Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-01-12


keep my dignity to the last Males
herbes said IN his last moments to the
confessor: Hold your tongue! Your
miserable style puts me out of conceit
with Heaven" Lord Chesterfield in his
last moments, when he ought to have
been praying for his soul, bothered
him elf about the proprieties of thu
sickroom and said: Give Dayboles
chair" Godfrey Kneller spent his last
hours on earth in drawing diagram of
his own monument.
Compare the silly and horrible depar-
ture of such men with the seraphic
glow on the face of Edward Payson, as
he said In his last moment: The
breezes of Heaven fan me. | float il,
sea of glory" Or with Paul. the
apostle, who said in his last hour: 81
am now ready to be offered up, and the
time of my departure is at hand.
have fought the good fight, have kept
the faith. Henceforth there Is laid up
tor 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, my friends, this
world is a false god! 1t will consume
you with the blaze in which IT accepts
your sacrifice, while the righteous
shall be held il everlasting remem-
brance, and when the thrones have
fallen and the monuments have crum-
bled and the wCrld has persisted they
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earth and the bierarchs of Heaven
This rs 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 il. | leave it to you to
say which is the wisest and best way
The wheel of time has turned very
swiftly, and 1t 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 prepare
ton for eternity? Do you wonder that
~
indignation tore up the tract which
was handed to him and just one word
landed on his coat sleeve-the rest of
the tract beng 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
it back" They said: What do you
want?" Time" she said; ''call it
back!" Oh, ii cannot be called back!
We might lose cur fortunes and cali
them back, we might lose our health
and perhaps recover 1t, we might lose
cur good name and get that back, bur
time gone is gone forever,
Some of you during the past year
made preparation for eternity, and it
makes no difference TO you really, as
TO The matter of safety whether you
go now or go some other ytar-whe thel
this year or the next year. Both your
feet on the rock the waves may dash
around you. You can say: God is cur
refuge and strength--a very present
help" You are on the rock, and you
throw you. congratulate you. give
you great joy. 1t is happy new year
TO you.
l can see no sorrow at all IL the fact
that our years are going. You hear
some people say: Il wish | could go
ba7k again TO boyhood." | would not
want to go back again to boyhood.
| ,fr - So
out of it than have made. You could
rot afford to go back to boykood if it
were possible. You might do great
| deal worse than you have done. The
past rs gone! Look out for the futurel
! To all Christians it is a time of glad
ness. am glad the years are going.
You are coming on nearer home. Let
your eUuntenance light up with the
thought. Nearer home!
Now, when one can sooner get to the
center of things, is he not to be congrat-
ulated? Who wants to be always in the
freshman class? We study God in this
world by the Biblical photograph of
Him; but we all know we can in five
minutes of interview with friend get
q iHUIG accurate Iutd VI Illlu IMAM WE
can by studying Him so years through
pictures or words. The little child that
Gied at six months of age knows more
of God than all Andover and all Prince
ton and an New Brunswick.
Does not our common sense teach us
that il is better to be at the center than
to be clear out on the rim of the wheel.
holding nervously fast to the tire les:
We be suddenly hurled inc light and
eternal felicity? Through all kinds OF
optical instruments trying to peer in
through the cracks and the keyholes of |
Heaven-afraid that both doors OF tn
celestial mansion will be swung wide |
open before our entranced vision rush
ing about among the apothecary shops |
OF this world. wondering if this is good |
for rheumatism, and that is gnod for
neuralgia, and something else is good |
for bad cough. lest we be suddenly |
ushered into a land of everlasting |
health where the inhabitant nevr. says;
~ am sick"
In 1888 the French resolved that at |