The Globe-republican., 1894-01-05

tar on In mlOli1e or IN OlO age. :
The first time crossed the Atlantic
ocean it was as smooth as millpond, j
and thought the sea captains and the /
voyagers had slandered the old ocean, |
and wrote home an essay for maga- |
zine on The Smile of the Sea-" but l
never afterward could have written
that thing. for before we got home we
got a terrible shaking up The first
voyage of life may be very smooth: the
last may be euroclydon. Many who
start life in great prosperity do not end
, it in prosperity.
The great pressure of temptation
comes sometimes in this direction:
at about 45 years of age mans nerv-
Gus system changes, and some one tells
him he must take stimulants to keep
/ himself up and he takes stimulants to
A, keep himself up until the stimulants
. keep him down, or a man has been going
along for 30 or 40 years in unsuccessful
business, and here is an opening where
| bv one dishonora BILE action he can lift
| himself and lift his family from all
! financial embarrassment He attempts
to leap the chasm, and he falls into it.
Then it is in after life that the great
temptation of success comes 1t man
make fortune before 30 years OF age,
he generally loses it before 40. The
solid and the permanent fortunes for
the most part do not come to their
climax until midlife or in old age. The
most of the bank presidents have
white hair Many of those who have
been largely successful have been full
of 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 it is
evident to everybody that their success
has been temporal calamity and an
eternal damage.
Concerning many people it may be
said it seems as if it would have been
better if they could have embarked
from this life at 90 or 80 years of age
Do YOU know the reason why the vast
majority of people die before 35? 1t
is because they have not the moral
endurance Tor that which is beyond
, the 30, and a merciful God will not
allow them to be put to the fearful
+ strain.
Again, there is 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 keep out
8 the robbers Fireproof safes to keep
off the flames. Life insurance and fire
!, insurance against accidents. Receipts
, ,est you have to pay a debt twice. Life
boat against shipwreck. Westing.
house air brake against railroad col
lision There are many ready to over
reach you and take all you have. De
: fense against cold, defense against
=. heat, defense against sickness, defense
, against the worlds abuse. defense al
q the way down to the grave, and ever
= the tombstone sometimes is not sufh'
; cient barricade.
If a soldier who has been on guard
shivering and stung with the cold, pac
- ing up and down the parapet will
shouldered musket, is glad when SOM
:, one comes to relieve guard and he can g
inside the fortress, ought not that mai
8 to shout for joy who can put down hi
;. weapon of earthly defense and go int
the kings castle? Who is the NOR
fortunate, the soldier who has to stan'
;, guard 12 hours, or the man who has t
. stand guard six hours? We have com
j, mon sense about everything but relig
- ion, common sense about everything
but transference from this world.
:. Again, there is blessing in an al
y breviated earthly existence in the fac
n that one escapes SO many bereavt
# ments. The longer we live the NOR
o attachments and the more kindred, tn
7 more chords to be wounded, or raspet
" or sundered If a man live on to sever
5 ty or eighty years of age, how man
10 graves are cleft at his feet? In ths
70 long reach of time father and moths
h go, brothers and sisters 60, children g
A. grandchildren 60, personal friends ou
10 side the family circle whom they ha
20 loved with a love like that of Davi
e. and Jonathan.
st Besides that, some men have ma
ural trepidation about dissolution, an
at ever and anon during forty or fifty I
r. sixty years this horror of their dissol
10 ton snudders through soul and bod
rk Now, suppose the lad goes at 16 yea
he of age. He escapes fifty funerals, fift
,h caskets. fifty obsequies, fifty awf
he wrenchings of the heart 1t is hal
IN enough for us to bear their departur
~. but is it not easier for us to bear the
All departure than for them to stay Al
II. bear fifty departures? Shall we nc
rk by the grace of God, rouse ourselv
ok into a generosity of bereavement whi'
vn will practically say. 1T is hard enoue
no for me to go through this bereavemer
,m but how glad am that he will new
ne have to 60 through it,
to So reason with myself, and so "
rk will find it helpful to reason with you
he selves David lost his son. Thous
David was king, he lay on the ear
lb- mourning and inconsolable for sor
act time. At this distance of time, whi
ON do you really think was the ono to
an congratulated, the short lived child