Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-08-01

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forgive, 50 that you may at last reacj
heaven; but you will never get owe
some OF the mishaps that have com
= your soul as result OF your neglec
OF early duty. You may try to und,
y; you cannot undo it. When Won ha,
boys arms, and boys eyes, and ,
Doys heart, you ought to have at
Tended to those things. A man saws. a
nfty years Of age, Il do wish could
get over these habits OF Incidence.
Wnen did you get them? At twenty
OF twenty-five years Of age. You can
not shake them off. They will hang t.
you to the very day Of your death
!! = young man through long course
OF evil conduct undermines his physical
health, and then repents Of it in after
NE, the Lord may pardon him; but
mat does not bring back good physical
condition. said to minister Of the
uospel, one Sabbath, at the close o,
tho service: where are you preaching
now3" 10" he says, 81 am not preach.
ing. ! am suffering from the physical
effects OF early sin. / can't preach
now; I am sick" A consecrated man
he now is, and he mourns bitterly over
early sins, but that does not arrest
their bodily effects.
The simple fact is, that men 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 man beginning life when
he is twenty-one years Of age; talk
about woman beginning life when she
is eighteen years of age! All, mol In
many respects that is the time they
close life. In nine cases out of ten, all
the questions of eternity are decided
before that. Talk about majority OF
men getting their fortunes between
thirty and forty! They get or lose for.
tunes between ten and twenty. When
you tell me that man is just begin.
ming life, / 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 l say this? Is it for the
annoyance Of those who have only
baleful retrospection? You know that
is not my way. say it 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 great future is to run; that min
ute, instead Of being sixty 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 sub
ject, life is not something to be frit-
tered away, not something to be danced
out, but something to be weighed in
the balances of eternity. 0, young
man! the sin Of yesterday, the sin Of to-
will reach over ten thousand
years, ay, over the great and unending
eternity. You may, after awhile, say:
II am very sorry. Now have got to
be thirty or forty years Of age, and l
do wish had never commenced those
SINS" What does that amount to? God
may pardon you; but undo those things
you never will, you never can.
In the same category OF irrevocable
mistakes l put all parental neglect.
We begin the education Of our children
too late. BY the time they get to be
ten or fifteen we wake up to our mis-
takes, and try to eradicate this bad
habit, and change that; but it is too
late. That parent who omits, in the
irst ten years Of the child's life, to
make an eternal impression for Christ,
never makes it. The child will proba-
Div 90 on with all the disadvantages,
which might have been avoided by
faithfulness. Now you see
What mistake that father or mother |
makes who puts off too late life adher-
,nce to Christ. Here is man who at |
ifty years of age says to you: II must
De a Christian" and he yields his heart |
% God, and sits in the place OF prayer
,o-day a Christian. None of us can
loubt it. He goes home, and he says;
Here at fifty years of age ! have given
nv heart to the Saviour. Now ! must es-
ablish family altar" WhatP Where
ire your children now? One in Boston;
mother in Cincinnati; another in New
orleans; and you, my brother, at your
iftieth year going 70 establish your
amily altar? Very well; better late
han never; but alas, alas that you did
lot do it twenty five years ago!
How many parents wake up in the
after part Of life to find out this mis-
AXE! The parent says: II have been
90 lenient, !" or II have been too severe
n the discipline Of my children. II
had the little ones around me again,
low different would dot You will
ever have them around again. The
york is done, the bent to the char
cter is given, the eternity is decided.
say this to young parents-those who
re twenty-five, or thirty or thirty five
ears of age-have the family altar
o-night. How do you suppose that
ather felt as he leaned over the couch
{ his diving child, and the expiring
On said to him: "Father, you have
cen very good to me. You have given
,e fine education, and you have
laced me in fine social position; you
ave done everything for me in q
yorldly sense, but, father, you never
I'D me how to die. Now am dying
nd am afraid.