Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-07-16

from reunion with your friends in heav-
en-? If you are in the noon Of life or
the evening of life, you are not very
far from the golden gate at which You
are to meet your transported and en-
paradised loved ones. You are now, let
us say, 20 years, or 10 years, or one year
off from celestial conjunction. Now,
suppose you went back in your earthly
life 80 years, or 40 years, or 80 years,
what an awful postponement Of the
time Of reunion. 1t would be as though
you were going to San Francisco to
great banquet, and you got to Oakland,
four or five miles this side of it, and
then came back to Baltimore to get
better start, as 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 adjourn the
songs of heaven, to adjourn the thrones
of heaven, to adjourn the companion
ship 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
it is we'll it turns so fast. Three hun
bred and siXty-fve revolutions in
year and forward rather than 365 revo-
lutions in year and backward.
But hear ye, hear ye, while tell you
how You may practically live your life
over again and be all the better for it.
You may put into the remaining years
of your life all you have learned Of wis
dom in your past life. You may make
the coming 0 years worth the preceding
40 or so years. When man says he
would like to live his life over again
because be would do so much better,
and yet goes right on living as he has
always lived, do you not see he stulti-
fies himself? He proves thatif he cou.l
20 back he would do almost the same
as he has done.
If man eat green apples some
Wednesday in cholera time and is
thrown into fearful cramps and says on
Thursday, II wish l had been more
prudent in my diet; oh, if I 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 improvement,
long for an opportunity to try it over
again, yet go Oh making the same mis-
takes and committing the same sins,
we only demonstrate that the repetition
of our existence would afford no i'm
provement 1t was green apples before,
and it would be green apples over again.
Atone For Past Incidence.
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 henceforth 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 ex-
cuse for us if we split on the same rock
where we split before. Going along the
sidewalk at night where excavations
are being made we frequently see Ian
tern on framework, and we turn aside
for that lantern says keep out Of this
hole. And all along the. pathway of life
lanterns are set as warnings, and by the
time we come to midlife we ought to
know where it is safe to walk and
where it is unsafe.
Besides that we have, all these years
been learning how to be useful, and in
the next decade we ought to accomplish
more for God and the church and the
world than in any previous four dec
AIDES. The best way to atone for past
Incidence or past transgression is by fu-
ture assiduity Yet we often find Chris
tian men who were not converted until
they were 40 or so, as old age comes
OH, saying, "Well, my work is about
Gone, and it is time for me to rest. y
They gave 40 years of their life to satan
and the world, little fragment of their
life to God, and now they want rest.
Whether that belongs to comedy or
tragedy say not. a,.,.
The man who gave one half OF his
earthly existence to the world and OF
the remaining two quarters one to
Christian work and the other to rest
would not, l suppose, get a very bril-
liant reception in heaven. If there are
any dried leaves in heaven, they would
be appropriate for his garland, or il
there is any throne with broken steps
it would be appropriate for his corona
ton, or any harp with relaxed string
it would be appropriate for his finger
ing. My brother, you give nine-tenths
of your life to sin and satan, and ther
get converted, and then rest awhile IL
eanctified laziness, and then go up tt
get your heavenly reward, and l war
rant it will not take tho cashier OF the
royal banking house u great while tt
,ount out to you all your dues, He wi!
not ask you whether you Will nave II
in bills of large denomination OF small
l would like to put one sentence OF my
sermon in italics and have it under
scored, and three exclamation points a
the end of the sentence, and that sen
tenCe Is tais AS we cannot live ou
lives over again the nearest we Cal
come to atone for the past is by redou
bled holiness and industry in the future
il this rail train CT life has been dc
tanned and switched off and is far be
hind the time table, the engineer to-
the rest of the way must put Oh NOR
, pressure of steam and 60 mile min
, ute in order to arrive at the right tim
, and place, under the approval OF con
ductor and directors
Practice Kindness.
, As supposed it would be, there or
, young people on whom this subject ha
acted with the force of Il galvanic' bat
, terry Without my saying a word t