Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1898-08-26
l,eocheroun 1cn IA thnt ono voyage is

again, " would put You NO much fur. |
Tier from reunion with your friends in |
Heaven II you are Ia the noon OF life,
or The evening OF life, you nrc not very
fnr from the golden cute NJ which you
are 10 meet your transported and EN-
pprndiacd loved ones, You ARE now,
lot M hay 20 years, or ten years,
or one year of from celestial conlunc.
ton, Now suppose you went back in
Your earthly life 80 years, or 40 years,
ar 30 years, what mn awful post
poncmcnL OF the time OF reunonl
II would be rs though you were
going 70 San Francisco to great
banquet, aud you got to Oak.
land, four or five miles this side Of il,
aud then came buclS TO Baltimore to
get better start; M though you were
going TO England TO be crowned, and
having come In sight of the mountains
OF Wales, you put back TO Sandy Hook
In order TO make better voyage.
Would you like for many years to adj
Journ the songs OF Heaven, to adjourn
the thrones OF Heaven, TO adjourn the
compnnionship OF Heaven, to adjourn
the rest OF Heaven, to adjourn the
presence Of Christ in Heaven? No;
the wheel Of time turns in the right
direction, and il Is we'll it turns so fast.
Three hundred and sixty-hve revolu.
lions in year, and forward, rather
than AG1 revolutions in year and
backward
but hear ye! hear vel while tell
you how you may practically live your
life over again and be all the better
for it. You may pu, into the remain
ing years of your life all you have
learned Of wisdom in your past life
You may make the coming ten years
worth the preceding 40 or 50 years,
When man says he would like to live
his life over again because he would
do so much better, and yet goes right
on living as he has. always lived, do
you not see he stultiies himself? He
proves that il he could go back he
would do almost the same as he has
done.
If Il man can eat green apples some
Wednesday in cholera time and is
thrown into fearful cramps, and says
on Thursday: ~ wish had been more
prudent in my diet: oh il could live
Wednesday over again!" and then ON
Friday eats apples just as green, he
proves that it would have been no adj
vantage for him to live Wednesday
over again. And If we, deploring our
past life, and with the idea of improve
ment, long for the opportunity to try
it over again, yet so on making the
same mistakes and committing the
same sins, we only demonstrate that
the repetition of our existence would
afford no improvement. 1t was green
apples before, and it would be green
apples over again.
As soon as ship captain strikes a
rock in the lake or sea he reports it,,
and buoy is swung over that reef,
and mariners hcnceforth stand off from
that rock, And all our mistakes in the
past ought to be buoys, warning us to
keep in the right channel. There is
no excuse for us if we split on the same
rock where we split before. Going
along the sidewalk at night where cx-
cavations are being made we frequent
ly see u lantern on a framework and
we turn aside, for that lantern says
keep out Of the hole. And all along
the pathway OF life lanterns are set rs
warnings, and by the time we come to
midlife we ought to know where it is
safe to walk and where it is unsafe.
Out yonder is man very old at &C
years of age, at a time when he ought
to be buoyant as the morning. lie got
bad habits on him very early, and those
habits have become worse. lie is g
man on fire, on fire with alcoholism
on fire with all evil habits, out with
the world and the world out with him
Down, and falling deeper His swollcr
hands in his thrcadbare pockets, anc
his eye fixed on the ground, as h,
passes through the street, and tie quick
step Of an innocent child or the strong
| slep of an young man, or the roll o
a prosperous carriage maddens him
and he curses society and he curses
God. Fallen sick, with no resources
he is carried TO the almshouse. a loath
some spectacle, he lies all day long
waiting for dissolution, or in the night
rises on his cot and fights apparition'
of what he might have been and wha
he will be. lie started life with as
| good Il prospect rs any man on The
American continent, and there he is, q
bloated carcass, waiting for the shov
els of public charity to put him five
feet under. He has only reaped wha
he sowed. Harvest of wild oats! There
is way that seemeth right to man
but the end thereof is death.
And then the reaping Of the harvest
is SO different There is grandfa
Their now. lie has lived to old age be
cause his habits have been good, Hi
eyesight for this world has got some
what dim, but his cyesight for Heave,
is radiant His hearing is not so acut
as it once was, and he must bend Glen
over to hear what his little GRANDEUR
| says WDen she HbkS MN WHdJ Hc Ild
brought for her. But he easil,
catches the music rained from
supernal spheres, Men passing il
the streets take off their hats il
reverence, and women say: "Wha
good old man he Is" Sevent.
of SC years, all for God and for making
this world happy. Splendid! Glorious
Magnificent! He will have hard .worl
getting into Heaven, because thos
whom he helped TO get there will fiji
up and crowd the gates, TO tell hin
how glad they are at his coming, unit
he says: please TO stand back it'll
till pass through and cast my crow
at the fleet of Him whom, having no
seen. ] love" do not know what yol
call that, | call it the harvest o
Genesee wheat.
A young Scotchman was taken cap
tive in battle by band of Indians