The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1893-01-26

| ing. 1t is all gone; you Will never near u
| it, perhaps you thlnK.
| A few wears after a man comes up to you
| and saws, "You don't know me, do your
| You say, mo. don't remember ever 10
| have seen YOU" "Why," he says. u was IN
| the Sabbath-school class over which you
were the teacher. One Sunday you invite
| me to Christ. | accepted the offer. \ on
| sea that church with two towers yonderY'
"Yes.n you say. He says. That is where
preacn:" or, "Do you see that governors
houses That is where live" One Gay a
man comes to you and says, uoo1 morn
lnyn You look at him and say, IVY ny. you
have the advantage o me; L cannot place
you.n de SAYS, "Don't you remember thirty
years a 20 giving letter or intro iuctlon TO
= voung man. a letter of Introduction to
Moses H. tIrlnnell?' Eyes, yes, l do" He
saws: Il am the man; that was my hrst
step toward fortune, but l have retired
Iro business now ami am giving my eiuie
TO philantnroples anu puohc ih'01 s''3' ~oA'
up an see me-" ar
Or a man comes to you and says: u
want to introduce myself to you. l went
into a prayer meeting in Atlanta sons
years ago; sat back oy the door; you arose
to make an exhOrlaton; Jha5 Talk cnangeu
tue course Of my life, an IL ever set 10
aeayen. un Ter ,Iol 1 will owe my salvation
10 you.n In only ten, twenty or tnf1y
years Cue cree sws ~ oI5 anl swept DacA
a.ain to your own crate. III nsart
But sometimes it Is a wider circle ana
does not return Tor q great wnlie. saw
bill of expenses Tor burning Latimsr AMI
Ridley The DILL OF expenses says;
One load of dr fagots ............ ,...... 3s. "a
Garage of four loa Is or WOO. ............ =.
Item, post a.
Item, tWo cnains .'''..'''''''''''.' ~ "a
Item Two sap les ...'..''...'. .~''''' , ~
Item, four IaDoce rs ...............'..'.. Is. 81
That was cheap ire, conSluerlng ali the
circumstances, but it Klndled nght Jnat
shona ali arouai the word and aroused tue
martyr shirt anu out from unat burning o.
Latimer ami Ridl ey rolled the circle wIder
and wider starting other circles, con'o-ut
lng. overrunning, circunscrlolng, oVerarch-
ing all heaven-t cree
But what is true OF the good Is Just a
true of the bad. You utter Islander against
yolr neighbor 1t has gone forth from
u C a; IL VIII never come back, you
tlnk. YOU have done the man all the mis-
chief you can. You reioica to see him wInce
You say, "Diin't | give it to hinw That
word has gone out, that sian lerous word, on
its poisonous AMI b!astal way. You think
it will never do you any harm. But L am
watching tna5 wor /, AMI | sea it beginning
to curve, and it curves aroul / and it is aim.
ing at your hear. You hal better do lge
it. You cannot 10 ige it. It rolls into your
bosom and after it rolls in word of an old
booS, which says, "Witl whI5 measure ys
met, it shall BE- meas rel to you again.
You maltreat an agel parent. You be-
CRU tged him the room in your house. You
are impatient OF his whinsicalities AMI gar
rulity. 1t makes you mad to hear him tell
the sane story twice. You give him food
he cannot masticate. You visa he was
away. You wonder i he is going to live
forever. He will be gone very soon. His
steps are shorter AMI shorter. Hs is going
tN D. /. IL
with you on that subject. After awhile
your eye will be dim, AM your gait will
hat, and the sound of the grinding will be
low, and you will tell the same story twice.
ana your chill lren will wonder if you are
going to live forever and wonder if you will
never be taken away.
Tney Gale you ';ather7 once; now they
call you the ''old man." II you live few
years longer they will call you the ''old
chap" What are those rou III words with
which your children ara accostng you?
Iney are the echo of the very words you
usei in the ear of your old father forty
years ago. WHAT is that which you are
trying to chew, but find it unmas.
ticaole and Jour jaws acne, AMI you sur.
renler the attemot? Perhaps it may be the
gristie which you gave to your father for
his breakfast forty years ago.
y gentle nan passing along the street saw
a son dragging his rather into the street by
the hair of the hea l.. The gentleman. out
ragged at this brutal Goa iuct, was about to
punish the Offender when the old man arose
and il, Don't hurt him; its all right;
forty years ago this Inorning | dragge OUT
my father by t hair of his head" 1t is
circle. Ny father livei into the eighties.
and he had a very wide experience and he
said that maltreatmant OF parents was
always punished in this world. Other sins
may be adjournei to the next world, but
maltreatment OF parents is punished IN this
world.
rne circle turns quickly, very quickly.
Ga, what a stupen1ous thought that thu
good ami the evil we start come back to usi
Do you know that the ia lgment Day will
be only the points at which the circles join,
tho good ana the bad we have done coming
back to Us, unless divine Intervention hinder
coming back TO Us with welcome OF delight
OF curse of condemnation.
Oh, | would like to see Paul, the Invalid
missionary, at the moment wnen his lnhu-
ence CONES to full oro--his influence rollinr
OUT through Antioch, through Cyprus,
through Lystra, through Cornth, throu5 "a
Ataens, through Asa, through Europe,
tnrou "a America, throu "a the lirst century,
tIr0u IN i've centuries, through twenty cen.
turles, tarou5n all the succeeding centuries,
through earth, through heaven, and at last,
the wave OF influence having made fuil clr-
cut, strikes uiS great soul. Oh, then would
ike to see himl No ons can tell the wide
sweep OF the circle OF his influences save the
One who is seated on the circle OF the ear n.
l should not want to see the couuCenance
of Noltalre when his intluancs comes TO run
ORR. When the iatai hemorrnage seizel
MIN at elSnty-Jnree years OF age mis- lntiu-
ence uld not cease. The most brilliant man
OF his century, ne mad USED all his faculties
Tor assaulClng Christianity, his Dad lnhu.
ence widening through France, widening out
through Germany, widening through all
Europe, wldenln, CnrouSn America. WIDEN
ing through the lis years that have gone uy
since ne died, widening throu "a eartn,
widening through neil, until at last tn &C.
cumuiatei influence OF his Dad Nfe III tiery
surge OF omnipotent wrath will beat against
mis- destroyed spirit, aud at taat IN jm 4nt 1T
VIII be enough to make the biac6 hair OF
eternal darkness turn white with the horror.
No one can tell how that bad mans lniu.
ence 9rdled the earCn save the one VINO Is
seated on the circle o. tue earGn the Lord
Almighty
~ ell, now, say people in this au ilenca,
''tnls ii some respects IS Il very glad uaeory
| anu IN otders u very SAL one; We would like
| 20 nave All the gool we nave ever done co ne
acc 10 Us, uuU Cne thou sn0 unaJ all Jne sins
| W. naYe ever committee Win cone paci 10
| Us n4is Us wiJn aLIrI 5nI.' Ny brother /
lave 20 tel you Goa can break that clrci,
1 az f.at