Sharp County record., 1890-05-22

snail be along this pain Oh ~ ean
and 60 must do all the ki1e'eS'
and all the good | can. r,outh
" NJ hearers, the mistakes oil w. =
CON never be corrected. IlIno w. E-ad a
rome forever An opportunity p"S7 -
sto ~ +5oiigandtb part OF . second mas "
'no ,aan ,n,' roached the othef side OF
one ,t .'% otornitv. III the autumn |heh
,bo birds migrate you look up anu sSo Sec
the sky black with wings, anu iaso~o: ,-ss
Sno,.s Glg 5r s3rotcbing out into many leagues
'CoEo S.ir and so today I look up ana see
ol ''ti, tl.In 'l,, y,inrs in full sweep. They
.mo wv t%o tarS wines Of the flying year Inat
q. folIowed by flock O. three hundred
nnj siytv.fve, and they arc the fylng
',lL , ID Eocb Of the flying days is fol
Jay ,",J9.s1 NV twanty-four. and they are the
erirg hours. and each OF these IS toi
lowed By sixty, and these are the lying
,,irntos, Where did this great flock
,tart fromo Eternity past. Where are
tbov bound? Eternity 70 come. You
MIGHT as well 90 a-gunnins for the
ouaiIs that whistled last year in the
meadows or the robins that last year
caroled in the sky as to try to tetch
down and bag one of the past oppor.
tunities of your life, Do not say: Il
will lounge now and make it up after
wards"
Young men and boys, you can't make
it up. Ny observation is that those who
in youth sowed wild oats, to the end OF
their short life sowed wild oats, ana
that those who start sowing Gehesee
wheat always SOW Gcnesee wheat. Ana
then the reaping of the harvest IS so
different, There is grandfather now
He has lived to old age because his hab-
its have been good. His eyeslght for
this world has got somewhat dlm' nu'
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
when she asks him what he mas
brought for her. But he easily
catches the music raised from supernal
spheres. Men passing in the streets
take of their hats in reverence ana
women say: "What good old man ne
is" Seventy or eighty years all Tor
God and for making this world happy
Splendid! Glorious! Magnificent! tie
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 he says: please to
stand back little till l pass through
and cast my crown at the feet OF Him
whom having not seenI love" l do not
know what you call that. call it the
harvest of Genesee wheat.
Out yonder is man very old at forty
wears Of age, and at time when he
ought to be buoyant as the morning.
lie got bad habits or him very early,
and those habits have become worse,
He is man on fire, on fire with alcO-
holism, on fire with all evil habits, out
with the world and the world out with
him. Down and falling deeper. His
swollen hands in his thread bare 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 q young man
or the roll Of prosr--'us carriage
madden him, and he curses society and
he curses God. Fallen sick, with no re-
sources, he is carried to the alms-house.
A loathsome spectacle, he lies all day
long waiting for dissolution, or in the
uight rises on his cot and fights appari.
tions of what he might have been and
what he will be- lie started life with
as good prospect as any man on the
American continent, but there he is
bloated carcass, waiting for the shOvels
of public charity to put him five feet
under. He has only reaped what he
sowod. Harvest of wild oats!
There is way that seemeth right tC
man, but the end thereof is death"
Young man, as you can not live life
over again however you may long to dc
50, be sure to have your ono life right
There is in this august assembly wot
not. tor we are made up Of all sections
Of this land and from many lands, some
young man who has gone away from
home and, perhaps, under some little
spite or evil persuasion of another, and
his parents know not where he is. My
son, go home! DO not 60 to sea. Don't
90 tonight whero you may be tempted
to 60. Go home! Your father will ba
glad ito see you and your mother.
need not tell you how she feels. How
would like to make your parents pre-
sent of their wayward boy, repentant
and in his right mind. would like to
write them a letter, and you to carry the
letter, saying:
by the blessing Of God on my SER
mon | introduce to you one whom you
have never seen before, for he has be-
come new creature in Christ Jesus"
My boy, 60 home and put your tired
head on the bosom that nursed you so
tenderly in your childhood years. A
young ScOtchman was in battle taken
captive by q band Of Indians, and he
learned their language and adopted
their habits. Years passed on, but the
old Indian chieftain never forgot that
he had in his possession a young man
| VINO did not belong to him. Well. one