The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-06-22

the most preparation, for which retain
the sblest attorneys, for which DO most
anxious about the attendance Of wit.
nesses2 You would put all the stress
apon the second trial, all the anxiety,
All the expenditure, saying, "The first
Is nothing; tho last is everything
| Give the race assurance OF a second and
more important trial in the subsequent
ife and all the preparation for eternity
would be "post mortem," post funeral,
post sepulohral and the world with
bne jerk be pitched off into impiety and
godlessness.
Furthermore, let me ask why chance
should be given in the next world if we
| have refused innumerable chances in
thisP Suppose you give banquet, and
you invite q vast number of friends, but
one man declines 70 come or treats
your invitation with indifference. You
in the course Of 20 years give 20 BAN
quets, and the same man is invited to
them all and treats them all in the same
obnoxious way After awhile you re-
move to another house, larger and bet
| ter, and you again invite your friends,
5aolinod ~ nonlaotad tbe other invita-.
tions. Are you to blame? Has he q
,;oht 70 avreot +o bo ;,,,,;tad oftor all
the indignities he has done you? God
in this world has invited us all to the
banquet of his grace. He invited us by
his providence and his shirt 885 DAYS
of every wear since wa knew our RIGHT
hand from our left TT wa declined il
every time or treated the invitation
with indifference and gave 90 or 40 or IN
vears If indignitv on our mart toward
The banoueter and at last he snreads
the BANQUET in a more luxurious and
kingly place, amid the heavenly gar
dens have we a right to expect him to
invite us again, and have we right to
blame him if he does not invite us?
Only One Ofrer.
If 10 gates of salvation stood open 20
years or 80 years for our admission, and
at the end of that time they are closed,
can we complain of it and say: "These
gates ought to be open again. Give us
another chance?" If the steamer is to sail
for Hamburg, and we want to get to
Germany by that line, and we read in
every evening and every morning news
paper that it will sail on q certain day,
for two weeks we have that advertise
tment before our eyes, and then we go
down to the docks Is minutes after it
has showed off into the stream and say:
Come backl Give me another chancel
1t is not fair to treat me in this way!
Swing nm to the dock again and throw
ont blanks and let me come on boardr'
Such behavior wonld invite arrest as a
mailman.
And if after the oosnel shin has lain
of anchor before our ewes for wears and
years and all the benion voices of earth
and heaven have -nrged ns to GET On
hoard as she might sail awav at anv
roment and after awhile she calls
without ps ia il common seose to ex.
meet her IN come hack2 Yon might as
we'll 90 ont on the highlands at Nave.
sink and call RI the Majestic after she
has baen three DAVIS ont and exnect her
70 retnrn as to call hacl, an onnortnnitv
for heaven when If once has sned away
All heaven ofpared nc az a gratnitv and
for a Ifatima va rafuse to taxe II and
then rush on the bosses Of Jehovah s
hnckler demanding another chance
There ongbt tn he there can no there
will be. no such thing as posthumous
onnortnnitv Tins our common sense
agrees with NV text are tbe free fall
toward tbe sontb or toward the north
in the place where the tree falleth there
it shall be-
You see that this idea lifts this world
mn fro,n an nnimportant way station TO
n platform of stunendous issues and
makes all eternity whirl around this
bour. But one trial for which all the
preparation must he made In this world
or never made at all That niles mn all
the emphases and all the climaxes and
all the destinies into life here No 9th.
er chancel Oh. how that auyments the
yalue and the inheritance of this chance,
Alexander with his army nsed to snr.
round a citv and then would lift a
great light in token To the neople that
If thew SURRENDERED before that light
went ont all wonld he we'll Init If once
the light went ont then the battering
rams wonld swing AGAINST the wall and
demolition and disaster wonld follow
Well. all we need do for our present
and everlasting safety il 70 make sur-
render to Christ tbe hing and con.
oneror-snrrender of onr hearts snrren.
der of o,r lives snrrondar ~ everything
And ba Poems . Great lioht hnrning l;obt
Of oosnel inyitation liobt kirdled With
tho ,vaod 80 tha o,oss ond e,,o;na M
o,.;,s+ 40 do,l, ,,;,,h+ 80 CIV, "a
sorrow Snrrender while N at great l;gbt
continues r. bnrn for oftar + COOS Ont
there will bo No otber onnortnnitv of
maxine nooco viii God tbronob orr
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ha5 lost p haI,sot toal. ~ his a,,,,,
ho1,,,ot a,,a ~ - 80, ~ hood ~ tl,a
earl. and the head Of the private soldier
uncovered he was soon slain, while his