The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-06-27
OF
LIFE, HOW TO
MAKE IT LAST
INTERESTING SERMON DELlV-
Erred BY REV. EUGENE r. PEN
pLEToN AT THE FIRST BAPTIST
CHURCH SUNDAY NIGHT.

"The Sweet Springtinle of Life-How
70 Make 1t Last" was the supJect Oh
the sermon of Rev. Eugene R. Pendle-
ton at the First Baptist church sun
day night. He said, in part:
''VVhen youth and health flow In enc |
veins and quicken the pulse, and the
elastic step and firm muscles InclIne
one to play, as the lambs on the green
when the earth is carpeted with now
ers, and the intoxicating perLune a.
nature fills the soul, whilst the plros
xvarbla sweet songs, and all animated
beings seem to be young and enjoy
ING a honeyrnoorl, then it Is that the
Young mans fancy lightly turns 70
thoughts of love" and he, too, feeis tnat
there Is eternal spring In his heartr
tbet all the earth was made for him.
and that he must have his play. IL ls
his time of day dreaming, sweet ELY
stan sprfngtine Of youth. 1t is as
much q gift of God as the warple Oh
the birds throat or the purrlnB IN
stinct IN the kittens paw. Tne boy
t'Irns 10 somersault, throws stone,
whistles. all unconscious OF anything
save the ioy Of living. Nature Is sing
ing a fine oratorio in his soul.
what a pity it can not last forever.
this halcyon time OF YOUTH But VIVA
AZ fell YOU II can last? IL is apso
I1,telv false and wrong to make a hard
and fast line of separation petWeen
youth and age, and say that on one
side lies all play, and on the other all
work: or, on one side all wisdom ana
soberness and on the otner an Ioly
and frivolity. 1t is a false distlnctlon
and cannot be proven true. All WIS
dom Is not confined to gray hairs
neither is all folly confined to YOUTH
Trhis chasm between the old and the
young really does not exist.
some of the WORLDS nooiest anu
Greatest have not been youths of folly
S,,+ vo,Iths of earnestness and thought
fitness. Alexander conquered the World
at thfrtv-three Don John, OF Austria,
was only twenty-fi five when ne won the
battle OF Lepanto. Napoleon was en-
peror of France at thirty-three. Cor
tez was barely over thirty When nc ne
made a conquest of Mexico. Joan OF
Arc was only twenty when burned at
the stake for her convictions
am this portrait gallery of fame are
shakespeare's ideal women, Desde-
mona, Portia, Miranda, mere girls II
their teens.
fame. and you find the same starting
thing is true. Joseph was only thirty
David was only boy when made KING
Solomon was but as child. Paul,
Jesus. and the other apostles were
voune men of about thirty. Luther
was thirty-five when he defied Rome.
Athanasius was only young man
when he stood up against the world
for the divinity of Christ, and won.
Miriam, Ruth. Esther, were all just
girls.
youth. then, is not time Of folly,
OF wild cat sowing. The productive
period is under thirty or forty. Most
that is done is done under thirty.
Youth is a formative period. and
should it be a time of squandering!
Far from it. Better far to let old age
be a time of folly when life Is all
shaped and the work is done. not youth
Just at the threshold Of the golden pal
ace.
A Disastrous Business.
wild oats sowing is the most DIS
astrous business, Among our yours
people of today this needs to be en-
graved upon the memory with instru
ments of steel, Whatsoever ma
soweth that shall he also reap Ine.
is a law like the law of gravity. So.Iie
debts may be avoided but nature ~ n
lects all her bills. This means tna' he
q young man sows to the fesn, Tee |
reaps early decay, poor health, aoof
plans, and premature old age see
These ugly old lives that you opce
about you, lid you ever think ina ives
these were beautiful young. fresh one
like a clean page on which eSS1id Won
must write his word or two? ~ ~ de-
crepitude and early decline an vro,ItI17
retirement was due to folly Hhat peo-
mean in respectable circlessn what
pie in good families are reap.h a funer-
they sowed. 1 have been 81 IN middle
ais OF many men VINO because thay
were whiskey drinkers N : after hor-
man is about to lose I'M whiskey
rible suffering from beinss its worst
drinker. This habit br11lnaeonIe who die
reward in middle life. - you knew the
from sudden diseases, u are reaping
Wnote history per groouth. know an
what they sowed in " e. stained with
old man whose beard lsheIes tba rot
nicotine, and he fairly zee the weed in |
son, who continues % early an age.
excess and is at IUO The cigarette
a hopeless old ma ma, not be the bust
smokers OF today ."rrow because. like
ness men OF Nc. Wv VII tali before they
are ripe. The sens - the world hut
ter into the affair take a hack seat
will soon have or Incorporate. or
No animal rnamhs. s ever made good in
prodigal YOUTH ing exceptions only
life. The seehnd there will be fewer
prove the rule antions tomorrow than
and fewer exec lust as there will be
there are todass,,, cceed in future with
fewer men tootion than have been in
out an educ
the past. - Us TO BE Happy.
Wars ,,s 10 be happy but He
God w,ann.ned that youth and hap
has so plan,5 last. He wants us to use
piness shog9olSg rInent as not to spoil that
which Is 70 enjoying life is greater.
capacity ig being equal, in middle life
ali Things Then it is the powers
than neeia,r best, the Judgment tempers