Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1896-08-19


are wicked felt there were two trials.
and the first was of no great import.
ance, and the second trial was the one
of vast and infinite Importance, all the
! preparations for eternity wozld be
post-mortem, post-funeral. post-se oul-
chral. and this world would be iertIed
off into impenitence and goilessness
Z Another chance in another world
tueans the demolition of this world
Furthermore, my fricnds-for | am
preaching to myself as well as to YOU;
we are on the same level, and though
the platform be "A little higher than
the pew it is only for convenience. and
that we may better speak to the peo-
pie; we are all on the same platform.
and i am talking TO my soul while /
talk TO yours-my friends, why an,
other chance in another world when we
nave declined SO many chances in this9
suppose you spread banquet and YOU
invite vast number of friends and
among others you send an in
Vitatiun TO a man who dssrep =. rds il.
or treats II in an obnoxious way. CUR.
ing 20 years you give 20 banuuets. n
banquet year; and you invite vour
friends, and every time you invite this
man, who disregards your invitation or
sends back some indignity. After n
while YOU move into "A larger house
and mid more luXuriant surrou dings,
and you invite your friends. but Won do
not invite that man to whom 20 times
Won sent an invitation to the smaller
mouse. Are you to blame?
You would only make Yourself alb
surd before God and man to send that
man another invitation. For 20 wears
he has been declining your offers and
sending insult for kindness and cour-
tesy, and can he blame you? Can he
come up to your house on the night OF
the banquet? Looking up and seeing
IT is finer house, will he have any
right to say: Let mo in. | declined
all those other offers, but this is
larger house, brighter house, more
luNuriant abode. Let me in. Give me
another chancc?' God has spread
a banquet of His grace before us. For
800 days of every year, since we knew
the difference between our right hand
and our left, lie has invited us by His
providence and by His Spirit. Sup
pose we decline all these offers and all
this kindness. Now, the banquet is
spread in larger place, in the Heaven
ly palace. Invitations are sent out.
but no invitation is sent to us. WHY?
Because we declined all those other
banquets. VIII God be to blame? WIN
we have any right to rap on the door of
Heaven and say: Il ought not To be
shut out of this place; give me another
chance" Twelve gates of salvation
standing wide for free admission all
our life, and then when the l. gates
close we rush on the bosses of Jcho-
vans buckler saying: give me an
other chance a ship is to sail from,
hamburg. You want to go TO Germany
by that line. You see the advertise.
ment OF the steamers sailing. Yon se4
1t for two weeks. You see it in tho
morning papers and you see it in this
evening papers; you see it plaza rded
on the walls. Circulars are throw,
into Your office telling you all about
that steamer.
one day YOU come down on the wharf.
and the steamer has swung out into thu
stream. You say: oh. that isn't fair.
Come back, swing up again to tho
docks. Throw the plank ashore that
/ may come on board. Ii isn't far: i
want TO 20 to Germany by that steamer,
Give me another chance" Here i Il.
magnificent offer for Heaven. 1t haa
been anchored within our SIGHT
year after year, and GEAR after
year. and year after year. and
all the benign voices of earth
and Heaven have Urged us to got
on board. since it may sail at any
moment. Suppose we let that oppor-
sunity sail away, and then we look
out and say: send back that oppor-
tunlty; | want to take il; it isn't treat.
ing me fairly. Give ne another chance. 4"
Why, my brother, you might as well
go out and stand on the Highlands nj
zee Navesink three days after the Ma.
lestlc has gone out, and shout: Cap.
tam come back; ! want to go to LiY.
erpool on the Majestic Come bacl,
over the sea and through the Narrow,
and up to the docks Give me another
chance"
You might as well do that as. after
the last opportunity Of Heaven haa
sped away. 10 try 20 get il back AGAIN.
Just think OF it! 1t came 10 me ve,ter-
day in my study with ovcrwheImin0
imp-cssivcncss Just think Of il, All
Heaven offered us as a gratuitv for a
whole lifetime. and yet we WANTING TO
rush against God. saying: Give u,
another chance" There ought To- bc.
there viii bc. mo- such thing as post.
huuo- opportunity.
You sec common sense agrees with
my .cN. IN saying that 'jf the tree fan
toward SIC south. or toward the north.
'n the place where tie tree falIeth
there IL shall be." You see this idea
lifts this world from an, unimportant
way station 90 a platform OF stuDend.
Gus issues, and makes ali eternity
whirl around this hour On. my souil
My soul, Only one trial. and all tho
for that trial to be- made
in this world. or never az all. Oh. NV
soul My SOUL You see this piles IN
all the emphasis and alt the ciimaxcg
and all the destinies into this life. No
other chance. Oh. how that intcnsifes
the value and the Importance OF this
chance.
FIRM in Regent street. London.
makes business Of Matching out arti.
hcially birds chickens and the like.
and the incubators adapted for the ir
various purposes are lined up against
the sides Of the long room. They also
take infants that are prcmaturcIv born
and by keeping them in "a certain and
unvarying temperature. and giving