The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1902-01-31
DIR. TALMAGES SERMON
SUNDAYS DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED
DIVINE.
Subject: The Milestones of Life-Duties
and Trials which Belong to the Differ
ent Deeades-AdyIse TO the Twenties-
The Waiting Age-The Last Haven.

WAsHISGToS, d. C.-From an unusual
standpoint DR.. Talmage in this discourse
looks az the duties and trials which be-
long 70 the different decades Of human
life; text, Psalms xc, 10, The days Of our
years are threescore years and ten"
The seventeen milestone OF life IL here
planted as at the end OF the journey. A
few 90 beyond II. Multtudes never reach
it. The oldest person OF modern times ex-
pired at 1863 years. a Greek OF the name
Of Stravaride lived TO 1872 years. An Eng
llshmGn Of the name OF Thomas PR lived
lj2 years. Before the time OF Moses peo-
pie lived $50 years, and If you 20 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 70 transmit
the news OF the past. II the generations
had been short lived the story would 80
often have changed lips that 1t might have
got all astray. But after Moses began TO
write 1t down and parchment told II from
century TO century 1t was not necessary
that people live so long in order 20 au-
thentcate the events the past III IN
our time people lived only twenty-five
years, that would not affect history, since
II Is pCt IN print and Is no longer depend
ent on tradition. Whatever your age,
will to-day directly address you, and
shall speak 20 those who are in the TWEEN
ties, the thirties, the forties, the ffties,
the sixties, and 20 those who are in the
seventies and beyond.
First, then, | accost those of you who
are IN the twenties. You are full of ex-
pectation. You are ambltious-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. 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 were born at all. A"
But supposIng you have ambition, let
me say to all the twenties, 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 the droughts,
the caterpillars, 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 deposits,
in United States securities IN houses and
lands, but your clothing and board and
shelter, and that is about all you can APP
propriate anyhow. You cost the Lord a
great deal. To feed and clothe and shelter
you for n lifetime requires a 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 success. if you
expect it from the Lord you are safe De
pend on any other resource, and you may
be badly chagrined, but depend on God
and all will be well. IL is a good thing in
the crisis of life to have man of large
means back you up. 1t il 4 great thing
to have a moneyed institution stand be-
hind YOU in your undertaking. But it is a
mighter thing TO have the God of heaven
and earth your coadjutor. and you may
have Him. | am so glad that | 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 800 million
years of your existence will be affected by
those plans. 1t 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 a great word IN the Bible.
Joseph was sold for twenty pieces of sill
yer; Samson judged Israel twenty years;
Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities; the
flying roll that Iechariah saw was twenty
cubts: when the sailors of the ship on
which Paul sailed sounded the Mediterra-
mean Sea. il 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 world re-
nowned soldier at twenty-three; Oberln
accomplished his chief work at twenty
seven; Bonaparte was victor over Italy at
twenty-six; Pitt was prime minister OF
England at twenty-five; Calvin had com
peted his immortal Institutes by the
time he was twenty-sX; Grotius was at.
tornev general at twenty-four. Some OF
the mightiest things for God and eternity
have teen done in the twenties. As long
as YOU can put the figure before the
other figure that helps describe your age /
have high hopes about him. Look out for
that figure . Watch its continuance with
as much oarncstness "a you ever watched
ANYTHING that promised you salvation OF
threatened You demolition. What crlti
cal tIme-the twenties.
While they continue YOU decide your
occupation and the principles by which
YOU will be guided; you make your most
abiding friendships; you arrange your nome
life YOU fix your habits. Lord God Al
mighty, for Jesus Chrlsts sake have
mercy on all the men and women IN TIE
twenties!
Next accost those in the thrtics. You
are at an age when you find what tough
thing it Is TO get recognized and estab'
lished in your occupation or profession
Ten years ago YOU thought all that was
necessary for success was to put on your
shutter the sign of physician or dentist OF
attorney or broker or agent and you would
have plenty of business. How many hours
you sat and waited for business, and
waited IN vain. three persons only know
God. your wife and yourself. IN CONNER
cal life YOU have not had the promotion
and the increase in salary YOU antiCinatad
or the place YOU expected to occupy IN the
firm has not been vacated The produce
of the farm with which YOU expected "a
support Yourself and those depending on
you and 10 pay the interest on the mort
gage has been far less than YOU anticipated
or the prices were down, or special cX
penses for sickness made drafts on your re-
sources that Won could not have expected
In some respects the hardest decade OF
life is the thrties. because the results are
generally so far behind the anticipatons
Ii Is very rare indeed that young man
does rs did the young man one SUNDAY
night when he came 10 me and said. Il
have been so marvelously prospered slCCC
I came to this country that ! feel as mat
ter OF gratitude that l ought to dedicate
myself to God
Nine-tenths Of the poetry Of life ha.
been knocked out OF you since you camC
| into the thirties Men IN the different
were rising and they must put an cstop
/ pei on YOU or YOU might somehow stand
/ in the way. They think yoa must be sup
/ pressed.
From thirty 10 forty is an especially
/ hard time for young doctors. young law
/ yers. young merchants. young farmers
! young mechanics. young ministers III,
struggle Of the thirties u tor honest apt
I helpful and remunerative recognition. BG'
/ few old people know how 20 treat younl