The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1898-07-30

mates, the clerks VINO were win you
in the same store or bank, or the cper-
atives In the same factory, with just
as good prospects as you, who have
come to complete mishap Some young
man that told you he was going to be
a millionaire, and own the fastest trot-
tiers on the turnpike, and retire by the
time he was SIS years of age. you do
not hear from for many years, and
know nothing about him until some
day he comes into your store and asks
for five cent TO get a mug of beer.
Besides all this, do you know, II you
could have your wish and live life over
again, 1t would put you so much
farther from reunion with your friends
in Heaven? II ysu 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 year transported and
emparadised loved ones You are
now. let US say, 20 years or ten years
or one year off from celestial conjunc-
ton. Now, suppose you went back in
your earthly life so years or 40 years,
or so years what an awful postpone
ment of the time of reunion. Would
you like for many years to adjourn
the songs of Heaven, adjourn the
thrones Of Heaven. to adjourn the
companionship OF Heaven, to adjourn
the rest OF Heaven, 10 adjourn the
presence Of Christ in Heaven? No;
the wheel Of time turns in the right
direction. and ii is well it turns SO
fast Three hundred and sixty-fiVe
revolutions in a year and forward,
rather than sos revolutions in a year
and backward.
But hear We! hear We! 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
wisdom In your past life You may
make the coming ten years worth the
preceding 20 or SO years When a man
says he would like TO live his life over
again because he would do 80 much
better, and yet goes right on living as
he has always lived, do you not see he
stultifies himself? lie proves that II
he could 20 back he would do almost
the same as he has done.
As o 0 rs a ship captain strikes 4
rock in the lake Or sea he reports IL,
and a buoy is swung over that reef,
and mariners heneeforth stand of
from the rock. And all our mistakes
in the past ought TO be buoys, warn
ing Us 10 keep In the right channel.
There Is no excuse for US II we split
on the same rock where we split be-
fore. Going along the sidewalk at
night where exavations are being made
We frequently see a lantern on a frame
work and we turn aside, for that Ian
tern 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 IL is safe TO walk and where 1t
is unsafe.
Besides that, we have all these years
been learning how to be useful, and in
the next decade we ought to accom-
plish more for God and the church
and the world than in any previous
four decades. The best way to atone
for past Incidence or past transgres.
sion is by future assiduity. Yet we
often find Christian men who were not
converted until they were 40 or 50, as
old age comes on, saying: well, my
work is about done, and 1t is time fol
me to rest" They gave 40 years Of
their life TO satan and the world, Q
little fragment Of their life to God,
and now they want rest Whether
that belongs to comedy or tragedy
say not.
The man who gave one-half of hi
/ earthly existence TO the world, and o
the remaining two quarters one u
Christian work and the other TO rest
: would not | suppose, get a very bril-
! liant reception in Heaven. II Their
c are any dried leaves in Heaven the,
0 would be appropriate for his garland
{ or, IL there is any throne with brokeI
: steps, II would be appropriate for hi
q coronation, or any harp with relaxe'
! string, it would be appropriate for hi
! lingering. Ny brother, you give nine
G tenths Of your life TO sin and SataI
and then get converted, and then res
u awhile in sanctiaed l~aziness, and the
90 up TO get your heavenly reward, an
u | warrant II will not take the cashie
e Of the royal banking house a gres
u while TO count out to you all you
duties. He will not ask you whetht
o you will have II In bills Of large d,
o nomination OF small. ] would like
y put one sentence Of my sermon
g italics, and have it understood, an
. three exclamation points at the end
X the sentence. and that sentence is thi
n As we cannot live our lives over agail
q the nearest w can come To atone fC
r the past il by redoubled holiness an
9 industry in the future. II this ra
N train Of life has been detained al
ir switched of, and is far behind the tin
table, the engineer for the rest of u
'r way must put on more pressure
CT steam and 90 q mile a minute in ord
Is to arrive as the right time and plac
n under the approval Of conductor al
o directors.
or My hearers, the mistakes Of you
ne can never be corrected. Time gone
70 gone forever. An opportunity pass
r. the t~housandth part Of a second h
It, by n leap reached the other side
fs 0 great eternity. In the autumn VIII,
nd the birds migrate you look up and 3
ur the sky black with wings, and Il
he fioeks stretching out into many leagu
ng Of air, aad so to-day ! look up and .
is two large wings in full sweep. Tn
ay are the wings Of the flying year. Tn
ID. is followed by a flock Of 1865, and tn
Id are the flying days. Each Of the hyil
rs days is followed by "a, and they are t
to flying hours, and each is followed by
In and these are the flying minutes. Whe
Id did this great flock start fromp 1t,
p nifty past Where are they boun
% Eternity 10 come? You might as W,
GU go a-gunDing for the quails that VIII
at tied last year in the meadows, or I
cd robins that last year caroled in
GU sky, az 10 try 70 fetch down and b
ito one Of the past opportunities Of 70
all life. DO not say: II will lounge y,
w and make 1t up afterward." You
M men and boys, you can't make II l
90. My observation is that those who
Ig. youth sowed wild oats, TO the end
Of their short life sowed wild oats, a
.yi that those who start sowing Gene,
yer wheat always SOW Genesee wheat
ex- Young man, as yop cannot live |
lgs over again, however you may long
ose do 20, be sure 10 have your one J
an right. There il some vounU man ~