Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1894-01-10

NeeP MIN down, or man has been O,osn.
aiOng Tor so or ~ years in unsuccsSS f,l
BUSINESS, and here is an opening wher,
oy one dishonorable action he can li,,
n''nseit and lift his family from ali
financial embarrassment He attemnts
70 reap the chasIn, and he falls into IL
linen 1t is in after life that the rrea.
temptation of success comes ia man
make fortune before so year, OF ace
ne generally loses it before 20. Tha
solid and the permanent fortune. 20,
the most part do not come To tbei,
Climax until midlife or in old age. Ths
most of the bank president, h,v.
white hair. Many of those who h,v.
oeen largely successful have been fuIl
oi arrogance or worldliness or dissipa-
ton In old age. They may not have
lost their integrity, but they have be-
come so worldly and so selfish under
the influence of large success that il Is
evident TO Everybody that their success
mas oeen temporal calamity and an
eternal damage.
concerning many people IL may be
SAID 1t seems as If IL would have been
better If they could have embarked
from this life at 30 or so years of age.
DO you know the reason why the vast
majority of people die before S5p IL
Is because they have not tho moral
endurance for that which is beyond
the so, and merciful God will not
allow them TO be put to the fearful
strain.
Again, there is a blessing In abbre-
waited earthly existence in the fact
that one is the sooner taken off the de-
fensive. As soon as one is old enough
to take care of himself, he is put on his
guard. Bolts on the door to keen out
the robbers Fireproof safes to ke,p
of the flames Life insurance and fire
insurance against accidents. REGENTS
iest YOU have TO pay n debt twice. Life
boat against shipwreck Westinp-
house air brake against railroad col
lision. There are many ready TO over
reach you and take all you have. De-
Tense against cold. defense against
heat, defense against sickness, defense
against the worlds abuse. defense ALL
the way down to the grave, and even
the tombstone sometimes is not n sufii-
cient barricade.
III soldier who has been on guard.
shivering and stung with the cold. pac-
ing up and down tho parapet with
shouldered muslSet, is glad when some
one comes TO relieve guard and he can 90
inside the fortress, ought not that man
to shout for Joy who can put down his
weapon OF earthly defense and ao into
the kings castle? Who is the more
fortunate, the soldier who has TO stand
guard IL hours, or the man who has TO
stand guard six hours? We have COM
mon sense about everything but relig-
Ion, common sense about everything
but transference from this world
Again. there is blessing in an abb
breviated earthly existence in the FAC
that one escapes so many bereayo
ments The longer we live the more
attachments and the moro kindred, the
more chords to be wounded. or rasped
or sundered. II man live on TO seven
ty or eighty years of age, how many
graves are cleft at his feet? In that
long reach of time father and mother
go, brothers and sisters go, children 90.
grandchildren go, personal friends out
side the family circle whom they had
loved with love like that OF David
and Jonathan.
Besides that, some men have a nat
ural trepidation about dissolution, and
ever and anon during forty or fifty or
sixty years this horror of their dissoIu-
ton shoulders through soul and body
Now, suppose the lad goes at 10 years
OF age lie escapes fifty funerals, fifty
caskets, fifty obsequies, fifty awful
wrenchings of the heart II In hard
enough for us to bear their departure.
but is IL not easier for US TO bear their
departure than for them TO stay and
bear fifty departuresp Shall we not,
by the grace of God, rouse ourselves
into generosity Of bereavement which
will practically say, at is hard enough
for me to go through this bereavement,
but how glad / am that he will never
have TO go through I'll"
So reason with myself, and 30 you
will find it helpful TO reason with your
selves. David lost his son. Though
David was king, he lay on the earth
mourning and inconsolable for some
time. At this distance of time, which
do you really think was the one TO be
congratulated, the short lived child or
the long lived father? Had David died
as early as that child died, he would in
the first place have escaped that particu-
lar bereavement then he would have es-
capped the worse bereavement of Absa-
lon, his recreant son, and the pur-
suit of the Phillistines. and the
fatigue of his military campaign, and
the jealousy Of Saul, and the perfdy
of Ahithophel, and the curse OF Shimei.
and the destruction of his family At
Iiklag. and, above all, he would have
escaped the two great calamities of his
life, the great sins of uncleanness and
murder. David lived 20 be of vast use
to the church and the world, but so far
as his own happiness was concerned.
does it not seem 20 you that il would
have been better for him to have gone
early?
Now, this, my friends, explains some
things that 90 you have been inexplic-
able. This shows you why when God
takes little children from "A household
he is very apt % take the brightest, the
most genial, the most sympathetic, the
most talented. Why? 1t ia because
that kind OF nature suffers the most
when IL does suffer and is most Liable
20 temptation. God saw the tempest
sweeping mp from the Caribbean. and
he put the delicate craft into the first
harbor. Taken away from the evil to
come
Again, my friends. there is n blessing
in an abbreviated earthly existence i'm
the fact that IL puts ono sooner in the
center OF things All astronomers. in
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