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

our world now is7 We ars like ,hor.
VINO study the American continent
while standing on the Atlantic beach
Inc way to study the continent Is to
cross It or so to the heart of it Our
standpoint in this world is defective
we are at the wrong end of the tel
escope- The best way 90 study piece
OF machinery Is not to stand, on the
ooor-step and try TO look in, but to go
IN with the engineer and take our
place right amid the saws and the CYL
,hoers We wear our eyes out and our
Drain out from the fact that we ara
studying under such great disadyan-
tagrS
Does not our common sense teach M
tnat 1t is better to be at the center
than to be clear out on the rim of thu
wheel, holding nervously fast 10 the
tire lest we be suddenly hurled into
light and internal felicity? Through
all kinds of optical instruments irving
10 peer in Through the cracks and the
keyholes of Heaven-afraid that both
doors OF the celestial mansion will b.
swung wide open before our enhancing
vision-rushing about the apothecarv
shops OF this world, wondering IL this
Is good for rheumatism, and that 4.
good for neuralgia, and something elsa
Is good for bad cough, lest we be sud.
denly ushered into land OF everlastins
health, where the inhabitant, never
say: IL am sick"
we stick to the world as though wa
preferred cold drizzle to warm habita.
ton, discord to cantata, sackcloth To
royal purple-as though We preferred n
piano with four or Ave keys out of tuna
TO an instrument fully attuned-as
though earth and Heaven had ex-
changed apparel and earth had taken
on bridal array and Heaven had gons
into deep mourning, all its waters stag
nant' all its harps broken, all chalice,
cracked at the dry wells, all the lawn,
sioping TO the river plowed with
graves, with dead angels under the fur
row. Oh, want to break up NV own
infatuatiou, and / want TO break up
your infatuation for this world. tell
you IL we are ready, and II our work In
done, the sooner we go the better, and
IL there are blessings in longevity, I
want you to know right well there nre
also blessings in an abbreviated earthly
existence
IL the spirit OF this sermon Is true.
how consoled You ought to feel about
members of your families that went
early. Taken from the evil to come"
this book says What n fortunate es-
cape they hadl How glad we ought 10
feel that they will never have to 90
through the struggles which we have
had to go through. They had JUST time
enough to get out OF the cradle and
run up the springtime hills OF this
world and see how il looked, and then
they started for better stopping
place They were like ships that put
In at St Helena, staying there long
enough to let passengers go up and SEQ
the barracks of Napoleon's captivity
and then hoist sail for the port OF their
own native land. They only took this
world I'm transitu." II Is hard for ua
but 1t Is blessed for them.
And II the spirit OF this sermon 4,
true, then we ought not to go around
signing and groaping because another
year has gone. But we ought to 90
down on one knee by the milestone
and see the letters and thank God that
we are three hundred and sixty-five
miles nearer home. We ought not to
go around with morbid feelings about
mise. We ought TO be living, not ac-
cording TO that old maxim which |
used to hear in my boyhood, that YOU
must live as though every day were the
last; you must live as though you were
to live forever, for you will. Do not
be nervous lest you have TO move out
OF shanty into an Alhambra
One Christmas morning one of nv
neighbors, and old sea captain, died.
After life had departed, his face was
illuminated as though he were Just TO
ing into harbor. The fact was, he had
already got through the "Narrowa"
In the adjoining room were the Christ
mas presents waiting for his distribu-
ton Long ago, one night, when ha
had narrowly escaped with his shiu
from being run down by great ocean
steamer, he had made his peace with
God, and a kinder neig,ibor or a better
man you would not find this side of
Heaven. without a moments warning
the pilot of the heavenly harbor had
met him just off the lightship
The captain often talked 70 me of the
goodness Of God, and especially OF
time when he was about 20 20 in New
York harbor with his ship from Liver
pool, and he was suddenly impressed
that he ought to put back TO SEA.
Under the protest OF the crew and un-
der their very threat he put back TO
sea, fearing at the sanra time he was
losing his mind, for IL did seem so un-
reasonable that when they could get
into harbor that night they should
put back TO sea But Trey put back 10
sea, and the captain said TO his mate,
You will call me at 10 o'clock at
night"
At IL o'clock at night the captain was
aroused and said: What does this
mean? thought told you TO call me
at 10 o'clock, and here IT s12." why"
said the mate, II did call you NJ 10
o'clock, and you got up, looked around
and told me TO keep right on this same
course for two hours, and then 20
call You at 10 o'clock" Said the cap
tain: as IL possible? have no re.
membrance of that"
At twelve o'clock the captain went
on deck, and through the riff Of the
cloud the moonlight fell upon the sea
and showed him shipwrecls with one
hundred struggling passengers He
helped them of Had he been any
earlier or any later At that point OF the
sea he would have been OF no service 90
those drowning people. On board the
captains vessel they began 60 band to-
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