The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1893-03-03


forth from your teeth. IL will never
come back. you think. You have done
the man all the mischief you can. You
rejoice to SEQ him vince. You say;
Didn't give IL TO himl" That word
has gone out, that slanderous word, on
its poisonous and blasted way. You
think IL will never do you any harm
But am watching the world and sec II
beginning TO curve, and IL curves
around, and IL Is aiming at your heart
You had better dodge it. You can not
dodge It. II rolls into your bosom, and
after IL rolls In word of an old book
which says: with what measure ye
mote, IL shall be measured TO you
again"
You may maltrcat an aged parent
You begrudge him tho room In your
house You arc impatient with his
whimsicalities and garrulity. Itmakes
you mad 20 hear him tell the same story
twice. You give him food he can not
masticate. You wish he was away. You
wonder II he is going TO live for ever.
lie will be gone very soon Ills steps
are shorter and shorter. He is going To
stop But God has an account to settle
with you on that subject. After n while
your eye will be dim, and your gait will
halt, and the sound of the grinding will
be low, and you will tell the same story
twice, and your children will wonder IL
you are going to live for ever, and won.
der IL you will never be taken away.
They called you father" once; now
they call you the 'old man" II you
live few years longer, they will call
you the 'old chapw What are those
rough words with which your children
are accosting you?
They are the echo OF the very words
you used in the ear of your old father
forty years ago. What is that which
you are trying TO chew, but find 1t un-
masticable, and your jaws ache. and
you surrender the attempt? Perhaps
1t may be the gristle which you gave To
your father for his breakfast forty years
ago? a gentleman passing along the
street saw son dragging his father
into the street by the hair of the head
The gentleman, outraged at this brutal
conduct, was about TO punish the Of
fender, when the old man arose and
said: Don't hurt him; it's all right;
forty years ago this morning dragged
out my father by the hair of his hcadl"
II is n circle. My father lived into the
eighties, and he had very wide ex-
pcrience, and he said that maltreat-
ment of parents was always punished
in this world. Other sins may DO adj
journed to the next world, but mall
treatment of parents is punished In this
world.
Phe circle turns quickly, very quick.
ly. oh, what n stupendous thought
that the good and the evil we start
come back To us. DO you know that the
Judgment day will be only the points
ut which the circles join, the good and
bad we have done coming back to us,
unless divine Intervention hinder
coming back to us with welcome of
delight or curse of condemnation?
Oh, would like to sec Paul, the in
valid missionary, at the moment when
his influence comes to full orb-his i'm
fluence rolling out through Antioch,
through Cyprus, through Lystra,
Corinth, through Athens
Asia, through Europe, through
through the first century,
through five centuries, through twenty
centuries, through all the succeeding
centuries, through earth, through
Heaven; and Mt last the wave
Of influence having made full cir
cult, strikes his great soul Oh,
then | would like to see him. No one
can tell the wide sweep of the cir
Gle of his influence, save the one who Is
seated on the circle OF the earth.
should not want TO see the countenance
VI Voltaire when his influence comes TO
full orb. When the fatal hcmorrhage
seized him at eigthy-three years of age
his influence did not cease. The most
brilliant man of his century, he had
used all of his faculties for assauling
his bad influence widening
through France, widening out through |
Germany. widening through all Europe,
through America, widen
ing through the one hundred and IF
teen years that have gone by since he |
lied, widening through earth, widen |
ing through hell; until at last the nc |
influence of his bad life In |
Ilery surge OF omnipotcnt wrath will |
beat against his destroyed spirit, and at |
that moment 1t will be enough 10 make
The black hair of eternal darkness turn |
white with the horror. No one can |
Tell how that bad mans influence |
yirdled the earth save the one who Is |
seated on the circle of the earth--the
Lord Almighty.
"Well, now,' say people in this audi
'nce, "this, in some respects Is a very |
glad theory, and in others very sad
one; we would like 10 have all tho good
We have ever dohe come back 10 us. but