Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1894-05-16

mentS, their successes. their failures,
their gladness and their griefs, like
these two generations now in sight,
that in advance and that following.
But the twenty-five years between 1869
and 1s94-how much they saw! How
much they discovered. How much
they felt! Within that time have been
performed the miracles of the tele-
phone and photograph. From the OBJ
servatories other worlds have been
seen TO heave in sight Six presidents
of the United States have been in
augurated. Transatlantic voyage alb
breviated from ten days TO FIVE
| and n half Chicago and New
York. once three days apart, now
! only twenty-four hours by the vesti-
bule limited. Two additional railroads
have been built to the Pacific. France
has passed from monarchy TO republic
anism Many of the cities have nearly
doubled their populations During that
generation the chief surviving heroes
of the civil war have gone into the en-
campment of the grave. The chief
physicians, attorneys, orators. mer-
chants have passed off the earth or are
in retirement waiting for transition.
Other men in editorial chairs, in pull
/ pits, in governors positions, in legisla-
tive, senatorial and congressional halls.
/ There are not ten men or women on
the earth now prominent who were
| prominent twenty-five years ago. The
crew OF this old ship of n world is all
changed Others at the helm, other on
the lookout, others elm bling the rat
| lines Time is n doctor who, with
! potent anodyne, has put an en-
| tire generation into sound sleep.
| Time, like another Cromwell, has
roughly prorogued parliament, and with
| iconoclasm driven nearly all the rulers
/ except one queen from their high
| places so far as / observed that gen
GRAFTON for the most part did their best
| CHASTITY exceptions, but so far as l
| knew them. they did quite well, and
many of them gloriously well. They
were born AT the right time. and they
/ died at the right time. They left the
/ world better than they found it. We
are indebted to them for the fact that
they prepared the way for our coming.
Eighteen hundred and ninety-four rev.
erently and gracefully salutes 1869
One generation passeth away and an
other generation cometh."
/ There are fathers and mothers here
whom / baptized in their infancy.
There is not one person in this church's
board of sessions or trustees who was
here when ! came. Here and there in
this vast assembly is one person who
heard my opening sermon in BROOKLYN,
/ but not more than one person in every
five hundred now present. OF the sew
enteen persons who gave me a unani-
nous call when l came, only three.
believe, are living.
But this sermon is not a dirge; it is
an anthem. While this world is appro-
pirate as temporary stay as an eter-
nal residence would be n dead failure.
1t would be n dreadful sentence if our
race were doomed to remain here n
thousand winters and n thousand sum
mers. God keeps us here just long
enough to give us an appetite for Heav-
en-. Had we been born in celestial
realms we would not have been able
to appreciate the bliss 1t needs n
! good many rough blasts in this world
to qualify us to properly estimate the
superb climate of that good land where
1t is never too cold or too hot. too
cloudy or too glazing. Heaven will be
more TO us than 10 those supernal be-
ings who were never tempted, or sick,
or bereaved, or tried, or disappointed.
So you may well take my text out of
/ the minor key and set it to some tune
in the major key: Zone generation
passeth away and another generation
ccmeth."
Nothing can rob us of the satisfac-
ton that uncounted thousands of the
! generation just past were converted
comforted and harvested for Heaven
/ by this church, whether in the present
building or the three preceding build
lngs In which they worshiped The
two great organs Of the previous
/ churches went down in the memora bl %
fires, but the multitudinous songs thew
led year after year were not recalled
or injured There is no power in earth
! or hell to kill hallelujah. 1t is inn
possible to arrest n hosanna. What a
satisfaction to know that there are
many thousands in Glory on whose
eternal welfare this church wrought
nightly Nothing can undo that
work They nave assembled. the multi
tudes who served God in that genera
ton. That chapter is gloriously
ended. But that generation has
left its impression upon this
generation. a sailor was dying on
| shipboard and he said to his mates
/ My lads, can only think of one pas
sage of Scripture, The soul that sim
meth it shall die and that keeps ring
| ing in my ears. The soul that sinneth
it shall die;" can't you think of some
thing else in the Bible to cheer me up"
! Well, sailors are kind and they tried to
think of some other passage of Scrip
/ ture with which TO console their diving
comrade, but they could not One Of
them said, Let us call up the cabin
/ boy. His mother was a Christian. and
/ guess ~ has "A Bible" The cabin bow
was called up, and the dying sailor
asked him ii he had Bible He said.
Yes but he could not exactly find IL.
and the dying sailor scolded him. and
said: Amt you ashamed of Yourself
not 20 read your Bible" So the bow
explored the bottom of his trunk and
brought out the Bible, and his mother
had marked a passage that rust fitted
the dying sailors case: "The blood Of
Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth from all
sim That helped the sailor 70 die in
PEACE. So one generation helps an.
other, and good things written. or said.
or done are reproduced long afterward.
During the passing OF the last pener-
alton some peculiar events have I'M
folded One day while resting at
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