The Forrest City times., 1890-03-15

way Of application" peoplo begin to look around for their hats and get their arm through ono sleeve of their ovcTcoats, and the sermonic application is failure. l am glad you have made your own application and that you are resolved, like Quaker or whom 1 read years ago, who, in sub stance said: "I shall be along this pathway of lifo but once and so must do all the kindness I can" My hearers tho mistakes fyolth can nsver b. corrected
 Time gone is gons forovsr An opportuu.
 ity passed tho thousandth part of second has by one leap felched the other side of a great eternity. In the autumn when tho birds migrate you look up ant sec the sky black with wings and the flo ,Ss stretching out into many leagues of air, and so to day l look up and soo tw3 large wings in full sweep. They ara tho wings Of the flying year. That is followed by flock ot three hundred and sixty lve, and they ere the flying days Each df the fly ing days Is followed by twenty four, and they are tho flying hours and each of those is followed by sixty, anl these arc the flying minutes. Where did this great flock start front Eternity past Where are they boundl Eternity to come. You might as well go a-gunniny for the quatls that whistlcd l,st year in the meadows or the robins that last year euro cd in tho sky as to try to fetch down and bag one of the past opportunities of your life Do not say, "l will lounge now and make 1t up aftcrwardsh Young men and boys, you can't make it up. My ooservatiou is that those who in youth sowod wild oats, to the end of their short life sowed wild oats. and that those who start SOW
 ing Genesee wheat always SOW Gencsee wheat. And then the reaping Of the har- vests is so different There is grandfather now He has lived to old age because his habits have been good. Ills eyesight for this world has grown somewhat din, but his cyesight for heaven is radiant His hearing is not so acute as it on 'e was, and he must beud clelr over to hear what his little grandchild says whom she asks him what he has brought for her. l}ut he easily catches the music raised from supernal spheres. Men passing in the streets take off their hnts in reverence and women say: What a good old man he is" Seventy CT eighty years all for God and for making this world happy. Splendid Gloriousi Magniiicent lie will have hard work getting into heaven because those he he,psi to get there will fill up and crowd tue gates te tell him how glad they are at his coming until he says: "Please to stand back littls til I pass through and cast my crown at the feet of him whom having not seen l loye,n do not know what you call that l call it the harvest of Gcnesoe wheat.
 Out yonicr is a man very old at forty years of age, at q time when he ought 10 be bouyant as the morning. He got bad habits on him very early, and those habits hax=a t,sg5a llsA Ia 4ttalas stss HFn ou fro with alcoholism, on fire with all evil habits, out with tho world and the world ont with him. Down and falling deeper His swollen hands in his threddhare pockets and bis oyes fixed on the ground, he passes through the street and the quick step of an innocent child or the strong step of a young man or the roll ol prosperous car riage maddcns him uni he curses so- ciety and he curses God. Fallen sick, with no resources. he is carried to the alms- house. A loathsome spectacle he lies all day long waiting for dissointiou, or in the night rises on his cot and fights apparitiens Of what he might have been and Of what he will be He started life with as good prospect as any man on tho American couti- nent but there he is a bloated carcass wait ing for the shovels of public charity 10 put him fivo feet under. He has only reaped what he sowcd Harvest of wild oatsl "lhere is Il way that seomath right to a man, but the end thorcs is death" Young man, as you cannot live life over again however you may long do so, be suro to have your one life right There is ia this august assembly l wut not, for wa arc made up ef all sections Of thls gaui and from many lands soala yoaag man who has gone away from hnma and perhaps ua- der some little spite 0. evil persuasion ct another, aud his parents know not whero he is. My son, po homei Do not 70 to sea Don't go tonight where you may be tempted 10 so, Go homel Your father will be glad to see you and your m0ther, l neod not toll you how she feels How would lik ta make yoar par. euts present of thsir way ward boy. re- pentant aud in his right mnd. 1 would liiSe to write them letter aud you to carry the letter, saying "By the blessing 0f God on my sermon introduce to yoa ono whom you have never seen bofora, for he has become u new creature ia Christ Jesasn Ny boy. SC homo and put your tired heal on the oosom that nursed you SO tenderty In your childhood years A young Scatchman was ta bastlc taken captye by band ol Indians. aul ha learnel the,r language aui adopted tlesr habits, Years passel on. but the old Indian chiettltn neVor forFOt that he had in his possession young man who dii not belong to him Wei, ons d,y this tribe of Indians cana ia sisAt Of the Scotch regiments from whom the young man had been captured and the cid ludian chiefta n sali Il lost my son tn battle and know how a father feels at the loss of a sou. De you think yoar father s yet allvel" The young man said "l am the only son of my father nHj hope he is stlu alive Then said tue Indian chieftau; "8eoause or tho loss of my son this world is a desert You 20 free, Return 10 yoac eoautrymen.
 Revisit your father that he may re.olce when ho sees the sun rise in tho morning and the trees blossom in the sprins, So l say to you, young mau, captive of was- wardness and sim Your father is waiting foryou. Your mother Is waiting for you. Your sisters are waiting for you God s waiting for you, Go home Go home