Milford chronicle., 1893-12-01


It. The hammer comes down on the guncap
and the barrel explodes and kills you in
stead Of that which you are pursuing
IN When you turn out to hunt the world
II. the world turns out to hunt you. and as
d many a sportsman aiming his gun at a
It panther's heart has gone down under the
ie striped claws, so while you have been at
.e tempting to devour this world the world
has been deyouring you. So it was with
d Lord Byron. So it was with Coleridge So
,e it was with Catherine Of Russia Henry
e II went out hunting for this world, and its
q lances struck through his heart. Francis
r l aimed at the world, but the assassin's
e dagger put an end to his ambition and his
, life at one stroke Mary Queen of Scots
e wrote on the window of her castle;
e From the top OF al my trust
r Mishap hath laid me in the dust
SALVATION pOs TPONED FOREVER.
I Tho queen dOwa er Of Navarro was Of
r fered for her wedding day a costly and beau
? tiful pair Of gloves. ana she put them on.
but they were poisoned gloves, and they
took her life. Better bare hand of cold
privation than warm and poisoned glove
of ruinous success. "Oh, - says some Young
man in the audience, Il believe what YOU
are preaching. am going to do that very
thing. In the morning of my life am 60
ans ~ d1fr rtA t4lI prey anu III tilt evening
shall divide the spoils Of Christian char
acter. l only want a little while to sowmy !
wild oats, and then ] will be goocl5,,
Young man, did you ever take ssesus /
OF all the old people? How man 81 = [
pie are there in your house? OI#T
nonek How many in a vast asa
like this? Only here and there gray nee.
like the patches Of snow here and there in I
the fields on a late April day The fact is
that the tides of the years are so strong that
men go down under them before they get
to be GO, before they get TO be 90. before
/ they get to be 40, before they get to be 80;
and If you, my young brother, resolve now
that you will spend the morning of your
days in devouring the prey the probability
is that you viii never divide the spoils
in the evening hour He who postpones
until old age the religion Of Jesus Christ
postpones it forever
Where are the men who, so years ago. re-
solved to become Christians in old age, put
ting it of certain number of years. They ,
never got to be old. The railroad collision, /
or the steamboat explosion, or the slip on
the ice or the falling ladder, or the sudden
cold put an end to their opportunities.
They have never had an opportunity since, I
and never will have an opportunity again.
They locked the door of heaven against
their soul, and they threw away the keys. a
They chased the world, and they died in the +
chase. The wounded tiger turned on them -
They failed to take the game they pursued. n
Mounted on swift courser, they leaped Q
the hedge, but the courser fell on them and
crushed them. Proposing to barter their {,
soul for the world, they lost both and got f
neither
LIES BRIEF DAY.
While this is an encouragement to old q,
people who are still unpardoned, it is no
encouragement TO the young who are put fl
ting off the day of grace. This doctrine ii
that the old may be repentant is to be tax h,
en- cautiously. 1t is medicine that kills or =
cures. The same medicine given to differ nj
ent patients, in one case it saves life and in -,
the other it destroys it. This possibility Of y"
repentance at the close of life may cure the b.
Did man while it kills the young. Be eau n
.iOus in taking it, ~
Again, my subject is descriptive of those ~
who come to a sudden and radical change. -
You have noticed how short a time it is 81,
rom morning to night-only seven or st
eight hours You know that the day has Le
. very brief life. Its heart beats "A times ~,
md then it is dead How quick this transi -,
ion in the character of these Beniamites! F.
In the morning they shall devour the 10
lrey, and at night they shall divide the a.
polls" Is it possible that there shall be -,
uch Transformation in any Of our char ~
cters? Yes, man may be at O'Clock in m m
he morning an all devouring wording,
nd at O'Clock at night he may bea peace
III, distnbutive Christian. -;
Conversion is instantaneous. A man -. -.
asses into the kingdom Of God quicker - -
han down the sky runs zigzag lightning -,
man may be anxious about his soul for a 90
reat many years; that does not make him p p
Christian. A man may pray a great ~ .i.
lille; that does not make him Christian. -
man may resolve on the reformation of a. a
is character and have that resolution 60 20
g on great while; that does not make -.
i'm Christian. But the very instant - ~.
hen he filings his soul on the mercy Of Je- eIi' eIi'
Is Christ, that instant is lustratiOn, -"
resurrection Up to that ~ ~
'int he is going in the wrong direction; ~
ter that point he is going in the right di- ;ts ~
ction Before that moment he is a child ''5 y,
sin; after that moment he is a child Of
3D. Before that moment devourng the iis
ey; after that moment dividing the @ eee
oil Five minutes is as good as five 80
ars. ' 70
My hearer, you know very well that the y = ~
st things you have done you have done 'i99.
a flash. You made up your mind in an ~
stant to buy, or to sell, or to invest or to l'c'
1p, or to start. If you had missed that suc'
e chance You would have missed it for & ua
er. Now, just as precpitate and quick l'@"
d spontaneous will be the ransom Of your OF ~ y
nj. Some morning yea were making a -, ~
culation. You got on the track Of some .te "a
ancial or social game. With your pen or viieI i.
neil you were pursuing il. That very C,"'
,rning you were devouring the prey, but Vhe
1t very night You were in n different ui1I ~
nod found fhat nj hsur-arn Of A1t
ed you. You wondered how you could y, mao
it for yourself and for your family. vhet
u wondered what resources it would or o.
e you now and hereafter You are di- "ori
ing peace and comfort and satisfaction ere
Christian reward in your soul. You 70 d
dividing the spoil dent
RELIGION MAKES MAN MASTER. desil
)ne Sabbath night at the close of the cago
vice | said to some persons, "W hen did Vldu
/ first become serious about your sOulS" Jhe
d they told me, Tonight" And l said tectt
others, when did you give your heart intel
5od?" And they said, Tonight" And lied
nd to still others. when did Won re-. ality
We 10 serve the Lord all the days of your the
2" And they said, Tonight" " / saw supp
the gayety of their apparel that when On
grace Of God struck them they were de ol''h
lring the prey, but ! saw also in the mas q
ID of joyful tears, and in the kindling 4VO
lures on their brow, and in their exhila- magl
and transporting utterances, that they and
c dividing the spoil EN- bi
you have been in this building when rlgnt
lights are struck at night, you know aouo
with one touch Of electricity they are PACK
blazed. Oh, l would to God that tue put
kness Of your souls might be broken up, Weatl
that by one oiiicl over,vbeIning IN mark
ltaneous flash of illumination Won she &
Int be brought into tbe !, TT and tbe Ha
rty Of the sons of Codl our Ii
on see that religion is a different thing York
n what some you people supposed
thought it was a decadence. You
lght religion was maceration. You An
lght it was highway robbery; that it in ire