The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1896-01-30

'"uitef ana awful catastrophe TO thai
prohigatc. We are so busy in weigh
ing other people we forget ourselve.
70 get into tho scales. We are so busy
watching the poor gardens OF other
people that we let our own dooryard
60 to weeds We are so busy sending
of other people into the lifeboat we
sink ~ the wave, We cry "Firep' be.
cause our neighbours house is burning
down and seem 70 be uninterested, al.
though our own house IS in the CON
migration. o wandering thoughts,
disappear to-day. Blot out this entire
audience except yourself Your sin, is
itpardonedp Your death, is IL provided
for2 Your Heaven, is IL secured2 A
mightier earthquake than that which
demolished the Phillippian peniten.
tlary will rumble about your ears.
The foundations Of the earth will give
way The earth by one tremor will
ming all the American. cities into the
dust Cathedrals and palaces and pris-
sons which have stood for thousands
OF years will topple like a child's
block house. The surges Of the sea
Will submerge the land and the Attain
tic and Pacific oceans above the Alps
and the ApSss clasp their handa What
then will become of me? What then
will become of you? do not wonder
at the anxiety of this man OF my text,
for he was not only anxious about the
falling of n prison, but the falling of n
world.
Again, / remark. characterize this
question OF the agitatcd Jail keeper as
one of incompatible Importance. Men
are alike, and suppose he had scores
OF questions on his mind, but all ques-
tions for this world are hushed up, for
gotten, annihilated in this one ques-
tion OF the text, What must do TO be
saved?' And have you, nv
brother, any question of Importance
compared with that question? is it
question Of business? Your common
sense tells you that you will soon
cease worldly business. You know
very we'll that you will soon pass out
Of that partnership. You know shat
beyond certain point Of all the
millions Of dollars worth of goods
sold you will not handle yard of
cloth, or pound of sugar or pen
ny's worth. After that. il conhagra-
ton should sweep all Washington into
ashes it would not touch you and
would not damage you. If every cash
Ter should abscond, and every bank
payment, and every insurance
fail, it would not affect you.
Oh. how insignificant is business this
side the grave with business on the
other side the grave! Havs you
made any purchases for eter-
nifty? Have you any securities
that will last forever? Are you job
bling for time when you might be
for eternity? is there
any question so broad at the base, so
so overshadowing as the
question, What must / do to be
,aved?" Or is it a domestic question?
Is it something about father or moth
sr or husband or wife or son or daugh-
Ter that is the m ore important ques-
ion? You know by universal and in.
sXorable law the relation will soon be |
broken up. Father will be gone, moth |
n will be gone, children will be gone,
you will be gone, but after that the
question of the text will begin to har-
rest it's chief gains, or deplore its worst |
osses, or roll up its mightiest magni- |
udes, or sweep its vaster circles.
Oh, what a question-what an i'm |
,ortant question! Is there any ques-
ion that compares with it in import
Lnce? What is it now 10 Napoleon III |
whether he triumphed or surrendered |
4 Sedan, whether he died at the Tut
'ries or Chiselhurst, whether he was
Emperor or exile? Because he was laid
nut in the coffin in the dress OF field
did that give him any better
nance for the future than il he had /
,een laid out in a plain shroud? What
Inference will il soon make to you or |
o me whether in this world we walked
# rode, whether we were bowed to or
whether we were appland-
d or Kissed at, welcomed in or kicked
Int? While laying hold Of every mol
nent OF the future and burning in
very splendor or every grief and over
rching or undergirding all time and
II eternity will be the plain, startling,
infinite, stupendous question OF the
ext, What must do TO be saved?"
Again, II characterize this question
( the agitatcd Jail keeper as one
rushed out by his misfortunes, pressed
ut by his misfortunes. The falling Of
he penitentiary, his occupation was
one. Besides that the flight OF
risoner was ordinarily the death of
he jailor He was held responsible.
all had gone we'll; III the prison walls
aid not been shaken OF the earth
uake; II the prisoners had all staid