The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1895-07-25

There rs an I'M preston IN almost
every mans mind that somewhere
! in the future there Will be q chance
where he can correct all his mis-
takes. Live as we may, If we only
repent iii time, God will forgive
lus, and then all will be as well as
Though We had never committed
! sin. NY discourse shall come in
collision with this theory. ! shall
lshow you, my friends, as God will
help me, that there is such a thing
as unsuccessful repentance, that
there are things done wrong that
always stay wrong, and for them
you may seek some place of repent
ance, and seek it carefully, but new
or find it.
Belonging to this class of ire
vocable mistakes is the folly of a
misspent youth. We may look
back to our college days, and think
how we neglected chemistry, or ge-
ology, or botany, or mathematics.
We may be sorry about it all our
days. Can we ever get the disci-
pline or the advantage that We
would have had had we attended
to those duties in early life? A
man wakes up at forty years of
age and finds that his youth has
been wasted, and he strives to get
back his early advantages. Does
he get them back-the days of his
boyhood, the days in college, the
days under his fathers roof? "Oh,"
he says, "if / could only get those
times hack, how / would improve
them!" My brother, you will new
err get them back. They are gone,
gone, You may be very sorry
about it, and God may forgive you,
so that you may at least reach
heaven; but you will never get
over some of the mishaps that have
come to your soul as a result of
your neglect of early duty. You
may try toundo it; you can't undo
it. When you had Il boys arms
and a boys eyes and a boys heart
you ought to have attained to
those things. A man says at fifty
years, II do wish I could get over
these habits of incidence" When
did you get them? At twenty or
twenty-five years of age. You can
mot shake them off. They will
hang to you to the very day of
your death. If q young man
.througha long course of evil con-
duct undermines his physical
health, and then repents of it in
after life, the Lord may pardon
him; but that does not bring back
good physical condition. j said
to q minister Of the gospel one
Sabbath at the close of his semon,
are you preaching now?"
''Oh, n he says, IT am not preach
ing, / nm suffering from the phys
ical effects Of early sin. i can't
preach now, ! am sick" A con-
secrated man he now is, and he
mourns bitterly over early SIM;
but that does not arrest their bod
lily effects
The simple fact ii thatmen and
women often take twenty years Of
their life to build up Influences
that require all the rest Of their
life to break down. Talk about a.
man beginning life when he IS 81.
years of age talk about woman
beginning life when she is Is years
of agel All, mol In many re-
spects that is the time they close
life. In nine cases out of ten, all
the questions of eternity are de-
cided before that Talk about a
majority Of men getting their for
tunes between 10 and 20. When
you tell me that a man Is just be-
ginning life, l tell you he is just
closing it. The next fifty years
will not be of as much Importance
to him as the first twenty.
Now, why do / say this? Isit for
the annoyance of those who have
only a baleful retrospection2 You
know that is not my way. / say
t for the benefit of young men
md women. ] want them TO ua-
ierstand that eternity is wrapped
up in this hour; that the sins of
,outh we never get over; that you
re now fashioning the mold in