Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-04-21

will be there at the close" Not yet!
Not yet!
Now, do not give any doleful view
of this life; there is nothing in my
nature, nothing in the grace OF God,
that tends toward doletul view OF
human life. | have not much SYM
pathy with Addisons description
of the Vision of Mirza," where
he represents huma life as being
a bridge of 100 a ches, and both ends
of the bulge covered with clouds, and
the race coming on, the most of them
fall ng through he first span, and all
of them falling down through the last
span. 1t is very dismal picture.
l have not much sympathy with the
Spanish proverb which says, 1.-THE sky
is good and the earth is good-that
which is bad Is betw EN- the earth and
the sky"
But while we as Christian people are
bound to take a cheerful view of life,
we mu / also confess that life is
great uncertainty, and that man who
says, Il can't become a Christian be-
cause there is time enough yet Is
running risk infinite. You do not
perhaps rea iZe the fact that this
descending grade of sin gets sleeper
and sleeper, and that YOU are gather
ing up rush and velo ity viii, h after
awhile may not answer TO the brakes.
o my friends, be not among those who
give their whole life to the world and
then give their corpse to God. 1t does
not seem fair while our pulses are in
full play of health. that we serve our
selves and serve the world, and then
make God at last the present of n
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run our ship from coast to coast ca n.y.
ing cargoes for ourselves, and then
when the ship is crushed on the rocks,
give TO God the shiyered timbers. 1t
is great thing 70 man on his dying
pillow to rcpent-better that than
never at all; but how much better, how
much more generous, il would have
been if he had repented fifty years b.
fore! Ny friends, you will never get
over these procrastinations.
Here is a delus on. People think, 81
can 90 on in sin and worldliness. but
after awhile ! will repent, and then it
will be as though / had come at the
very start" That is delusou. No
one ever gets fully over procrastina-
ton. If You give your soul to God
some other time than this, you will
enter 'aven with only half the capa-
city for enjoyment and knowledge you
might have had. There viii be heights
OF blcssednesS you might have attIined,
you will never reach; thrones of glory
on which You might have been seated.
Lut which you will never climb. We
VIII never get over procrastination
neither in time nor in eternity. We
have started on a march from which
there is no retreat. The shadows of
eternity gather on our pathway. How
insignificant Is time comp red with
the vast eternity! / was thinking of
this while com ng down over the Allie
ghcny Mountains at noon, by that
wonderful place which you have all
heard described as the Horseshoe-a
depression in the side of the mountain
where the train almost turns back
again upon itself. and YOU see
how appropriate is the DIES ,ription of
ths ''llorseShoe"-and thinking on
this very theme, and preparing this
very sermon, it hemed TO me as if the
courser CT eternity speeding along had
inst struck the mountain with one
hoof and gone on into illimitable space
30 short is time, SO insignificant is
earth, compared with the vast eter-
nifty!
This morning voices roll down the
sky, and all the worlds of light are
ready to r'joice at your disenthral.
Inent. Rush not into the presence OF
the King RAG ged With sin, when you
may have this robe of righteousness.
Dash not your foot to pieces against
the throne of crucified Christ.
Throw not your crown of life off the
battlements. All the scribes of God
are at this,moment ready with volumes
OF living light to record the news of
VOur SOul emancinatad