New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-03-19

better go forward than backward even II We
had the choice. The greatest disaster | can
boyhood in 1890. Oh, if life were a
smooth Luzerne or Cayuga lake. l would like
to get into yacht and sail over it, not
once, but tWlce-yea, a thousand times. But
lie is an uncertain sea, and some OF the ships
crash on the icebergs of cold Indifference. and
their bearings and run into the skerries, and
some are never heard of. Surely on such a
treacherous sea as that one voyage is
enough.
Besides all this do you know if you could
have your wish and live life over again it
would putyou SO much further from reunion
with your friends in heaven? You may put
into the remaining years of your life all you
have learned of wisdom in your past life.
You may make the coming 10 years worth
the preceding 40 or so years. When q man
says he would like to live his life over again
because he would do SO much better, and
yet goes right on living as he has always
lived, do you not see he stultifes himself? He
proves thatif he could go back he would
do almost the same as he has done. If
man eat green apples some Wednesday in
cholera time and is thrown into fearful cramps
and says ON Thursday: 81 wish l had been
more prudent in my diet; oh. if could live
Wednesday over again. and then on Friday
eats apples just as green, he proves that it
| would have been no advantage for him to
live Wednesday over again. And if we, de-
ploring Jour past life and with the idea of i'm
provement, long for an opportunity to try
1T over again, yet go on making the same mis-
takes and committing the same sins, we only
demonstrate that the repetition of our exis-
teuce would afford no improvement 1t was
green apples before and it would be green ap-
pies over again. AS soon as ship captain
strikes rock ON the lake or sea he reports
it land buoy is swung over that reef and
marines henceforth stand off from that rock.
and all our mistakes in the past ought to be
bnoys warming us to keep in the right chan
mel. There is no excuse for us if we split on
thesame rock where we split before. Going
along the sidewalk at night where excaYa-
lions are being made. we frequently see q
lantern on q framework, and we turn aside
for that lantern says keep out of this hole.
And lall along the pathway Of life lanterns
are set as warnings, and by the time we come
to midlife we ought to know where it is safe
to'walk and where it is unsafe.
Beside that we have all these years been
learning how to be useful, and in the next
decade we ought to accomplish more for God
and the church and the world than in any
previousfo four decades. The best way to atone
sion is by future assiduity. you often
find Christian men who are not converted
until they were 40 or SO, as old age comes
on, saying: "Well, my work is about done
and. it is time for me to rest" They gave 40
years of their life to Satan and the world,
little fragment of their life to God, and now
they want to rest. Whether that belongs to
comedy or tragedy Isay not. The man who
gave one-half of his existence to the world
and OF the remaining two-quarters one to
Christian work and the other to rest, would
not, suppose, st very brilliant reception
in heaven.
AS supposed itwould be- there are multi
t111n Of1 -
on whom this subject has acted with the
force OF q galvanic battery. Withoutmys say
ing word to them, they have soliloquized,
saying: AS one cannot live his life over
again, and can make only one trip, I must
look out and make no mistakes: / have
but one chance and must make the most of
1t. My young friends, am glad you made
this application of the sermon yourself
When minister toward the close of his SER
| mon says Nov few words by way of ap-
pication,' people begin to look around Tor
their hats and get their arm through. one
sleeve OF their overcoats, and the seImonic
application is failure. | am glad you have
made your own application and that you are
resolved, like Quaker of whom read years
ago, who, in substance said: 'Ishal be along
this path of life but once and SO | must do
all the kindness can and all the good lean. !"
My hearers, the mistakes of youth can never
be corrected. Time gone is gone forever. An
a second has by one leap reached the other
side OF great eternity. In the autumn when
the birds migrate you look up and see the
sky black with wings and the focks stretch
ing out into many leagues of air, and
SO to-day look up and see two large wings
in full sweep They are the wings of the fly
ing year. That is followed by flock Of
three hundred and sixtyfve, and they are
the flying DAYS. Each of the flying days is
followed by twenty-(our, and they are the
flying hours and each OF these is followed by
sixty, and these are the flying minutes
Where did this great flock start from? Eter-
nifty past. Where are they bound? Eternity
to come You might as well go a-gunning
for the quails that whistled last year in the
meadows or the robins that lastyear caroled
in the sky as to try to fetch down and bag
one of the past opportunities of your life
Doinot say, 81 will lounge now and make it
up afterwards" Young men and BOYS. you
can'timake it up. nv observation is that
those who in youth sowed wild oats, to the
end OF their short life sowed wild oats, and
that those who start sowing Genesee wheat
always SOW Genesee wheat. And then the
reaplng OF the harvests is SO different. There
is grandfather now. He has lived to old age
because his habits have been good His eve
sight for this world has got somewhat dim
but his eyesight for heaven is radiant
His hearing is not SO acute dis
1T once was, and he must bend clear
overito hear what his little grandchild says
when she asks him what he has brought for
her. But he easily catches the music raised
from supernatural spheres. Men passing In
the street take off their hats in reverence and
women say: What good old man he is''
Seventy or so years all for God and for max
Ing ing this world happy. Splendid Glorious!
Magnificent! He will have hard work getting
into heaven. because those whom he helped
to get there will fill up and crowd the gates
to tell him how glad they are at his coming,
until says: please to stand back a little
till pass through and cast my crown at the
teetof him whom having not seen love-"
do not know what you call that call it
the harvest of Genessee wheat
Out Eonder is a man very old at 40 years
OF age, at the time when he oughtto be body-
ant as the morning. He got bad habits On On
him very early. and those habits have be-
come worse. he is a man on fire, on fire
with alcoholism, on fire with all evil habits,
out with the world and the world out with
him Down and falling deeper. His swppl-
len hands in his threadbare pockets and his
eyes fixed on the ground. he passes through
the street, and the quick step of an innocent
child or the SfrOnr Sten of n vr,unoc