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i’jiWHAT IS YOliH LIFE?
*<><tifl
Dr. Talmage Gives Some Sage
and Christian Adviqe.
IJf«> Devoted to Mere Money (letting
me Jfl t-1 j s Far Short of Bring Ruceess
•fvtfcfl j ful, ant * ® sn Never be •
g *<ltafl Truly Happy One.
md gS
da io fl flu following seiiuou by Rev. T. De*
° U Talu‘ a K e indicates how to live a
that is worth living. It is based
>k o(lK|| the text.
hefitfl tmi is your life Y -Jaiaes lv., 14.
j °f fl if we leave to the evolutionists to
nd ziflncßß where we came from and to the
)t’’eiflheologiaiis to prophesy where we are
to, we still have left for consid*
■ration the important fact that we are
■ trP . There may be some doubt about
whetJ’ liere t,,e r * ver , ' is ‘ es » »•“! Soluu doubt
"Wbout where the river empties, but
‘Bh bqjhrre can be no doubt about the fact
* J *flhst we are sailing on it. So lam not
that everybody asks the
Question: “Is life worth living?”
M »fl Solomon, in his unhappy moment,
Wfl*f s ' l * s not * “Vanity,” “vexation of
rithtßpiriU” “«o good,” are his estimates.
'liunbflhe fact is that Solomon was at one
Mime s polygamist, and that soured his
■“---flaposition. One wife makes a man
M*PP V ’ luore than one makes him
■retched. Hut Solomon was converted
■rum polygamy to monogamy, and the
words he ever wrote, so far as we
. Baa read them, were the words “inoun
10hafl»jQsof spices.” But Jeremiah says
crofofljfe is worth living. In a book sup
rrhiflueed to be doleful, and lugubrious,
bltflgd sepulchral, and entitled “Lamen
ptflations,” he plainly intimates that the
>rk ffllessing of merely living is no great
tunjAnd yraiid a blessing that though a
an Juan have piled on him all misfortunes
akaflnd disasters, he has no right to com*
—Alain. The ancient prophet cries out
startling intonation to all lands and
—-So all centuries. “Wherefore doth a
IN living man complain?”
*■ A diversity of opinion in our time as
■ ell as in olden time. Here is a
,Tnß" lin K uiau light hair and blue eyes
And sound digestion, and generous sal
u|ry, and nappily aflitinced, and on the
>«a<Bray to become a partner in a commer-
firm which he is an important
'■•tfßlerk. Ask him whether life is worth
He will laugh in your face and
Bay: “Yes, yes, yes!” Here is a man
Bvho has come to the 40s. He is at the
■ip-top of the hill of life. Every step
TO-ftas been a stumble and a bruise. The
H>v%B*<’ple he trusted have turned out de-
and the money he has honestly
Ifftt-lnade he has been cheated out of. His
are out tune. He has poor
utt*.Bpi>etite, and the food he does eat
JJJjßoe* no & assimilate. Forty miles
ouHWhinbing up the hill of life have been
ollm|ohim like climbing the Matterhorn,
yjjmnd there are forty miles yet to go
malown, and descent is always more
than ascent. Ask him
Mfßrhether life is worth living, and he
drawl out in shivering and lugu
?ouit and appalling negative: “No,
fact- Bio, no!”
I B How are we to decide this matter
aU< * intelligently? You will
Va|. scud the same man vacillating, oscii
thsßating in his opinion from dejection to
and if he be very mercurial
ninßn Ins temperament it will depend very
jT *Buuch on which way the wind blows,
the wind blow from the northwest.
IthlMnd you ask him, he will say, “Yes,”
H it blow from the northeast, and
tdi Mon ask him, he will say, “No." How
ffijflre we, then, to get the question right
adtwously answered? Suppose we call
nations together in a great conven
ds, Blion on eastern or western hemi-
Mphere, and let all those who are
In- B 11 the affirmative say “Aye,” and all
beißhose who are in the negative say
■ 'No.” While there would be hundreds
itb Bd thousands who would answer in the
Bdlirinative, there would be more mil
■ions who would answer in the nega-
Btive; and, because of the greater num
|bcr who have sorrow, and misfortune,
■and trouble, the “Noes” would have it.
■The answer 1 shall give will be differ
:hilfr n^ro,n either, and yet it will com
itself to all who hear me this day
the right answer. If you ask me,
"’■“ls life worth living?" I answer, it all
0 Bdepends upon the kind of life you live.
In the first place, 1 remark that a
ilf/Blife id mere money-getting is always k
HlFflfai hi re, because you will never get as
Q|l>nuchas you want. The poorest peo
■ple in this country are the millionaires.
■There is not a scissors grinder on the
■streets of New York or Brooklyn who
■ lh so anxious to make money as these
■men who have piled up fortunes year
■after year in storehouses, in govern
■ment securities, in tenement houses,
■‘ n whole city blocks. You ought
■k> see them jump when they
■ hear the fire bells ring. You ought
■bi see them in their excitement
■ when a bank explodes. You ought to
fj■ **'*’ their agitation when there is pro
-.■P'’se<l a reformation of the tariff.
