Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-02-14
Sending fur the Sabbath.
CONDUCTED BY
REV. ROBERT LATHAM.
LIFE.

word life. Since man is an immortal being
it is common to speak of "this life" and the
sslife which is to come" Of the life which is
to come, we know nothing, except what is re,
vealed to US in the Bible. From our birth
to our death, constitutes what is called this
life. This period, even when prolonged to
the greatest length, is by no means long.
From the cradle to the grave is usually meas
ured by few summers. Helpless infancy,
romping childhood, sturdy manhood and de,
crepid old age, are separated by only few
years. These several stages of human life are
interlocked so closely that they seem almost
to be blended into one. Few, however, of the
human family are permitted to pass through
all these stages. This life terminates, in
countless instances, in the first stage. The
grave opens it's Unsuitable mouth and swallows
up countless numbers of tender babes A
few pass through infancy and depart ere
childhood is completed. The path of life is
trodden by only few whose locks have been
whitened by three-score and ten winters
Notwithstanding the fearful shortness of
human life, a multitude of tragical events
are crowded into it. The fact that death
preys upon the human family, proves that the
human family are sinners. This same hum
bling thought is pressed upon the mind, by
the fact that the few days which we are per-
mitted to spend this side of the grave, are
full of misery. In no way can we account for
the amount of misery that is in this world,
but by adopting the teachings of the Bible
on this subject. 1t is an evil and bitter thing
that we have done in SHINING against God.
There is no perhaps or peradventure on this
point. We know that it is bitter thing to
sin against God. The poor man and the rich
man, both alike, feel the bitter effects of sin.
The highest official and the most obscure beg
gar are tormented. "How comes it to pass" !"
asks Latin poet, "that no man lives con-
tented p The Bible replies: because all
have sinned and come short of the glory of
God" No sin, no death, no misery, are in
separable concomitants. Sin, misery and
death entered the world at the same moment !;
and clasped in each others mutual embrace,
they cross this earth's wide plains, climb her
towering mountains, and sweep over her
broad oceans Wherever there is human
being there is sin in the heart of that being,
misery in its life, and death lowering over it.
When we contemplate Lazarus full of
sores, dragging out a miserable existence on
crumbs, we are apt to conclude that only he
and others like him, ara miserable Such,
however, is not the case. The rich are not
exempt from trouble. Man is born to trouble
as the sparks fly upward. By law Of ma
ture, all sparks fly upward; so by law of
God, all men are troubled. The penal de-
mands of the holy law which they have bro
ken trouble them. From Gods angry pres
ence they cannot escape. They may take the
wings of the morning and flee to earth's re-
motest corner, but from themselves they can
not flee. Wide oceans and broad continents
may separate them from the scenes of their
childhood and companions Of by-gone days,
but from Gods presence they cannot hide
themselves.
Such is human life. Robert Burns says
man was made to mourn. This is not true.
It is an undeniable fact that mans life pre-
sents miserable spectacle of sorrow, disap-
pointment, grief and anguish. His body is
full of pains and his affections are estranged
from God, bis maker. Still, God did not
make man to mourn. Had man not sinned,
he would not, to-day, be miserable mourner.
The remedy for the ills of human life is the
atoning blood of Jesus Christ and the sancti-
flying spirit of God. To Danish the SORROWS
and dissipate the ills of life, various are the
remedies resorted to. All, however, save
that which God has provided, are vain. They
only make bad worse. Perfect happiness is
not attainable in this world. There is no
pure, unadnltered happiness this side Of
heaven, because there is no man that liveth
and sinneth not. The essential element of
the bliss of heaven is the sinless character of
its inhabitants. They are literally Saved to
sin no more"
1t is surely most marvellous thing that
since we all see that the way of the trans,
gressor is hard, we still persist in violating
Gods law. To obey is better than sacrifice.
To fear God and keep his commandment,
constitutes the whole duty of man. This is
the fountain from which flow streams of JOY
and bliss.
CONTINUOUS PRovIDENCE.--Prov
has no Sabbath. No night suspends it; and
from its labors God never rests. If may
compare small things with great, it is like
the motion of the heart Beating our march
to the grave, since the day we began to live,
tho hoart has never ceased To heat Our