The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1894-02-22

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/ thrash In the same aud worship in the
same church, we nrc IN motion aud are In
many respects moving on. and we are not
where we were ten years ago. nor where we
will be ten years hence. Moving on
| Look at the family record. or the almanac,
or into the mirror, and see II any one OF you
Ia where you were. All In motion. Other
feet may trip and stumble and halt. but the
feet OF not one moment for the last sixty cen
turtles has tripped or stumbled or halted.
Moving on Society moving on The world
moving on Heaven moving on The unit
verse moving on Time moving on! Rter-
nity moving on Therefore il IL absurd t.
think that we ourselves can stop. as we must
move with all the rest. Are We like the crea :
ture Of the text, making our path TO shine
after usep IL may be "A peculiar question,
out my text suggests Il.
What influence will we leave In this world
after we haye gone through IL? None an
swer hundreds Of voices I'VE are not one of
the immortals. Fifty years after we are out
OF the world II will be ms though we never in
hablted it You are wrong in saying that
pass down through this audience and up
through these galleries. and am looking for
some one whom | cannot find.
| am looking for one who will have no Ia
duence in this world 100 years from now.
But have found the man who has the least
u
| nnd that by yes or a no he decided some
ones eternity. In time OF temptation he gave
an affirmative or u negative TO some tcmpta-
| ton which another. hearing OF, was induced
TO decide In the same way.
Clear on the other side OF the next million
years may be the first you hear of the long
reaching influence OF that yes or no, but
hear OF II you will. viii that father make a
path TO shine after him2 Will that mother
make path TO shine after her? You will be
walking along these streets or along that
country road 200 years IRON nov In the
character OF your descendants. They will
be affected by your courage or your cow
ardice. your purity or your depravity. your
holiness or your sin. You will make the
Path TO shine after you or blacken after you.
Why should they point out to US on some
mountain two rivulets, one OF which passes
down into the rivers which pour out into the
Pacific Ocean, and the other rlvulet flowing
| down into the rivers which pass out into the
Atlantic Ocean Every man, every woman,
stands AT point where words uttered OF
deeds done, or prayers offered. decide oppo.
site destinies and opposite eternities. We
see man planting tree, and treading sod
on either side OF II, and watering II In dry
weather. and taking great care In its cul-
ture, and he never plucks any fruits from Its
bough. But his children will. We are All
planting trees that will yield fruit hundreds
y
den fruit or groves OF deadly upas.
l am so fascinated With the phosphor'
escence In tho track OF n ship that have
sometimes watched for long while and have
seen nothing on the face OF the deep but
blackness. The mouth OF watery chasms
that looked like gaping jaws OF II. Not a
spark as big as frefiy not white scroll
! OF surf not a taper to illuminate the mighty
| sepulchers of dead ships darkness 5000 feet
| deep, and more thousands of feet long and
wide. That is the kind of wake that bad
man leaves behind him as no plows through
| the ocean OF this life toward the vaster oceal
| OF the great future.
Now, suppose man seated In q oornel
| grocery or business office among clerks gives
himself to jolly skepticism. He laughs al
the Bible, makes sport OF the miracles
speaks Of perdition In Jokes and laughs a
revivals AS a frolic, and at the passage OF
funeral procession, which always solemnizYs
sensible people, says, "Boys, let's take
drink." There is in that group younl
man who 10 making great struggle against
temptation and prays night and morning AMI
reads his Bible and is asking God for helI
day by day. But that guffaw against Chris