The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-11-29
alienation o, the worlds woes. Tss cedar

aiIeviation OF the worlds woes. The cedar
of Lebanon, standing on the mountain,
seems TO hand down the storms out OF the
heavens to the earth, but 1t bears no fruit
while some dwarf pear tree has more
fruit on its branches than 1t can carry.
Better TO have one talent and put 1t to
full use than ave hundred wickedly neg
lected.
My subject teaches me that there Is go-
ing to come day Of solemn settlements.
W hen the old farmer of the text got home
he Immediately called all the servants
about him and saidi "Here is the little
account have been keeping. Iwant to
see your account and we will first COM
| pare them, and PII pay you what owe
you and you'll pay me what you own me:
| Let US have a settlement" The day Will
come when the Lord Jesus Christ will sp-
! pear, and will say to you: what have
you been doing with my property Wnat
| have you been doing with my facultiesY
What have you been doing with what
gave you for accumulative purposesP
| There will be no escape from that settle-
ment Sometimes you can not get set
| tlement with man, especially II he owes
you. He postpones and procrastinates,
and says: 'I'll see you next week" or
'I'll see you next month" The fact Is he
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great day comes of which am speaking
there will be no escape. We will have to
sace all the bills. have sometimes been
amaze;S to see how an accountant will run
mn or down a long line of figures.
II / see ten or t,steen figures in line,
end attempt to add hem up. and add
them two or three times, l inake them ar
| ferent each time. But / have pdmlred
the way an accountant will take long
| line Of figures, and without single nus
take, and with great CELEBRITY, announces
| the aggregate. Now, in the last great
| settlement. there will be correct ac-
count presented. God has kept long
| line Of sins, long line OF broken SAD
baths, long Ene of profane woros'
! long line of discarded sacraments, a
| long line of misimproved privileges
| They will all be added up, and before
angels, and devils, and men, the aggre-
gate will be announced. On, that will be
| the great day of settlement. l have
| to ask the question: "Am I ready Tor
| it?" II is OF more Importance to me to
| answer that question in regard to my
! self than In regard to you, and 1t Is OF
more Importance for you to answer 1t In
1 regard to yourself than In regard to me.
i Every man for himself in that day.
\ Every woman for herself in that day. III
Il Won be wise thou shalt be wise for thy.
II self: If thou scornest, thou alone shall
/ bear it." We are apt to speak of the last
\ day as an occasion of vociferatlon-a
\ great demonstration of power and pomp;
\ but there will be on that day, l think,
, few moments Of entire silence; l think
| tremendous, an overwhelming silence;
think It Yill be such a silence as the
earth uevss beard. 1t will be at the
/ uatinnz H9tanin0
I for their doom.
| learn also from this parable OF the
! text that our degrees of happ1ness In
Heaven will be graduated according to
! our degrees of usefulness Oh earth. sew
eral of the commentators agree in max
ing this parable the Same one as in Luke,
where ots man was made ruler over two
cities. Would 1t be fair and right that
the professed Christian man who has
lived very near the line between the
world and the church-the man who has
! often compromised his Christian charac-
ter-the man who has never spoken
out for God-the man who has
never been known as Chris
tian only on communion days
the man whose great struggle has been to
see how much of the world he could get
and vet win Heaven--is 1t right to sup
pose that that man will have as grand
and glorious a seat in Heaven rs the man
: who gave all his energies of body, mind
I and soul to the service of God? The dy-
ing thief entered Heaven, but not with
the same startling acclaim as that which
greeted Paul. who had gone under scorch-
ings and across dungeons, and through
maltreatments into the kingdom OF glory.
One star differs from another star In
glory, and they who toll nightly for
Christ on earth shall have far greater
reward than those who have rendered
| only half a service.
Some OF you are fastening on toward
the reward of the righteous. want to
! cheer you up at the thought that there
will be some kind Of reward waiting for
you. There are Christian people in this
house who are very near Heaven. This
week some of you may pass out into the
iiaht of the unsetting SUM- l saw a blind
man going along the road with his staff,
and he kept pounding the earth and then
stamping with his foot / said to him:
''What do you do that for?" 'Oh," hs
said II can tell by the sound OF the
| ground when I am near a dwelling"
And some OF you can tell by the sonnd OF
your earthly pathway that you are COM
ing near your Fathers house. / con-
gratnlate you, Oh, weather. beaten voy-
| ayers, the storms are driving you INTO
the harbor. just as when you were
looking for a friend, and came up
to the gate OF the HOUSE,, and you
were talking with the servant when
your friend hoisted the window and Shout
ed: "Come in! come in" Just so, when
you come to the gate of the future world.
and you are talking with Death, the Dlack
porter at the gate, methinks Christ will
hoist the window and say: Come in!
come in! will make thee ruler over ten
cities" Ia anticipation of that land do
not wonder that Augustus Toplady the
author of Crock. Of Ages" declared In
his last moment: II have nothing more
to pray for; God has given me every
thing. Surely no man can live on earth
after the glories have Witnessed" Oh,
my brothers and sisters, how sweetit will
be, after the long wilderness march, to
get home. That was bright moment for
the tired dove in the time OF the Deluge
when it found its way safely into the win-
dow of the ark. A ##f
Unaffected sincerity.
Unaffected sincerity can not be simu-