The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-26

their pu!leys and tugs will have done their work
and heaven and earth will hear the cry: she
foatsi She floats lam glad that in such a
pleasant world the heavenly shepherd makes his
flocks to rest at noon.
But having told you how life seems to me as
stand on the hilltop of my journey. You want
to know how 1t seems to me when look back
and when / look forward. The first thirg
traveller does after getting to hill top and hav-
ing recovered his breath, is to- look all around
about him, and he says: There is the winding
road by which came up and yonderi is the wind
ing road by which shall go down." So put
my outspread hand to my forehead 70 shade my
eyes from the monday sum- and to concenter
my vision and look toward the road have al
ready travelled, and 10 see way down in the dim
distance at the start of the journey something
quite small and it trembles. and vibrates and
rocks. Ah yes! | guess what 1t is. l know
what it is. cradle! Then turn and look at
the road descending the hill and still keep my
outspread hand TO my forehead so as to shade
my eyes from the MONDAY sun. and concenter
my vision and see something at the foot OF the
road / am yet TO travel That something neither
trembles, nor vibrates, nor rocks 1t is perfectly
still. 1t is white, and the ground about it is
little raised. All, yes! guess what it is. know
what it is. A grave! What have learned by
the journey up hilll
First-That nothing is accomplished without
hard work My life has been prosperous to the
last degree. but have not had any good luck.
] have heard people talk about streak of good
luck. / never in my life had one streak of good
luck. But have had good God watching me,
and helping and guiding me, and correcting my
mistakes; and when l worked hard He blessed
me, and when | was lazy He did not bless me.
Whether my work has amounted to anything
not must leave others to judge, but for the last
thirty years have worked up TO my full capaci-
ty OF endurance, and If have gone away to rest
it was merely to get ready to work, and this
work all accomplished against the full protest OF
my nature, for am naturally the LATEST man
that was ever born. But am as afraid of indo-
lence as any reformed inebriate was afraid
of the wine-cup. He knows that one glass would
fling him back into nebriacy. and if. should
take one good long pull at nothing to do, / fear
would stop forever Young man just starting in
life, give you my solemn testimony that moth
ing is accomplished without hard work, continu-
GUS work, everlasting work.
LINKS IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE.
have also learned in my journey up the hill
that all the events of ones life are linked to-
gether. The chain Of life is made up of great
variety of links-long links and small
links. iron links, gold links, beautiful
links, ugly links solemn links, and
mrthful links-but they are all part Of one chain
of destiny. The minute made up of sixty links
| The day made up of twenty-four links. The
| year made up of 365 links. And all these are
| fastened in an endless chain, which works and
| slips through the hand of an all governing God
| No one event set apart from other events Peo-
| pie say 1T is my day off. /" You never have a
| day off. Nothing is of. In the last century a
| shoemakers son puts down a bundle of SHOES by
! the roadside to study flower of the field, and
| put in his hat for preservation moth .hat he
wants more deliberately to study. You say:
| ''Who cares for anything as unlmportant as
| thatl" You will care for it when tell you that
that was the dawn of life which was afterwards
! to translate the Bible into thirty versions, and
| become the greatest of Oriental linguists; the
governments of tho earth compelled to reverence
| the name of William Carey. straight line of
| events from the shoeInakers boy examining a
| weed by the roadside to the world renowned
Christian scholar.
| An American clergyman had son, Adoni-
| ram, of wonderful brightness. The father used
| to pat him on the head and say: "Adonrafn you
| will be a great man YETI and the boy was
| spurred on in his ambition. and studied Latin
| until he was called "Old Virgil dug up" The
| brightest worldly prospects opened before him.
| but one day the boy came across a book entitled
Embassy to Aba" and it revolutOnzed all his
thoughts and he resolved to become mission
airy to Burmah after awhile the family were
discussing the worldly prospects of this in
his presence The father said: ''Adoniram, DR..
| Griffin has been here to-day wanting you to be-
come his colleague in Boston," and the mother
and sister were congratuiating themselves that
| they would have Adoniram so near homo. Then
he told them of the book he had read, and Of the
fact that he was going to spend his life preaching
| Christ III dark and cruel Burmah. The boy IS
| picking up that one book seemed to be an insig-
nifcant event, but it began the glorious career
| of AdOniram Judson.
So, in all your lives, the insignificant is the
momentous, and matters that seemed of no &C
count decide for all of us our temporal and
| eternal destiny. and your coming here this morn
/ ing which was perhaps not long premedltated,
and accidental, you think, is of more i'm
| portance to you than any event in the last ten
centuries or the final destruction of the world,
because it is going to decide where you will be
after ali the worlds shall be demolished, some
by collision and some by explosion, some by
| fracture and some by cyclone, some by frost and
| some by CONGREGATIONAL gone but two ard
| those two rolling on, the through cycles and
| mmensities of rapture, and the other rolling on
| through cycles and immensities of pang; rolling
| up rolling up; rolling down, rolling down; two
| wordS-the one a charred and the other an
! rradiated sphericty.
| If you continue to ask me how the past appears
to me, reply, it appears like four five picture
! galleries running into each other; Dussel dorf
| Louvre, Luxembourg, their corridors ad-
| joining Boyhood gallery, church gallery, home
| gallery
In the ooyhood gallery are the faces of school
| mates and college mates Il shut my eyes and
my memory walks through that gallery / See
them now flying kites, playing bali. trundling the
| hoop, ranging the woods for nuts, coasting the
hill side or later, with me bending over lexicols
| and algebras and trig0nometries. The most of
these companions are departed large number
of those WHO not positively Christian, died
despated and persisted III SIN before thirty
years of age Tie winesup with its sharp edge
cut the jugalar vein of their immortal soul
Poor fellowsl They tried the word without
God and the world slew them. Splendid fell
lows! What foreheads for brain! What muscle
| for strength! And what endearine letters they
got from home and how they carried off the
bouquets ON commencement day; but they made
the terrific the fatal mistake of thinking religion
superhuity, and they are in the picture gallery
NOT 80 much as canvas as scuipture-Laocoons
wrthing and struggling in vain until muscles
snap and eyes start from their sockets amid
the crushing folds of horrors, serpentine and
CHASTITY. Satan hath a fastidious appetite, and
he filings the naturally vulgar into the trough to
fatten his swine, but says: Bring to my golden
plate the clearest brain. and the gentlest heart,
and the finest nature. / relish delicate morsels
For such viands have keenest appetite and my
| knife cuts through the fluscousness. Pour into
| my chaiee the richest blood of my victims