Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1891-10-09

rection. | consulted my own tastes. l
| liked LAWYERS and courtrooms and judges
and iuries, and ! rcveled in hearing the
| Frelnghtysens and the Bradleys of the
| New Jersey bar, and us assistant Of the
county clerk, at sixteen wears OF age, l
| searched titles, naturalizcd foreigners,
recorded deeds, received the confession OF
Judgments, swore witnesses and jurles
and grand iurirs But after awhile felt
b call to the Gospel ministry and entered
H., and felt som, satisfaction in the work.
BIT one summer, when | was resting at
| fharon Springs and while seated In the
park of that village, said to myself, IF
lave an especial work to do in the world L
ought to find it, out now" and with that
determination ] prayed us | had never be-
fore prayed, and got the divine direction,
and wrote 1t down in my memorandum
book, and | snw my life work then as
plainly rs see it now.
OH do NOT be satisfied with general d.
rectons Get specific directions. Do not
shoot at random. Take aim and fire.
Concentrates NupoleOns success in but
tie cHnie from his theory of breaking
through the enemy's ranks at one point,
not trying to meet the whole line OF the
encmys force 10y a similar force. One rea-
son why be 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 gen
eral engagement for God, bat n particular
d engagement and made in answer to pray
err. If there are sixteen hundred million
people in the world, then there are sixteen
hLndred million different missions to full
FL, different styles Of work to do, different
| Crh tE In VEL, n rp1-p
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,
''Io this end was born"
INCREAsED LONGEVITY.
And now | come to the climactoric con-
, siderntion. 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 retoced at the increase
, IN human longevity People live, as near
, rs ! can observe, about ten years longer
than they used to. the modern doctors do
not bleed their patients on all occasions as
did The former doctors, In those times if
Il man had fever they blcd him, if he had
consumption they bed him, if he had rheu-
mutism they bled him, and if they could
rot make ont exactly what was the matter
f they bled him. Olden time phlebotomy
was deaths coadiutor. All this has
changed.
r From the way | see people skipping
, about at eighty years of age, | conclude
, that life insurance companies will have to
change their table of risks, and charge II
p man no more premium at seventy than
| they used to do when he was sixty, and no
more premium ut fifty than when be was
, | forty. By the advancement of medical
, science and the wider acquaintance with
, ! the laws of health, and the fact that peo
: pie know better how to take care of them
I selves, human life Is prolonged. But dc
! you realize what, after all is the brevity
of our earthly state? In the times when
people lived seven and eight hundred
! yeats, the patriarch Jacob said that his
. | years We're few.
. Looking at the life of the youngest per
= son i'll this assembly and surprising he
r lived to be nouaGenarian, how short tht
| time and soon gone, While banked up il
+ front of US Is an eternity SO vast that arith
. 1netc has not figures enough to express il.
: length or breadth or height. For a happy
q eternity you were born unless you ruI
q standing in your presence my eye should
, fall upon the feebest soul here as that sou
:. viii appear when the world lets it up, ant
4 heaven entrances it, suppose would b,
80 overpowered that | should drop dow
a as one dead.
= You have examined the family Biblt
and explored the family records, and vol
i may have daguerreotypes of some Of TIT
v kindred of previous generations, you have
:. had photographs taken of what you wer,
. in boyhood or l;rhood, and what yol
y We're ten years later, and it Is very interest
. ing to any one to be able to look back upor
, pictures OF what he was ten or twenty o
+ Thirty years ago; hut have You ever had ,
y picture taken of what you may be au(
what you will be if you seek after God anc
/ feel the Spirits reEeneratinR power
+ Where shall | plant the camera to taxi
n the picturef | plant 1t on this platform
+ | direct 1t toward you. Sit still or stan(
i still while take the picture, 1t shall b.
n an instantaneous picture. There! | hav
p, it. 1t is done. You ca, see the picture il
f its imperfect state aud get some idea 0
i what it will be when thoroughly developed
j. THE REsURRECTED BODY.
n There is your resurrected body, SO bril-
a liant that the MONDAY sun is patch o
d midnight compared with it. There is you
II soul, so pure that all the forces of dia be
It ism could not spot it with an imported
a ton. There is Your being, so mighty an,
/. SO swift that flight from heaven to Mer
g curry or Mars or Jupiter and back again t.
d heaven would not weary you, and worl'
10 on each shoulder would not crush You Al
T. eye that shall never shed a tear An en-
is ergy that shall never feel q fatigue.
k brow that shall never throb with pain
e, You are young & gain, though you died 0
decrepitude YoU are we'll again, thougI
a you coughed or shivered yourself into tn
10 tomb. Your everyday associates are til
d apostles and prophets aud martyrs, an
10 most exalted souls, masculine aud feni
ID nine, of all the centuries, The archange
t. to you no embarrassment God himsel
20 your present and everlasting Joy. Tina
10 is an instantaneous picturAof what yo
st may be, and what am sure some of yo
N will be. II you realize that it Is an tnpel
IA feet picture, my apology is what the apps
x tie John said. at doth not yet appea
.o what we shall be-" go this end was