The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-07-19

| Oh age. 90 WISH i cOulQ get
over these habits of Incidence "
When did you get them? At
90 or 25 years of age. You cannot
shake them off. They will hang to you
to the very day of your death. If a
young man through a long course of
evil conduct undermines his physical
health, and then repents of it in after
life the Lord may pardon him; but that
does not bring back good physical con-
dition. | said to minister of the Cos
pei one Sabbath. at the close of serv-
ice: Where are you preaching now?'
''Oh," he says, Il am not preaching. /
am suffering from the physical effects
of early sin / can't preach; / 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 a man be-
ginning life when he is 81 years of
age; talk about a woman beginning
life when she is is years of age! All,
no! 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 ma
jority of men getting their fortunes
between 90 and 40! They get or lose
fortunes between 10 and % When you
tell me that man is just beginning
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
a baleful retrospection? You know
that is not my way. l say it for the
benefit OF young men and women. l
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 minute, instead of
being sixty seconds long, is made
up of everlasting ages. You see
what dignity and Importance this
gives to the life of ali 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, not
to be weighed in the bal
ances of eternity. Oh, young man!
the sin of yesterday, the sin of to-mor-
row, will reach you over ten thousand
years, ay, over the great and amending
eternity. You may, after awhile. say:
Il am very sorry. Now l have got to
be 80 or 40 years of age, and l do wish
had never committed those sins"
What does that amount to? God may
pardon you; but undo those things you
never will: you never can.
In this same category of irrevoca BILE |
1 put all parental neglect.
We begin the education of our chill |
iren too late. BY the time they get |
% be 10 or Is we wake up to our mis-
axes and try TO eradicate this b ad |
habit, and change that; but it is too |
ate. That parent who omits, in the I
irst ten years of the child's life, to |
make an eternal impression for Christ, |
never makes it. The child will prob |
IDLY go on with all the disadvantages,
which might have been avoided by |
parental faithfulness. Now you see |
what mistake that father or mother
makes who pats off too late the life /
adherence to Christ. Here is a man
Who at so years of age says to you: Il /
must be Christian" and he yields his
leart to God, and sits in the place of
prayer to-day a Christian. None of us
an doubt it. He goes home, and he
avs: Here at so years of age have
riven my heart to the Saviour. Now l
mast establish family altar" What?
Where are your children now? One in
3oston, another in Cincinnati, another
n New Orleans, and you, my brother,
t your 50th year going to establish
our family altar? Very well; better
ate than never; but. alas, alas. that
-ou did not do it twenty-five years ago.
When | was in Chamouni. Switzer-
rland, saw in the window of one of
he shops a picture that impressed my
mind very much. 1t was the picture
f an accident that occurred on the
ide of one of the Swiss mountains. A
ompany of travellers, with guides,
vent up some very steep places-places
which but few travellers attempted to
o up. They were, as all travellers are
here, fastened together with cords at
he waist, so that if one slipped, the
ope would hold him-the rope fastened
o the others. Passing along the most
angerous point one of the guides
Tipped, and they all started down
he precipice; but after a while one
lore muscular than the rest
truck his heels into the ice and
topped: but the rope broke, and down,
undreds and thousands of feet. the
est went. So l see whole families
'ound together by ties Of affection,
nd in many cases walking on slippery
laces of worldliness and sin. The
ather knows it and the mother knows
/, and they are bound all together
Lfter while they begin to slide down
teeper and sleeper, and the father be-
ONES alarmed and he stops, planting
is feet on the Rock of Ages" He
tops, but the rope breaks and those
Who were once tied fast to him by
Moral and spiritual influences, go over
he precipice. Oh, there is such a
hing as coming to Christ soon enough
o save ourselves, but not soon enough
o save others,
How many parents wake up in the
after part of life to find out the mis-
AXE. The parent says: II have been
90 lenient." or Il have been too severe
4 the discipline of my children. If
lad the little ones around me again,
ow different I would do,' You will
ever have them around again. The
york Is done. the bent 20 the character