The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-01-07

miseg"'ls style puts me out of conceit
with Heaven" Ucs1 Chesterfield In his
last moments, when he ought to have
been praying for his soul, bothered
himself about the prophecies OF tbs
sickroom and said; Give Dayboles a
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 seraphio
glow on the face of Edward Payson. az
he said in his last moment: The
breezes of Heaven fan me. float Ia
a sea of glory" Or with Paul. the
apostle, who said in his last hour: II
am now ready to be offered up. and the
;ime of my departure is at hand. l
have fought the good fight, have kept
the faith. Henceforth there Is laid up
for me crown OF righteousness which
the Lord, the righteous Judge. will give
me-" Or compare 1t with the Christian
deathbed that you witnessed in your
own household. Oh, my friends, this
world is false god! 1t will consume
you with the blaze in which it accepts
| your sacrifice, while the righteous
shall be held in everlasting remem~
! brance, and when the thrones have
fallen and the monuments have crum-
bled and the world has persisted they
shall banquet with the conquerors OF
earth and the bierarchs of Heaven.
This is IA 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 tn
say which is the 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 prepare
ton for eternity? Do yon wonder that
when that man on the Hudson river, in
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--"eternity! A dying
woman in her last moments said: Call
it back" They said: what do You
want?" Time" she said; "call it
back" Oh, it cannot be called backl
We might lose cur fortunes and call
them back, we might lose our health
and perhaps recover it, we might lose
Our good name and get that back, but
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 ycar-whether
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
may defy all earth and hell to over
throw you. congratulate you. give
you great joy. 1t is happy new year
to you.
l can see no sorrow at all in the fact
that or years are going. You hear
some people say: II wish could go
ba,k again TO boyhood." / would not
want to go back again to boyhood.
ON afraid l might make a worse life
out of it than have made. You could
not afford to go back to boykood if it
were possible. You might do n great
deal worse than you have done. The
past Is gone! Look out for the future!
10 all Christians it is a time of glad
ness. / am glad the years are going.
You are coming on nearer home. Let
your ouuntenance light up with the
thought. Nearer home!
Now, when one can sooner get to tn.
center of things, is he not to be congra.-
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
a more accurate idea of Him than we
can by studying Him so years through
pictures or words. The little child that
cied at six months of age knows more
ton and all 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 kcyholes of
Heaven-afraid that both doors OF thu
celestial mansion will be swung wide
open before our entranced vision rush
ing about among the apothecary shops
OF this world, wondering II this is good
for rheumatism, and that is good for
neuralgia. and something else is good
for bad cough, lest we be suddenly
ushered into land of everlasting
health where the inhabitant never says:
~ am sick"
In 1885 the French resolved that at
Client they would have kind of mu-
sical demonstration that had never