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

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takes place. also. the unkindness
done the departed When was boy
my mother used 10 say 10 me some
times, de Witt, you viii be sorry for
that when am gone And / remem-
Der just how she looked sitting there.
with cap and spectacles, and the old
i Bible in her lap; and she never said
trner thing than that, for have often
been sorry since. While we have our
friends with us, we say unguarded
things that wound the feelings OF
those 20 whom we ought 70 give moth.
ing but kindness. Perhaps the parent,
without inquiring into the matter,
boxes the ehild's ears The little one,
who has fallen in the street, comes in
covered with dust, and, as though the
tirstdisaster was not enough, she whips
' it. After while the child Is taken, or
the parent is taken, or the companion
is taken, and those who are left say,
"oh, II we could only get back those
unkind words, those unkind deeds; If
we could only recall themTr' But you
can not get them back.
You might bow down over the grave
of that loved one, and cry and cry
! the white lips would make no answer
/ The stars shall be plucked out of their
sockets, but these influences shall not
be torn away. The world shall die,
but there are some wrongs immortal.
The moral of which is, take care of
your friends while you have them;
spare the scolding; be economical OF
the satire; shut mp in dark cave,
from which they shall never swarm
forth. all the words that have sting
in them You will wish you had some
day--very soon you will-perhaps to.
morrow. Oh, yes. While with firm
hand you administer parental disci-
pine, also administer it very gently,
some day there may be little slab in
the cemetery and on it chisled, Our
Willie, !" or Our Charlie" and, though
you bow down prone in the grave, and
seek place of repentance, and seek it
carefully with tears, you can not find it.
There is one more class of sins that
put in this category of irrevocable sins
and that is lost opportunities of use
fitness Your business partner is a
proud man. In ordinary circumstan-
ces, say TO him, believe in Christ. -
and he will say You mind your busi-
ness, and I'll mind mine.n But there
has been affection in the household.
His heart is tender. lie is looking
around for sympathy and solace. Now
is your time. Speak, speak, or forever
hold your peace. There is time in
farm-life when you plant the corn and
when you sow the seed. Let that 90
by, and the farmer will wiring his
hands while other husbandmen are
gathering in the sheaves. You are in
religious meeting, and there is an
opportunity for you to speak word
for Christ. You say: Il must
do It" Your cheek tiushes with en-
barrassment. You rise half way,
but you cover before men whose
breath is in their nostrils, and you sag
back, and the opportunity is gone, and
all eternity will feel the effect of your
silence. Try to get back that oppor-
tunityl You can not find it. You
might as we'll try to find the fleece
that Gideon watched, or take in your
hand the dew that came down on the
locks of the Bethlehem shepherds,
or to find the plume of the first robin
that went across paradise. 1t is
gone; II is gone forever. When an
opportunity for personal repentance or
of doing good passes away You may
hunt for II; you can not find it You
may fish for it; it will not take the
hook. You may dig for it; you can not
bring 1t up. Remember that there are
wrongs and sins that can never be cor
rected; that our privileges fiy not in
circles, but in straight line; that the
lightnings have not as swift feet as
our privileges when they are gone, and
let an opportunity of salvation 20 by
us an inch, the thousandth part of an
inch, the millionth part of an inch, and
no man can overtake it. winged
seraphim can not come up with 1t. The
eternal God himself can not catch it.
j stand before those who have a glor-
ious birthright Esau's was not so
rich as yours. Sell it once and you sell
It forever. remember the story of
the lad on the Arctic some years ago
the lad Stewart Holland. A vessel
crashed into the Arctic in the time of
fog and it was found that the ship
must go down. Some the passengers
got off in the lifeboats, some got off on
RATS, but 300 went to the bottom.
During all these hours of calamity
Stewart Holland stood at the signal
gun, and 1t sounded across the
sea, boom. booml The helmsman
forsook his place, the engineer
was gone, and some tainted and PRAYED
and some blasphemed, and the powder
was gone, and they could no more set
off the signal gun. The lad broke in
the magazine and brought out more
powder, and again the gun doomed
over the sea. Oh, my friends, tossed
on the rough seas of life, some have
taken the warning, have gone off in
the lifeboat, and they are safe; but
Others are not making any attempt to
escape. So stand at this signal gun
OF the Gospel, sounding the alarm. Be-
warel bewarel Now is the accepted,
time: now is the day of salvation"
Hear II that your soul may live!
The proportion of clerRymen. phv.
sicians and lawyers among our ma
tive population is about double that
among the foreigners resident in this
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