The age-herald., 1902-02-02

Washington. January 26.-From an un- usual standpoint Dr. Talmage in this dis course looks at the duties and trials which belong to the different decades of human life; text. Psalms xc. 10, "The days of your years are threescore years and ten"
 The seventieth milestone of life is here planted as at the end of the journey. A few go beyond 1t. Multitudes never reach It. The oldest person of modern times ex- pired at 169 years. A Greek of the name of Stravaride lived to 132 years. An En- glishman of the name of Thomas Parr lived 152 years. Before the time of Moses people lived 150 years, and if you go far enough back they lived 900 years. Well, that was necessary, because the story of the world must come down by tradition, and it needed long life safely to trans init the news of the past. If the genera tions had been short lived, the story would so often have changed lips that IL might have got all astray. But atter Moses began to write it down and parch- ment told it from century to century it was not necessary that people live so long in order to authenticate the events or the DdSL. II III our lllIlG pSOpAC iifSN only twenty-five years, that would not affect history, since 1t is put in print and is no longer dependent on tradition What your age, l will today directly ad- dress you and shall speak to those who are in the twenties, the thirties, the for ties, the fifties, the sixties, and to those who are in the seventies and beyond
 First then, I accept those of you who are in the twenties. You are full Of ex- pectation. You are ambitious-that Is, Ii you amount to anything-for some kind of success, commercial or mechanical or professional or literary or agricultural or social or moral. If find some one in the twenties without 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 choice of poorhouses? You will never be able to pay for your cradle. Who is going to set tie for your board? There Is a mistake about the fact that you yere born at all"
 Advice to the TwentIes.
 But, supposing you have ambition. let me say to all the twentes, expect every thing through divine manipulation, and then you will get all you want and some thing better Are you looking for wealth? Well. remember that God controls the money markets, the harvests, and drouths, the caterpillars, the locusts, the sunshine, the storm, the landr the sea, and you will get wealth. Perhaps not that which Is stored up in the banks in safe deposits in United States securities, in houses and lands, but your clothing and board and shelter, and that Is about all you can appropriate anyhow. You cost the Lord a great deal To feel and clothe and shelter you for lifetime requires a big sum of money, and if you get nothing more than the absolute neces- sities you get an enormous amount of supply. Expect as much as you will of any kind of success if you expect it from the Lord you are safe Depend on any other resource, and you may be badly chagrined, but depend on God and all will be well. It is a good thing in the crisis of life to have a man of large means back you up. It is a great thing to have a moneyed institution stand be- hind you in your undertaking. But it is a mightier thing to have the God of heav- en and earth your coadjutor, and you may have him. I am so glad that I met you while you are in the twenties. You are laying out your plans, and all your life in this world and the next for five hundred million years of your existence will be affected by those plans. It Is about o'clock in the morning of your life. and you are just starting out. Which way are you going to start? Oh, the twenties!
 Twenty Is great word in the Bible Joseph was sold for twenty pieces of sl- yer, Samson judged Isreal twenty years; Solom on gave Hiram twenty cities; the flying roll that Zechariah saw was twenty cubits; when the sailors of the ship on which Paul sailed sounded the Medter- ranean sea, 1t was twenty fathoms What mighty things have been done in the twenties, Romulus founded Rome when he was twenty; Keats finished life at twenty-five; Lafayette was a world removed soldier at twenty-three; Oberlin accomplished his chief work at twenty seven; Bonaparte was victor over Italy at twenty-six; Pitt was prime minister of England at twenty-two; Calvin had com pleted his immortal Institutes" by the time he was twenty-six; Grotius was att torney general at twenty-four. Some of the mightiest things for God and eternity have been done in the twenties. As long as you can put the figure 9 before the