Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1885-09-10
No. q.

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ways responsible for the influence We. exert
in forming the character Of thp.c about US
If"each particle mattcrcxcrle an influence
on every other particle in the universe of
God however far distant with how much
greater force ay,,the ssmc be affirmed
of mind. \ trlling thought, an IDLE word,
and Indifferent act may he the work Of sec
ond Init who can tell fill The day Of Judge
mcnt, what miSchicf may have been wrought
in some othcr mind or in tho,sunds;of other
minds immortal like our own. A single
noxious weed standing in field ls~a harm
less tSing. 1t nray be pluckcI up the root
and burned SO that it will bear no harvest.
But lc; il stand and it soon ceases to be u
single weed. The wind watts its seeds to-
another field, and thence to arfothet, and an
other. till the one noXioGs plant becomes q
! hundred millions and spreads over state or
a continent. So one wicked parent may
! spread his bdncfui influence through twenty
generations of his descendants. Son Of
these may spread it around the globe and
! thcy may all feel it through everlasting ages
| BIT while YOU may pull out and prevent the
harvest of Il noXious weed, you never can
| prevent tire Influences Of a wicked act. It's
harvest i@ inevitable, An idle thought once
INDUCED can never ne banishel into oblv
! ion. 1t has left an impress upon the soul
which eternity itself can never clFace. An
unkind word once spoken can ncvc. be un-
spoken. The ears into which it has fallen
are scattered around the world or perhaps
| have gone the way Of all the earth to yield
! It's eternal fruit The remembrance of its
harsh sound may continue to- add Giscorl to
the waiiin%s Of many lost souls forever. \
! th0u~htIc>S act once done cannot be recalled
| 1t may b, forgiven vet lis harvest of natur-
| III consequences may prove c0"tcsna with
! toA himself.
| Ga the other hand the example Of ono
! pioUs individual or lhc influence Of one good
Thought or word or deed may I've attended
, wt,, unspctkaha benefits to the world
I Wno can estimate the influence Of 4 Cnlvan
! Knox, Edwards or lIowArls?
How much have they changed our moral
condition, the state Of the church, and thois-
! sues Of til" final Judgement. Had the little
corrDany that landed on Plymouth Rock
been all atheists who would ever have seen
our country with its Christian schools and
COLLEGES, its thousands Of churches and pas
tors and its tcnS-ot-thousands who have been
redeemed from spiritual death ?
Our relations to eternity should teach Ms
the true value of time In our whole
I immortal existence no period is SO
! important as this short life. O who
can look down through eternal ages
an remember tina, he and all around him
are forming character for endless being
and not feel the awful importance of this
sccAiimo period This is oar ownlv proba-
/ lionarv period in a few days our bodies
/ will rrJ;nbc to dusti and even the world
| which We inhabit with all its generations,
and all the pagcantry Of Iss false glory, IS
! passing away.
"What does not fade ? The tower that long
had stood,
The crush Of thunder and the warning winds
The tlmy pyramids and walls of bass,
| Fall by the slow but sure destroyer, Time;
/ Achaia, Rome and Egypt mooldcr down;
| And ri these worlds that roll around the sun
The sun hinis"lf-shan die"
Yet every man and woman and child in
| this congregation has Il soul that shall not
! die and in its consequences every action OF
/ that soul is ctrrnal and the dcSinies of each
| soul must hc fixed in the present life life
so uncertain that none can tell "what day
may bring FORTH so fleeing that "it vanish
cs like shudow;' trail that it breaks, like
the spider web, at the touch, yet on this lit
| tie span of probation the welfare of our
whole Immortality is at stake. "lt is ap-
pointed unto men 0ncs to die, and after
death the Judgement" This stamps value
on time surprising all conception. 1t is our
season for doing a great work a work that
must be done in few days or never Thea
| what shall the harvest be?
con, what shall the harvest be?
/ SoNn in the darkness or sown in the light,
Sown in oar weakness or sOwn in onr might
Gathered in time or ctcrity
What O, what shall the harvest be-