The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1891-10-13

eyes, your ears, your heart, your lungs.
Your hands, your feet, your body, your
mind, your soul, yonr lite, your death +,
your time. your eternity Tor God, ieellug
In your soul: ITO this end was bOrn."
1t may be helpful 10 some if 1 recite my
Own experience in this regard. started
ior the law without asking any divine d-
iecti"n. L consulted my own tastes.
liked lawyers aud court rooms and Judges
aud juries, and reveled in hearing the
Freliughuysens aud the Bradleys of the
New Jersey bar, aud as assistant of the
county clerk. at l6 years of age, |
searched titles, naturalizod foreigners.
recorded deeds, received the confession
ofjudgments. swore witnesses and 'juries
aud grand juries. But after while felt
Il call to the Gospel minis ry and entered
II, and l felt 80 G satisfaction III the
work. But one summer, when l was
resting at Sharon Springs, and while
seated in the park of tina: village, | said
To mNselt. ii! have an especial work to
do in tho world ought to find it out
now" and with that determination
prayed as l had never before pray cd,
and got the divine direction. and wrote
it down in my memorandum book, aud
[ saw my liie-work then as plainly rs L
see it nuw. Oh do not be satisfied with
general directions. Get specific dirrc-
tlOns. DO not shoot at random. Take
aim aud fire. Concentrate. Napoleon's
success in battle came iron his theory
OF breaking through the enemy's ranks
at one point, not irving TO meet the
whole line of the euemy's force by a
similar force. One reason why he lost
Waterloo was because he did not work
his usual theory, and spread his force
out over wide range. Oh Christian
man, oh Christian woman, break through
somewhere. Not u general engagement
tor God but particular engagement,
and make n answer to prayer. Ifthcre
are sixteen hundred million people in
the world, then there are sixteen hun. .
dred million different missions TO fulfil, =,
different styles of work to do, different
orbits in which TO revolve, aud if you do
not get the divine direction there are at
least fifteen hundred aud ninety-nne
million possibilities that you will make
II mistake. On your knees before God
get the patter e'tled SO that you can
tirmly say: Ito this end was born"
Aud now 1 come to the climateric
consideration. AS near as l 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 il you will heartily accept
that ChrlsLly arrangement. We are all
rejo:ced at the increase of human long
evlty. People live, as near as l can
observe, about ten years longer than
they used to. The modern doctors do
not bleed their patients OH all occasions
Il l.
times 1t man had fever, they bled him,
he had consumption they bled him, If
he had rheumatism they bled hiul, and
1t they could not make out exactly what
was the matter they bled him. Oiden
time phlebOtOmy was deaih's coadjutor.
All this has changed. From the way
see people skipping about at 80 years OF
aye, conclude that life Insurance com-
hanies Will have to change their table of
RISKS aud charge mau no more pre-
mum at 10 than they used to- do when
lie was 60. aud no more premium at so
than when he was 40. BY the advance
ment of medical SCIENCE and the wider
acquaintance with the lIws of health and
the tact that people know better how to
prolonged. But do you realize what,
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state? In the time when people lived
seven and eight hundred years, the pa
triar Ii Jacob said that his Years were
few. Looking at the life OF The Young
est person in this assembly and suppos-
ing he lived 10 be 4 nonaSenarian, how
short the time and soon gone, while
banked up in front of us is an eternity
30 vast that arithmetic has not figures
enough to express its lengt,. or breadth,
or depth, or height. For happy eter-
nifty you were born unless You run your
self against the divine intentions. If
standing in your presence. my eye should
tall upon the ieeblesL soul here as that
soul will appear when the world lets it
up, and heaven entrances it. suppose
l sho I'D be- 50 overpowcred that should
drop down rs one dead. You have ca
amined the family Bible aud explored
the family records, aud ycu may have
daguerrotypcs of some y. the Kindred Of
previous generations. you have had pho.
losraphs taken ofwhaL you were in boy
hood or girlhood. aud 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 II picture taken of what you
my he and what you will be if YOU
seek after Goa and feel the Spirits
reseneratins power? where shall
plant the camera to take the PIC
ture? l plant il on this platform.
direct IL toward you. Sit still or stand
still while take the picture. 1t shall
be an instantaneous picture. There!
have IL. 1t is done. You can sec the
picture III lts imperfect state, and get
some idea of what ii will be when
thoroughly developed. There ls your
resurrected body, 80 brilliant That
the MONDAY sun is patch of midnight
compared with it. There is your soul
80 pure that all the forces of diabolism
could not spOtit with au impericclion
There is your being By mighty and so
swift that flight from heaven TO Mercury
or Mars or Jupiter aud back again to
heaven would not weary YOU. and II
world on each shoulder would not crush
you. An eye that shall never shed a
tear. An energy that shall never feel a
fatigue. A brow that shall never throb
with pain. You are young again,
though you died OF decrepitude. You
are well again though you couyhed
or shivered yourself into the tomb. Your
everyday associates are the apostles
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