The record-union., 1895-11-18
TEE DIFFERENT WAYS OF LIVING.
1t Should Not be All of Life to Attain
Wealth.
The Subject Treated by Rev. w. 6.
HoSxlnson in His Sermon
Yesterday.

At the Sixteenth-street Church yes
terday the pastor, Rev. w. S. Hoskin-
son, told his hearers how to live.
Preaching from John, X, 10, Il am
come that We might have life" he said:
Go UP and down the streets, along
Front street, through the shops of our
town, or into the homes of our busy
women, and draw your inference from
what you see. What would it be!
Making a living-that is what we are
here for, that is what we live for.
Making a living, getting through the
world, seems to be all of life to many
people. 1t is the aim of their existence.
This accomplished, they rest easy ana
think that everything has been done
that should be done They eat ana
drink, sleep and awake, toll and in
dulge, come and go, live and die-th1s is
all.
Now, I like to see people busy; don't
see any place on this footStool for ldlers.
We are not born to be idle We must
provide for our own, and push enter
prise and commerce, and invention
and arts and trades in every legitimate
way. But when we are wholly an
sorbed and satisfied with these things,
then we are mere slaves and drudSes,
and we have yet to learn what true HE
is. w e are not t0lll0S anu lNllS IOI lllc
highest and the best.
Such a low view of life could be full
filed without exercising our noblest
powers 1t is an error, it is a grave mis-
take to cOnfine the great purpose OF
life to the things that so easily and
quickly perish, no matter how necessary
they may be. And it is a great pity
that the mistake is so common. There
are groveling victims to this mistake
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and the ignorant, and the high and the
low alike Any one who has arisen to
a higher plane of living is surprised at
the sad, sad waste of the noble energies
of life.
We see the low and mean impulses Of
q vicious child and can explain them
and pity the little one that has only
known such things in all its life. But
here are men and women all about us
who have no right idea of the true i'm
pulses of life. These simply exist for
some few selfish material ends, and
soon drop out of the ranks Of the great
moving caravan and pass into eternity
with the unlighted shadow Of failure
to go with them forever. To them
death ends all. Like cattle and birds
and dogs and cats, they bide their day
and are no more Not much wonder
they think this way. Their whole life
has been down on this low plane.
Why, the little child that only lived
to weep and smile for a few days and
then set its little feet down in the cold
stream and was led away by some white
messenger from heaven did far more
than this. That man was faithful to
life. too. but had far higher purposes.
who said "If in this life only we have
hope, we are of all men most mlser-
able"
Yes, it is only a poor, fretted, tickle
thing he or she has, who measures life
by the common toll TO which we are
tied, and uses it only as thing for
getting money and spending, or drudg-
ery and toll It matters not whether
he be rich or poor the mistake IS one
and the same. It is only low and
gloomy picture of life.
Turn from this to that other vein
of life which Christ brought. He said:
Il am come that ye might have life.
I3is work was not to hinder US, but to
help US He has brought life to US in
q new light. Just as He brought i'm
mortality to light so has He brought
life to light. If we have never yet
learned what life is for, it would be
blessing to know nothing about i'm
mortality. But each one knows that
he is immortal, for a spark of God is
within him, and nothing which par
takes of God can die. This would not
have much comfort to that one who is
missing the great purpose of life.
Now. Jesus showed US what a grand
thing life is. We can think of no pic
ture that has more beauty. mo mas
ter's song, though the rapt strains lift
to the third heaven, could furnish such
music" Life with noble impulses,
noble spirit noble deeds, noble out
look-it is a picture the angels might
admire and cOVet.
And this is the more abundant life
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picture nor dream only-it is to be
real It is idle for men and women who
are living only for the earthly, TO say
i is their lot. and cannot be changed.
This would make Christ's coming of
10 use, for He came that we might
have life, q life far above these low
tasks, a life intended to sweeten and
sanctify all our common duties. And
even the poorest hovel of the hardest
pressed mortal, with limited means
and few opportunities, has been
frightened by piety and nObleness
that shine amidst misery like stars
between the riffs of clouds.
These lowly mOrtals have lived sub
Iimest lives. and they show us that if
men and women degrade life to the
mere getting Of wealth or sensual in
diligence, it is because they want to
do so. because they choose to be of the
earth earthly and viii not rise to better
things.
This life only is belittling To the
rich or the poor it is a down grade run.
fTo the great or TO the lOwly it is little
less, nothing. While the more abund-
ant life which Christ offers is much.
more, infnity.
The Christ life is a beautiful pat
tern, a bright example. Everywhere it
touches is brightness, and then hea-
ven's at the eventide Of such a life are
81 aglow with its reflected splendor
Then a safe path has been made for
the children in coming days to walk in.
Stens have Leen taken which al the