Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-10-08

reetion. | consulted my own tastes,
| liLsd LAWYERS and courtrooms and judges
and inries. and / reyeled in hearing the
Fral;noh1vsens and the Bradleys OF the
Wv .iersev bar. and a. assistant OF the
countv clerk. at sixteen years or age
searched titles naturalized foreigners.
recorded deeds, received the confession OF
INDICTMENTS. swore witnesses and Jurles
and Grand iurics But after awhile feit
call TO the Gospel ministry and entered
II and felt some satisfaction IN the WORK.
Rnt one summer. when ! was resting al
sharon Springs, and while seated IN tne
mark of that village. said to myself II
have an especial work to do in the world
oupht TO find il out now" and with that
determination | prayed as ! had never De
fore nraved. and got the divine direction,
and wrote il down in my memorandum
book. and | saw my life work then ~
plainly as | see it now.
Oh. do not be satisfied with general al
rections. Get specific directions DO moi
shoot at random. Take aim and lire
Concentrate Napoleon's success IN bat
tle came from his theory of breaking
through the enemy's ranks at one point.
not irving TO meet the whole line OF tue
enemy's force by a similar force One rea'
son why he lost Waterloo was because ne
did not work his usual theory, and spread
his force out over wide range. Oh.
Christian man, oh, Christian woman.
break through somewhere. Not gen
eral engagement for God, but a particular
engagement, and made in answer to pray
er. II there are sixteen hundred million
people in the world, then there are sixteen
hundred million different missions TO ful
fill, different styles Of work TO do, different
orbits in which TO reyolye, and II you do
not get the divine direction there are at
least fifteen hundred and ninety-nine mil
lion possibilities that you will make mis-
take On your knees before God get the
matter settled so that you can firmly say
ITO this end WAS born"
INCREASED LONGEVITY.
And now come to the climacteric con
sderation. As near as can tell. you were
built for happy eternity, all the disasters
which have happened TO your nature to be
overcome by the blood of the Lamb If you
will heartily accept that Christly arrange
ment. We are all rejoiced at the increase
in human longevity. People live, as near
as | can observe. about ten years longer
than they used to. The modern doctors dc
not bleed their patients on all occasions as
did the former doctors In those times II
a man had fever they bled him, If be had
consumption they bled HIM, if he had rheu-
matism they bled him, and If they could
not make out exactly what was the matter
they bled him. Olden time phlebotony
was deaths coadjutor. All this has
changed.
From the way | see people skipping
about nc eighty years Of age, | conclude
that life insurance companies will have 10
change their table of risks, and charge a
man no more premium at seventy than
they used to do when he WAS sixty, and nc
more premium AT fifty than when he was
forty. BY the advancement of medical
science and the wider acquaintance with
the laws of health aud the fact that PEG
Pile know better how to take care of them
selves, human life is prolonged. But dc
you realize what, after all. is the brevity
of our earthly statei In the times when
people lived seven aud eight hundred
years, the patriarch jacob said that his
years were few.
Looking at the life Of the youngest per
son in this assembly and supposing he
lived to be a nonagenarian, how short the
time and soon gone, while banked up in |
front OF US is an eternity so vast that arith |
metic has not figures enough TO express its |
length or breadth or height. For a happy |
eternity you were born unless you run |
yourself against the divine intentions II |
standing in your presence my eye should |
fall upon the feeblest soul here as that soul |
will appear when the world let's it up, and |
heaven entrances il, suppose / would be |
so overpowered that | should drop down \
as one dead.
You have examined the family Bible |
and explored the family records, and you
may have daguerreotypes of some OF the |
kindred of previous generations, you have |
had photographs taken of what you were
in boyhood or girlhood, and what you
were ten years later, and il is very interest
ing to any one to be able to look back upon
pictures of what he was ten or twenty or
thirty years ago; but have you ever had a
picture taken of what you may be and
what you will be II you seek after God and
feel the Spirits regenerating powers
Where shall | plant the camera to take
the picturef plant it on this platform.
direct it toward you. Sit still or stand
still while take the picture. It shall be
an instantaneous picture. Therel | have
Il. 1t is done You can see the picture in
its imperfect state and get some idea OF
what it will be when thoroughly developed.
THE REsURREcTED BODY.
There is your resurrected body, so bril-
liant that the MONDAY sun is patch OF
compared with it, There is your
soul, so pure that all the forces of diabo-
ism could not spot it with an imperfec.
ion. There is your being, so mighty and
10 swift that fight from heaven to Mer-
Jury or Mars or Jupiter aud back again to
heaven would not weary you, and world
IN each shoulder would not crush you An
we that shall never shed tear. An en-
'rgy that shall never feel fatigue. A
,row that shall never throb with pain.
You are young again, though you died of
You are we'll again, though
'ou coughed or shivered yourself into the
omb. Your everyday associates are the
Ipostles and prophets and martyrs, and
most exalted souls, masculine and femi
line, of all the centuries. The archangel
o you no embarrassment. God himself