The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1902-02-27
DUTIES AND TRIALS
Sermon of. DR. Talmage for Persons
of All Ages.

| wholesome> Advice to Those in the
| Twenties as Well as Those who
| Have Reached the Allotted
| Three Score and Ten.
| Copyright 1902, by Louis Klopsch. N "
| Washington.
From an unusual standpoint DR..
Talmage in this discourse looks at the
duties and trials which belong to the
different decades of human life; text,
Psalms 9O:10: "The days Of our years
are threescore years and ten."
| The seventieth milestone of life is
here planted as at the end of the jour
ney. A few go beyond it. Multitudes
never reach it. The oldest person of
modern times expired at 1863 years. A
Greek of the name of Stravaride lived
| to 1872 years. An Englishman of the
name of Thomas Parr lived 152 years.
Before the time of Moses people 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 tradi-
ton, 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 told it from CEN
tury to century it was not necessary
that people live SO long in order to
authenticate the events of the past.
1t in our time people lived only %
years, that would not affect history
since it is put in print and is no longer
dependent on tradition. Whatever
your age. I will to-day directly ad-
dress you, and I shall speak to those
who are in the twenties, the thirties,
the forties, the fifties, the sixties, and
to those who are in the seventies and
beyond.
! First, then, l accost those of you
! who are in the twenties. You are
full of expectation. You are ambi-
tious-that is, if you amount to any
thing-for some kind of success, com.
mercial or mechanical or professional
or literary or agricultural or social OF
moral. If 1 find someone in the TWEEN.
ties 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 settle TO,
J your board? There is mistake about
the fact that you were born at ALL
But, supposing you have ambition
let me say to all the twenties, expect
. everything through divine manipula
ton, and then you will get all yor
, want and something better. Are you
! looking for wealth? Well, remember
that God controls the money markets
the harvests, the droughts, the cater
, pillars, 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 de
; deposits, in United States securities
in houses and lands, but your clothing
| j
about all you can appropriate any
| how. You cost the Lord great deal
To feed and clothe and shelter yo,
, for a lifetime requires a big sum O
money, and if you get nothing more
than the absolute necessities you ge
. an enormous amount of supply. Elk
pect as much as you will of any kint
| rNf 4 I,
Lord you are safe. Depend on an,
, other resource, and you may be badl,
chagrined, but depend on God and al
will be well. 1t is agood thing in th'
crisis of life to have a man of larg.
means back you up. 1t is great thins
to have a moneyed institution stant
behind you in your undertaking. Blu
it is mightier thing to have the Go,
of heaven and earth your coadjutor
) and you may have Him. am so gla.
l that met you while you are in tn,
. twenties. You are laying out you
, plans, and all your life in this worl.
5 and the next for five hundred million
, years of your existence will be affect
; ed by those plans. It is about eigh
| y SlOSh III eAC AAOA A1uk VI yOuI ult
, and you are just starting out. Whicl
, way are you going to start? Oh, tn
twenties!
Il Next I accost those in the thirties
You are at an age when you find wha
! tough thing it is to get recognized
! and established in your occupation o
!, profession. Ten years ago 20,
! thought all that was necessary fo
!, success was to put on your shuttle
) the sign of physician or dentist o
. attorney or broker or agent and yo7
would have plenty of business. How
many hours you sat and waited TO
business, and waited in vain, thre
. persons only know-God, your wifi
!. and yourself. In commercial life yo'
: have not had the promotion an
: the increase in salary you antici
!. pated, or the place you expected t
occupy in the firm has not been va
Gated. The produce of the farm wit
which Won expected to support youI