Telegram-herald., 1890-03-10

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nad o=ca bsf .ei Defore modern exploration
scoop-d 5at cf Il ths ava of Vesnvius Well,
ne snO sn0ait De permitted % return on ths
pztn Of tis earthly ifs aud I've Il over
ssala, ~01d dad lonely and sad a pal
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deaf past Ihe Cd seaool house, the cd
church, the o.d home. ths Oil play ground
either gone or occupied by others, and for YOU
more dsprss sang than w4s our Pompelan visit
Ia S0Feu Beg
Beside tD2r, ~oull you want 20 risk the
temptation z lie over agzini From the
fact that you are here concluas that though
Ia many respects Yoar life may have been
anfoTtuazts All uucoDsecTAtesi. you have got
on 20 far tolerst4Y Well, II nothing more than
toieraele. Is for myself. though my life has
beea far from being as consrcrated as would
Ike 20 nave azd IL. would not want to Try
u over sgsln, lest next time I would do worse.
Why. JusE look az he temptations We have
al passed through. and itst !Ook az the multi
tudss who have gone completely under. Just
call over the ROD Of your schooifnates and
college mates, the CLERKS who were with you
IA the same store or bank, or the operatives
M tho same fsetory with Just good pros
poets as you, who have come 70 complets
mishap. Some yoang maa taat told you that
be vas going 70 Dc Millionaire. and own
the fastest tTotters on WertcheS,er turnpike,
and retire BY the time Dc was thirty-fve
years OF age, You DO not hear from
for many years. and know nothing
about him until some day he comes
into your store and ass for five cents 20
get a mug OF beer. You. the good mother Of
household and all your children rising up
10 call you blessed, can remember when yoa
were quite jealous o. tls belle of the village.
who vas 50 transcendergly fair and popular
But while you have these tso honorable and
qcoenly names Of wife and mother, she be-
cams poor wait CT ths street, and went into
the blackn-s % darkness forever Liv. life
over again. Why, IL mauy of those who are
now respectable were permitted 10 expert.
msnt. the next journey would be deInoli-
ton You got through, as job says. by the
SKIN of the teeth. Next tim. you might not
get through az all Satan would say: II
know him now better than | did before and
have for flty years been studying his weak
nesses and viii weave a stronger web Of
circumstances 70 catch him next time" And
Satan would concenter his forces on this one
man. and the last state Of that man would be
verse than the irst nv friends. our faces
are in the right direction. Better go forwaSd
than backward, even If wa had the choice.
The greatest disaster | can think Of would be
for YOU u return to beyhood in 1890. Oh, II
life were smooth Luzerne or Cayuga lake, |
il. not once, but twice-yea a thousand
times But lie is an uncertain sea, and some OF
the ships crash on the icebergs Of cold indif-
ference, and some take fire of evil passions.
and some lose their bearings and run into the
skerries, and some are never heard Of
Surely on such treacheroas sea as that one
voyage Is enough
Beside al this, do you know il you could
have your wish and live life over again it
would put you 50 much further from reunion
with your friends in heaveni II you are in
the noon OF lfe or the evening Of life you are
not very far from the golden gate at which
you are 10 meet your transported and en-
paradised loved ones You are now, let us
say, twenty years or ten years OF one year of
from celestial conjunction Now, suppose
you went back in your earthly life thirty years
or forty years or fifty years. what an awful
postponement Of the time Of reunionl II
would De as though you were going TO San
Francisco 10 great banquet and you got 10
Oakland. four or five miles this side Of IL, and
then came back 20 Hoookcn or Harlem TO get
better start; as though you were going 70
England 10 be crowned and having come in
sight OF the noun tsins Of Wales you put back
10 Sandy Hook IN order TO make better
voyage Tue further on You get in life, il a
Christian, the psarer you are 70 the renewal
OF broken up companionship. Nc; the whesl
Of tine turns in the right direction, and
Il is well it turns so fast Three hun
drsd and siKty-five revolutions in a year
and forward. rather than three hundred and
sixty-fve revolutions in q year and back
ward. But near ysi hear ye while | tel you
how you may practically live your life over
again and be all tha better for IL. You may
put into the remaining years OF your life al
you have learned OF wisdom in your past life.
You may MAKE tbs coming ten years worth
the preceding forty or hity years When a
man says ne would like TO live bis life over
again because he would do 50 much better
and yet goes right on living a. be sas always
lived. DO ysu not sec hs stultifies himself, he
proves that II be could 20 back he would do
almost tae same as ne has done X man
eat gr--n spples soms wednesday 10 cholers
time and Is thrown fsto fearful cramps and
says on Thursday. Il Wish I had been rors
prudent in my dict; oh, II | could live
Wednesday over again, And thsn on Friday
eats apples -c as green, he proves that II
would hsvs ~ no advantage for him 20
hv. Wssass- over sgstn- Ard If We. 10
ploring Our ats and With the idea ~ iru-
proFsment for an opportunity "a
tTy it ovsr again. res go on making