The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-02-02
DR. TALMAGE's SERMON.

Washington, Jan. 26.-From an unusual standpoint pr. Talmage in his discourse looks at the duties and trials which be- long to the different decades Of human our years are xhreescore years and ten" t.
 The seyentieth milestone of life is here planted as at the end of the Journey. A it. The oldest person or modern times expired at 169 years. A Greek of the name of Stravlride lived to 132 years. An Englishman 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 1t 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 it might have got all astray. But after Moses began to write it down and parch- ment told 1t from century to century it was not necessary that people live so long in order to authenticate the events of the past If in our time people lived only twenty-five years, that would not affect history. since it is put in print and is no longer dependent on tradition. Whatever your age, I will today direct ly address you, and I shall speak to ties, the forties. the fifties. the sixties. and to those who are in the seventies and beyond. .E
 First. then. accost those of you who expectation. You are ambitious-that is. if YOU amount to anything-for some kind of success, commercial or mechan- ical or professional or literary or agri- some one in the twenties without any sort, of ambition, l feel like saying: My friend. you have got on the wrong planet. This IS not the world for you. - --zt-~ kz h. t.x Atrz n Nra you made your choice of poorhouses? You will never 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"
 Advice to the Twenties.
 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 something better. Are you looking for we slth? Well, remember that God con- trols the money markets. the harvests, the droughts, the caterpillars, the To- custs the sunshine, the storm, the land. the sea, and you will get wealth, Per haps 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 appropri- ate anyhow. You cost the Lord great deal To feed and clOthe and shelter you for a lifetime requires big sum of money, and if you get nothing more than the absolute necessities 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 good thing in the crisis of life to have man of large means back you up. It Is great thing to have a monied institution stand behind you in your undertaking. But It is a mightier thing to have God of heaven and earth your coadjutor. and you may have Him. l. 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 ex istence will be affected by those plans. It is about 8 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 silver; Samson judged Israei twenty years; Solomon gave Hiram twenty cit ies the flying roll that Zechariah saw was twenty cubits; when the sailors of the ship on which Paul sailed sounded the Mediterranean Sea, it was twenty fathoms. What mighty things have been done in the twenties! Romulus founded Rome when he was twenty: Keats finish ed life at twenty-five Lafavette was world renowned soldier at twenty threa: : Oberlin accomplished his chief work at i've nty-seven: Sonaparte was victor over Italy at twenty-six; Pitt was Prime Min ister of England at. twenty-two; Calvin had completed his immortal Institutes by the time he was twenty-six; Grotius