The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-01-19

,ns. u u au gone; you VIII never hesr OF
tt, perhaos, you think
few years after a man comes IN 70 YOU
and says, You don't know me do yougn
You say "No. I don't remember ever tc
have seen YOU why" he saws "Ilwas In
tho Sao5a5n-school class over whid yo,,
were the teacher. Ons Sunday YOU klvr, b.
me 70 Christ. | accepted the ofrer. s'ou
500 that church with two towers yonderg'
Yes, you say. He says. "rhat is wnere
preacn;' or, DO you see that governors
housei Tnat is where | live Ono uny a
man comes TO you and says, Cool morn.
ing" You look at him an 1 say, "why. yo,.
have the advantage o me; | cannot place
you. lie says Don't YOU remember thirty
years 90 giving letter o. intro iuctOn to
q young man. a letter OF intro iuctiol to
Moses II. Gr.nnsli;' YES. yes. | do lie
says; II am tue mara that was nv frst
step toward fortune, hus | have retired
IRON business nov au I am giving my time
To phlanthropies al public interests. Cone
NJ an see mf.
Or man comes to you and says: ~
want TO in.roiuc, myself to you. 1 went
into prayer meeting in Atlanta somc
years ago; sat back by tbs DOR; you arose
TO maze uu cNi1r;atiol, tlas talk cuang.d
the conrss or my nte, an It ever get %
heaven, un ,ar GOT Will uws my salvation
TO you. II on'Y t1u twenty or tnrty
years tue circ.t sw,pt QUO ant swept bi.k
agaln - You' owi sr1ts,ul near.
But soHe5 ne. u h. = voter Gree ant
does not re1Icl 40. . t,tsi. .slu.. saw
bill of OK I.u,ti .D' JJri.I. Liti.n,.. ana
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That was rIetp nre, considering al, "a,
circum,tauc 's, uu % Elnit-i q tight t'a'
shDue all arDutt tu' Wpru an I aroused tut
martyr spir.t. an uus Irom tnat uurning oi
Latimer aut itdt "F rolled tn, cuc.e wIti
uud wider. stlrtiH, O'Ger clrcle., cOuvo ut
in, overrunuinr Cir,u nscriOlns, ov'rarcn
ing AL he1y .u- cut,..
But wutJ o. tru' o. the good is jud
tru' Ok tn. nai. You utter aslinuer asain.t
YOUR nalghpOr. IL has gone forth iron
your teetn: T. Will never come back. Va,
thnk. You have done the man all the mi.
chiet you can. You re ioce TO see him wincs
You say, "Didn't give IL to himr' That
word mas gone out, that slanderous word. on
ltS poisonous and blasted way. Ynu thinl
" VIII never do you any harm. But / an
watching that worl, AMI see it beginnin,
70 curve. and it curves aroull, and it is aim
ing at your heart. You hal better dole
IT, You cannot dodge It, II rolls into yo,i,
bosom aud after It rolls in word OF an OH
oooN whicn says, "With what measure y,
I
You maltrclt an agei parent. You be
CRU igei MN tho room in your house. Yog
are impatient OF his whimsicalities AMI ear.
tuiIty' tmakes you mad 70 hear him tel
the same sorry twica. You give him fool
ne cannot masticlte. You wish hs wa.
Sway iou wonder /, h' i going TO live
forever. lie viii ba gone very soon. Hi,
steps are shorter an ! shorter. He is goins
TO stop. But 60 has an account TO settle
with you on that subject. After awhile
your eye viii BE- dim. anl your y1it will
matt, and the sound of the grinding will hs
low, and you viii tell ths snmn story tyyic,
ana your chill ireu will wonder IL you are
solhS 70 I'VE torevera aud wonder II you viii
never uc taken away
They calls you "iatherr onee. now tho,
clli you the "old man" IL you live IA fs,y
years longer they will call you the ''oli
chap! What are those rough words with
wh!ch your children are accosting youi
Ihey are the echo of the very words YOU
useu IN the ear of your old father forty
years ago. What IS that which You .ars.y
trying 10 chew, but find IL Ngmns
hcable, AMI your Jaws ache anl YOU sur.
ren4er the attempt? Perhaps il may be the
griste which you gave TO your father for
his breakfast rorty years ago.
a gent,eman passing aions tn, street saw
a son dragging his father into the street by
the hair of the heat The pentlem an. ont.
Ia
punish the Oft snder when the old man arose
and sit, Don't huft him: its all right:
forty years ago this morning dragged out
my tather 10y tHe hair OF his heatw IL isn
circle. My father lived into IN, eighties
anu he had very wide experience. aud he
said that maltreatment OF parents was
always punished in this world. Other sus
may be adiouruet to tho next world but
maltreatment OF parent Is punished IN tnls
world.
Ile circle turns quickly, very quickly.
10, what stupen 3pus thou ,ht that the
good and the evil We start come bacS % t,l
DO you know tnat the in lgmcnt Day w,Il
be only the points Al which the circles ioin.
tho good mud the bal we hay, done coming
back to rs, unless divine Intervention hinder
coming back 20 n, with welcome of delight
or curse Of condemnation.
On, would Ike % see Paul, tho invalid
missionary, AZ the moment wnen his inhu.
ence CONES 10 tu.l oro-his influence rolling
out through Antioch, through Cyprus,
through Lyslra, through Corinth, through
Athens, through Asia. Through Europe,
through America, throu IA the iirst century,
through tive centurles, tnrlu-l twenty cen
turtles through all the succeediu. centurie..
through earth, through heaven, and at last,
the wave OF influence having made fun cir.
cult, strikes hts great soul Oh then / would
like to see him No one can tell the wida
sweep OF the circle OF his influence save the
One VINO Is seated on the circle OF the earth.
should not want to see the countenancs
of Noltalre when his influence comes 10 tul
orb. When the fatal hemorrhage seizsI
him at olghty-three years OF age his iniiI-
ence did not cease. Tho most brilliant man
OF his century, he had use1 all his faculties
for assaulting Christianity his Dad iniiu-
ence widening through France, widening out
through Germany, widening through all
Europe. widening through America. widen.
ing through the 10 years that have gone "
since he died, widening through earth,
widening through hell until at last the az.
cumulated influence OF his bad life III iery
surge of omnipotent wrath will beat against
his destroyed spirit, and at that moment il
will be enough to make the black hair OF
eternal darkness turn white with the horror.
No one can tell how that bad mans inhu
ence girdled tho earth save the one who Is
seated on the circle OF the earth the Lord
Almighty.
We'll, now say people in this audience.
TINS IL some respects is very glad theory
ana IN others very sad one; W. would like
to nave all the gooI we have ever done coue
back to W, but Lne thought that all the sins
IA, nnyR a. Vaf. mi ffs.t A