The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-01-04


other inHdel die" What discourse in its
moral and spiritual effect could equal u
tale like that?
You might argue upon the fact that those
fallen arc our brothers and sisters. but
could we impress any one with such n trutb
so we'll as by tho scene ncnr Victoria Park
London, whore Nnen were digging II deep
DRAIN and the Snoring gave way and n
great pile OF earth fell upon the workmen
A man stood there with his hands i'm his
pockets, looking Mt those who were trying
to shovel away the earth from those who
were buried, but wien some one said to thu
spectator, "Bill, your brother is down
there" !" then the spectator threw off his
cont and went to work with an agony OF
earnestness to fetch up his brother What
course OF argument could 80 well az that
incident set forth that when we toll for the
salvation OF n soul 1t Is Il brother whom we
are trying to saver
A second realing OF my teAr remtnos mo
that life Is not only story told, but that
II IL brief story. A long narrative
stretched out indefinitely loses its interest
1t Is generally the story that takes only n
minute or halt II minute to rehearse that
arrests the attention. And that gives nd.
dtional interest 10 the story OF our life. II
is short story. Subtract from our life all
the hours OF necessary sleep all the hours
of incapacity through fatigue or Illness, all
the hours OF childhood and youth before
we get fairly TO work, and you have abbre-
Waited the story of life 80 much that Won
can appreciate tho psalmist's remark when
he says, Thou hast made my days as
hands BREADTH" and emu appreciate the
apostle James expression when he com.
pnres life to IN vapor that appeareth for
little season and then yanishes away"
1t does not take long TO tell all the vi.
cissitudes OF liie--the gladness and the
griefs, tho arrivals and the departures,
the successes and the failures tho victor.
les and the defeats, the ups and the downs.
The longer we live the shorter the years
We hardly get over the bewldering fatigue
OF selecting gifts for children and friends
and see that the presents get on in
time to arrive on the appropriate day
than we SEQ another advancing group
OF holidays. Autumnal fruit 80 sharp
ly chnses the summer harvest, and the
snow OF the white blossoms OF spring
timo como too soOn after the SHOWS OF
winter. 1t is remark so often made
that 1t falls TO mako any impression and
the platitude that calls forth no reply,
"How rapidly time goes"
Every century is big wheel OF years,
which makes hundred revolutions and
breaks down. Every year Is big wheel OF
months and makes twelve revolutions and
then ceases. biologists and theologinng
20 into elnborations of guesses rs to how
long the world will probably last; how
long before the volcanic forces will explode
Il. or meteoric stroke demollsh Ii, or tho
cold OF along winter freeze out it's populn.
tion, or the fires OF IA last conflagrntiun
burn It. That Ia all very we'll but so far
rs the present population OF tho earth Is
concerned the world will last but n little
longer, Wa begin life with a cry and end
1t with groan, and the cry and the groan
are not far apart. Life. job says, IL like
the Hight Of u weaver's shuttle, or, as
David intimates in my text, story quick
ly told and laughed at and gone and dis
placed by another story as a "talo that IL
told"
We talk about public lite and private
HE, but there Is no private life. The story
OF our life, however Insignificant II NAV
seem to be, will win the applause or hiss
OF great multitude that no man can mum.
Der. As 'talo that Is told" among adj
mirers or antagonists, celestinls or panAe-
moniacs, tho universe Is full of listening
ears as we'll as OF cleaning eyes. II
we say or do the right thing, that IL known.
III we say or do the wrong thing, that Is
known. / suppose the population of the
intelligences In tho air IL more numerous
than the population OF inteligences on the
earth. Oh, TINT the story of our life might
be fit for such an audience In such an au.
ditorium! God grant that wisdom and
hdelity and earnestnoss and truth may
characterize the "tale thut Is told"
Through medical science the worlds
longevity may be greatly improved In lhe
future, as 1t has been In the past, but il
would not be well for the people to live too
long. Some of them would, through theil
'kili ut acqulsitiveness, gather too much.
ana some multimillionnlres would become
.bllllonaires and trlllionaires, and some
would after awhile pocket hemisphere.
No. Death Is useful In It's financial llmita-
lions, and then nll have enough SORROWS
and annoyances and sufSerngs by tho time
lhey become nonagenarlans or centenur-
In nu 70 lyat tr ai. 10. A.
That, 1t would not be fair so long to keen so
many good old people out OF heaven. so
1t IL we'll arranged that those who stand by
the deathbed OF the nineteenth century
Will not be called to stand by the deathbed
OF the twentieth century.
oh, crowd this last year with prayers,
with hosannns, with kind words, with help
iulness. Make the peroration of the cen.
tury the climax OF Christlike deeds Close
up the ranks OF God, and during this re-
maining twelve months charge nightly
against the host OF Abaddon. Have no
reserve corps. Let swiftest gosI el cavalry
gallop, and heaviest moral artillery roll.
and mightiest evangelistic batteries thun-
der on the scene. Let ministers OF the
gospel quit MI controversy with each
other and In solid phalanX march out
for the worlds disenthralment. Let
printing presses, secular and religious,
make combined movement to instruct and
thore bo Elijahs praying for "a great rain,"
and on every contested field Josbuas to
seq that llnal victory Is gained before tho
sun goes down. and every mountain be.
come transfguration, and every Gnllee
walking place OF Him who can hush
tempest. Let us be jealous OF every month
OF every week, OF every day that passes
without something significant and
glorious wrought for God and this sin
cursed world. Let our churches be
thronged with devout Assem- blages Let
the chornls be more like grand marches
than requiems. Let tho coming year see
the last wound OF Transvaa and Philippine
conflict, and the earth quake with tho
grounding arms OF the last regiment over
TO be mnrshaled aud tho furnaces OF the
foundries blaze with the fires that shall
turn the last swords into plowshnres,
And may all those whose lives shall go
out In this last year o. Il century, Us many
will, meet In the heavenly world those who
Ia the morning aud MONDAY OF this hum
dred years tolled and suffered for tho
worlds salvation to tell them how much
has been accomplished for the glory OF
Him whose march through all the coming
centuries the Scriptures describe as going
forth "conquerlng nnd TO conquer" oh,
the contrast between that upllfted spec
tncle OF eternal triumph In the presence OF
God and tho Lamb and these earthly
scenes, whero 1--WE spend our years as Il tale
that IL told"
hut Honour Was Satisfied.
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