The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-07

Chicago August S1.-Sound advice in view of the uncertainty of life is given in this sermon by Rev. F. De Witt Tal- mage on the text. Isaiah xxxviii, 1: Set thine house in order. for thou shalt die" am going to stay aboard this planet as long as I can. When the time comes for me to die, believe sufficient grace will be given to me with which to die. But have never felt less like dying than at the present time. My home was never so happy, my friends never more kind, my work never more absorbing. Present earthly life Is inexpressibly sweet to me. I feel in reference to 1t a great deal as dis Christopher North. the physical and literary athlete, who. with his friends and children, used to race over the heath- CT of old Scotland. his yellow curls a-fly- ing in the winds, singing and shouting as he ran, because he was bubbling over with joy and animal spirits I am in love with the world because l like the people who are in 1t.
 But. though earthly life may be price- less boon to some people as well as to myself, yet there must come to all time
 
 Hezekiah of my text who besought God by prayer to increase his earthly day, we % may be able to prolong our existence ten, fifteen or even twenty years by rigidly obeying the well tested physical laws of health. bio Lewis, the great lecturer on hygiene, once declared that every normal healthy child born Into the world ought to live to be at least 100 ye ars old. He asserted that nearly all the members of the human race do not live out half their earthly life because they do. not eat the right kind of food. wear the proper cloth ing and take the proper amount of exer- else.
 But though the longevity of the human race might be increased to 100 or even 200 years. though the present generation might be able to reach the two hundredth and fftieth milestone which marks the highway of lifes journey instead of only the twentieth of fifteenth or seventieth milestone, yet for every man and woman there must come at last an end to earthly existence. The Bible distinctly and em- phaticaliy states 1t All history proves it. Though bio Lewis himself rigidy prac- ticed the laws of health which his keen and far-reaching intellect framed. though he only ate just enough food to replenish the amount of waste tissue; though he wore the proper clothing and daily took the proper amount of physical exercise yet bio Lewis. himself had to die. So the same words of warning which the pro- phet Isaiah brought to the sick ruler in the ancient Jerusalem palace l bring to you. They are just as pertinent for the present generation as they were to the Hebrew king who hved nearly 5000 years ago. r.f
 The First Steps Necessary.
 In anticipating his earthly demise a common sense man should in the first place set his temporal house in order That means he should, if necessary, get his life insured. He should make out his last will and testament. He should appoint the executors of his estate and the future guardian of his children. He should explain ne details ol his business and invest his moneys in such a manner as that his executors can easily carry out his plans. He should train up his children or his neutenants so that they may carry on his work after he is dead, He. should, if desirable. buy his family plot and make all arrangements for the last resting place of himself and his loved ones. We have contempt for the man who has so little interest in the tenn Doral welfare of his wife and children