Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-03-14

go up TO get your heavenly reward, and
warrant IL will not take tho cashier of the
royal banking house great while to count
out to you all your dues He will not ask
you II you will have 1t in bills of large de-
nomination or small would like to put
one sentence OF my sermon in italics,
and have IL underscored and three excla.
nation points at the end Of tho sentence,
ind that sentence Is this: AS we cannot
live our lives over again, the nearest we
can come to atone for the past is by re-
doubled holiness and industry in the fu-
ture:
If this rail train of life has been detained
and switched of and is far behind the time
table, the engineer for the rest of the way
must put on more pressure of steam and 60
O mile minute In order TO arrive at the
right time and place under the approval Of
conductor and directors.
AS supposed 1t would be, there are null
titudes OF young people listening to this
sermon on whom this subject has acted
with the force OF galvanic battery. With
out saying n word to them, they have solilo-
quized, saying: "As ono cannot live his life
over again, and can make only ono trip,
must look out and make no MISTAKES; have
but one chance and / must make the most
or it," My young friends, l am glad you
made this application of the sermon your
self. Whom minister toward the close Of
his sermon says: "Now few words by
way or application" people begin TO look
around for their hats and get their arm
through one sleeve of their overcoats, and
the sermonic application is a failure. l am
glad you have made your own application
and that you are resolved, like Quaker of
whom l read years ago, who, in sub
stance, sold: ~ shall be along
this pathway of life but once and so must
do all the kindness can" My hearers, the
mistakes ofyouth can never b, corrected.
Time gone is gone forever. An opportun-
ity passed the thousandth part of second
has by one leap reached the other side of q
great eternity In the autumn when tho
birds migrate you look up and see the sky
black with wings and the hocks stretching
out into many leagues Of air, and so to day
look up and SEQ two large wings in full
sweep. They are the wings of the flying
year. That is followed by flock of three
hundred and sixty five, and they are the
flying days. Each Of the fly
ing days is followed by twenty -four,
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 FRONT Eternity past. Where
are they bound? Eternity to come You
might as well go a-gunniny for the quails
that whistled last year in the meadows or
the robins that last year caro.ed in the sky
as TO try TO fetch down and bag one of the
past opportunities of your life. DO not
say, III will lounge now and make 1t up
afterwards" Young mon and boys, you
can't make it up My observation is that
those who in youth sowcd wild oats, to the
end OF their short life sowed wild
oats, and that those who start SOW.
ing Genesee wheat always sow Gcnesee
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. His eyesight for
this world has grown somewhat dim, but
his eyesight for heaven is radiant His
hearing is not so acute as it once was, and
he must bend clear over to hear what his
little grandchild says whom 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 Off their hats in reverence
and women say: "What good old
man he is" Seventy or eighty years all
for God and for making this world happy.
Splendid Gloriousl Magnificent! lie
will have hard work getting into heaven
because those he helpel 10 get there will
fill up and crowd the gates to
tell him how glad they are Mt
his coming until he says: 'Please
to stand back little till I pass through
and cast my crown at the feet of him
whom having not seen l love-" do not
know what you call that / call it the
harvest OF Genesee wheat.
Out yonder is a man very old at forty
years of age at time when he ought to
be bouyant as the morning. He got bad
habits on him very early, and those habits
have become worse. He is man on fire,
on fire with alcoholism, on fire with all evil
habits, out with the world and the world out
with him. Down ana falling deeper. His
swollen 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 strong step OF u
young man or the roll of a prosperous car
riage maddens him, and he curses So
ciety and he curses God. Fallen sick,
with no resources, he Is carried to the aims
house. A loathsome spectacle he lies all
day long waiting for dissolution, or In the
night rises on his cot and fights apparitions
of what he might have been and OF what he
will be. He started life with as good
prospect as any man on the American CONT
nent, but there he is u boated carcass wait
ing for the shovels of public charity to put
him five feet under. He has only reaped
what he sowed. Harvest of wild oats
There is a way that seemeth right to
a man, but tho end thereof is death"
Young man, as you cannot live life over
again however you may long do so, be sure
to have your one life right. There is in
this august assembly wot not, for we are
made up OF all sections OF this land and
from many lands, some young man who
has gone away from home aud perhaps un.
der some little spite or evil persuasion CT
another, and his parents know not
where no is. My son, go home! Do
not go to sea! Don't go tonight where
YOU may be tempted to CO. Go home!
Your father will be glad to see you and
your mother, need not toll you how she
feels How would like to make your par
cnts present OF their Maynard boy, re-
pentant and in his right mind. l would
like to write them letter and you to carry
tho letter, saying. "By the blessing OF
God on my sermon l Introduce to you one
whom you have never seen before, for
he has become new creature in
Christ Jesus" My boy go homo
and put your tired heal on the bosom that
nursed you SO tsnderly in your Childhood
years. A young Scotchman was In battle