The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-02-19

parents, his teachers, his superiors.
The moral influence ia the great infiu-
ence. One can no more help ekerting
an influence for either good or ill than
can the sun help warming with Its
beams or the air fail to touch US. In
our influence there is no neutrality.
We are either Giifusiug light or shade,
attracting toward God or toward evil.
We must shine or darken. Every in
slant we are photographing ourselves
upon our surroundings, impressing our
personality with its vices or its virtues
within every life within the range OF
our influence. However unconscious,
as when we walk the streete, we are ever
making a shadow and leaving foot
print. In the moral world we are as
constantly, and often as unconsclously,
casting shadows or emitting sunshine
There is no one who has ever known
you who will go into and through etern-
ity unaffected by your influence, whether
it be good or whether it be evil,
and this influence 10 ever extend
ing from man to man in geo.
metric progression; thus thousands suf-
fer for one wrong done. Eternity alone
will reveal the extent OF the influence.
The responsibility of parents for their
they are Indifferent to the will OF God.
Woe to the churchmau who forgets his
vows to the moral man who, refusing
to yield to Christ, is a stumbling bio elk
in the way of others, who take his SEEM
ingly fair life as an excuse for failure
in Christian duty by them. dying
sinner once exclaimed "Oh, that l.
could gather up and have buried with
me my influence, that others may be
saved" The life of each is natural
! fact to exist forever. The influence of
| Voltaire and Rosseau are as perpetual
for svil az are the influences of Martin
Luther, John Knox and John Wesley
for good. Think you not that the songs
| OF Charles Wesley will continue to
vibrate through eternity2 The muir
derer of the body is not go criminal as
! the contamination of the human soul.
The greatest punishment of hell will be
the reproach of children and those
most influenced by us for influence if it
| has cursed their lives.
The evil influence of individual church
members deter many from entering the
church. Who can measure the inhu-
ence OF an evil act ever extending
through time and through eternity Oh,
| the responsibility upon US, for with
what power are we intrusted. Will the
| impression you make be for good eter-
nslly or evil eternally? What has the
loving Savior said "If one cause one OF
these little ones to offend it were better
that milestone were hanged about his
neck, and that he were cast in the
midst OF the sea-" II you could see in q
mighty company all you have influenced
for good in this life, what strength and
gratitude it would give you. But if you
saw the multitude influenced by you fol
evil. and that eternally, what words
would paint your dismay and despair
How you would call upon the noun
tains and the rocks to fall upon you,
May God help us to search our hearts
and see what the harvest for each the
past week, the past year. will yield
"Whatsoever man soweth that ehal
he also reap; but increased only at the
final judgment is the harvest seen. May
we live right and die right, and so full
fill the law OF love-