The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1892-02-12
OLD FATHER TIME
VIII Swing His Sickle In Ninety
Two.
New Hopes Bud, Like Flushing Roses.
But This Year May Cloud bright
Promises and Death bring
sadncss-Dr. Talmage's
Sermon.

from the OminOus words, perennial
xviii, 10: This yea, thou shall
die"
Jeremiah, accustomed 20 saying bolC
things, addresses lIananiah i'm thcs,
words. They prove true In siXtl
days Hananiah had departed tins life.
This is the first Sabbath of the year
II is a time for review and anticipation
A man must be genius at stupidity
who does not think now The old yea
| died i'm giving birth 20 the new, as tn,
life of Jane Seymour, the English
! queen, departed when that of her son
! Edward VI, dawncd The old year
was n queen. The new shall be king
| The grave OF the one and the cradle OF
the other are side by side We car
hardly guess what the child will be. II
is only two days old, but prophcsy for
it an eventful future. Year of mirth
and madness! Year of pageant and
conflagration! 1t will laugh; it will
sing: it will groan; it will die
Is 1t not time for earnest thought?
The congratulations have been given.
The Christmas trees have been taken
down or have we'll nigh cast their fruit
The friends who came for the holidays
are gone in the rail train. While we
are looking forward To another twelve
months of intense activities, the lcxt
breaks upon us like a bursting thun.
derhead: ''rhis year thou shalt die"
The text will probably prove true of
SOME of us. The probability is aug
mentcd by the fact that all of us who
are over thirty-tivc years of age have
gone beyond the average of human life.
The note is more than due. 1t is only
by suffcrance that il is not collected.
We are like the debtor who is taking
the three days grace of the banks.
Our race started with 900 years for
n lifetime. We read of but one ante
diluvian youth whose early death disap-
pointed the hopes of his parents by his
dying ut III years of age. The world
then may have been ahead of what it is
now, for men had so long time i'm
which TO study, and invent, and plan.
II an artist or n philosopher has forty
years for work, he makes great achieve
ments, but what must the artists and
have done who had 900
years before them? In the nearly >, 900
years before the flood, considering the
of the inha bitants, there NAV
have been nearly as many people as
there are now.
The Hood was not a freshct that
washed few people off plank, but
disaster that may have swept away
thousand million. Ii the Atlantic
ocean by n lurch of the earth tonight
should drown this hemisphere, and the
Pacific ocean by n sudden lurch of the
earth should drown the other hemis-
phere, leaving about as many beings as
could be got in one or two ocean steam
ers, it would give you an idea OF what
the ancient flood was
AT that time God started the race
with shorter allowance of life. The |
300 years were hcwn down, until in the |
time of Ncspasian, IL census was taken |
and only 1914 persons were found 100 |
years old and three or four persons 40 |
years old. Now a man who mas come |
20 100 years OF age is Il curiosity and we |
90 miles to see him.
The vast ma jority of the race pass off |
before twenty years. TO every apple
here are five blossoms that never get
% be apples. In the country church,
he sexton rings the bell rapidly until
almost through, and then tolls il. For
while the bell of our life rings right
nerrily; but with some of you the bell
has begun To toll, and the adaptuess of
he text to you is more and more prob
lble: This year thou shalt die"
The character of our occupations
dds TO the probability. Those who
re in the professions are undergoing
apping of the brain and nerve founda-
ions Literary men in this country
re driven with whip and spur To their
ophoSt speed. Not one brain worker
mt OF 100 observes any moderation.
There is something so stimulating in
mr. climate that IL John Brown, the
ssayist of Edinburgh, had lived here,
e would have broken down at thirty
I'VE instead of ffty-five, and Charles
dickens would have dropped at forty.
There is something in all our occupa.
ion which predisposes to disease II
20 be stout to disorders ranging from
evers To apopleXy. II we be frail. TO
,seases ranging from consumption to
analysis. Printers rarely reach fifty
ears Watchmakers, In marking the
me for others, shorten their own.
hemists breathe death in their labo-
ltories and potters absorb paralysis.
ainters fall under their own brush.
oundrymen take death in with the.fl-
'gs. Shoemakers pound away their !
yn lives ON the last Overdriven NOR |
lants measure off their own lives with {
he yard'stick. Millers grind their own '
yes with the grist Masons dig their I
raves with the trowel. And in all our '
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