The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-01-28

where there is one cloud thunder
charged there are hundreds tn, stray
across the heavens, the glory of land
and sky asleep in their bosom. Be-
cause death came and took your child
away, did you Immediately forget all
the five years, or the ten years, CT the l5
years, in which she came every night for
q kiss, all the tones of your heart peal
ing forth at the sound of her voice or
the soft touch of her hand? Because in
some financial Euroclydon your fortune
went into the breakers, did you forges
ell those years in which the Injuries
aud extravagances of life showered on
your path? Alas, that is an unwise
man, an ungrateful man, an unfair maj,
an philosophic man, and, most of all,
an un-Christian man, who measures his
life on earth by groans and tears and
dyspeptic fit and abuse and scorn and
terror and neuralgia thrust.
Again, remark that there are many
people who estimate their life on earth
by the amount of money they have ac-
cumulated. They say: 1.-The year 1866,
or 1870, or 1898. was wasted" Why?
Made no money" Now it is all cant
and ins;ncerity to talk against money,
as though it had no value. 1t may rep
resent refinement and education and
10000 blessed surroundings. 1t is
the spreading of the table that feeds
the children's hunger. 1t is the light
ing of the furnace that keeps you
warm. 1t is the making of the bed on
which you rest from care and anxiety
1t is the carrying of you out at last to
decent sepulcher and the putting up
Of the slab on which is chiseled the
story of your Christian hope. 1t is
simply hypocrisy, this TRADE in pulpit
md lecture hall against money.
But while all this is sc, he who uses
money or thinks of money as anything
but a means to an end will find out his
mistake when the glittering treasures
slip out of his nerveless grasp and he
yoes out of this world without shil
Dig of money or certificate of stock.
might better have been the Chris
an porter that opened his gate, or the
egrimed workman who last night
eaved the coal into his cellar. Bones
I'D mortgages and leases have their
be, but they make a POOR yardstick
18th which to measure life. They
lat boast themselves in their wealth
I'D trust in the multitude OF their
ches, none of them can, by any means.
Edeem his brother or give to God q
[nsom for him that he should not see
brruption."
But remark there are many-I wish
fe by the moral and spiritual develop
ent.
l remark again, there are maryland
wish there were more-who are es-
mating life by the good they can do.
John Bradford said he counted that
nothing at all in which he had not,
pen or tongue, done some good. If
man begin right, cannot tell how
any tears he may wipe away, how
my burdens he may lift, how many
phans he may comfort, how many
tcasts he may reclaim. There have
been men who have given their whole
life in the right direction. concentrat-
ing all their wit and ingenuity and
mental acumen and physical force and
enthusiasm for Christ. They climbed
the mountain and delved into the mine
and crossed the sea and dropped at last
into martyrs graves waiting for tue
resurrection of the just. They meas
ured their lives by the chains they
broke off. by the garments they put up
on nakedness, by the miles they trav-
eled to alleviate every kind of suffer
ing. They felt in the thrill OF every
nerve, in the motion of every muscle,
in every throb of their heart, In every
respiration of their lungs the magniti-
cent truth. "No man liveth unto him
self" They went through cold and
through heat, foot blistered, cheek
smitten, back scourged, tempest
dashed, TO do their whole duty. That is
the way they measured life-by the
amount of good they could do.
Do you want 10 know how old
Luther was; how old Richard Baxter
was; how old Philip Doddridge was ?
Why. you cannot calculate the length
of their lives by any human arithmetic!
Add IN THAR liyee 10 0Q0 times IN CN0
years and you have not expressed it
what they have lived or will live. On,
what standard that is to measure a
mans life by! There are those in this
house who think they have only lived
80 years. They will have lived 1000
they have lived 1000. There are those
who think they are 80 years Of age.
They have not even entered upon their
infancy, for one must become abe in
Christ to begin at all.
Now, do not know what your adj
vantages or disadvantages are; l do
not know what your tact or talent is:
do not know what may be the fascna-
tion Of your manners or the repulsive-
ness of them; but know this-tbere l.
FOR you. my hearer. field TO culture, u
harvest to reap, tear to wipe away,
a soul to save. If you have worldly
means, consecrate them to Christ. II
you have eloquence, use it on the side
that Paul and Wlberforce used theirs.
If you have learning, put it all into the