The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-05-27


he could not continue TO live ct the same
ratio. They saw the wisen and paralytic
bankers who had changed their souls into
molten gold stamped with the image Of
the earth, earthly. They saw some great
souls by avarice turned into homunculi,
and they said to themselves: II will seek
after higher treasure" From that time
they did not care whether they walked or
rode u Christ walked with them; nor
whether they lived in a mansion or hut
II they dwelt under the shadow Of the AL.
mighty; nor whether they were robed in
French broadcloth or In q homespun IL they
had the robe Of the Saviour's righteous.
ness; nor whether they were sandaled with
morocco or calfskin IL they were washed
with the preparation of the gospel. Now
you see peace ON their countenancs. Now
that man says.
"What fool was to be enchanted with
this world Why, have more satisfac-
ton in FIVE minutes In the service Of God
than had in all the first years Of my life
while was gain getting. like this even
ing of my day great deal better than I
did the morning. In the morning l
greedily devoured the prey; but now it 10
evening, and am gloriously dividing the
SPOIL"
NY friends, this world 10 poor thing to
hunt. 1t Is healthful to 60 out in the woods
and hunt. It rekindles the luster Of the
eye. 1t strikes the brown of the autumnal
leaf into the cheek. 1t gives to the
rheumatic limbs a strength to leap like the
roe. Christopher North's pct gun, the
muckle-mouthed Meg, going of in the
summer in the forests, had its echo
in the winter time in the eloquence that
rang through the university hall Of Edin.
burg. 1t 10 healthy to 60 hunting in the
field: but tell you that II 10 belittling and
bedwarfng and belaming for a man to
hunt this world. The hammer comes down
ON the gun. cap and the barrel explodes
and kills you instead of that which you
are pursuing. When you turn out to hunt
the world, the world turns out to hunt
you; and as many a sportsman aiming his
gun at panther's heart has gone down
under the striped claws, so while you have
been attempting to devour this world. the
world has been devouring you. So it was
with Lord Byron. So 1t was with Cole.
ridge. SO it was with Catherine of Rus
STA. Henry II. went out hunting for this
world and its lances stuck through his
heart. Francis I. aimed at the world, but
the assassin's dagger put an end to his
ambition and his life with one stroke.
Mary, Queen of Scots, wrote ON the win.
dow of her castle:
From the top Of all my trust
Mishap hath laid me In the dust
The Queen dowager of Navarro was Of.
Tered for her wedding day a costly and
beautiful pair of gloves, aud she put them
on, but they were poisoned gloves and they
took her life. Better bare hand of cold
privation than warm and poisoned glove
of ruinous success.
"Oh," says some young man in the au.
dience, II believe what you are preaching.
am going to do that very thing. In the
morning of my life am going to devour
the prey, and in the evening shall divide
the spoil of Christian character. 1 only
want little while to SOW my wild oats
and then l will be good"
Young man, did you ever take the cen.
sus of all the old people! How many old
people are there in your house! One, two
or nonef How many in vast assemhlage
like this? Only here and there a bald
head, like the patches of snow here and
there in the fields on a late April day.
The fact is that the tides Of the years are
so strong that men 60 down under them
before they get to be sixty, before they
get to be fifty, before they get to be forty,
before they get to be thirty; and il you
my young brother, resolve now that you
will spend the morning of your days In
devouring the prey, the probability is that
you will never divide the spoil in the eve.
ming hour.
He who postpones until old age the reli.
gion Of Jesus Christ, postpones 1t forever
Where are the men who, thirty years ago
resolved to become Christians in old age
putting it of certain number of years
They never got to be old. The railroad
collision or the steamboat explosion or the
slip on the ice or the falling ladder OF thu
sudden cold put an end to their opportuni'
ties. They have never had an opportunity
since and never will have an opportunity
again. They locked the door of HEAVIER
against their soul and they threw away
the key, and If they could now break jai
ana come up shrieking to this audience
not do think they would take two minutes
to persuade US all to repentance. They
chased the world and they died in tn
chase. The wounded tiger turned on them
They failed to take the game that the!
pursued. Mounted on q swift courser the,
leaped the hedge, but the courser fell OF
them and crushed them. Proposing Il
barter their soul for the world, they los
both and got neither.
While this Is an encoura cement to oil
people who are yet unpardoned, it Is n
| encourag cement to the young who are put
ting off the day Of grace. This doctrin
that the old may be repentant Is to b
taken cautiously. Il IL medicine that kill
or cures. The same medicine given to diff
ferent patients In one case saves life an
in the other destroys II. This possibilit
| Of repentance at the close of life may cur
the old man while It kills the young. b
cautious in taking II.
Again, my subject 10 descriptive of thos
who come to sudden and radical chang
You have noticed how short time II
from morning to night in the winter
eight or ten hours. You know that win
ter day has . very brief life. The heal
of the longest day beats twenty -four time
and then it is dead. How quick the tran
sition in the character of these Benjamin
it's!
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