Sharp County record., 1890-05-22

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on9 II YOU are in tho noon oil HE oE 5ii9
evening Of life you are not very l-I
from the Golden gate at which you are
70 meet your transported and empar"-
disad loved ones. You are noW' leu Us
sav. twenty years or ten years OF on
- off from celestial conjunction
Now su3roso you went back in your
earthly life thirty years, or forty years
or fifty years, what an an awful Po'I =,
T,ra~5a1t Of the time OF reuFion. IL
,yon1l be as though you were going 90
San Francisco to a great Oahq eS Go.
anI Won 20 to Oakland, four or HNS
n;1aG this side OF it, and then came oa0. ''
70 TIg5oken or Harlem to get OcL,.' "
star.. IS though you were going TO En-
riand 10 be crowned, ard having come III
sf.-rf of the mountains of Walo3you P''
bar. TO Sandy Hook in order to MIN .
hrs +ayy yovara. The further on you ScO
in Iiro. if Christian the nearer 70"
arc 70 the renewal OF broken up So,n ,o
Tanionsbip No; the wheel OF t,'no It.
trnns in the right direction ana ~ "a %
o.or1 it turns so fast, Three hunu,uJ uJ
and sfxtv-fyo revolutions IN yea, "nJ I'D
forward, rather than three hunoreu "nI 5
~ tutr-Gvo revolutions in year anu
'' Fnt hear We! bear yc! while tell you .,
how YOU NAV practically live your iilo
a..or non oaain and be all the better ioF It,
Va, Van nav r9 mt into the remaining years
Of your life all you have learned Oh WIS, I,
dom in your past life. Iou may man. n"he
,Lo 'T, cominr ten years worth the preceu-
w.. w. ,ortr oy frty years, When man
ila ~, 10 wonld like to live his life over
aao 80. IA h,causo he would do so much bet
tor and vet goes right on living as re
W., o1wavs lived, DO you not see ne
r.,,1ffns himself? IIeproyes that II ne
corId 90 back he would do almost the
anna rs he has done If a man eats
Green apples some Wednesday in cholera
fin,o and is thrown into fearful cramps,
and saws on Thursday: Il wish l had
boon more prudent in my diet; Oh, II |
cooId live Wednesday over again." and
then on Friday eats apples just as
rroer, he proves that it would have
6oen no advantage for him to live
wednesday over again. And if We
denIoring our past life and with
the idea Of improvement, long for an
to try it over again, yet go
on making the same mistakes and COM
mitting the same sins, we only demon
strate that the repetition of our exist
ance would afford no improvement. 1t
was green apples before and it would be
rraen apples over again. AS soon as a
ship captain strikes a rock in the lake
,r sea he reports it and buoy is swung
,ver that reef and mariners henceforth
stand off from that rock. And all our
mistakes in the past ought to be buoyS
warning US to keep in the right chan
1el There is no excuse for us II we
,n1it on. the same rock where we split
before. Going along the sidewalk at
,icbt where excavations are being made,
we frequently see lantern on a frame
work and we turn aside, for that
lantern says, keep out Of this hole.
And all along the pathway Of life Ian
terms are set as warnings, and by this
iroe we come to midlife we ought to
I,nov, where it is safe to walk and where
it is unsafe.
Beside this, 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 previous four de-
cades. The best way to atone for past
indolerce or past transgreSsion is by
fntura assiduity. Yet you otter find
Christian men who were not converted
until they were forty Or sixty, as old
aoe comes on, saying: "Well, my work
is about done, and it is time for me to
rest" They gave forty years Of their
life to Satan and the world, little
fraruent of their life to God, and now
thev want to rest. Whether that be-
longs to comedy or tragedy l say not.
The man who gave one-half Of his
earthly existence to the world, and
of the remaining two-quarters one
TO Christian work and the
other to rest, would not, / suppose, get
a very brilliant reception in Heaven.
If there are any dried leaves in Heaven
they would be appropriate for his gar
land: or if there is any throne with
broken steps it would be appropriate for
his coronation; Or any harp with re-
laxed string it would be appropriate for
his lingering. My brother, you give
nine-tenths of your life to sin and Sa-
tan and then get converted, and then
rest awhile in sanctifed laziness, and
then 90 up to get you Heavenly reward,
and | warrant it will rot take the
cashier of the royal banking house 2
great while to count out to you all
dues. He will not ask you whether
Won will have it in bills of large
denomination or small. ! would like
to put one sentence of my sermon in
italics, and have it underscored, and
three exclamation points at the end of
the sentence, and that sentence is this:
As we can not live our lives over again,
the nearest we can come to atone for the
past is by redoubled holiness and indus
try in the future.
If this rail train of life has been de,
tanned and switched of, and is far be
Ind thn tirnn tnhln thn nnrinnnr fO1