The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1892-01-07

Az SSAciS, sloiNstl luelf own Ilcfn-
lists breath death in their labora.
tories and pot:ers absorb paralysis,
Painters fall under their own brush.
Foundrymen take death in with the
filings. Shoemake,s pound away
their own lives on the last Over
driven merchants measure of their
own lives with the yartistick Millers
grind their own lives with tho grist.
Masons dig their graves with the
trowel And in all our occupations
and professions there are the elements
Of peril.
Rapid climatic changes threaten
our lives, BY reason Of the violent
fits of the thermometer, within two
days we i've both in the arctic and
the ropic. The warm south wind
finds us with our furs ON. The win
try blast cuts through our thin ap
parel- The hoof. the wheel, tho fro
arms, the assassin wait their chance to
put upon us their quietus. Iannounce
it as an impossbility that three hun.
dred and sixty five days should pass
and leave us all as we now are. In
what direction to shoot the arrow
know not, and so | shoot 1t at a ven
ture. This year thou shalt die"
In view Of this, ! advise that you
have your temporal matters ad djusted.
Do not leave your worldly affairs at
the mercy of administrators. Have
your receipts properly pasted and
your letters filed and your books
balanced If you have trust funds, "
see that they are rightly deposited
and accounted for Let no widow OF
orphan scratch on your tombstone,
This man wronged me of my in.
heritance. Many a man has died
leaving a competency whose prop
erty has, through his own careless
ness, afterward been divided between
the administrators, the surrogate,
the lawyers and the sheriffs. / charge
you, before many days have gone, as
far as possible, have all your worldly
matters made straight. for This year
thou shalt die"
POSSIBILITIES OF SABBATH WORK.
l advise also that you be busy in
Christian work. How many Sab
baths in the yeara Fifty-two II
the text be true of you it does not
say at what time you may go, and
therefore it is unsafe to count on all
of the fifty-two Sundays. AS you are
as likely to go in the first half of the
year as in the last half, / think we
had better divide the fifty-two into
halves and calculate only twenty six
Sabbaths. Come, Christian men,
Christian woman, what can you do
in twentysix Sabbathsf
Divide the three hundred and sixty.
i've days into two parts; what can
you do in one-hundred and eighty.
two daysf What by the way of saw
ing your family, the church and the
worldi You will not, through all
the ages of eternity in heaven, get
over the dishonor and the outrage
of going into glory, and having
helped none up to the same place. II
will be found that many Sabbath
school teacher has taken into heaven
her whole class; that Daniel Baker,
the evangelist, took thousands into
heaven; that Doddridge has taken in
hundreds Of thousands; that Paul
took in a hundred millions. How
many will you take in!
If you get into heaven and find
none there that you sent, and that
there are none to come through your
instrlmentality. beg of you to
crawl under some seat in the back
corner and never come out, lest the
redeemed get their eyes ON you and
some one cry out: That is the man
who never lifted hand or voice for
the redemption of his fellows Look
at him, all heavenw Better be busy
Better put the plow in deep. Better
say what you have to say quickly
Better cry the alarm Better fall on
your knees. Better lay hold with
both hands. What you now leave
undone for Christ will f,rever be un
done. This year thou SHALT die"
In view of the probabilities men
toned / advise all the men and wom-
en- not ready for eternity to get ready.
If the text be true, you have no time
to talk about nonessentials, asking
why God let sin come into the world,
or whether the book of Jonah is in.
spired, or who Melchisedec was. OF
what abuut the eternal DEGREES. II
you are as near eternity as some of
you seem to be, there is no time for
anything bat the question. What
must do to be savedT The drown
ing man, when a plank is thrown
him, stops not to ask what sawmill
made it, or whether it is oak or cedar
or who threw it. The moment it is
thrown he clutches it.
If this year you are to die. there is
no time for anything but immediate
ly laying hold on God. 1t is high
time to get out of your sins. You
say, Il have committed no great
transgressions But are you not
d"dIC Llldt youu uIC LID DCCu Si1Lul I
The snow comes down on the Alps
fake by fake, and it is 30 light that
you may hold it on the tip of your
finger without feeling any weight
but the fakes gather; they compact,
until some day travellers foot starts
the slide, and it goes down in an
avalanche. crushing to death the vii
layers.
So the sins of your youth and the
sins of your manhood and the sins of
your womanhood may have seemed
only slight inaccuracies or trifing
divergences from the right-so slight
that they are hardly worth mention
ing, but they have been pling up and
piling up, packing together and pack
ing together, until they make O
mountain of sin, and one more step
Of your foot in the wrong direction
may slide down upon you an ava
lanche Of ruin and condemnation.
A man crossing desolate and
lonely plateau..a hungry wolf took