The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-07-28

3. old church, the Old home. ne o'a
,a.- ground, either gone or occupied
,y others, and for you more depressing +.
t.an was our Pompeiian visit that No |
vcmber day. N
Besides that. would you want to risk
the temptation Of life over again!
From the fact that you are here con-
clude that, though in many respects
your life may have been unfortunate
and unconsecrated. you have got on
50 far tolerably well, II nothing more
than tolerable. As for myself. though
my life has been far from being ~
consecrated to God a. would like 10
have had II, I would not want to try
1t over again, lest next time I would
do worse.
You. the good mother Of house
hold. and all your children rising up
to call you blessed. can remember
when you were quite jealous OF the
belle of the village, who was so trans
cendently fair and popular. But while
you have these two honorary and
queenly names Of wife and mother she
became poor waif Of the street and
went into the blackness OF darkness
forever. Live life oyer again? Why,
II many Of those who are respectable
were permitted to experiment, the next
Journey would be demolition. You get
through. as Job says, by the skin OF
your teeth. Next time you might not
get through at all. Satan would say
~ know him now better than ] did
before and have for 80 years been
studying his weaknesses, and l will
weave stronger web Of circum.
stances to catch him next time" And
satan would concentrate his forces on
this one man. and the last state OF
first. My friends. onr faces are in the
right direction. BETTER 90 forward
| than backward. even II we had the
choice. The greatest disaster | can
think of would he for you to return
10 bvyhuud In 1888. Oh. II life were q
smooth Luzerne or Cayuga lake,
| would like TO get Into yacht and sail
over it, not once, but twice--yea. q
thousand times. But life is an uncer.
tain sea, and some of the ships crash
on the icebergs Of cold Indifference,
and some take fire OF evil passions.
and some lose tneir bearings and run
into the Goodwin sands, and some are
never heard Of. Surely on such a
treacherous sea as that one voyage Is
enough.
| Resides all this. do YOU know, IL you
could have your wish and live life
over again Il would put you so much
further from reunion with your friends
In heaven! II you are In the noon of
life. or the evening of life. you are
not very far from the golden gate NJ
which you are TO meet your trans.
ported and emparadised loved ones.
You are now, let us say. 20 years or
ten years or one year Off from celes.
tial conjunction. Now. suppose you
went back in your earthly life 30 years
or 40 years or 80 years. what an aw.
full postpOnement OF the time of re.
union. 1t would be as though yoIl
were going to San Francisco to n great
banquet. and you got TO Oakland -four
or five miles this side Of 1t. and then
came back to Baltimore to get a better
start, as though you were goihg to
England to be crowned, and having
come In sight Of the mountains OF
Wales. you put back to Sandy HoOl;
in order to make better voyage
Would you like for many years to al
journ the songs OF heaven, to adjourn
the companonship OF heaven. 10 ad
journ the rest Of heaven. to adjourn
the presence of Christ in heaven? No
the wheel Of time turns In the right
direction. and 1t Is well 1t turns 81
fast. Three hundred and siXty-fivt
revolutions in year and forward
rather than 3G5 revolutions in a yea,
ana backward.
But hear ye, hear ye. while ! :el
you how you may practically live YOU
life over again and bt all the better
for 1t. You may put into the remain
; ing years Of your life all you hay,
learned Of wisdom in your past life
You may make the coming ten year.
worth the preceding 40 or 50 years
When a man saye he would like IL iiv'
his life over again because he woull
do so much better and yet goes r.gh
on living as he has always lived, d.
you not see he stultifies himself? II,
, proves that II he could 60 back b,
would do almost the same as he ha
, done.
As supposed It would be-, there ar
I | young people on whom this subJec
4 has acted with the force OF a galvani
Z battery. Without my saying a wor,
b to them, they have solil0quizcd, say
I ing: "As one cannot live his He owe
7 again and can make only one tr
4 l must look out and make no mis-
o takes. have but one chance. and
h must make the most OF It" Ny yOun