The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1885-01-14

Sabbaths and ten thousand opportunities
for usefulness and a million chances of
being made better. but comes to the gate Of
eternity pauper in Christian experience,
and with but one sheaf, though all his life
he was walking in golden harvest fieldsp
You have postponed your higher life until
God tells me you will not come to 1t If you
postpone it any longer. The Kings busi-
ness requires haste.
There is great work of comfort to be
done. II it Is not done speedily 1t will
never be done. Yonder is a heart break
ing. Now is the time to say the healing
word. Go next week with your balsam
and it will not touch the case. A man yon-
der came under your influence, and you
might have captured him for God. You
will never have another chance at him.
| Tomorrow another man will be under
| your influence. You will have but one
opportunity of saving him. 1t may be at
ten O'Clock, at twelve o'clock or at three
o'clock; miss that and you miss 1t for
ever. Do not say: swat until the next
time" Next time will never come. Be
prompt and immediate. The Kings busi-
ness requires haste.
In the city of Basle, Switzerland, IL was
the custom to have all the clocks Of the
city an hour ahead Of time, for the follow
| ing reason: Once an enemy was moving
upon the city, and their stratagem was to
take the city at twelve o'clock, noon; but
the Cathedral clock, by mistake, struck
one instead Of twelve, and so the enemy
thought that they were too late to carry
out the stratagem and gave up the assault
and the city was saved; anil, therefore, IL
wac arranged that for many years the
clock struck one when 1t was twelve and
twelve when it was eleven. o, man and
woman of God, engaged in Christian work,
set your clocks on IL you want to save the
city! Better get to your work too early
than come too late. The Kings business
requires haste.
We ere exercising fatal deliberation.
We sit calmly in church, meditating about
how to save the world. Meanwhile six
millions of people will die this year. You
might start the millennium next year, but it
would do them no good. What you do for
them you will have TO do within a twelve
month. What you do for them you will
have to do this month-aye, this week
Aye, this day. Have you never heard that
a neighbor was sick and said to yourself:
~ must go and talk with him about hi,
soul, for know he is not prepared to leave
the world" But that day you were b ,sy,
and the next you were busy, and the tn rd
day you went TO see him. You pulled the
door-bell, servant came out and you said: (:
"How is he to-day" The answer was:
"He is dead" You say: "It can not be
possible! How long has he been deadS"
She answers: "Five minutes" God have
mercy upon that Christian man who comes
to do his work five minutes too late. The
Kings business requires haste.
Ipray God that my text may be brought
home with special power to those in this
audience who have never yet sought
Christ. As many Of the causes that come
up in court are adjourned, sometimes be-
cause the witnesses are not ready, and
sometimes because the plaintiff is not
ready, and sometimes because the Judge Is
not ready, until the bill'of costs is ruinous
and hard TO pay-so thep are men and
women who have adjourned the cause OF
the souls salvation from youth to middle
life, and adjourned ii from health TO sick
ness, and adjourned 1t from prosperity to
adversely, until there will be an infinite
bill Of costs to pay. o, proc estimating,
celebrating, halting soul Let me tell you
that the Kings business requires haste
Before you attend TO it, your mental fac
ulties may fail. Your intellect works ad-
mirably now, but in this country the ratio
of intellects that are giving out is larger
every year. Something in the climate
urges men ON 10 such extremes, and the
pressure on active men is so great, that
before they are aware OF II the brain soft
ems, or more suddenly the mind drops dead
from its throne.
Pythagoras, studying philosophy was so
anxious to keep awake and improve ell
his time that with a string he tie d the HAIR
OF his head to beam above, so that at the
very moment he nodded in sleep the pain
! would awake him. So there are men now
who have such morbid and unhealthy no.
tiOns about how much work it is necessary
to do that they never take any rest. They
! can not stand the stress. The most brill
liant are in the most peril. What II the
mind, that God has given Yoh for high and
holy uses, should perish before you have
found Christi A heavy fall, an accidental
stroke on the head, a sudden afIiiction for
which you are not ready, may kill your in
tellect, and so your last chance for Heaven
pass away, though you should live on for
/ many year.
In the great populations that occupy the
asylums OF the country, or are carefully
guarded In private dwellings, are hun
dreds Of men and women who expected
some day TO be Christians. They had
abundance OF time, they thought; but
mental disorders dropped upon them be-
fore they hae decided the matter, and,
| although now they are irresponsible and
shall not be brought to account for any
thing they do under this mental eclipse,
yet they shall at last be called into judg-
ment for the long years of mental health
when they neglected the Gospel. What
will become Of them leave you TO Judge.
While your reason acts, put II TO the
grandest use. Look out how you carry
the magnificent torch Of your intellect,
lest God put IL out in darkness forever.
The Kings business requires haste.
/ would have you regard the text, be-
cause Won mav have coma naar to the and