Daily Republican., 1890-03-17

The Rev. ]. Dewitt Taimage, d. D.
preached in the Academy OF Music,
Brooklyn, ON sunday morning, TO an
Overlooking congregation. Alter ex-
pounding appropriate passages OF Scrip
ture he announced his subject to BE-:
"Would you like to live your life over
again7" His text was job II, 4: "All
that man hath viii he give for bis life"
de said;
That IL untrue. TIE L,rd did not saw
It, but Satan said It TO the Lord when
the evil ons wAntsd Job still more sffiict.
ID. But Satan's falsehood was built on
truth. Life ID very precious, and II we
would not give up all there arc many
things We would surrender rather than
surrender II. We see how precious life
10 from the fact that we do everything TO
prol0ug IT. Hence all sanitary regula.
lions, all study OF hygiene, all fenr Of
draughus, all wsterproofs, ali doctors, all
medicines. all struggles In crisis OF accl-
dent
Life 10 indeed very precious. Yea, there
are those who deem lie 60 precious they
would like TO repeat It, they would like
TO try 1t again. The fact Ia that no intel
ligent and right.feellng man 10 satisfied
with bis past life. We have all made 80.
many mistakes, stumbled into 90 m any
DtehNotSt bhA1 w many ~ tu1t Oukut
not to have been said aud done so many
things that ought not to haye been dous,
that we car suggest OF least % per cent.
Of improvement.
Ny hearers, the mistakes OF youth can
never be corrected. Time gone is gone
forever. An opportunity passed. the
thousandth part OF second has by one
leap reached the other side Of q great
eteruity. In tho autumn when the birds
migrate you look up aud see the sky
black with wings and the hocks stretch
ing out INTO many leagues OF air, and so
to-day l look up and $50 two large wings
In full sweep. They are the winga OF the
flying year. That 10 followed by a flock
OF three hundred and sixty-hve, aud
they are the flying day. Each OF the
and they are the flying hours, and each
of these 10 followed by sixty, and these
are the flying miautes.
"Whers did this great flock start FRONT
Eternity past. Where are they bouuo?
Eternity to come. You might as well
60 a-gunning for the quails that whistled
last year In the meadows or the robius
that last year caro'ei In the sky as to try
to fetch down and bag one OF the past
opportunities Of your life. Do not say,
II will lounge now and make 1t up after
ward." Young men aud boys, you can t
make 1t up. Ny observation Is that those
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 reaping Of the harvest lie
60 different. There is grandfather now.
He has lived to old age because h habits
have been good. His cyesight for this
world has got somewhat din, but lila
eyesight for heaven 10 radiant. His
hearing 10 not 80 acute Is 1t once was,
and he must bend clear over to hear
what his little grandchild rays when she
asks him what he has brought for her.
But he easily catches the music raised
from supernal spheres. Men passing in
the streets take oil their hats In rever-
ence and women say: "What = good
old man he Is" Seventy or eighty yesrs
all for Tod aud for making this world
happy. Splendid Gloriousl Magnid
cent! He will have hard work getting
into Heaven because those whom b,
helped to get there will ill up and crowd
the gates to tell him how glad they ar,
ct his coming until he says: "Plcase tc
stand back u little till pass through and
cast my crown at the feet of Him whom
having not seen love-" do not know
what you call that. call 1t tho harves
OF Genesee wheat.