The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1899-04-07
FARMVILLE. VA. FRIDAY. APRIL :. 1899.

r. hImseli about the proprietics OF thu
s.ckroom and said: Give Daybolcs
chair Godfrey knoller spent his lasi
hours ON earth 10 drawing diagram OF
lis own monument
Compare the silly and horrible depar-
ture OF such men with the seraphic
P glow on the face of Edward Payson. as
he said IN his last moment. The
treczcs of Heaven fan me. float m
"a sea of glory" Or with Paul the
apostle who said in his last hour: 81
am now ready to be offered up. and the
lime OF my departure is at hand.
have fought the good fight. have kept
the faith. lIenceforth there is land dp
for me crown of righteousness which
the Lord, the righteous Judge Will give
me- Or compare it with the Christian
deathbed that you Witnessed in your
own household Oh. ms friends. this
world Is false god! II Will consume
you with the blaze in which II accents
Your sacrifice. while the righteous
shall be held IL everlasting remem-
brance, and when the thrones have
fallen and the monuments have crum- /
bied and the w-rId has persisted they I.
sLall banquet with the conquerors OF |
earth ana the bierarchs of Heaven.
This is d good day in which to begin
new style Of measurement. How Old
art thou? You see the Christian way
of measuring life and the worldly way
of measuring it. / leave it to you TO
say which is tine wisest and best way.
The wheel of time has turned very
swiftly and it has hurled us on. The
old year has gone. The new year has
come For what you and / have been
launched upon it God only knows. Now
let me ask you ALL have you made any
preparation for the future? You have
made preparation for time. my dear
brother; have you made any prepara-
tion for eternity? DO you wonder that
when that man on the Hudson river. i'm
Indignation tore up the tract which
was handed to him and just one word :
landed on his coat sleeve-the rest of
the tract bang pitched into the river
that one word aroused his soul? 1t was
that one word, so long. so broad. so
high, so deep--"eternityl A dying
woman in her last moments said: Call 9
it back They said: What do Won
want?' Tine" she said; "call it
back" Oh, il cannot be called back!
We might lose cur fortunes and call
them back, we might lose our health
and perhaps recover 1t, we might lose T
cur good name and get that back. bur
time gone is gone forever
Some Of you during the past year n
made preparation for eternity, and it u
makes no difference to you really. as
TO ;he matter Of safety whether you
20 now go some other ycar-whethel
This year or the next year. Both your
feet ON the rock the waves may dash
around you. You can say: God is cur y
refuge and strength-a very present
help You are on the rock and you
may defy all earth aud hell to over
hrow you. l congratulate you. give
'ou great joy. 1t is a happy new year
10 you.
l can see no sorrow at all in the fact ri
hat orr years are going You hear
ome people say: 81 wish ! could 90
'ask again TO boyhood." l would not
want 80 80 back again to boyhood.
m afraid l might make a worse life
nat Of it than have made You could Dt
ot afford to 90 back to boyLood if it -
we're possible. You might do a great
cal worse than you have done. The
asst Is gone. Look out for the future
o all Christians it is a time of glad L..
ess. l am glad the years are going II
ou are coming on nearer home. Let
our eountenance light up with the
fought. Nearer home
Now, when one can sooner get to tb. woI
inter of things, Is he not to be congra.- ser'
lated? Who wants to be always in the
eshman class? We study God in this NJ
orld by the Biblical photograph OF scri
i'm; but we all know we can in five lhe
inutes of interview with a friend get a.,
more accurate idea of Him than We
n by studying Him 80 years through
ctures or words. The little child tha, NJ
ed at six months of age knows more
God than all Andoyer and all Prince
n and al New Brunswick. ALI
Does not our common sense teach U.s. VI
at it is better to be at the center than o'S'
be clear out on the rsm of the wheel. ~
lding neryously fast to the tire les
be suddenly hurled inc tight and
'rnal felicity? Through all kinds 3f
teal instruments trying to peer in
rough the cracks and the keyholes of
ayen-afraid that both doors of tn
estial mansion will be swung wide
20 before our entranced vision rush " n
about among the apothecary shops II
this world, wondering If this is good
rheumatism, and that is good for
Iralgia, and something else is good
a bad cough, lest we be suddenly
cred into a land of everlasting
lth where the inhabitant never says: f.
am sick" VI
b 1885 the French resolved that at invit,
mt they would have kind of mu- public
D demonstration that had never thing
n heard of. 1t would be MADE up Of me-
chimes Of bells and the discharge of oa o"'s,
non. The experiment was perfect ,,ar, ,,'.
'ess. What with the ringing Of the We
S and the report of the ordnance. the our n,
irembled, and the hills shook with house
triumphal march that was az any hl
ngc as il was overwhelming. With Car
Ost glorious accOmpanfmpnt Will PATE