■ I heir nerves tremble like harp strings,
H'fllnit no music in the vibration. They
f'B r *'nd the reports from Wall street in the
U, ■ niorniflig with a concernment that
•■threatens paralysis or apoplexy, or,
j ■more probably, thev have a telegraph
flor telephone in their own house, so
■* catch every breath of change in
j ■ the money market. The disease of ac-
■ finniihition has eaten into them eaten
■‘"to their heart, into their lungs, into
■ their sple(. I1( into their liver, into their
fl belies.
I No the idea of worldly approval. If
■ that be dominant in a man’s life he is
fl U| isern Every four years the two
■ mum unf<.>i lunato men in this country
>rk
tur
an
arc the two men nominated for the
Ihe re#ervoi n» of abuse,
and iiiatnbe. and -malediction gradual
ly till up, gallon above gallon, hogs
head above hogshead, and about mid
summer these two reservoirs will be
brimming full, and a hose will be at
tached to each one. and it will play
away on these nominees, and thev will
have to stand it. and take the abuse,
and the falsehood, and the carica
ture. and the anathema, and the cater
wauling. and the filth, and thev will
lie rolled in it and rolled over and over
in it until they are choked, and sub
merged, and strangulated, and at every
sign of returning consciousness they
will be barked at by all the hounds of
political parties from ocean to ocean.
And yet there are a hundred men to
day struggling for that privilege, and
there are thousands of men who are
helping them in that struggle. Now.
that is not a life worth living. You
can get slandered and abused cheaper
than that! lake it on a smaller scale.
Do not be so ambitious to have a whole
reservoir rolled over on you.
But what you see in the matter of
high political preferment you see in
every community in the struggle for
what is called social position. Tens of
thousands of people trying to get into
that realm, and they are under terrific
tension. What is social position? It is
a difficult thing to define, but we all
know what it is. Good mi rals and in*
telligence are not necessary, but
wealth, or a show of wealth, is abso
lutely indispensable. There are men
to-day as notorious for their libertin
ism as the night is famous for its dark
ness who move in what is called high
social position. There are hundreds
of out-and-out rakes in American so
ciety whose names are mentioned
among the distinguished guests of the
great levees. They have annexed all
the known vices, and are longing for
other worlds of diabolism to conquer.
Good morals are not necessary in many
of the exalted circles of society.
Neither is intelligence necessary.
You find in that realm men who would
not know an adverb from an adjective
if they met it a hundred times a day,
and who could not write a letter of ac
ceptance or regrets without the aid of
a secretary. They buy their libraries
by the square yard, only anxious to
have the binding Russian. Their ig
norance is positively sublime, making
English grammar almost disreputable.
And yet the finest parlors open before
them. Good morals and intelligence
are not necessary, but wealth, or a
show of wealth, is positively indispen
sable. It does not make any difference
how you got your wealth, if you only
got it. The best way for you to get
into social position is for you to buy a
large amount on credit, then put your
property in your wife’s name,
have a few’ preferred creditors,
and then make an assignment*
Then disappear from the commuirity
until the breeze is over, and come back
and start in the same business. Do
you not see how beautifully that will
put out all the people who are in com
petition with you and trying to make
an honest living? How quickly it will
get you into high social position?
What is the use of toiling with 40 or 50
years of hard work when you’ fan by
two or three bright strokes make A’
great fortune? Ah. my friends, when
you really lose your money how quick
ly they will let you drop, and the
higher you get the harder you will
drop.
A life of sin, a life of pride, a life of
indulgence, a life of worldliness, a life
devoted to the world, the flesh and the
devil is a failure, a dead failure, an in
definite failure. 1 care not how many
presents you send to thatcradle, or how
many garlands you send to that grave,
you need to put right under the name
on the tombstone this inscription: “Bet
ter for that man if he had never been
born.”
But I shall show you a life that is
worth living. A young man says: “1
aiu here. lam not responsible for my
ancestry; others decided that 1 am
not responsible for my temperament;
God gave me that. But here I am, iu
the evening of the nineteenth cen
tury, at 20 years of age. lam here,
and I must take an account of slock.
Here 1 have a body which is a di
vinely-constructed engine. 1 must
put it to the very best uses, and I
must allow nothing to damage this
rarest of machinery. Two feet, and
they mean locomotion. Two eyes, and
they mean capacity to pick out my own
wav. Two ears, and they are tele
phones of communication with the out
side world, mid they mean capacity to
catch sweetest music and the voices of
friendship—the very best music. A
tongue, with almost infinity of articu
lation. Yes, hands with which to wel
come or resist, or lift, or smite, or
wave, or bless hands to help myself
and help others.
Here is a world which after 6,000
years of battling with tempest and ac
cident is still grander than any archi
tect, human or angelic, could have
drafted. I have two lamps to light me
—a golden lamp and a silver lamp—a
golden lump set on the sapphire man
tel of the day, a silver lamp set on the
jet mantel of the night. Yea, 1 have
that at 20 years of age which defies all
inventory of valuables —a soul, with
capacity to choose or reject, to re
joice or to suffer to love or to hate.
