Milford chronicle., 1895-07-19

age talk about woman beginning III
when she is IS years Of agei All, mol I
many respects that is the time they clio.
life. In nine cases out of ten all the que
tions of eternity are decided before tha
Talk about a majority Of men gettin
their fortunes between 80 and 40l The
get or lose fortunes between 10 and q
When you tell me that man is just begin
ming life, ! tell you he is just closing II
The next 90 years will not be of as niue
Importance to him as the first 20.
Parental Neglect.
Now, why do l say thisg Is it for tn
annoyance Of those who have only a bale
full retrospectionf You know that is no
my way. l say it for the benefit Of younl
men and women. l want them to under
stand that eternity is wrapped up in thi
hour; that the sins Of youth we never ge
over; that you are now fashioning tn
mold in which your great future is to run
that a minute. instead of being 60 seconds
long, is made up Of everlasting ages. Yol
see what dignity and importance this gives
to the life Of all our young folks. Why, II
! the light of this subject, life is not some
/ thing to be frittered away, not something
/ to be smirkod about not something to be
danced out, but something to be weighed
In the balances of eternity. Oh young
man, the sin Of yesterday. the sin OF to-
morrow, will reach over TO- 600 years-aye,
over the great and unending eternity.
You may, after awhile say: Il am very
sorry. Now 1 have got To be 80 or 40 years
of age, aud 1 do wish had never commit
ted those sins. " What does that amount
to? God may pardon YOU but undo those
things you never will. you never can.
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takes put all parental neglect. We begin
the education Of our children too late. BY
the time they get to be 10 or 10 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 ten years of the childs life, to make
an eternal impression for Christ never
makes it. Tho child will probably go on
with all the disadvantages, which might
have been avoided by parental faithfulncss.
Now you see what a mistake that father or
mother makes who puts off TO late life ad-
herence to Christ. Here is man who at
so years of age says to you, Il must be a
Christian, " and he yields his heart TO God
and sits in the place of prayer today
Christian. None of us can doubt it, He
goes home and he says: "Here at so years
of age 1 have given my heart TO the Sa-
viOur Now l must establish a family al
tar. WhatY Where are your children
nOwl Ono in Boston; another in Cincin-
natl; another in New Orleans, and you,
my brother, at your fiftieth year going to
your family altar? Very WE'LL
better late than never but alas alas, that |
you did not do it 20 years agol
When l was in ChamOuni, Switzerland, |
[ saw in the window of one of the shops /
picture that impressed my mind very /
much 1t was picture of an accident that |
occurred on the side of one Of the Swiss
A company of travellers, with
guides, went up some very steep places
places which but few travellers attempted
10 go up. They were, as all travellers are
here, fastened together with cords at the
waist so that if one slipped, the rope
would hold him-the rope fastened to the
,thers. Passing along the most dangerous
Joint, one of the guides slipped, and they
II started down the precipice but after
while one more muscular than the rest
truck his heels into the ice and stopped,
tut the rope broke and down, hundreds
nd thousands of feet, the rest went
And so l sec whole families bound to-
ether by ties Of affection and in many
asses walking ON slippery places of world
mess md sin. The father knows it, and
he mother knows it, and they are bound
Il together. After awhile they begin to
Tide down sleeper and sleeper, and the ia
her becomes alarmed, and he stops, plant
lg his feet OH the Rock of Ages He
tops, but the rope breaks, and those who
ere once tied fast to him by moral and
1iritual influences go over the procipice.
N, there is such a thing as coming to ,
hrist soon enough to save ourselves, but
0t soon enough to save others
How many parents wake up in the latter
art of life to find ous-the mistakel The !,
aren't says, Il have been too lenient," or
have been too severe in the discipline
my children. If I had the little ones
'Ound me again, how different I would I
u! You will never have them around
gain. The work is done, the bent to the
aracter is given, the eternity is decided. o
say this to young paronts-thoso who arc !,
or 30 or 80 years of age-have the fam
? altar tonight. How do you suppose 3
at father felt rs he leaned over the couch =
his dying child and the expiring son &
id to him: Father, You have been very "
od to me. You have given me fine cd a
alton, and you have placed me in fine
eial positions you have done everything T.,
-,
yer told me how to die Now am dying -
d 1 am afraid. y
Cannot BE Recalled. "a
In this category of irrcyocable mistakes u
place, also, the unkindnesses done the =,
parted. When was boy, my mother 81
ed to say to me sometimes, "De Witt, IL
Il will be sorry for that when 1 am -,
ne. And / remember just how she t.
ked, sitting there with cap and specta- =,
$, and the old Bible In her lap, and she ="
yer said "a truer thing than that, for =,
We often been sorry since. While we ~
We our friends with Us, we say unguard- "a,
things that wound the feelings of those s sa
whom we ought to give nothing but ,l
ldness. Perhaps the parent, without 81,
Iuiring into the matter, boxes the child's -
5. The little one, who has fallen in the ,;l
ret comes in covered with dust, and, as Ia
ugh the first disaster were not enough, '''
whips it. CO.
After awhile the child is taken, or the s9
ent is taken, or tho companion is taken bv
those who are left say, "Oh, if we cel
Id only get back those unkind words, nj,
Sc unkind deeds; if we could only re- wi
themn But you cannot get them on
L. You might bow down over the
We VI bidt luNtu btle anu CRY anu CRY ma
cry-the white lips would make no "a
wer. The stars shall be plucked out Of
ir sockets, but these influences shall not ,st
torn away. The world shall die, but fel
re are some wrongs immortal. The in
raj Of which is, take care of your friends at
bee
lie yen have them. Spare the scolding;
economical Of the satire; shut up in WI
K cave from which they shall never H.
rIn FORTH all the words that have a
g in them. You will wish you had rat
10 day--very soon you will-perhaps the
orrow. Oh, yes. While with "a firm sha
d you administer parental discipline, tor
administer it very gently lest some
there be little slab in the cemetery,
on it chiseled "Our Willie on "Our
rlie and though you bow down prone the
he grave and seek aplace Of repentance Ba
sock it carefully with tears you can few
find it. anl