Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-09-03
IN OUR GENERATION.
GLORIOUS REWARDS OF WORKING
FOR OUR FELLOW MEN.

oIOnIOOo HEWAHOS OF WORKING
FOR OUR FELLOW MEN.
DR.. Talmage Points Out the Lesson Of the
Life OF David-Service Which Suffering
Humanity Now Needs-A Blissful Awsk.
eninE.
copyright. 1885. b, b, Am American Press Asso-
WASHINGTON, Sept. Az this dis.
course DR.. Talmage changes our life
time from meaningless generality to
practical helpfulness to the people now
living; text, Acts xiii, Sc, David,
after he had served his own generation
by the will Of God, fell on Sleep"
That is text which has for long
time been running Though my mind.
Sermons have time to be born as we'll
az time to die, cradle as we'll as a
grave. David, cowboy and stone singer
and fighter and dramatist and blank
verse writer and prophet, did his best
for the people of his time, and then
went and laid down on the southern
hill of Jerusalem in that sound slum.
Der which nothing but an archangelio
blast can startle. David, after he had
served his own generation by the will
OF God, fell on Sleep" It was his own
generation that he had served-that is,
the people living at the time he lived.
And have you ever thought that our re-
sponsibilities are chiefly with the peo-
pie now walking abreast of us? There
are about four generations to a 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 rough
guess and say that there have been at
least $50 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
he had gone into heaven, and no more
needed her prayers, and, looking up into
her mothers face, said: ooh, mother,
l cannot leave him all out Let me say,
thank God that had a good father
once, so can keep him in my prayers "
But the $50 generations have passed
off. Passed up. Passed down. Gone for
ever. Then there are generations to
como after our earthly existence has
ceased We shall not see them. We
shall not hear any of their voices. We
will take no part in their conversations,
their elections. their revolutions, their
catastrophies, their triumphs. We will
in nowise affect the 1870 generations
gone or the 1870 generations to come,
except as from the galleries of heaven
the former generations look down
and rejoice at our victories, or os
we may by our behavior start influ-
ences, good or bad, that shall roll on
through tho advancing ages. But our
business is, like David, to serve our
own generation, the people now living,
those whose lungs now breathe and
whose hearts now beat, and mark you,
it is not silent procession, but moving.
It is "forced march" at "a miles
day, each hour being mile. Going
with that celebrity, it has got to be
quick service OH our part or no service
at all. We not only cannot teach the
1870 generations past and will not see
the 1870 generations to come, but this
generation now on the stage will soon
be off, and we ourselves will be of
with them. The fact is that you and
will have to start very soon for our
work or it will be ironical and sarcastic
for any one after our exit to say OF us,
as it was said Of David, after he had
served his own generation by the Will
of Gcd Ec fell on Sleep
Our Own Generation.
Well, now, let us look around ear
nestly, prayerfully, in common sense
way and zee what we can do for our
own generation. First of all, let us see
to it that, as far as we can, they have
enough to eat. The human body is SO
constituted that three times day the
body needs food as much as lamp
needs oil, as much as locomotive
needs fuel. To meet this want God has
cirdled the earth with apple orchards,
orange groves, wheatfields and oceans
full of fish and prairies full OF cattle,
and notwithstanding this will under
take to say that the vast majority OF
the human family are now suffering
either for lack of food or the right KIND
Of food. Our civilization is all askew,
and God only can set it right. Many of
the greatest estates of today have been
built out of the blood and bones OF nm
reouited toll. In olden times, for the
building of forts and towers, the inhab-
itants of Ispahan had to contribute w.
600 skulls and Bagdad 90, 900 human
skulls. and that number of people were
rompelled to furnish the skulls. But
these two contributions added together
made only 100, 900 skulls, while into
the tower of the worlds wealth and
nomp have been wrought the skeletons
of amounted numbers Of the half FED
nominations of the earth-milllons OF
skulls. :.,.
Don't sit down at your table with
e,o Nv six courses of abundant supply