Democratic messenger., 1894-06-16
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unclean laughter, few more steps on
the road TO death. and then, sir, will
listen to what You say. Go thy way fol
this time. When have a convenient
season, l will call for thee. -
Another reason why Felix sent Pan
to the guardroom and adjourned this sub
ject was he was so very busy In ordi
nary times he found the affairs of state
absorbing, but those were extraordinary
times. The whole land was ripe for in
surrcction. The Sicarii. band of assas
sins, We're already prowling around the
palace. and suppose he thought. 81
can't attend to religion while ! am SC
pressed by affairs of state. 1t was
business among other things that ruined
his soul. and suppose there are thou
sands Of people who are not children oi
God because they have SO much bust
ness. 1t is business i'll the store-losses.
gains. unfaithful employees.
eco Thy Way For This Time"
II is business in your law office-sub
p9nas, writs You have to write out. pa
pers You have to file, arguments you
have TO make. IL is your medical pro-
fession, with its broken nights and the
exhausted anxieties of life hanging
upon your treatment. Ii is your real es.
tate Office, your business with landlords
and tenants and the failure of men tC
meet their obligations with you. Aye.
with some of those who are here it is
the annoyance of the kitchen. and the
sitting room, and the parlor-the wear.
ing economy of trying to meet large ex'
penses with a small income. Ten thou
sand voices of business, business, bust
ness" drown the voice of the eternal
Spirit, silencing the voice of the advanc.
ing Judgment day. overcoming the voice
of eternity, and they cannot hear; they
cannot listen. They say. Go thy way
for this time" Some of you look upon
your goods. look upon your profession.
you look upon your memorandum books,
and you see the demands that are made
this very week upon your time and your
patience and your money. and while
am entreating you about your soul and
the danger of procrastination you say:
go thy way for this time When have
a convenient season. / will call for thee. -
Oh, Felix. why be bothered about the
affairs of this world so much more than
about the affairs of eternity: Do you not
know that when death comes you will
have to stop business, though it be in
the most exacting period of it-between
the payment of the money and the tax
ing Of the receipt? The moment he
comes You will have TO go. Death
waits for no man. however high, how
ever low. Will you put your Office,
will you put your shop in comparison
with the affairs of an eternal world,
affairs that involve thrones. palaces,
dominions eternal: Will you put zoo
acres of ground against immensity:
Will you put 30 or 30 years of your
life against millions of ages: Oh, Felix,
You might better postpone everything
else, for do you not know that the up
holstering of Tyrian purple in your pal
ace will fade, and the marble blocks OF
Cesarea will crumble. and the breakwa-
ter at the beach, made of great blocks
Of stone 60 feet long, must give way
before the perpetual wash of the sea,
but the redemption that Paul offers you
will be forever? And yet and yet and
vet you wave him back to the guard.
room, saying: Go thy way for this
time. When / have convenient sea.
son, / will call for thee
The Favor of Men.
Again, Felix adjourned this subject
of religion and put off Paul's argument
because he could not give up the hon.
ors of the world He was afraid some.
how he would be compromised himself
in this matter Remarks he made after.
ward showed him to be intensely ambi.
tious. Oh, how he hugged the favor Of
men!
never saw the honors of this world in
their hollowness and hypocrisy SO much
as in the life and death of that wonder
full man, Charles Sumner. As he wen,
toward the place of burial, even indie
pendence hall in Philadelphia asked
that his remains stop there on their way
TO Boston. The flags We're at half mast,
and the minute guns ON Boston com
mon throbbed after his heart had ceased
to beat Was il always so? While hs
lived. how censured Of legislative reso
lutions; how caricatured of the picto
rials; how charged with every motive
mean and ridiculous; how all the urns
of scorn and hatred and billingsgate
emptied upon his head; how, when
struck down in senate chamber, there
were hundreds of thousands of people
who said, Good for him; serves him
right" how he had TO put the ocean
between him and his maligners that he
might have little peace, and how,
when he went off sick. they said he was
broken hearted because he could not
get TO be president or secretary of state!
! D commonwealth of Massachusetts,,
who is that man that sleeps in your pub
ilc hall covered with garlands and
wrapped in the stars and stripes? Is
that the man who, only few months
before, you denounced as the foe of re-
publican and democratic institutions:
Is that the same man: Ye American
people, We could not by one week of fu.
neral eulogium and newspaper leaders,
which the dead senator could neither
read nor hear, atone for % years of
maltreatment and caricature
When see a man like that, pursued
by all the hounds of the political kennel
60 long rs he lives and then buried un-
der great pile of garlands and amid
the lamentations of whole nation,
say TO myself: What an unutterably
! hypocritical thing is all human ap-
plause and all human favor. You took
% years in trying to pull down his
fame and then take % years in trying
to build his monument My friends,
was there ever better commentary on
the hollowness Of all earthly favor? II
there are young men who read this who
are postponing religion in order that
they may have the favors of this world.
let me persuade them of their complete
folly. If you are looking forward tG
gubernatorial. senatorial or presidential
chair. let me show you your great mis-
taka