Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-01-04

TaImage breaches a Sermon
ADcut the Present Year.
PRACTICAL CHRISTIAN THEORY
t.. q Ills Discourse. -.rtis Yea Thol
Sa4lI Tie. FEoln .cEsru al, ASA
RS In=r1e IN Detail

ga the a ght e. -.zsks TIE ep~niaS hYza |
gave Inc AZ ynS<e n lie iaaliiAr words. |
NJ daas Eisd.ax sssttay BY,
All |. a Fsigri-a stranger.
Wool net tstaia gaetn - they ~.
fhs~s ss@<s AZ tel -aa danger
IN TAlassa reza several pAsssgss reias-
ing so ARbealiaviaa longevity, making char
.sessr,ssic comments as he read. and then
preaehsd k,ona the s-sainous words. Jere-
niaa xxviA. Is. This year thou shalt
die"
jeremiah Gcccss3nsd 70 saying bold
ehsr<r, addressed aanAaish in these words.
They proved trae. II sixty days han.sniAh
hsd depart<si thks LIE.
This II me slrsS SasSssh Of the year /.
l. ticse for review aad for anticipation
A man must &c gzaIUs az stupidity who
does net taiak row The old year died Ia
giving osEtl % Ia- new, ~ tAs life Of Jane
Ssyta5ar, tne En- lisa Queen. departed
~aea that 0f Acr soa. Edward vi, dawced
The Old year WAS a q2een. The new shall
be king The grave Of the one and the
cradle O. the other ARE side b. SIDE. We
can k4raiv guess what the child Will be-
Ii = only two days old. but ] prophecy for
IL an eventfal future. Year of mirth AMI
rnadasssi Year OF pageant and eoanagra-
ton IL will laugh; il will sing; 10 viii
groan. /. will DIE.
Is it not ; time for earnest thought, The
congratulations have been given. The
Christmas trees have been taken down or
have well aigh cast their fruit The
friends Who ane Tor the holidays are gone
In the rail train. While we are looking
forward 20 another twelve months of in
tense activities the text breaks upon US
like bursting thunderhead, This year
thou shalt die
TRUE or SOME or Us
The text will probably prove true of
some Of ns The probability is augmented
on the fact that all of rs who are over
tAirty-ave yesrs Of age have gone beyond
The average OF human life. TIE note is
more thaa Ga-. l6 is only by snferance
that = Is net collected. We are like a
debtor VINO is taxing the three DAYS
l-rase" Of the baGss. Our race started
with nine hundred wear for a lifetime We
read OF but ono a-ircIlluvian youth whose
early death disappointed the HOPES of his
parents bF his Is. NJ a. seven hundred and
seventy even years Of ege. The world then
may nave been ahead Il what il is now
for men hsc long a time 10 which 20
study a.aa Lavent and plan
II ~ artist - a philosopher has forty
years fer work. Re makes great achieve
MEETS: out ~, q. auSt the artists and
uhiloso2hs-s hEye done who hed nine
hundred TeaEs before them In the nearly
two thousand Years before the Eood, con
sidering the longevity OF the inhabitants,
there lay have bean noariy as many peo-
pie - shsre are GOV. The flood was lot .
fresnet. that washed few people CT
plank. bat = disaster that may Save swept
away il>cusaad ua-ision II the Atlantic
ocean hy u igrca a the earth tonight
shoGa drown this hemisphere Aad ths Ia
cAsc o.ean b. a Sudden lurch OF the earth
should drown me csher hemisphere. le1V-
ing about many hangs as could b. got
II ooe u two ocean stsasascA it would give
you al idea O. AZ the ancient food was.
At tAst time Cred started the race with
shorter allowance y hta The zine hun
dred yscxs were ley-n down until. N the
time az VeSpaxisn. Cel.8uS Tc< token and
on!y one handrei add tgre2ty four pessoas
were found enc huR1rcl ; a-Es Oh aid three
o. four persons one hundred and forty years
old Sow = nan who has come to ore Kun
dred years Of age IS = earnestly. and we go
u.l.s.s % 49, nina The vast majority OF the
race pa.s,ss or before t.ysnty years. ToevCry
apple there are Eve blossoms tkat never get
10 be aDE.les IN tl.a epantry church the
sexton rings the bell raplaiy untii almost
through and then tolls L. Fer awhile the
bill Il oar lifo rings right u,srrily. bg- with
s0rue o. ysu the beil has began % toll. and
the lf!aptadnass u IT, text 70 you is NOR,
and more probable, 'This year thou shalt
die
OCCuPATlDT ANp CLtEATE DSITE IS o..
The char1e .er O. o.. occupations adds 20
the prooaA..ty. Those WHO are ia the pro
LESSONS src aadcrs oing ? sapplns II tho
brain Al rcrr, foundations. Literary
men IL tAis county are driven with whin
and spur 20 their iagztost speed. Not ore
brain worker OF VI = hundred OBSERVES
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stimulating IN org cliuate shat K john
Brown. tbe essaTi5s Of Edhnbur n hsi
lived here. he worl6 hsve broken covn a.
thirty ave ias.,s p az ilty Eve aud Char. ~
Dickens would haze dropped a. forty,
There Is soraethiDy il AL car occupations
which prraspOscs % diss2e II we m
stout, - disorders ranging from levers 70
ApopiexF II we - irlil. 10 diseases rang
Ing from consumption - psFsiy s4s Print
ers rarely reach ilry Ycars NatchpnaSers
Ia marking The tune Tor others. Shorten
their o.n Cas1nis breaths death IN theil
iataratoric-. and po.teTs absorb Per',ly sis
Painters fall andcT their own brush. Foun
sho.su,aScrs pound assy their own lives on
the last OyerSriven merchants UeasuI
oT their own lives wish the yl1vistick
Miller zriud their own lives with the grgs
Assors Dig their graves with tae trevei
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there ars the elements q peril.
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lives Ey r-a~In az the vtolsn' tts Of tn
tasrnlauaetsg. w4tkin two days we live boti
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