Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-11-08

The Echo of Past Mis0eeuEs
You maltreat an aged parent. You be- |
grudge him the room in your house. You |
are impatient of his whimsicalites and |
garrulity. 1t makes you mad to hear him
tell the same story twice. You give him
food he cannot masticate. You wish he
was away. You wonder If he is going to
live forever. He will be gone very soon.
His steps are shorter and shorter He is
going to stop. But God has al account to
settle with you on that subject. After
awhile your eye will be dim, and your
gait will halt and the sound of the grind
ing win be low, and you will tell the
same story twice, and your children will
wonder if you will never be taken away.
They called you father" once; now they
call you the ''old man." II You live few
years longer, they will call you the 'Old
chap" What are those rough words with
which your children are accosting you?
They are the echo of the very words you
used in the ear of your old father forty
years ago. What is that which you are
trying to chew. but find it unmasticable,
and your jaws ache. and you surrender
the attempt? Perhaps it may be the girls
| tie which you gave to your father for his
breakfast forty years ago.
A gentleman passing along the avenue
saw a son dragging his father into the
street by the hair of the head. The gen
tleman, outraged at this brutal conduct
was about to punish the offender. when
the old man arose and said: Don't hurt
him. It's all right. Forty years ago this
morning I dragged out my father by the
hair of his head" 1t is a circle. Other
sins may be adjourned to the next world.
That circle is made quickly, very quickly.
Oh, what stupendous thought that the
good and the evil we start come back to
US! Do you know that the judgment day
will be only the points at which the cir
Giles join, the good and the bad we have
done coming back to us unless divine in
tervention understanding back to us
with welcome of delight or curse of con.
demnation?
Oh, would like to see Paul, the inva
lid missionary, at the moment when hi:
influence comes to full orb, his infuenc,
rolling out through Antioch. through Cy
= prus, through Lystra, through Corinth
> through Athens, through Asia, through
/ Europe, through America, through tn
first century, through FIVE centuries
5 through twenty centuries, through earth
{ through heaven, and at last the wave o
= influence, having made full circuit
4 strikes his soul Oh then would like t
g see him! No one can tell the wide swee
\ of the circle of Paups influence save tn
= one who is seated on the circle Of tn
earth.
3 l should not like to sec the countenanc
; of Voltaire when his influence comes (
{ full orb When the fatal hemorrhag
I seized him at eighty-three years of ag
his influence did not cease. The mo,
brilliant man of his century, he had use
s all his faculties for assaulting Christian
T ty, his bad influence widening throug
+ France, widening out through German
- widening through all Europe, widenir
l. through America, widening through Il
a 123 years that have gone since he die
It widening through earth, widening thrOui
rs the great future, until at last the ace
lie INFLATED influence of his baleful teaching
n and dissOlute life will beat against b
n dismayed spirit and at that moment
n will be enough to make the black hair
c. eternal darkness turn white with the he
V TOr No one can tell how that bad mar
IN influence girdled the earth save the o
IN who is seated on the circle of the cart
IN the Lord Almighty.
Il. Gods OmnipOtent Mercy.
at ''Well. now" say some, ''this in sol
W respects is a very glad theory and in Of
'e- ers a very bad one We would like
nd have the good we have ever done co,
ny back to us, but the thought that all I
re- sins we have ever committed will CO..
ps back to us fills us with alright"
ist brother, / have to tell you God can bre
e'H that circle and will do so at Vonr call