The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-01-14

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| That is q very poor comparison, for the
silver and gold in the mine will melt after
| awhile, and be of no more value than the
scoria spit out from Cotopaxi, while these
Jewels Of the soul will exist as long as
there are vases in eternity to hold them,
Might not rather take a pair of scales?
They are rightly adjusted. The two sides
are Just even now. | hold up the balances.
On one side Of that scale l put in simply a
soul. nothing else at all; no trapping, but
simply n naked soul. That Is on one ide
of the balances. On the other side of the
balances | put this world with all its
riches and honors and gains, ponderous
world But that world rises; that side
goes up, while the other side in which
is the soul comes down with ten
thousand million ton weight. 1t Is an
immortal soul, 1t is priceless soul. 1t is
Gagged now. 1t beats sometimes against
the wires of the cage and tries TO escape,
but il can not; but, let once the door OF the
cage be opened the thousaudth part Of an
inch, as it will he after a while opened, let
it he opened ever so little, and that soul
goes out, taking fifty worlds at bound.
o, what shall it profit q man il he gain
the whole world and lose his own soult"
Another arousing consideration l find in
the breyity OF the time in which we have
10 prepare for the next world. How long
il took to complete the East River Bridge!
Twelve or thirteen years. If it it had
taken twenty years from the day the first
foundation stone was laid it would not
have been a great while for SO magnificent
a strusture. How long was st. Peters in
l.. !
And st. Paul's is not done yet. If there is
Il vast work to he done you expect 1t will
take a great while to do it. Now, here,
they tell US, is a temple of holiness to be
built in every mans soul. How long are
you going to give US to build that temple:
A thousand years. 20, no." you say, "you
can't have SO much as that" Nor seven
hundred, nor five hundred, nor three hun
dred, nor two hundred, nor one hundred,
and some of us will not have sixty, and
some of US will not have fifty, and some of
US will not have thirty, and some of us
will not have twenty-so build this great
temple = how vast the work and how
short time there Is to do it!
When will this procession that you see
every afternoon from two to four o'clock,
stop! This long procession going out to-
ward the cemeteries. Not until all these
merchants have gone out of their stores
and all these mechanics have gone out of
their shops, ana all these artists have gone
out of their studios, and all these mothers
have left their cradles, and all this city
shall he emptied of this present population.
The procession will keep going on until
those who are here this night shall have
joined it in silence. o, how brief life is!
We talk about it till it gets a stale truth,
but sometimes God strikes it on the soul
with such vehemsnco that we are reused
up. My brother, missionary in China,
was telling me Of an instrument that they
had at work in China during the insurrec-
ton for the beheaaing of men. He said it
worked "A stroke something like that Undi-
Cating) and at every stroke one life went,
and another, and another. And, thought
to my self, that IS just like the stroke of the
minutes. In just that way the genera
tions pass Off. Certainly, as quickly as
thai. a life-another is gone, and another,
and another. The waves OF humanity
dash up on that other beach in quick sue
cession. Every stroke Of the heart says:
BE quick" The revolution of the sea-
sons: BE quick" The coming of the
morning, the dropping of the night: "Be
quick
Another arousing consideration find in
the glory to be won. Paul was very
fond of comparing the Christian life to a
foot race. Those foot races have gone out
of fashion. But you have seen racing, and
you know that very often the driver and
his horse is influenced by the wager. He
knows whether it is large wager or q
small wager. Two steamers start for
Liverpool, and it is known that the one
that makes the quickest trip gets the job of
carrying the United States mail. viii
not the fact that the contract viii be given
10 the swiftrst vessel somehow influence
the speed Of those ships; Now, say, we
are started in a race, and OagE: no: the
fact that there are vast en- Jlgment-, grea.
gains, crown Of gi1ry thar fadath not
away, before u. DgyE, NJ. thee c1nsid-
eration5 10 inspiri: - b. tbs wayf .,
blessed land. II y1l waf: >::srsi in the
gospel merely a bunch o.: W.tnsfsd fow-
er5-if you were 1lG-r~I merely the dreys
Of . wine cup, you'd no ~ s1rpriasd
if you felt un.ntersated IA the res1lt;
but when / '@!l vra III the ioya tha, ars
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see h1gr v1u can stop a moment IN tins
race. DO MT 1nl-rstan1 why Jon do
not par forth rsdOnb.ed strength that you
may gain the prize.
They .uali munger no more. naitner thirst
any more, neither shall the sun light on
them, nor any heat, for the Llm1 which
Is in the midst Of tie throne shall lead
them to living fountains of water, ana
God ahn}i wipe away all teaTs fr) ON their
eyes"
Best are the SAINTS beloved OF uod,
Washed are their robes in Jesus blood;
Brighter than an tels 10 they shine.
Their glOrIes splendid and sublime.
There is another arousing consideration
in this sub jcct, and that is that so many
have made shipwreck Of their opportunity
who had as good chances as we have. A
man takes a good deal of responsibility
when he says in regard to any one who
goes out of this world: That man is lost"
There is q way of calculating the extinc-
ton of physical life. The physician comes
in, examines the eye, puts his hand under
the arm, feels the pulse, and says: Life is
| extinct; the man il gone" But there is no
such accurate way of deciding in this
world in regard to the death of soul. But
will say t his THAT if you know a man
who lives on without any interest in Jesus
Christ and is careless in regard to his i'm
mortal destiny, and that man lives in that
carelessness all the way long until his last
! hour, and you never hear him say one
| word of penitence or give am
expression of faith or say anything in
regard to the e.2rnal world or
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