The Penn's Grove record., 1895-07-19
NUMBER 50.


I mt says, ~ have been too ienient," or 81
have been too severe in the discipline OF my
children. If 1 had the little ones around me
again, how different I would dol You will
| never have them around again. The work IA
lone; the bentto the character is given; the
Iternity Is decided. Isaythis to young par
tnts, those who are twenty-five and thirty
| Dr. thfrty-hve years of nge-haye the family
| altar tonight. How do you suppose that
father felt as he Leaned over the couch OF his
| lying child, and the expiring son said to
| HIM "Father, yon have been very good 10
me-. You have given me a fine education
/ and you have placed me in a fine social po-
iition; YOU AVE done everything for me in
/ worldly sense: but, father, YOU never told
ne how to die. Now | am dying, and I an
tfraid."-
In this category Of irrevOcable mistakes I
place also the nnkindnessos done the de-
parted. When l was n BOY. my mother usel
% say to me sometimes, D Witt. you will
oe sorry for that when / an gone" And [
.emembar Just how she looked. sitting there
With cap and speetarhas aud tho old Bible in
Ter lap, aud sha never said y truerthingthan
hat, for / nave omen been sorry Slice.
While we have our friends with US we say
unguarded things that wound the feelings OF
hose TO whom we ought to give nothing but
Kindness. Perhaps the parent. without in
Iuirlng into the matter, boxes the childs
ears. The little one, who has fallen in the
street, comes in covered with dust, and Is
though the first disaster were not enough she
whips IT,. After n whilc the child is taken,
Or the parent is taken, or the companion "a
.aken, and those who are left say: ooh,
Il we could only get back those unkind
words, those unkind deeds! II we could
only recall them!' But You cannot get
hem back. You might bow down over
he grave OF that loved one md cry AMI
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answer. The stars shall be pfuckei out OK
heir sockets, but these influences shall not
" torn away. The world shall die, but
here are some wrongs immortal. Tho
moral OF which Is. take care of your friends
rhilr YOU nave them. Spare the %scolding.
Be- economical OF the satire. Shut up nm
| lark cave from which they shall never var
lorth all the words thathave a sting in them.
You will wish you had some day-very soon
you will, perhaps tomorrow. Oh, yes.
While with a firm han you administer par
entail discipline also administer IT very
gently. lest some day there be u little slab
n the cemetery n on it chissled, Our
Willie" or sour Charlie" and though you
BOW down prone In the grave and seek a
,lace Of repentencs and seek it carefully
With tears, you cannot find it.
Theirs is another sin that l place In the
| lass OF irrevocable mistakes, and that is
| ost opportunities Of getting good. l never
,ometo a Saturday night but l can see DUR
/ ng that week that I AVE missed opportun-
| ties of getting good. I never come to my
birthday but I can see that | have wasted
| nany chances of getting better. IneYer go
lone on Sabbath from the discussion ola
eligious theme without feeling that l might
lave done 1t in n more successful way. How
s 1t with your n you take q certain number
" bushels of wheat AMI scatter them overa
certain number of acres of land, you expect
1 harvest in proportion to the amount OF
leed scattered. Aud l ask you now, Have
| ne sheaves of moral and spiritual harvest
| .orresponded with the advantages givenF
| How has 1t been with your You may make
resolutions for the future, but past opportun-
ties are gone. Inthe long procession OF future
FEARS all those past moments will march, but
he a~rchangel's trumpet that wakes the deal
| will not wake up for you one OF those prlvl-
eyes. Esau has sold his birthrlght, andthere
8 not wealth enough in the treasure houses
| II heaven to buy it back again. What does
hat mean? 1t means that II you are gotngto
ret any advantage out Of this Sabbath day
Iou will have to get it before the hand wheels
round on the clock to II tonight. 1t means
| nat every moment of our life has two wings,
| md that it does not fly like a hawk In cir
Hes, but in a straight line from eternity to
.ternity, 1t means that, though other
| ihariots may break down or drag heavily.
his one never drops the brake and never
Hases to run. 1t means that while at other
hasts the cup may be passed to US and We
nay reject 1t, and yet after awhile take 1t,
ne cupbearers to this feast never give US but
me chance at the chalice, and rejecting that
We shall "and no place for repentance,
hough we seek 1t carefully with tears"
There Is one more class OF sins that l put
n this category of irrevocable sins and that
8 lost opportunities OF usefulness. -FOUR
business partner ia a proud a IN DRILL
,ary circumstances say to him, ''Belteve in
| Nhrist ., and ha will sny lyon mind YOUR
business and I'll mind mine" But there mas
Seen affection in the household. His heart
4 tender. He is looking around for sym.
,athy and solace. Now is your time, Speak,
ipeak, or forever hold your peace. There Is
ltime in farm life when you plant the corn
md when you SOW the seed. Let that go by,
ind the farmer will wiring his hands while
| ther husbandmen are gathering in tho
Iheayes, You are in a religious meeting,
tndthere is an opportunity for you to speak
! word for Christ. You say, 81 must do it,"
four cheek fiushes with embarrassment.
lou rise half way, but you before men
whose breath is in their %nostrils, and you
ag back, and the opportunity is gone,
ind all eternity will feel the effect
If your silence. Try to get back
hat opportunity! You cannot find it.
You might as well try to find the fleece that
Gideon watched, or take in your hand the
lew that came down oil the locks OF the
Bethlehem shepherds, or to find the plume o.
the first robin that went across paradise. Ii
8 gone-it is gone forever. When an oppor-
unity for personal repentance or of doing
good passes away, you may hunt for 1t; you
cannot find it. You may fish Tor III II WIN
not take the hook. You may dig for it, you
,annot- bring it up. Remember that there
are wrongs aud sins that can NJ ever be cor
rected ; tina our privileges fly not in %Gircios,
but in a straight line; that the ltghtningS
hayenot as swift feet as our privileges when
they are gone, and let an opportunity OF sal
walton go by US an inch-the
part of an inch, the thousandth part OF an
Inch, the millionth part of an inch-and no
man can overtake it. Fire winged seraphim
cannot come up with it. The eternal God
Himself cannot catch il.
stand before those who have q glorloul
birthright. Esau's was not 50 rich rs yours.
Sell It once, and you sell It forever. 1 re-
member the story OF the fad on the Arctic
some wears ago--the lad Stewart Holland.
A vessel crashed into the Arctic in the time
Of a fog, and 1t was found that the shiE
must 20 down. Some of the passengers
got OF in the life5oats, some got oil OIL
RATS, but 800 went to the bottom. During
all those hours OF calamity stewart Hol
land stood at the signal gun and it sounded
across the sea-boom, booml Tn helms
man forsook his place; the engineer was
gone, and some tainted, and some prayed
and some blasphemed, and tho powder wa
gone, and they could no more set OH the sig
nal gun. The lad broke in the magazinean'
brought out more powder, and agatnthe guI
doomed over the sea. Oh, my friends, tosset
, on the rough seas of life, some have takel
the warning, nave gone of In the hfeboat
and they are safe, but Others are not maktn'
any attempt to escape. Sol stand at this sig
mai gun Of tho gospel, sounding the alarm
beware, bewareI "Now is the accepted tune
Now is the day OF salvation" Hear 1t tina
. your soul may live.