The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1899-04-07

where there is one cloud thunde
charged there are hundreds tint sfra
across the heavens the glory Of Ian
aud sky asleep in their bosom. BE-
cause death came and took your chill,
away. did you Immediately forget al
the five years. or the ten years. on the I.
years. IN which she came every night fol
kiss. all the tones of your heart pea.
ing forth al the sound of her voice ol
The soft touch of her hand? Because IN
some financial Euroclydon your fortnu.
went into the breakers. did you forge.
el those years in which the hNurie.
aud eXtravagancos of life showered oa
your path? Alas that is an unwis.
nam, am ungrateful man. an unfai. maj
( an unphilosophic man. and. mos. ofan.
am un-Christian man, who measures hi.
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 monej they have ac-
cumulated. They say: "rhe year 500.
or 1870, or 1898 was wasted" Why?
Made no money" Now IL is all cant
and ins.ncerity to talk against money
as though it had no value II 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 ligh.-
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 mp
Of the slab on which is chiseled the
story of your Christian hope. II Is
simply hypocrisy, this TRADE i'm pulpit
and lecture hail against money
But while all this is SC. he who use.
money or thinks OF money as anything
hut a means to an end will find out his
mistake when the glittering treasures
slip out of his nerveless grasp and ne
goes out of this world without a shii-
ling OF money or certificate of stock
lie might better have been the Chris
tian porter that opened his gate, or the
begrmed workman who last night
heaved the coal into his cellar. Bon1s
and mortgages and leases have their /
use but they make POOR yardstick /
with which 10 measure life. They .
that boast themselves in their wealth /
and trust in the multitude Of their
riches, none of them can. by any means
redeem his brother or give to God
ransom for him that he should not see
corruption"
But remark there are many wish
here were morc-who estimate their
life by the mora and spiritual develop
nent.
j remark again. there are maryland
wish there were more-who are es-
imating life by the good they can do
John Bradford said he counted that
lay nothing at all in which he had not.
" pen or tongue, done some good. If
man begin right. | cannot tell how
many tears he may wipe away. how
lany burdens he may lift. how many
rphans he may comfort. how many !
utcasts he may reclaim. There have
cen men VINO have given their whole
fe in the right direction. concentrat-
lg all their wit and ingenuity and
rental acumen and physical force and
lthusiasm for Christ. They climbed
he mountain and delved into the mine
nd eroclaI tho 500 ,,T Tror,.I o. T... ] 4
ito martyrs graves waiting for the
surroctior of the just. They meas y
ed their lives by the chains they q
'oSe off. by the garments they put up J
nakedness. by the miles they trav- !
ed TO alleviate every kind of suffer i
E. They felt in the thrill Of every !
rive. i'm the motion Of every muscle. y
every throb Of their heart. in every u
spiration of their lungs the magnif-
MT truth. "No man liveth unto him G.
IT," They went through cold and u
rough heat. foot blistered, cheek fl
litten, back scourged, tempest W
he'd. TO do their whole duty. That is Ii
e way they measured life-by the III
RNAA VI E''A Aut NDAlh W.
Do you want to know how old ca
ther was; how old Richard Baxter p
81; how old Philip Doddridge was? a.
~. you cannot calculate the length of
their lives by any human arithmetic to
d to their lives 10000 times 10000
irs and you have not expressed it IL
at they have lived or will live. On. TO
at standard that is to measure a hC
MS life byl There are those in this w
Use who think they have only lived et'
years. They Will have lived 1000 cp
y have lived 1000. There are those III
D think they are so years of age. lie
" have not even entered upon their ccl
lncy. for one must become a babe in OPP
ist to begin at ALL Ing
CIV, / do not know what your adj Of
tages or disadvantages are; / do foi
know what your tact or talent is: mel
not know what may be the fascina- for
of your manners or the repulsive- usl
5 Of them; but know this-there i. hes
you. my hearer, field 10 culture. q "l
vest TO reap. a tear 10 wipe away. /
'ul TO save. If you have worldly Gil,
MS. consecrate them to Christ II sic,
have eloquence. use il on the side bee
Paul and Wilberforce used theirs. tie
on have learning. put il all into the can
P box Of the worlds suffering. But snc
on have none Of these-neither bell
th, nor eloquence nor learn city
you, at any rate. have a the
e with which you can encourage sira
q froMn with Mhich q Il