The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-08-16
MANS WAY--CHRIST'S WAY ?
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sons, no daughters. When child in a family grows inefficient through sick ness or accident it is still child to be tenderly cared for. But not so the world Its own are only servants-to be fairly used as long as they can and do serve, but when footsore and weary and broken, to be turned out as hind rance, to be forgotten where once they were remembered; to sigh in secret where once they sang with their fel- lows; to flicker where once they blazed: Till death pours out his cordial wine, Slow dropped from misery's crushing presses Do you call this a minor tsrain? There is a sadder one If men give us good wine at first and afterward that which is worse we are not respons- | ible-they are. If the world breaks it's promises and in the end does not use us well, we are not to blame. We may suffer, but we have not sinned. Let us reserve our sorrow for those things in which the world is not to blame, where men choose for themselves the good wine first, to have that which is worse or none at all afterward, the good wine l Ol luG pl6dS cS Ol lilC ldDlc AOi liiC worse wine of the doctors bill there after, the pleasures of sense first for the sorrows of the soul subsequent. A man will for the sake of drinking good wine in public afterward drink much sour wine in private. Rather than spend his days and years in downright hard study and self denial so that he may be an intelligent and useful citi- zen, ten or twenty years hence, many a youth prefers his good wine now, of ease freedom from restraint, and dis cipline, making every day a holiday. | o, I have no doubt he enjoys it. Good wine must be good at any time, but 1 1t runs out by and by if used too early, ! runs out when he finds out that wiser | men have outsripped him and left him as incompetent and inefficient with the | narrowing consciousness that it is his ! own fault. Youth is the rudder of life. As it is turned so life goes up to honor l or down to shame.
 May I speak of sin? Repentance is ! acknowledged to be worthy, but most men prefer a better wine. They chose | pleasure and not penitence. Do not ! waste your young days being religious | is the worlds gospel. Do not deny | yourself now only to get heaven by | and bye. Thus the human faithless 1 heart teaches. But can a child afford | to set the house on fire just to see the blaze? Can a man afford to slight God now for time to have his slight by
 and bye for eternity? Can one refuse | to repent now when the easy refusal
 may cost him everlasting repentance? | Shall I let Christ's gracious words | bound back from my closed heart now l to have my words asking admission 1 bound back from his closed heaven | then?
 l 70 this wine costs too aWfully much. Esau cannot afford one mess of pot ! tage at the price of his inheritance; | Judas cannot afford to own thirty
 pieces of silver at the price of Jesus | life and his own. Will it do to take the
 good wine of the world now-I have no
 doubt that men enjoy tito have at l the last, the solemn tragic last, that
 which is worse, which the Bible calls
 the wine of Gods fierce wrath? O sin | is sin no matter how sweet and fair it seems, and the worst sin is just merely | to leave God out of our life. What
 had the rich man done of whom we l T6du III llle SCliptuicS' Iou CdI hllu l him guilty of no single immortality. | Shall we be guilty of the folly of him who takes at the first that which seems l good to him and has no fear of that | which comes after and is worse. For the wisdom of Jesus in one aspect of
 it comes to Just this-when will you | have your good wine, at the beginning | or end of the feast? In state of sin l i'll must come somewhere to the hu-
 man heart Will I postpone that ill to | eternity? Will you consume all the rich possibilities of life in your youth l or will you lose your life now to have i a golden harvest by and bye?
 I "fThou hast kept the good wine un- | til now At the last supper Jesus said | to His disciples: I will not henceforth drink of the fruit of the vine until that | day when I drink it anew with you in My Fathers kingdom. That appealed | to their faith. To refuse the good wine now for the sake of that which is tc come: what else is this but faith. The | apparent absence and silence of Goo destroy faith in His being. The in creasing centuries since He manifested Himself to men decrease belief in His | existence The long absence of Enocf
 Arden argued his death, and the wait
 ing spouse welded another. Men wed
 the world similarly. They have lost al
 practical faith in God. And he is but 8
 name to them. But it is still more difh-
 cult to believe in His awards. We car
 more readily trust in God than in Gods
 future. You believe in God, but do yoU
 believe that He is set to give the world
 ] a golden future? As one sees the i'm.