Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-07-28

were quite lSa'<NsSS oA NAS SSAtS Va 1AS
village, who was so transeendently
tslz aad popular But while you have
these two honorable and queenly
names of wife and mother, she became
a poor waif of the street, and went
into the blackness of darkness for
ever. Live life over again? Why, il
many OF those who are respectable
were permi ted to experiment, the
next journey would be demoli-
tion. You got through, rs job says.
by the skin Of your teeth. Next time
you might not get through at oil.
Sataa would say; II know him now
better than l did before, and have for
so wears been studying his weaknesses,
ami | will weave stronger web OF cir
To catch him next time. :"
And Satan would concentrate his forces
on this one u,au, and the last state of
that man would be worse than the
first. My friends, our faces are 10 the
right direction. Better go for
ward than backward. even IL we
had the choice The greatest dis
aster can think of would be for you
ia return to boyhood in lSes, Oh, it
life were n smooth Luzerne or Cayuga
lake, would like TO get into II yacht
and sail over II, not once, but twice
yea, thousand times. But life is an
uncertain sea, ANA some of the ships
crash on the icebergs of cold indiffer-
ence, and some take fire of evil pas
Sions, and some lose their bearings and
run into the Goodwin sands, and some
are never heard OF. Surely on such q
treacherous sea rs that one voyage is
enough.
Besides all this, do YOU know, II YOU
could have your wish and live life over
again, it would put you so much fur
thcr 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 at which you
are to meet your transported and emf
paradised 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 80 years, or 40 years,
or SO years, what an awful post.
ponement of the time of reunionl
1t would be as though you were
going to San Francisco to II great
banquet, aud you got to Oak
land, four or five miles this side of it,
and then came back to Baltimore to
get a 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 adj
journ the songs of Heaven, To adjourn
the thrones of Heaven, to adjourn the
compauionship of Heaven, to nd journ
the rest of Heaven, to adjourn the
presence of Christ in Heaven? Mo-;
the wheel of time turns in the right
direction, and it is well it turns so fast.
Three hundred and sixty-tive revolu-
tions in year, and forward, rather
than 365 revolutions in n year and
backward.
Out yonder is a man very old at 40
years of age, at time when he ought
to be buoyant as the morning, He got
bad habits on him very early, and those
habits have become worse. lie is II
man on fire, on fire with alcoholism,
on fire with all evil habits, ont with
the world and The world out with him.
Down, and falling deeper His swollen
hands in his thrcadbarc pockets, aud
his eye fixed on the ground. as he
passes through the street, and tie quicit
step OF an innocent child, or the strong
slep of an young man, or the roll Of
II prosperous carriage maddens him,
and he curses society and he curses
God. Fallen sick, with no resources,
he is carried to the alnshouSe. a loath-
some spectacle, he lies all day long
waiting for diSso! ution, or in the night
rises on his cot and fights apparitions
of what he might have been and what
good a prospect MS any man on the
American continent, and there he is, a
bloatcd carcass, waiting for the shov-
els OF public charity TO put him five
feet under. He has only reaped what
he ,owed, Harvest of wild oats There
is way that seemeth right TO a man,
but the end thereof is death.
And then the reaping Of the harvest
is so different. There is GRANDPA
Their now. lie has lived TO old age be.
cause his habits have been good. His
eyesight for this world has got some.
what dim. but his eyesight for Heaven
is radiant His hearing is not so acute
as it once was, and he must bend clear
over to hear what his little grandchild
saws when she asks him what he has
brought for her. But he easily
catches the music rained from
supernal spheres, Men passing in
the streets take off their hats in
reverence, and women say: What
a good old man he is" Seventy
Of 50 years, all for God and for making
this world happy. Splendid! Glorious!
Magnificent He will have hard work
getting into Heaven, because those
whom he helped to get there will fill
up and crowd the gates, 10 tell him
how glad they are at his coming, until
he SAYS: please TO stand back little
till pass through and cast my crown
at the fleet of Him whom, having not
seen, love" do not know what you