Plato says it is immortal. Seneca
says it is immortal. Confucius says it is
immortal. An old book among the
family relics -a Book with leathern
cover almost worn out and pages
almost obliterated by oft perusal, joins
the other books in saying 1 a.-j ~n-morlal.
morlal. 1 have eighty years for a life
time, sixty years yet to live. 1 may
not live an hour, but then I must lay
out my plans intelligently and for*
long life. Sixty years added to twenty
1 have already lived, that will bring
me to eighty. 1 must remember
that these eighty years are only
a brief preface to the five hundred
thousand millions of quintillions of
years which will be my chief residence
and existence. Now, I understand my
opportunities and my responsibilities.
If there is any Being iu the universe all
wise and all beneficent who can help a
man in such a juncture, I want Him.
The old Book found among the family
relics tell me there is a God, and that
for the sake of His Son, one Jesus,
He will give help to a man. To
Him 1 appeal. God help me! Here,
I have 00 years yet to do for myself
and to do for others. I must develop
this body by all industries, by all gym
nastics, by all sunshine, by all fresh
air, by all good habits. And this soul
must have swept and garnished, and
illumined, and glorified by all that I
can do for it and all that I can get God
to do for it. It shall be a Luxembourg
of fine pictures. It shall be an orches
tra of grand harmonies. It shall be a
palace for God and righteousness to
reign in. 1 wonder how many kind
words I can utter in the next 00
years? I will try. I wonder how many
good deeds I can do in the next 60
years? I will try. God help me.
That young man enters life. He is
buffeted, he is tried, he is perplexed.
A grave opens on this side and a grave
opens on that side. He falls, but he
rises again. He gets into a hard bat
tle, but he gets the victory. The main
course of his life is in the right direc
tion. He blesses everybody he comes
in contact with. God forgives his mis
takes, and makes everlasting record of
his holy endeavors, and at the close of
it, God says to him: “Well done,
good and faithful servant; enter
into the joy of thy Lord.” My broth
er, my sister, I do not care whether
that man dies at 30, 40, 50, 60, 70 or 80
years of age, you can chisel right un
der his name on the tombstone these
words: “His life was worth living.”
1 would not find it hard to persuade
you that the poor lad, Peter Cooper,
making glue for a living and then
amassing a great fortune, until he
could build a philanthropy which had
its echo in 10,000 philanthropies all
over the country—l would not find it
hard to persuade you that his life was
worth living. Neither would I find it
hard to persuade you that the
life of Susannah Wesley was
also worth living. She sent
out one son to organize Methodism
and the other son to ring his anthems
all through the ages. I would not
find it hard work to persuade you
that the life of Frances Leere
was worth living, as she estab
lished in England a school for the sci
entific nursing of the sick, and then
when the war broke out between
France and Germany went to the front,
and with her own hands scraped
the mud off the bodies of the soldiers
dying in the trenches, and with her
weak arm--standing one night in the
hospital—pushing a German sol-
'dfet to his cou-X ’U ° with
his ° r ,r ’
said: “Let me go, let me iiebe
mutter”—major-generals standinfpC^ci l
to let pass this angel of mercy. u
Neither would 1 have hard work to
persuade you that Grace Darling lived
a life worth living—the heroine of the
lifeboat. Y’ou are not wondering that
the duchess of Northumberland came
up to see her, and that people of all
lands asked for her lighthouse, and
that the proprietor of the Adelphi
theater in Loudon offered her 8100 a
night just to sit in the lifeboat while
some shipwreck scene was being en
acted.
But I know the thought in the minds
of hundreds of you to-day. You say:
“While 1 know all these lived lives
worth living, 1 don’t think my life
amounts to much.” Ah! my friends,
whether you live a life conspicuous or
inconspicuous, it is worth living if you
live aright. And 1 want my next sen
tence to go down into the depths of all
your souls. You are to be rewarded,
net according to the greatness of your
work, but according to the holy in
dustries with which you employed the
talents you really possessed. The ma
jority of the crowns of Heaven will not
be given to people with ten talents, for
most of them were tempted only to
serve themselves. The vast majority
of the crowns of Heaven will be giv
en to people who had one talent, but
gave it ull toGod. And remember that
our life here is introductory to another.
It is the vestibule to the palace; but
who despises the door of a Mag
daline because there are grander glo
ries within? Your life if rightly lived
is the first bar of an eternal oratorio,
and who despises the first notes of
Haydn's symphonies? And the life
you live now is ull the more worth liv
ing because it opens into a life that
shall never end. and the last letter of
the word “time” is the first letter of
the word “eternity.”
MyHticism.
We have swung too faraway from
the old mysticism of the past. There
is mysticism in Christianity, and we
should occasionally get up into the
clouds.—Rev. A. T. Robertson, Baptist,
Louisville, Ky.
YVliat an immense amount of lazinesi
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Georgie Goodthing (slightly embarrassed) —
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