The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-02-01
DUTIES AND TRIALS
Sermon of DR. Talmage for Persons
of All Ages.
Wholesome Advice to Those IN 'As
Twentie. m Well as Those wn'
Have Reached the Allotted
Three score and Ten.

copyright, 1902, BY Louis klopsch' ~ Il
Washington,
.Trom an unusual standpoint DR..
Talmage in this discourse AT .ne
| duties and trials which belong to the
| different decades of human life; text
Psalms 30: 10: 1.-The days Of our years
are threescore years and ten.
The SEVENTEEN milestone OF lie Is
here planted as at the end of the jour-
new. A few go beyond it. Multitudes
never reach it. The oldest person OF
modern times expired at 169 years. "A
Greek of the name Of Stravaride lived
to 1872 years. An Englishman OF h
name of Thomas .Parr lived l52 years.
Before the time of Moses people hVeu
$50 years, and if you go FAR enough
back they lived 900 years. Weii' ina.
was necessary, because the story %
the world must come down by traul-
ton. and it needed long life safely to
transmit tie news of the past. Ii the
generations had been short hVed' the
story would SO often have changed
lips that it might have got all astray.
But after Moses began to write IL
down and parchment told it from CEN
fury to century it was not necessary
that people live so long IN order 10
, authenticate the events OF the past.
, If in our time people lived only 20
/, wears. that would not affect history,
since it is put in print and is no longer
+, dependent on tradition. Whatever
!, your age. l will to-day directly ad-
dress YOU, and l shall speak to those
who are in the twenties, the thirtles,
= the fortics, the %fifties, the SIXTIES ana
! to those who are in the seventies and
a beyond.
First. then, l accost those of you
who are in the 'twentles. You are
full of expectation. You are amoi-
tious-that is, if you amount to any
thing-for some kind of success, com
mercial or mechanical or professional
II or literary or agricultural or social OF
moral. If | find someone in the TWEEN
ties without any sort of ambition, !
feel like saying; my friend yo'
- have got on the wrong planet. This
a. is not the world for you. You ar
1t going to be in the way. Have yo'
70 made your choice of poorhouses
TX u gu Will never NC dOiS w Boy 80 49,
IN cradle. Who is going to settle 10
is your board? There is u mistake abou
ID the fact that you were born at all"
lie But, s~upposing you have ambition
TT let me say to all the twenties, expec
everything through divine manipul;
no ton, and then you will get all yo
Nv want and something better. Are 20
ID. looking for wealth. Well, remembe
he that God controls the money market
rs the harvests, the droughts, the cate
pillars, the l~ocusts, the sunshine, IL
re- storm, the land, the sea, n you w
ill get wealth. Perhaps not that whie
ill is stored up in the banks, in safe d
or. deposits, in United States %securitie
90 in houses and lands, but your clothiI
and board and shelter, and that
nv about all you can appropriate an
,s;. how. You cost the Lord a great DEF
!. To feed and clothe and shelter "
for a lifetime requires a big sum
money, and if you get nothing mo
than the absolute necessities you g
an enormous amount of supply. L
pect as much as you will of any XII
of success, if you expect it from
Lord you are safe. Depend on a
FL other resource, and you may be bat
chagrined, but depend on God and
will be we'll. 1t is a good thing in
crisis of life to have a man of lal
" means back you up. 1t is a great tn
to have a m%oneyed institution sta
behind you in your undertaking. ]
the it is a mightier thing to have the {
5 of of heaven and earth your coadjut
pos and you may nave Him. am so G
lem that l met you while you are IN
r as twenties. You are laying OUT y
rub plans, and all your life in this we
the and the mex for five hundred mil
the years of your existence will be aft
foot ed by those plans. 1t is about q
face o'clock in the morning of your
and you are just starting out. w
dy. way are you going to start? Oh,
twenties!
Twenty" is a great word in
- Bible. Joseph was sold for 20 pi
of silver; Samson judged Israe
years; Solomon gave Hiram 20 eli
- the flying roll that Zechariah
. was 90 cubits; when the sailors o.
ship on which Paul sailed sounded
Mediterranean sea, it was 20 faith
What mighty things have been do
the twenties! Romulus fou
Rome when he was 20; Keats fini
life at 25; Lafayette was a wor
nowned soldier at 30; Oberlin &C
plished his chief work at 81;
parte was victor over Italy at 20
vas prime minister OF England
Calvin had completed his imm
Institutes" by the time he wa
jrotius was attorney general. a
Some of the mightiest things TO,
and eternity have been done j
twenties. AS long as you can Pr
figure 2 before the other figure
helps describe your age l have
hopes about you. Look out fol
figure .. Watch its continuance
as much earnestness as you
watched anything that promise
- salvation or threatened you d
peers ton. What a critical time-the