The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1902-01-31
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
DUTIES AND TRIALS OF THE DIFF
FERENT DECADES OF LIFE.
All tho Years of Man Contradictions
of the TwentIes and Thirties Should
BE Crowned with Splendid Reward
In tho Seventies.

Copyright 1902, Louis Klopsch, N. "
Washington, Jan. 26.-From an I'M
usual standpoint DR.. Talmage in this
discourse looks at the duties and trials
which belong to 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 Is
here planted as at the end Of the jour
ney. A few go beyond it. Multltudes
never reach it. Whatever your age,
will to-day directly address you, and
/ shall speak to those who are in the
twenties, the thirties, the forties, the
1lfties, the sixties, and to those who are
in the seventies and beyond.
First, then, accost those of you
who are in the twenties You are full
of expectation You are ambitious
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. II
l find some one in the twenties with
out any sort of ambition, l 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 for your board?
There is a 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 you
want and something better. Are you
looking for wealth? Well, remember
that God controls the money markets,
the harvcsts, 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-
posts, in United States securities, in
houses and lands, but your clothing
and board and shelter, and that is
about all you can appropriate anyhow.
You cost the Lord great deal. To
feed and clotho and shelter you for
lifetime requires 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 sue
cess, IL you expect it from the Lord
you are safe. Depend on any other re-
source, and you may be badly cha
grired, but depend on God and all will
be we'll.
Some of the mlghtiest things for God
and eternity have been done in the
twenties. As long as you can put the
figure 2 before the other figure that
helps describe your age | have high
hopes about you. Look out for that
figure 2. Watch its continuance with
as much earnestness as you ever
watched anything that promised you
salvation or threatened you demoli-
ton. What critical time-the TWEEN
ties While they continue you decide
your occupation and the principles by
which you will be guided; you make
your most abiding friendships; you ar
range your home life; you fix your
habits. Lord God Almighty, for Jesus
Christ's sake, have mercy on all the
men and women in the twenties!
Next | accost those in the thirties.
You are at an age when you find what
a tough thing 1t is to get recognized
and established in your occupation or
profession. In some respects the hard
est decade of life is the thirties, be-
cause the results are generally so far
behind the anticipations. Nine-tenths
of the poetry of life has been knocked |
out of you since you came into the
thirties. Men in the different profess
sions and occupations saw that you
we're rising, and they must put an es-
TOPPED on you, or you might somehow |
stand in the way. They think you
must be suppressed.
From thirty to forty is an especially
hard time for young doctors, young
lawyers, young merchants, young
young mechanics, young min
sters. The struggle of the thirties is
or honest and helpful and remunera-
i've recognition. But few old people
Know how to treat young people with
1ut patronizing them on the one hand
Or snubbing them on the other
Oh, the thirties! Joseph stood before
Pharaoh at thirty; David was thirty
vears old when he began to reign;
he height of Solomon's temple was
hirty cubits; Christ entered upon his
lctive ministry at thirty years of age;
Judas sold him for thirty pieces of
liver. Oh, the thirtiesi What a
word suggestive of triumph or disas-
er!
Next l accost the forties. Yours is
he decade of discovery. l do not
mean the discovery OF the outside, but
he discovery of yourself. No man
.nows himself until he is forty. BY
hat time he has learned what he can