Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-03-10


pirate for his garland; or
there is any throne with broken step
it would be appropriate for his coro
nation; or any harp with relaxe'
string it would be appropriate for hi
lingering. My brother, you give nine
tenths Of your life to sin and Satan
and then get converted and then res
awhile in sanctified laziness and thel
go up to get your heavenly reward
and [ warrant it will not take tn,
cashier of the royal banking house
great while to count out to you al
your dues. He will not ask yol
whether you will have it in bills O
large denomination or small. [ would
like to put one sentence of my sermon
in italics. and have it underscOred, anC
three exclamation points at the end O.
the sentence, and that sentence is this
As we cannot live our lives over again
the nearest we can come to atone fOl
the past IS by redOubled holiness anC
industry in the future:
'Ts worth wise mans past of life,
lis worth thousand years of strife,
If thou canSt lessen but by
The countless ills beneath the sun.
If this rail train of life has been de
tanned and switched off and is fan
behind the time table, the engineer
for the rest of the way must put on
more pressure of steam and go mile
minute in order to arrive at the right
time and place under the approval OF
conductor and directors.
AS [ supposed it would be, there are
multitudes of young people listenin 6
to this sermon on whom this subject
has acted with the force of a galvanic
battery. Without my saying a word
to them, they have soliloquized, say
ing: LAS one cannot live his life over
again, and [ can make only one trip,
[ must look out and make no mistakes /;
I have but one chance and must make
the most Of it." My young friends, I
am glad you made this application of
the sermon yourself When a min
lister toward the close OF his sermon
says: EENov a few words by way of
application" people begin to look
around for their hats and get their
arm through one sleeve of their over
coats, and the sermonic application is
failure. [ am glad you have made
your own application and that you
are resolved, like a Quaker of whom
I read years ago, who, in sub
stance, said: II shall be along
this path of life but once and
so I must do ali the kindness [ can and
all the good [ can" My hearers, the
mistakes Of youth can never be cor
rected. Time gone is gone forever
An opportunity passed the thousandth
part of a second has by one leap
reached the other side of a great
eternity. In the autumn when the
birds migrate you look up and see the
sky black with wings and the fiocks
stretching out into many leagues of
air, and so today look up and see two
large wings in full sweep. They are
the wings of the flying year. That is
followed by a flock of three hun
dred 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 min
utes. Where did this great flock start
from? Eternity past. Where are they
bound? Eternity to come. You might
as well 90 a-gunning for the quails that
whistled last year in the meadows or
the robins that last year caroled in
the sky as to try to fetch down and
bag one of the past opportunities of
your life Do not say, Il will lounge
now and make it up afterwards "
Young men and boys, you can't make
it up. My observation is that those
who in youth sOwed wild oats, to the
end of their short life sOwed wild oats,
and that those who start sowing Gen
esee wheat always SOW Genesee
wheat And then the reaping of the
harvests 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
got somewhat dim, but his eyesight fo1
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 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 a good old
man he is" Seventy or eighty years
all for God and for making this world
happy. Splendid! Glorious! Mag
niicent! He 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 I'M
til he says: PLEASE to stand back a
little till pass through and cast my
crown at the feet Of him whom hav,
ing not seen [ love" do not know
what you call that. [ call it the har
vest of Genesee wheat.
Out yonder is a man very old at
forty years of age, at a 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 alcO
hOIisn, 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 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 a young
man or the roll Of a prosperous car
riage maddenS him, and he curses so
ciety and he curses God. Fal}en sick,
with no resources, he is carried to the
almshOuse. A lOathsOme spectacle, he
lies all day long waiting for dissolu-
ton, 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 a
prospect as any man on the Ameri-
can continent, but there he is
a bloated carcass waiting 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
man, but the end thereof is death. !"
Young man, as you cannot live life
over again however you may long to
do So be sure to have your one life
right There is in this august assem-
bly, 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 and perhaps under
some little spite or evil persuasion of
another, and his parents know not
where he is. Ny son, go home! Dc
not go to sea! Don't go tonight where
you may be tempted to go; Go homel
Your father will be glad to see you
and your mother, [ need not tell
you how she feels How I would
like to make your parents a present
Of their hayward 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 sermon [ introduce to you