Democratic messenger., 1892-01-09

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lred and sixty five days should pass
and leave us al a. we now are. In
what direction to shoot the arrow |
know not, ana 50 shoot 1t at ven
ture "1'h. year thou shalt die p"
In view of this, advise that yOu
have your temporal matters diustcl
Do not leave your worldly affairs at
the mercy of administrators Have
your receipts properly pasted and
your letters filed am your books
balanced II yoI have rust funds "
sec that they are rightly deposited
and accounted for Let no widow or
orphan scratch on your tombstone.
This man wrnngad me of my in
heritanre I1Iy man has died
leaving Il compel ncy whose prop
erty has through his own careless
ness. afterwarl h, II divided betwC n
the administrators. the surrogate
the lawyers anl the shcriffs charge
you. before many days have gor.e. as
far ~ 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 year. Fifty two If
the text be true Of you it does not
say ut 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 rs in the last half. think we
had better divide the fisty-two into
halves and calculate only twenty six
Sabbath, Come. Christian men.
Christian women what can you do
in twenty six Sabbaths;
Divide the three hundred and sixty
five days into two parts; what can
you do i'll hundred and eighty
two days: What hy the way Of saw,
ing your family. the church and the
world: You will not. through all
the ages of eternity il heaven. get
over the dishonor anl the outrage
of going INTO glory and having
helped none up t. the same place 1t
will bc found that many Il Sabbath
school teacher hl, tax n into heaven
her whole class, that Daniel Baker.
the evangelist. took thousands into
heaven; that D3dli1dgc has taken ii
hundreds of thousands; that Paul
took in Il 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
instrumentality. 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 "rAat is the man
who never hftel hand or voice for
the redemption of lns fellows, Look
at him. all heaven Better be busy.
Better put the p!ow in deep Better
say what You have 10 say quickly.
Better en- tl, ;t'u~n Better fall on
your knee, 3 ;t>I lay hold with
both hands What y1l now leave
undonc for Christ viii forever 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 get ready
Ii the text be true. you have no time
to talk about noncssentials, asking
why God let sin come into the world.
or whether the book of Jonah is ia
spirel. or who NJ Melchisedcc was, or
what about the eternal dccrccS If
you are aS near eternity as some of
you seem To h'. there is no time for
anything but the question. What
must do To b. .avel:" The drown
ing man. when Il 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 yol are To die. there is
no time ior anything but immediate
ly laying hold oa God. 1t Is high
time TO get out of your sins. You
say, Il have committed no great
transgrcssiDns Bat are You not
aware that Your life has been sinful,
The snow come, down on the Alps
flake by flake. aud It is SO light that
you may hold il on the tip of your
finger without feeling any weight;
but the flakes gather. they compact,
until some day a 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 womanho)i may have seemed
only slight ialccuracicS or triiling
divergcnccs from the right so slight
that they are hardly worth mention.
ing. but they have been piling up and
piling up. packing together and pack
ing together until they make a
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.
Il man crossing a desuiate ana
lonely plateau. a hungry wolf took
after him. He brought hia qua 10
his shoulder and took ann, and the
wolf howled with pain, and the cry
woke up a pack of wolves and they
came ravening out of the forest from
all sides and horribly devourcd him.
Thou art the man Some one sin OF
your life sunmOning on all the rest,
they surround thy soul and make the
night of thy sin terrible with the
assault of their bloody muzzlcs Oh
the unpardoncd clamoring, ravening
all devouring sins of thy lifetime!
\ maniac was found pacing along
the road with a torch in one hant
and pail of water in the other. au6
some one asked him what he meant
to do with them lie answered
With this torch | mean to burn
down heaven. and with this water
mean to put ont the fires of he'll.