The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1895-08-02

fbNN aANhis MY orNiNtF ron wall
never get them back They are gone.
gone You are sorry about Il. and cod
may forgive, so that you may AZ lnst
reach Heaven; but you win never rel
over some Of the mlshnps Than
have come 70 your sonl IS ~.
snlt OF your neglect OF early duty.
You may try TO undo Il; yon can NOT
undo II When you had boys arms.
and q boys eyes, and aeboys heart
ron ought TO have attended 10 those
things A man says At fifty years o.
age: II do wish could get over me
habits Of Incidence. When did Won
get them2 At twenty or twenty five
years OF age. You can not shake them
of. They will hang TO you TO the very
day of your death. II 3 young man
through long course OF evil conduct
undermines his physical health. aud
then repents OF II in after lie. the
Lord may pardon him, but that does
not bring back good physical COM
ditiou. said 70 minister OF the Cos
pei, one Sabbath at the close Of the
service: Where are you preaching
now?" oh he says, 81 am NOT
preaching. | am suffering from the
physical effects OF early sin. can't
preach now; am sick. p" A consecrated
man he now is, and he mourned Bit.
terly over early sins; but that does moi
arrest their bodily effects.
The simple fact is, that men and
women often take twenty years OF
their life TO build mp influences that
require ali the rest of their lie 70
break down. Talk about a man Begin
ing life when he is 81 years OF ace;
talk about a woman beginning life
when she is IS years OF agei An. no!
In many respects that is the time thew
close life. In nine cases out OF ten. ali
the questions of eternity are decided
before that Talk about minority OF
men getting their fortunes between 80
and 4Ol They get or lose fortunes be-
tween 10 and 20. When You tell me
that man is just beginning
life. tell you that he is Just clos
ing it The next 30 years will not be
first 90.
Now, why do say this? Is il for
the annoyance of those who have only
baleful retrospection? You know
that IS not my way. / say II for the
benefit of young men and women.
want them TO understand that eternity
is wrapped up in this hour; that the
sins of youth we never get over; that
YOU are now fashioning the mold in
which your greatfuture is torun; thnt
minute, instead OF being 60 seconds long
is made up Of everlasting ages You
see what dignity and Importance this
gives TO the life OF all our young folks.
Why, in the light of this subject life
is not something TO be frittered away,
not something to be smirked about,
not something to be danced out, but
something to be weighed in 1.-THE bal
ances of eternity. Oh, young mani
the sin of yesterday, the sin Of to-
morrow, will reach over 10000 wears,
ay, over the great and unending eter-
nifty. You may, after awhile, say. ~
am very sorry. Now have got to be
80 or 40 years of age, and do wish i
had never committed those sins.p
What does that amount to? God NAV
pardon you; but undo those you never
will, you never can.
In this same category. OF irrevocable
mistakes put all the parental neglect.
We begin the education OF our childrenS
too late. By the time they get 10 The
10 or Is we wake up to our mistakes.
and try to eradicate this bad habit,
and change that; but it Is too late.
That parent who omits, in the first 10
years of the child's life, to make an
eternal impression for Christ, never
makes it. The child win probably 90
on with all the disadvantages, which
might have been avoided by par
entail faithfulness. Now you see what
IA mistake that father or mother
makes who puts off to late life adher-
ence to Christ. Here is man who at
fifty years of age says to you: Unjust
be Christians" and he yields his heart
to God. and sits the place of PRAYER to-
day Christian. None of us can doubt
it He goes home and he says: Here
at fifty years of age have given my
heart to the Saviour. Now must
establish family altar" Whatp
Where are your children now? One in
Boston; another in Cincinnati: another
in New Orleans; and you, my brother,
at your fitch year, going to establish
your family ultar9 Very we'll; better
late than never; but, alas, alas, that
You did not do it twenty-five years
ago.
When | was in Chamouni. Switzer-
land, ! saw in the window of one of
the shops picture that impressed nv
mind very much. 1t was a picture Of
an accident that occurred on the side
of one of the Swiss mountains. A COM
pany of travellers. with guides. went
up some very steep places Places
which but few travellers attcmpted To
go up. They were, as all travellers are
there. fastened together with cords at
the waist, SO that if one slipped the
rope would hold him-the rope fasten-
ed TO the Others. Passing along the
most dangerous point, one of the
guides slipped, and they all started
down the preclpice, but after
while one more muscular than the rest
stuck his heels into the ice and SION.
ped; but the rope broke, and down.
hundreds and thousands of feet the
rest went And so see whole fami-
lies bound together by ties of affection.
and in many cases walking on slippery
places of worldliness and sin. The
father knows it, and the mother knows,
It, and they are bound all together.
After while they begin to slide down
sleeper and sleeper, and the father be-