---
title: 'Is Life Worth Living?'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Thomas De Witt Talmage'
date: 1884-08-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Travelogues'
- 'Colonization'
- 'Devotional (General)'
scriptures:
- 'Lamentations 3'
- 'Ecclesiastes 1'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/talmage-1884-is-life-worth-living
---

# Is Life Worth Living?

Features a travel sketch of New Zealand's Canterbury settlement and T. De Witt Talmage's sermon 'Is Life Worth Living?', arguing life’s value depends on character and purpose, not wealth.

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