The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1892-02-12

bility that 865 days should pass and
leave us all as we now are. In what
direction To shoot the arrow I know
not, and so | shoot IL ut n venture;
This year thou shalt die" In
view OF this / advise that
you have your temporal matters
adjusted. DO not leave your worldly
affairs at the mercy of administrators.
Have your receipts properly pasted and
your letters fled and your books bal.
anccd If you have trust funds see
that they are rightly deposited and ac-
counted for. Let no widow or orphan
scratch on your tom stone, This man
wrongcd me of my inheritance"
| Many a man has died leaving "A com
potency whose property has, through
his own carclcssness, aftcrward been
divided between the administrators
the surrogate, the lawyers and the
shcriifs. | charge YOU before many
days have gone by, as far rs possible,
have all your worldly matters made
straight, for this year thou shalt die. 4"
advise also that you be busy i'm
Christian work. How many Sabbaths
in the year? Fifty-two. If the text be
true of you it does not say at what time
| yon may go, and therefore il is unsafe
to count ON all of the fifty-two Sundays
As you are rs 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 women, what can you do in
twenty-siX Sabbaths. Divide the 365
days into two parts; what can You do in
lS2 days? What, 10y the way OF saving
your family, the church, and the world?
You will not, through all the ages of
eternity in Heaven get over the dis
honor and the outrage of going into
glory and having helped none up TO the
same place 1t will be found that many
Sabbath-school teacher has taken
into Heaven her whole class; that Dan
icl Baker, the evangelist, took thous-
ands into Heaven; that Doddridge has
taken in hundreds OF thousands: that
Paul took in a hundred million 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 cry out: THAT is the man
who never lifted hand or voice for
the redemption of his fellows. !
Look at him, all Heaven" Better be |
busy. Better put the pillow in deep
Better say what You have TO say quick /
l..Nt. IL, 1
on your knees. Better lay hold with !
both hands What you now leave I'M
done for Christ will forever be undone. |
This year thou shalt die" In view OF |
the probabilities mentioned advise all |
the men and women not ready for
eternity to get ready. If the text be
true You have no time TO talk about
non essentials, asking why God let sin
come into the world, or whether the
Book of Jonah is inspired, or who
was, or what about |
the eternal DEGREES. II you are as
near eternity as some of you seem
to be, there Is no time for any thing
but the question: What must | do
to be saved?' The drowning man,
when n plank is thrown him, stops not
to ask what saw mill made it, or
whether it is ouk or cedar, or who
threw it, The moment il is thrown he
clutches it. If this year you are to die
there is no time for any thing but i'm
mediately laying hold on God. 1t is
high time TO get out of your sins You
say: II have committed no great trans
gressions.' But are you not aware
hat your life has been sinful? The /
snow comes down on the Alps flake by
lake, and il is so light that You NAV
lold it on the top of your finger with
'ut feeling any weight; but the flakes !
gather; they compact until some day n
travellers foot starts the slide, and II {
soes down in the avalanche, crushing s
o death the villagers. SO the sins OF l
'our youth, and the sins of your man |
lood, and the sins Of your womanhood |
nay have seemed only slight inaccura- q
lies or trifling divergences from the I
ight-so slight that they are hardly q
worth mentioning, but they have been y
bling up and piling up, packing to- 1
'ether, until they make a mountain of
in, and one more step of your foot in I
he wrong direction may slide down I
Ipon you an avalanche of ruin and con- d
A man crossing n desolate ?
nd lonely plateau, hungry wolf took I
fter him. He brought his gun to his a
boulder and took aim, and the wolf |
owled with pain, and the cry woke up h
pack of wolves and they came raven S
ng out of the forest from all sides, and /
orribly devour him. Thou art the c
lan. Some one sin of your life sum n
loning on all the rest they surround &