The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-05-08
LIFE IN RETROSPECT.
Or. TALMA0E CALLS THE ROLL OF
! STIRRING MEMORIES.

Drawing Hslpfal Lessons From Past
Experiences sad ,vioissituAes-Ad-
! vantases Of Easly Home Teschiass
and Surroundinss.
Copyright. Louis Klopsch. 1881
WARRINGTON, May 7.-!This sermon, Of
Dr.. Talmage calls the roll Of, many. stir.
rihgmemories and interprets the meaning
Of LIES vicissitudes. The text IL Psalms
1xIiI, Q, "While was musins the fire
burned"
Here is David, the psalmist, with the
forefnger Of his right hand against his
temple and the door shut against the
world, engaged In contemplation. And 1t
would be well for us to take the same pos
ture often while we sit down In sweet soil.
tude to contemplate. .
In small island off the coast Of Nova
Scotia l once psssed'a Sabbath in delight
full solitude, for I had resolved that !
would have one day of entire quiet before
entered upon autuinnal work. thought
to have spent the day In laying out plans
for Christian work, but instead Of that 1t
became day of tender reminiscence. I
reviewed my pastorate; / shook hands
with an old departed friend, WHOM shall
greet again when the curtains Of life are
lifted The days Of my bQyhood came
back, and [ was 10 years Of age, and I
was 8, and I was D. There was but one
house on the island, and yet from Sabbath
daybreak, WHEN the bird chant woke me,
until tho evening melted into the hay Of
Fundy, from shore to shore there were ten
thoussnd memories, and the groves were
album with voices that had long AGO
ceesed
Youth IA art I'm ,pucb to srend air Ita
time in lookino forward. Old ara In ant
too ynnch IL snend ali ita time IN looking
backyard. PeooIs m midlife ami on the
sneI iook both yysvs Jt would he we'll
for ma. think. however. to spend mora
TINA IN reminiscenca ~ tho oonstitution
of our nature we anand most os tha Time
lacking forward And the vast maioritv
n naonle live not so much in The present
nc IN tho fut,,re ana that vou mean tn
m ake a ren,tat,on vou mean tn esta hIish
Yourself. And the adyantnoes that vou ex.
meet To achieve absorb a great deal Of YOUR
time. But sec no harm in this, If IL does
not make you disconnected with the pres
emit or disqualify you for existing duties.
It is q useful thing sometimes to look back
and TO sec the dangers we have escaped
and to see the sorrows we have suffered
and the trials and wand&tingB Of our
earthly pilgrimage and to sum up our on.
joyments mean, SO far as God may help
me, to stir up your memory of the past,
so that in tho review you may be encour.
anad and humbled ~nd-urged to pray.
There is a chapel in Florence with O
fresco by Guido. It was covered UP with
two inches of stucco until our American
and European artists went there, and after
lopp toll removed .the covering and re-
traced the fresco. And am aware that
the memory of the past, with many of
YOU, Ia all covered up with deliberations,
and 1 now propose, so far as the Lord may
help me, to take away the covering, that
the old picture NAV shine out again. I
want to bind in one sheaf all your past
advantages, and want to bind in another
sheaf ali your mast Universities. 1t is q
precious harvest and must be cautious
how Ihging the scythe.
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snail homse than thor. "a in n ornrite
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hack yon SOC ~ nc tbouoh n were yester.
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sn;es tben nIntt Inc n,iscb;ef nn tho aoor
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,Hara n Su in tho st,oot vomr father
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Your greatest trouble was an April show
er, more sunshine than shower. The heart
had not been rausacked by trouble, nor
had sickness broken IL. and no lamb had
a warmer sheepfold than the home in
which YOUR childhood nestled,
Perhaps YOU were brought I'D In the
country You stand now today in men,
ory under the old tree. You dubbed 1t
for fruit that WAS not quito ripo. because
Won conldn't wait INV longer. You hear
fhe brook rumbl,np along over tho peb-
bles You stem apoin into the furrow
where YOUR father in his shirt sleeves
shouted to tbe law oxen, You frisbten
the swallows from the rafters of the barn
and take lust one egg and silence your
conscience by saving they will not miss il.
You take drink again out Of. the very
bucket that the old well fetched up. You
go for tho cows at night and find them
pushing their heads through tho bars.
Outlines in the dusty and busy streets you
wish you were home again on that cool
grass or in the rag carpeted hall of tho