Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1891-10-22
i, sos, 900, 600, 900 possibilities that
YOU will make q mistake. i5lss

you Will make q mistake. tt.s.s,S,
ON YOUR KNEES BEFORE GOD.
get the matter settled SO that YOU can
firmly say: .'to this end was born. .
And now I come to the climacteric
consideration. AS near as / can tell.
you were built for. happy eternity,
all the disasters which! have happen
ed 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 in the in
crease in human longevity. People
live, at near as l can observe, about
10 years longer than they used to.
The modern doctors donot bleed their
patients on all occasions as did the
former doctors. In those times if a
man had fever, they bled him, if he
had consumption they bled him, if he
had rheumatism they bled him, and if
they could not make out exactly what
was the matter they bled him. Olden
time phlebotomy was deaths coadju-
tor. All this has changed. From the
way I see people skipping about at
so years OF age, Iconclude that life in
surance companies will have to change
their table of risk and charge a. man
no more premium at 20 than they
used to do when hewas 60, and no
more premium at SO than when he
was 40. By the advancement ofmed-
ical science and the wider acquaint,
ance with the laws of health and the
tact that people know better how to
take care of themselves, human life is
prolonged. But do'you realize what,
after all, is the brevity of our earthly
state? In the time when people lived
700 and 500 years, the patriarch
Jacob said that his years were few.
Looking at the life of the youngest
person in this assembly and suppos-
ms 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 arithmetic has not figures
enough to express it's length, or
breadth, or depth, or height. For a
happy eternity you were born unless
you run yourself
AGAINST THE DIVINE INTENTIONS.
In the 18th century all Europe was
threatened with Il wave of Asiatic bar
barism and Vienna was especially be-
sieged. The king and his court had
fled and nothing could save the city
from being overwhelmed unless the
king OF Poland John Sobieski, to
whom they had sent for help, should,
with his army, come down for the re-
lief, and from every roof and tower
the inhabitants of Vienna watched and
waited and hoped until on the morn
ing OF Sept. IL the rising sun thew an
unusual and unparalleled brilliancy. 1t
was the reflection on the swords and
shields and helmets of John Sobieski
and his army coming down over the
hills to the rescue, and that day, not
only Vienna, but Europe was saved.
seiged with sin and sorrow: that light
breaks in, the swords and the shields
and the helmets of divine rescue bath
ed in the risingsu sun OF heavenly deliver
ance? Let everything else go rather
than let heaven go. What a strange
thing it must be to feel ones self born
to an earthly crown, but you have
been born for throne on which YOU
may reign after the last monarch of all
the earth shall have gone to dust.
invite you to start now for your own
coronation, to come in and take the
title deeds to your everlasting inheri-
lance. Through an imprisoned
prayer take heaven and all OF it's rap
lures. When a poor farthing is all
that this world can offer you compar-
ed with pardon here and life immortal
beyond the stars, unless this side of
them, there be place large enough
and beautiful enough and grand
enough for all the ransomed. Where
ever it be, in what world, whether near
by or Jar away, in this or some other
constellation, hail home OF light and
love and blessedness! Through the
atoning mercy of Christ, may we all
get there.