Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-07-21

how you may practically live your life
over again and be all the better for II.
You may rut iato III, remaining year.
of your life all you have learned OF
wisdom in your past life. You NAV
make the coming ten years worth the
preceding forty or fifty years When
man says lie would like TO live hi.
life over again because he would do 50
much better, and yet goes right on liv
ing As he has always lived, do you not
see he stultifies HIMSELF lie proves
that if he could go back he would dc
almost the same as he has done.
Ii a man eat green apples some Wed.
ncsday in cholera time and is thrown
into fearful cramps, and says ON Thurs
day: Il wish had been more prudent
in my diet; oh. If | could live WedneS-
day over again" And then on Friday
eats apples just as green, he proves
that 1t would have been no advantage
for him to live Wednesday over again.
And ii we, dcploring our past life, and
with the idea of Improvement, long for
an opportunity to try it over again,
yet go on making the same mistakes
and committing the same sins, we only
demonstrate that the repetition of our
existence would afford no improve
mcnt. IL was green apples before,
and it wou d be green apples over
again.
As soon as a ship captain strikes n
rock in the lake or sea he rcportS il,
and n buoy is swung over that reef,
and mariners henccforth stand off
from that rock And all our mistakes
in the past ought to be buoys, warn
ing 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 Eight
where excavations are being made, we
frequently see lantern on n frame
work and we turn aside. for that lam
tern says keep out of this hole. And
all along the pathway of life lanterns
are set rs warnings, and 10y the time
we come To mid-life we ought to know
where it is safe to walk and where il
is unsafe.
BESIDES that we have all thee years
been learning how to be full. and in
the next decade we ought to accom-
ri sh more for God and the church and
the world than i'll any previous four
decades. The best way to atone for
past Incidence or past trausge ssion is
by future asSiduity. Yet we often find
Christian men who were not converted
until they were 80 or 30, as old age
comes on, SAYING: well. nv work IS
about done, and 1t is time for me &c
rest" They gave 40 years of their life
to Satan and the world. lite frag-
mcut 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 his
early existence to the world and of the
remaining two-quartcrs one to Chris
| tian work and the other to rest, would
not, | supposs, get Il very brilliant re-
ception in Heaven. II there are any
dried leaves in Heaven they would BE-
appropriate for his garland; or if there
is any thornc with broken stcFs, il
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.
tcnths of your life to sin and Satan
| and then get converted, and then resi-
awhile in satified lazines>, and 70 W
| to get your Heavenly reward. and
warrant it will not take the cashier %
the royal banking house a great while
| to count out to you all your dues. ii,
will not ask you whether you viii
have it in bills of large denomination
or small. j would like to put one
sentence of my sermon into italics
and have it UNDERSIGNED, and tire,
exclamation points at the END
| of the sentence, and tina
| sentence is this: As we car
not live our lives over again, the
nearest we can come to atone for the
past is by redoubled holiness and in
dustry in the future. If this raj
train of life has been detained and
switched off and i far b,hind the time
table, the engineer for the rest of the
way must put on more pressure OF
steam and go mile a minute in order
to arrive at the right time and place,
under the approval of conductor and
| directors.