The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-09-05
IN OUR GENERATION.
GLORIOUS REWARDS Or, WoAkINo
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Or. Talmase Points out the Lesson Of BIB
Life Of David-servioe Which sunsriul
Humanity Now Nesas--A Biisssui Awals
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copyright. 1895. ~ b. An American Press Asso
WASHINGTON. Sept, AIN this dis
course DR.. Talmage changes our life
time from meaningless generality t.
practical he]pfulness to the people now
living; text, Acts xiii, SO, David,
after he had served bis own generation
by the will Of God, fell on Sleep"
That IL text which has for Q long
time been running through my mind.
Sermons have time to be born AZ we'll
az time to die, cradle as we'll as a
grave. David, cowboy and stone singer
and fighter and dramatist aud blank
verse writer and prophet, did. bis best
for the people Of his time, and then
went and laid down on the southern
hill Of Jerusalem in thaE sound alum.
Dor which nothing but al farchangelic
blast can startle. David, after he had
served his own generation by the will
Of God, fell on Sleep" It was bis own
generation that he Ind served-that Is,
the people living at the time be lived.
And have You ever thought that our re-
sponsibilities are chiefly with the PEG.
pie now walking abreast Of us? There
are about four generations to q century
now, but in olden time life was longer,
and there was perhaps only one genera.
ton to century. Taking these facts
into the calculation, make q rough
guess and say that there have been at
least 1870 generations Of the human fam.
lily. With reference to them we have
no responsibility. We cannot teach
them, we cannot correct their mistakes,
we cannot soothe their sorrows, we can
not heal their wounds. Their sepulchers
are deaf and dumb to anything we might
say to them. The last regiment Of that
great army has passed out Of sight We
might halloo as loud as we could, not
one Of them would avert his head to
see what we wanted. admit that am
in sympathy with the child whose ia.
Their had suddenly died, and who in her
little evening prayer wanted to con.
tinue to pray for her father, although
be had gone into heaven, and no more
needed her prayers, and, looking up into
her mothers face, said: "Oh, mother,
l cannot leave him all out. Let me say,
thank God that had a good father
once, 60 / can keep him in my prayers -
But the 1870 generations have passed
off. Passed up. Passed down. Gone for
ever. Then there are generations to
come after our earthly existence has
ceased. We shall not see thom. We
shall not hear any Of their voices. We
will take no part in their oonvocations,
their elections. their revolutions, their
oatastrophies, their triumphs We will
in nowise affect the 1870 generations
gone or the 1870 generations to come,
except as from the galleries of heaven
he former generations look down
md rejoice at our victories, or az
We may by our behavior start influ-
NOES, good or bad, that shall roll on
through the advancing ages. But our
business is, like David, to serve our
,wn generation, tho people now living,
hose whose lungs now breathe and
whose hearts now beat, and mark you,
t is not silent procession, but moving.
{ is a forced march" at "a miles
lay, each hour being a mile. Going
With that celebrity, it has got to be a
Luick service on our part or no service
t all. We not only cannot teach the
so generations past and will not see
he 1870 generations to come, but this
generation now on the stage will soon
70 off, and we ourselves will be off
With them. The fact is that you and l
will have to start very soon for our
york or it will be ironical and sarcastic
or any one after our exit to say of us,
8 it was said of David, "After he had
erved his own generation by the will
# God he fell on Sleep"
Our Own Generation.
Well, now, let us look around ear
estly, prayerfully, in common sense
'ay and see what we can do for our
wn generation. First of all, let us see
} it that, as far as we can, they have
nough to eat. The human body is so
instituted that three times day the
ody needs food as much as lamp
eeds oil, as much as a locomotive
eeds fuel. To meet this want God has
irdled tho earth with apple orchards,
range groves, wheatfields and oceans
Ill of fish and prairies full of cattle,
nd Notwithstanding this I will under.
Ike to say that the vast majority Of
le human family are now suffering
Their for lack of food or the right kind
food. Our civilization is all askew,
I'd God only can set it right. Many Of
lie greatest estates Of today have been
lilt out of the blood and bones Of un-
quilted toll. In olden times, for the
Hiding of forts and towers, the inhab.
ants of Ispahan had to contribute TO-.
70 skulls and Bagdad 1000 human
:ulls, and that number Of people were
mpelled to furnish the skulls But
ese two contributions added together
ade only 100, 900 skulls while into
% tower Of the worlds wealth and
mp have been wrought the skeletons
uncounted numbers Of the half fed
pulations of the earth-millions Of
ulls.
Don't sit down at your table with
q or six courses Of abundant supply
d think nothing Of that family in the
xt street who would take any one of
ose five courses between soup and
mond nuts and feel they were in
aven. The lack Of the right kind Of
ID is the cause of much of the drunk.
ness After drinking what many of
r grocers call coffee, sweetened with
lat many call sugar, and eating what
my Of our butchers call meat, and
ewing what many of our bakers call ],
BAD, many of the laboring class feel
miserable they arc tempted to put in. :
their nasty pipes what the tobacco I
It calls tobacco or go into the drinking
oons for what the rumsellers call ,
". Good coffee would do much in {
wing out bad rum.
How can we serve our oeneration n