Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1902-01-31
THE MILESTONES OF LIFE
Or. Talmage Tells of the Duties and
Trials Which Belong to the
Different Decades.
Advice to the Twenties-The Waiting Age
The Last Haven.

WASHINGTON, ID. C.-from an unusual
standpoint DR.. Talmage in this discourse
looks at the duties and trials which be- |
long to the different decades of human
life; text, Psalms &c, 10, "The days OF our
years are thrcescore years and ten"
The SEVENTEEN milestone of life is here |
planted as at the end of the journey. a
few go beyond it. Multitades never reach
it. The Oldest person of modern tlracf ex-
pired at 100 years. A Greek of the n;;:e
of Stravaride lived to l32 years. An Eng,
lishman of the name of Thomas Parr lived
l52 years. Before the time of Moses peo-
pie lived $50 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 transmit
the news of the past. If the generations
had been short lived the story would so
often have changed lips that it might have
got all astray. But after Moses began TO
write it down and parchment tod 1t from
century to century it was not necessary
that people live so long in order to au-
thenticate the events the past. If iii
our time people lived only twenty-five
wears, that would not affect history, since
it is put in print and is no longer depend,
ent on tradition. Whatever your age, |
will to-day directly address you, and L
| shall speak to those who are in the TWEEN
| ties, the thirties, the forties, the tifties,
| the sixties, and to those who are in the
seventies and beyond.
| First, then, | accost those OF you VINO
| are in the twenties. You are full OF ex-
pectation. You are ambitious-tha Is,
| if you amount to anything-for some kind
| of success, commercial or mechanical or
| professional or literary or agricultural or
| y 1f I find 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
warehouses;? You will never be able to
nav for your cradle. Who is going to set
lie for your board? There is mistake
about the fact that you were born at al.
But. supposing you have ambition, let
me say to all the twenties,. expect every,
thing through divine manipulation, ana
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 caterpilars, the locusts, the sunshine
the storm. the land, the sea, and you WI!
Get wealth. Perhaps not that which Is
Stored up in the banks, in safe deposits
in United States securities, in houses anf
lands, but your clothing and board anC
shelter, and that is about all you can APP
nrop-iate ANYHOW. You cost the Lord
great deal TO feed and clothe and shelte
YOU for lifetime requires big sum
money, and if you get nothing more thal
the absolute necessities you get an ehoI
nous amount of supply. Expect as mucl
a. Won will of any kind of success, II yo'
expect it from the Lord you are safe. lie
pend on any other resource, and you ma mi
he badly chagrined, but depend on TO
and all will be well. 1t is good thing i
the crisis of life to have a man OF lafg
means back you up. 1t is a great thin
70 have a moneyed institution stand b(
hind YOU in your undertaking. But 1t IS
miehtier thing to have the God OF heave
! and earth your coadjutor, and you ma
have Him. I am SO glad that L net yo
G while you are in the tWentles;; You a. a.
f laying out your plans, and all YOU: ,, ~
in this world and the next for 5Oo mliii o
vaars of vonr existence will be affected ;
those plans 1t is about s o'clock in tt
:, morning OF your life, and you are JN
Il starting out. Which way arc you gon
to start? Oh, the twentles H. p;h,
= "Twertv" is a great word in. the Biol
It Joseph was sold for twenty pieces OF S
+ YER: Samson Judged Israel twenty year,
solomon gave Hiram twenty cities; u
Avinc roll that Zechariah saw was tweh
cubits; when the sailors OF the snip
- which Paul sailed sounded the Medi tgl
Il mean Sea, it was twenty fathoms. WI
mighty things have been done nc, IN r,, y
'r twentSes! Romulus founded Rome wh'
Se was twenty: Keats finished lie
u Twenty-Five. Lafayette was, world
owned soldier at twenty-three; Oberi
~ ACCOMPLISHED his chief work at tWen'
- Sevon. Bonaparte was victor over Italy
fwenfy-six: Pitt was prime minister
EnrIond at twenty-two Calvin had CO..
n1a7nd his immortal INSTITUTES" by t
time he was twenty-six; Crotius was
4 torney general at twenty-tour. ooin1
the mighticst things for COO ana eIel IL
i have teen done in the twentles. AS ~
& % Won can put the figure before
q o+ber fnrre that helps describe your age
q have high hopes about him. Look out
q that figure 2. Watch its continuance w
4 as much earnestness as you ever WaVcN
4 ANYTHING that promised you salvation
\ Threatened YOU demolition. What CT
y cal time-the twenties. Ill. -,
Z While they continue you decldc yo
4 occupation and the principles by WI
y Won will be guided; you make your N
i abiding friendships; you arrange your no
d lie; YOU fix your habits: LORD Goa
\ mighty, for Jesus Christs sake ht
\ mercy on all the men and women Ill
y tWenUes u, u..: Y
4 arc ot an ace when you find what TOT
4 tb;ng Il is to get recognized and est
a lisbed in YOUR occupation or proiessl
I Ten wears ago you thought all that
4 necessary for success was to put on 6!
4 shutter the sign Of physician or denllst
4 attorney or broker or agent and you %o
4 have nlentv of business. How many no
4 Won sat and waited for business,
q waited in vain, three persons only kho
a God. your wife and yourself, In CONN
cial life YOU have not had the pToHo'
and the increase in salary you ahllcil"
or the place you expected TO occupy T AZ
firm has not been vacated. Inc proI
"a If the farm with which you expected
- support yourself and those depending
"a Won and to pay the interest on the IT
aS# cage has been far less than you anticip;a
5z or +he nrices were down, or speclai
E# nanseq for sickness made drafts on your
$Z Sources that YOU could not have eXpec
IN In some respects the hardest decadC
IENH life is the thirties, because the results
yXM generally so far behind the antlclpaVi
IN Tt is very rare indeed that young
IN does as did the young man one SuI
ia night when ne came to me ana sdlu
IN have been so marvelously prospered
- | 7 came to this country that feel as a
N ter Of gratitude that ought to dedi
IN myself to God" ,.c
MA Nine-tenths of the poetry of life
fx@ been knocked out Of you since you
@@ into the thirties Men in the diife
lyyS professions and occupations saw that
7 u were rising, and they must put, an e'
tn pei on you or you might somehow S
wa in the way They think you must be
"a pressed.
4X From thirty to forty is an espec
~ hard time for young doctors, young
81 yers, young merchants, young farm
s Young mechanics, young ministers.
~ struggle of the thirties is for honest
- helpful and remunerative recognition.
~ few old people know how to treat y