The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-02-17

best time for everything; but were we - wise In
matters of the souls The best time for attending to
time, Because I'm the rst place. the obstseies in
the way augmented instead OF decreased one man
said, III | become q Christian nave got 70 be
transformation as you propose. will wait until
get older and the fires die out and have less
temptation around me, and then / will attend to
the matter, and will ny away from my evil sur
roundings." Did You ever know man to get
away from an evil habit by pursuing lit II you
now had handouts ON your soul, you would have
hOppes added after a WHILE Sin. instead OF re-
taxing its hold ON your soul, would throw out its
graphing hooks upon your immortal nature. II
you could not get away now, how could you expect
to get away after while Another man post
should retire, and in that conviction Mr.. Tamage
said 1t was not more than
ONE MAN IN A THOUSAND
successful that retired, and he generally went TO
destruction through dissipation and the tempta-
tons that came upon man who had nothing 10
do. II you had so much business now that you you
could not think about the things OF the SOUL coulu
you suppose that anywhere in the future tnere
would be a time when your work would Do gone
and your business would be gone, and you could
Sit down calmly and deliberately 10 tnlnk ABOUT
the souls THAT time would never come. To-day Is
also the best time for attending to the things of
the soul. because there Is SO much FOR you TO do.
BE manly in this matter, and A.. now wv wnlle
are being unlimbered and the great conflict Is be-
ing fought between the Church OF Christ and all
that is vile and pr0nigate and aband0ned-dont
you feel now like coming when you can be OF great
servces 1t seems to me that il the men OF the
who have mental acumen would surrender them
selves to Christ and enlist in this service that In
twenty-fv years this whole earth would be re-
deemed and there would not be single temple Of
superstition remaining or one heart unchanged
= Another reason why these things should
not he deferred was that they were so
beautiful and attractive. II becoming reli-
gi0us were like going into dark cave
or being packed with burdens, like a camel fitted
for the DESERT he would say put of religion to the
last hour. But 1t was so unspeakably attractive
you could not AFFORD to postpone it single hour
We had learned that everything OF an earthly
nature is uncertain-life is full of accidents. Why
bit snaps and an axle breaks. and the beautiful
drive through the Park ends In broken bones and
Scared visage and destroyed life. The foot slips
on an orange peel ana the man wastes away with
spinal disease. brick falls from hod and dashes
out life. Unseen weapons fly through the air like
BULLETS AT GETTYSBURG.
II there wers not unseen hands and unseen
shields about US, do you suppose we would have
come up to this hour as we have2 Yet here we are
talking about tomorrow; / can't trust TIT
day, IL We will hear HIS vOce; set this one to-day
against five thousand Tomorrow. am sure that
some will hear that voice; but with Others 1t Will
be different. They will go away unimpressed. Life
will take them on it's bright and beautiful stream,
and they will go on gaiy down amid the nashlng
OF the water and the dripping OF the oars. Gradu-
ally they will get older and the hair will whiten,
and the cup will trembe to the lips. Some morn
ing we will be told that they are dead No Jesus,
no cross no repentance, no pardon-the whole
story told In one short sentence: A lost soul and
an undOne eternity.n