The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-01-30
TALMAGE's SERMON.
DUTIES AND TRIALS OF THE DIFF
FERENT DECADES OF LIFE.
All the Years of Man Considered Work
of the Twenties aud Turtles should
BE Crowned with Splendid Reward
III the Seventies.

Washington, Jan. 26.-From an an
usual standpoint Dr. Talmage in this
discourse looks at the duties and trials
which belong to the different decades
OF human life; text, Psalms xc, 10,
The days of our years are threescore
years and ten"
The seTentieth milestone of life is
here planted as at the end of the jour
ney. a few go begond it. Mu!titudes
never reach it. Whatever your age,'I
will to-day directly address you, and
| shall speak to those who are IN the
twenties, the thirties, the forties, the
1ifties, the sixties, and to those who are
in the seventies and beyond
First, then, l accost those of you
who are in the twenties. You are fun
of expectation. You are ambitious
that is. if you amount to anything-for
some kind Of success, commercial or
mechanical or professional or literary
or agricultural or social or moral II
l find some one in the twenties with
out any sort of ambition, ! feel like
saying, My friend, you have got on
the wrong planet. This is not the
world for you. You are going to be
in the way. Have you made your
be able to pay for your cradle. Who
is going to settle for your board?
There is mistake about the fact
that you were born at ALL"
But supposing you have ambition
let ME say TO all the twenties, expect
everything through divine manipula-
ton, and then you will get all you
want and something better. Are you
looking for wealth? Well, remember
that God controls the money markets,
the harvcsts, the droughts, tie cater
pillars, the locusts, the sunshine, the
storm, the land the sea, and you will
get wealth. Perhaps not that which
is stored up in the banks, in safe de-
posts, in United States securities, in
houses and lands, but your clothing
about all you can appropriate anyhow
You cost the Lord a great deal. TIC
feed and clothc and shelter you for a
lifetime requires big sum OF money
and if you get nothing more than the
absolute necessities you get an enor-
nous amount of supply. Expect as
much as you will of any kind OF sue
cess, if you expect it from the Lore
you are safe Depend on any other re
source, and you may be badly cha
grired, but depend on God and all vii
be we'll
Some OF the mightiest things for Coz
and eternity have been done in Tho
twenties. AS long as you can put the
figure before the other figure tha
helps describe your age | have higl
hopes about you. Look out for thai
figure 2. Watch its continuance with
watched anything that promised yor
salvation or threatened you demoli
ton. What critical time-the TWEEN
ties! While they continue you decide
. your occupation and the principles b.
which you will be guided; you make
your most abiding friendships; you ar
range your home life; you fix you
habits Lord God Almighty. for Jesu
Christ's sake. have mercy on all tn,
men and women in the twenties!
Next accost those in the thirties
You are at an age when you find wha
a tough thing it is to get recognize,
and established in your occupation O
profession. In some respects the hard
est decade of life is the thirties, be
cause the results are generally so ia
behind the anticipations. Nineteenth
of the poetry of life has been knocked
out of you since you came into tn,
thirties. Men in the different PROBES
sions and occupations saw that 20,
were rising, and they must put an es
TOPPED on you, or you might somehow
stand in the way. They think yo,
must be suppressed.
From thirty to forty is an especial,
hard time for young doctors, youn,
lawyers, young merchants, youn.
farmers, young mechanics, young min
listers. The struggle of the thirties i
for honest and helpful and remunera
tive recognition. But few old peopl
know how to treat young people with
out patronizing them on the one hant
or snubhing them on the other
On, the thirties! Joseph stood befor
Pharaoh at thirty; David was thirt,
years old when he began to reign
the height of Solomons temple wa
thirty cubits; Christ entered upon hi
active ministry at thirty years Of age
Judas sold him for thirty pieces o
silver. Oh, the thirties! What
word suggestive of triumph or disas
ter!
Next I accost the forties. Yours il
the decade of discovery | do no
mean the discovery of the outside, bu
the discovery of yourself. No MAJ
knows himself until he is forty B,
that time he has learned what he cal
do or what he cannot do. He though
he had commercial genius enough tt
become a millionaire, but now he il