Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-07-16
FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH.
REV. DR.. TALMAGE SAYS WE DO NOT
NEED REMUNERATION.

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Man Is Satisfied, No Matter How Great
His success-He Shows How Unpleasant
1t Would Be to Live Life Over Again.
Copyright 1898, by American Press Asso-
ciationl
WASHINGTON, July 17.-This dis.
course>of DR.. Talmage extols our present
opportunities SO that more opportunities
than we enjoy in this life do not seem
desirable; the text Job ii, 4, "All that
a man hath will be give for his life."
That is untrue. The Lord did not say
it, but satan said it to the Lerd when
the evil one wanted Job still more af-
f1icted. The record is, $50 went satan
forth from the presence of the Lord and
smote Job with sore boils" Ard satan
has been the author of all eruptive dis
ease since then, and he hopes by poison
ing the blood to poison the soul. But
the result of the diabolical 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 Oh 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
drawbridge many fireman who
plunged into blazing house to get a
sleeping child out, the fireman sacrific-
ing his life in the 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 was not true when
it says, "All that a man hath will he
give for his life"
But 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 it. We see how precious life
is from the fact that we do everything
to prolong it. Hence all 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 be
heard he said: "Gentlemen, did turn
the ship around, and admit that it was
damaged. but do you want to know why
I turned it? There was man overheard,
and I wanted to save him and l did
save him, and I 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 are those who deem life 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 &C
to so, from so to 40, from 40 to 80 and
from 80 to 20. I propose, for very prac
tical and useful purposes, as will appear
before I get through, to discuss the
question we have all asked of others ane
others have again and again asked o.
us, Would you like to live your lift
over again?
| No Man Satisfied.
The fact is that no intelligent am
right feeling man is satisfied with nj
past life. However successful your III
may have been, you are not satlslle(
with it. What is success? ASK tina
question of hundred different men
and they will give hundred differen
answers. One man will say, "Succes
is 81 900, OOO;" another will say, Sue
cess is worldwide publicity anothe
will say, "Success isgaining that whicl
Won started for" But as it is fire.
country 1 give my own definition, ant
say. "Success is fulfilling the partlcula
mission upon which you were sent
whether to write constitution or III
vent a new style of wheelbarrow OF tax
care Of q sick child.' Do what Ho
calls YOU to do, and you are success
whether you leave 81, 100000 at deaf
or are buried at public expense whe'he
ii takes Is pages of an encyclopedia
tell the wonderful things you nave oon
or your name is never printed po' oIoe
and that in the death column. bu
whatever your success has been you "r
not satisfied with your life.
We have all made so many mistakes
stumbled into SO many blunHers' sai
so many things that ought not 10 nav
been said and done 50 many thihSS 'i''
ought not to have been done tns't y"
can suggest at least % per cent Oh I'LL
movement. Now, would it not be gran
if the good Lord would say to you
"Yon can 90 back and try 1t over aeal,
I will, by word, turn your h"lf
Hack or brown, or golden, and sinoot
ali the wrinkles out of your temple
cbeelx and take the bend out OF you
sbonlders. and extirpate' the stlllhe,
from the joint and the rhouna, !,
t,y;noe from the foot, and you snail
81 wears of age and just WHAT you W.
when YOU reached that point peluie 10:
If the nroposition were made, thlh
,,anv thousands would accept IL,
THAT feeling caused the ancient scare
H.. .',hot was called the fountain
youth the waters of which, tahei
would turn the hair OF the oc'oseia ~ "a
into the curly locks of boy ana nov
ever old person who drank al Uni [I'
, fountain. he would be young AGAIN Il
!, ;slond was said to belong to the gro,
Of Bahamas, but lay far out III ~
cream The great Spanish explorer . "a y,
Ponce de Leon, fellow voyaser u - y
/. iumbus, | have no doubt felt that !.
aon,d discover that fountain OF youth
ou could do as much as his friend BIT
> done in discovering America % nu =; T.
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