The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1890-03-15

Jou "uhb W Bo through LuS pTOCtbS u
losing your father again or your mother
again or your companion IN life again OF
your child again?
Besides that would you van 10 risk
the temptations OF life over againF
From the fact that you are here l con
clude that though ia many respects
your life may have been unfortunate
and unconsecrated you have got on SO
far tolersbly we'll, If nothing more than
tolerable. As for myself. my life has
been far from being as consecrated as /
would like to have had it ! would not
want to try IL over again, lest next time
| would do worse.
Why, Just look at the temptations we
have all passed through, and just look
at the multitudes who nave gone com
pletely under. just call over the roll
of your school mates and college mates,
the clerks who we're with you in the
same store or bank, or the operatives in
the same factory, with just as good
prospects as you, who have come to com.
plete mishap. Some young man that
told you that 10 was going to be a mil
lionaire and W the fastest trotters on
Westchester turnpike and retire by the
time he was t~hirty-hve years Of age;
you do not hear from him for many
years, and know nothing about him I'M
til some day he comes into your store
and asks for Ave cents to get a mug of
beer. You, the good mother of the
household and all your children rising
up to call you blessed. can remember
when you we're quite jealous of the belle
Of the village who was so transcendent-
ly fair and popular. But while you
have these two honorable and queenly
names of wife and mother, she became
y poor waif Of the street, and went into
the ~blackness OF darkness forever. Live
life over again? Why, IL many of those
who are now respectable were permitted
to experiment the next journey would
DO demolition.
Besides oil this. do you know II you
could have your wish and live life over
again II would put you so much farther
from reunion with your friends In
Heayen2 II you are In the noon OF life
or the evening Of life you are not very
far from the golden cato at which you
are 70 meet your transported and en-
paradised lovedpnea c\You arenow, let
US say, twenty Years or ten yearslor one
year of from calestial con Injunction NOW
suppose 700 went back In your earthly
life thirtyayears or forty yearssor atty
years, what an awful postponement Of
the timc OF reunion! It would DO as
though you we're going to San Francisco
" q great banquet and you got to Oak
land, four or five miles this side Of it.
and then came back to uoboken or Har-
INN Ia Oaf n hnItnr tort. No thn,rk ,,o,
were going to England to be crowned
and having come In sight Of the mount
aims Of Wales you put back to Sandy
Hook in order to make a better voyage.
The further on you gctin life. II q Chris
tian, the Dearer you are TO the renewal Of
broken up companionships.
And'if we, deploring our past life and
with the idea of improvements long for
an opportunity to try 1t over again, yet
go on making The same mistakes and
committing the same sins, we only
demonstrate that the repetition OF our
existence would afford no improvement.
1t was green apples before and it would
be green apples over again. AS soon as
q ship captain strikes a rock In the lake
or sea he reports II and q buoy is swung
Wa s1Se Sho HaA hChNCAOILu
stand of from that rock. And all our
mistakes in the past ought to be buoys
warning US to keep in the rightchannel.
There Is no excuse for US If we split on
the same rock where we split before.
Going along the sidewalk at night
where excavations are being made, we
frequently see a lantern on q frame
work and we turn aside, for that lantern
says koep out Of this hole. And all
along the pathway of life lanterns are
set rs warnings, and by the time we
come to mid life we ought to know
where 1t is safe to walk and where 1t is
unsafe.
My brother, you give nine-tenths of
your life to sin AMI Satan and then get
converted and then rest awhile in sane
tilted lazlness and then go up to get your
heavenly reward, and / warrant it will
not take the cashier of the royal bank
Ing house . great while to count out to
you ali your dues. He will not ask you
II you will have it in bills OF large de-
nomination or small. I would like to
put n sentence Of my sermon in italics
and have 1t underscored and three ex-
clamation points at the end Of the SEN
tence, snd that sentence Is this: As we
can not live u lives over again, the
ncarcst We can come to atone for the
past Is by redoubled holiness and indus
try in the future.
As supposed II would be, there are
nultirudes Of young people listening to
this sermon on whom this subject has
loted with the force Of o ~galvanic bat
terry. Without saying q word TO them
they have soliloQuized, saying: AS ono
IAN not live his life over again, and ]
San make only one trip, I must look out
and make no mistakes; l have but one
,hance and I must make the most Of It.
My young friends, l am glad you made
this application of tho sermon yourself.
When q minister toward the close OF his
sermon says: Now q few words by way
Of application" people begin to look
around for their hats and get n arm
through their o~vercoats, and the ser
mon!c application Is q failure am
glad you have made your own applica-
ton and that you are resol we'd, like 4
Quaker Of whom / road years ago, who,
In substance, said: 81 shall be along this
pathway OF hfe but onoc and 80 l must
do all the kindness can" My hearers,
the mistakes Of youth can never be cor
rected. Time gone is gone forever.
In the autumn whom the 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 see two large wings in full
sweep They are the wings OF the flying
year. That Is followed by q iock OF 365,
and they are the flying days. Each of
the flying days IS followed by twenty
four and they are flying hours. and each
of these Is followed by sixty n these
arc the flying minutes. Where did this
aock start from? Eternity past. Who're
are they bound? Eternity TO come.
You might as woll go %a-gunning for the
quails that whistled last year In tho
meadows or the robins that last year
carolcd in the sky as 70 Try to fetch down
and bag one OF the past opportunities of
your life. Do not say. II will lounge
now and make IL up afterward." Young
men and boys, you can't make itup. My
observation Is that those who In youth
sowed Wild onts, 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 is 80 different. There Is
grandfather, now. He has lived to old
ago because his habits have beeE good.
His eyesight for this world has grown
somewhat dim, but his eyesignt for
Heaven 10 radiant His hsaring Is moi so
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