Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1898-08-26
THE VALUE or A LIFE,
Is 10 4 Mistake to neslic to Live A
Second Life,
Re" Dr. fa'magN Declares that Second
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That Is untrue, Tho Lord dad not
say 1t, but Satan said II to tho Lord
when tho evil one wanted dob still
more afflicted, Tho record Ia, $50
went Satan forth from the presence of
the Lord, aud smote job with sore
boils," And Satan has boon the author
of all cruptlve disease since thon, and
he hopes by poisoning the blood TO
poison the soul, But the result Of the
diabolical experiment which left dob
victor proved the falsty of the Satanic
remark "All that man hath viii he
give for his life Many n captain who
has stood on the bridge of the stcnmcr
till his passengers got oil and he
drowncd; many an engineer who hns
kept his haod 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 tho op1n draw.
bridge, muny u fireman who plunged
into n blazing house TO get n sleeping
child out, the iiremun sacrificing his
life in the attempt, and the thousand
Of martyrs who submitted to fiery
stake and knife OF massacre and head
mans ny and guillotine rather than
surrender principle, proving that in
many n ease my text was not true when
il says; "Ail that man hath will he
give for his life"
But Satau's falsehood was built on n
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 rcgu-
lations, 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 murtialed 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: Gentleman, |
did turn the ship around, and admit
that it was damaged, but do you want
| to know why ! turned it? There was
IL 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 indicated. Life is in
deed very precious. Yea, there are
those who deem life so precious they
would like to repeat it; they would
like to try it ovcr'again. They would
| like to 90 back from 70 to 60, from 60
TO 80, from 81 to 40, from 40 to 80, from
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 and
| rirht-minded man is satisfied with his
past life. However successful your
| life may have been, you are not salts
fed with it, What is success? ASK
that question of hundred different
men, and they will give q hundred diff
|
"Success is million dollars another
will say. Success is worldwide pub
licity;" another will say: Success Is
gaining that which You started for.
But as it is free country, | give my
own definition. and say: Success it
fulfilling the particular mission upon
which you were sent, whether to write
a constitution, or invent n new style o.
wbeelbarrow, or take care OF SIGH
child" Do what God calls you to do
and YOU are success, whether you
leave q million dollars at death or are
buried at public expense, whether Il
takes fifteen 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 al not satisfied with your life.
We have all made so many mistakes
stumbled into SD many blunders, sale
so many things that ought not TO have
been said, and done so many thing
that ought not to have been done tina
we can suggest at least 9j per cent. o
Improvement. Now, would it not b,
grand il the good Lord would say Il
YOU: "You can 20 back and try !
over again. ] will, by word, turf
your hair to black, or brown, o
golden, and smooth all the wrinkles
out of your temple o. check, and taxi
the bend out of your shoulders, ant
extirpate the stiffness from the joint
and the rheumatic tYVingc from tn
foot. and you shall be- 81 years of age
and just what you were when YOU
reached that point before If tn
proposition were made ! think man
. thousands would accept it.
That feeling caused the ancien
. search for what was called tho Foun
tain OF Youth, the waters OF which
taken, would turn the hair OF the oc
tooenarian into the curly locks OF
boy, and however old a person VIII
drank at that fountain, he would b
Young again The island was said t
belong TO the group of Bahamas, bu
Law far out in the ocean. The grea
Spanish explorer, Juan Ponce de Leon
fellow-voyage Of Columbus, have Il
doubt, felt that il lie could discove
that Fountain of Youth, lie would d
AZ much as his friend had done in dis
covering America, So he put out il
1912 from Porto Rico and cruised abou
nm<np the Bahamas in search OF tina
fountain. am glad he did not fin
| Il, tat, lt.I
there were. and its waters were bo
tied up and sent abroad at thousan
dollars bottle, the demand would b
greater than the supply; and many
man who has come through life {
uselessncss, and perhaps sin, to oil
age. would be shaking up the poten
! LIQUID, and If he were directed to TAX
= only a tcaspoonful after each mea
would be so anxious to make sure wor