@ golden. and smooth all the wrinkl /
n out of your temple or cheek, and tai
q the bend out of your shoulders, al
IT, extirpate the stiffness from the join
II and the rheumatic twinge from t
n foot, and you shall be Il years Of ag
+ and just what you We're when yt
reached that point before" If t
proposition were made / think ma
thousands would accept it.
le That feeling caused the ancle
4 search for what was called the Fou
tain of Youth. the waters of whic
t taken. would turn the hair of the {
is togenarian into the curly locks OF
boy, and however old a person W
,h drank at that fountain, he would
j: young again. The island was said
belong to the group CT Bahamas, /