Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1901-01-16

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plying by the day and hour-people
who feel themselves the Lords stew
ards, and from their opulence they
ere making a distribution which
Il pleases the Heavens. The check
| book In the Office drawer of that
man has on it's stubs a story of be-
neficence clear up into the sublime.
In all the round of the worlds suf-
fering and ignorance and woe you
cannot mention one worthy object
tP which that prosperous and good
mNan has not made contribution. He
is )not irritated, as many are, by So
LIMITATIONS for aims. In some poor
woApan in thin shawl, holding in her
arms child with rheum in its eyes.
this Hood man sees the Christ who
said: 'Inasmuch as ye have done it
unto. oNe OF the least Of these, We have
done it\unto me-"
Well, this man of consecrated affiu-
ence is about to GO out of this world.
He feels Sn brain and nerve the strain
of the eaTly struggles by which he
won his fortune, and at 60 or 20 years
collapses under the exhaustions OF
the twentieS and thirties of his life
time. When the morning papers an
nounce that he is gone, there is ex-
element not only on the avenues
where the mansions stand, but all
through the hospitals and asylums
and the homes pf those who will
henceforth have 20 helper. But the
excitement of sadVess on earth is
very tame affair compared With the
excitement Of gladness in Heaven.
The guardian ange\ OF that good
mans life swept by n dying pillow
the night before, and swift wing
upward announced tina in few
hours he would 3rrive. and there is
mighty stir in HIeay.u lie comes!"
cries seraph to teraph. "a Kings
heralds are at I the gate TO say:
Come, We bles sed," and souls who
were saved through the churches that
good man SUPPORTED and hundreds
who went up after being by him
helped in their earthly struggle will
come down off their thrones and out
of their palaces and through the
streets to hail him into the land which
they reached some time before
through his Christian philanthropy.
why. that is the man who, when L
was a-hungered, gave me bread!"
! why, thatjs the man." says another,
who encouraged me when | was in
the hard struggle of business life!"
"Why, that is the man." says another,
who paid my rent when l had moth
ing with which to pay!" why, that
is the man through whose mission
airy spirit / heard the GOSPEL call In
Bombay" Why, that is the man."
says another. who helped send the
Gospel of Christ to the aborigines Of
America and caused me to exchange
the war whoop of the savage for the
song of Christian deliverancel"
stand back" commands the gate
keeper of Heaven, 'all We throngs re-
deemed through this mans instru-
mentalities! Make way for him to the
feet of the King. where he will cast
his crown, and then make way for
him to the throne, where he shall
reign forever and ever!" Now, that
is what i call an abundant entrance.
/ You See, it is not necessary to be a
| failure on earth in order to be a sue
cess in Heaven.
But | promise that all those who
have lived for others and been truly
small scale, will have illustrious in
PRODUCTION into the imported gateway.
Here and there in some large family
you see an attractive daughter who
declines marriage that she may take
care of father and mother in old days.
! This is not an abstraction. / have
known such. You have proba bly,
known such. There are in this world
wOmanly souls as big as that. They
che erfully endure the whimsicalities
and querulousness which sometim es
characterize the aged, and watch
nights when pneumonia is threatened
and are eyes to the blind. and sit in
close rooms lest the septugenariau be
chilled and count out the right mum beI
of drops at the right time. The mother
of little child has her hands full. bu'
the daughter who stays home to take
care of an aged father or mother ha.
lher hands just as full
While I thus discourse ! am aware
that some have not taken the first ster
toward Heaven, and they feel ike Jacob
Strawn, who took some ministers OF
the gospel on the top Of his house &c
show his farms, reaching in every di
rection as far as eye could see. He
was asked how many acres ne owned
and he replied 10000. How much is il
worth per acre?" was asked. and he r..
piled: Fifty dollars at least" Then
said the minister, you are worth 50
| 600. OOO' Yes" said Strawn. "and
made il all myself" Then the minister
said: you have shown me these vas;
earthly possessions, and now will YOU
look up yonder. (poihting to the heat
eDs)-how much do fou own up there -
And Strawn answered. with tears i'm his
eyes: "Oh, I am afraid ] am poor uu
there" Alas, how uhany there are who
have acquired all earthly properties
| and advantages. bUgt have no treasures
! Il