The semi-weekly messenger., 1901-11-15

hearsal Of the past? Your mistakes are
not corrected by a review. Your losses
cannot, by brooding over them, be turned
into gains. 1t is the future that has the
most for US, and hope cheers us On We
have all committed blunders, but does the
calling of the roll Of them make them any
the less blunders? Look ahead in all mat
ters Of usefulness. However much you
may have accomplished for God and the
worlds betterment, your greatest useful
ness is to come. NO." says some one,
my health is gone" NO." says some
one, my money is gone" NO" says
some one, ''the most OF my years are gone
and therefore my usefulness" Why, you
talk like an infidel. Do you suppose that
all your capacity to do good is fenced in
by this life? Are you going to be lounger
and a do nothing after you have quit this
world? Il is my business to tell you that
your faculties are to be enlarged and in
tensifed and your qualifications for use
fulness multiplied tenfold, hundredfold,
a thousandfold.
Is your health gone? Then that is a
sign that you are to enjoy a celestial
health compared with which the most jo-
cund and hilarious vitality Of earth is in
validism. Are your fortunes spent? Re
member you are to be kings and queens
unto God and how much more wealth
you will have when you reign forever and
ever. / want to see you when you get
your heavenly work dress on. This little
bit Of a speck of a world we call the
earth is only the place where we get
ready to work. We are only journeymen
here, but will be master workmen there.
Heaven will have no lcafers hanging
around. The book says of the inhabit
ants, They rest not day nor night" Why
rest when they work without fatigue?
Why seek pillow when there is no night
there? l want to see you after the pedes-
trianism Of earth has been exchanged for
power of flight and velocities infinite and
enterprises interstellar, interworld.
l suspect that the telescope of that OBJ
servatory brings in sight consultations
that may comprise ruined worlds which
need looking after and need help sanity
and missionary. There may be worlds
that, like ours, have sinned and need to
be rescued, perhaps saved by our Christ
or by some plan that God has thought out
for other worlds as wise, as potent, as
lovely, as the atonement is for our world
The laziness which has cursed us in this
world will not gain the land of eternal
activities-so much tonic in the air, so
much inspiration in the society, so much
achievement after we get the shackles of
the flesh forever off. Do not dwell so
much on opportunities past, but put your
emphasis Oh opportunities to come. Do
not count the battles lost, but scour your
musket for victories to come.
Freed From Limitations.
Am 1 not right in saying that eternity
can do more for us than can time? What
will we not be able to do when our pow
ers of locomotion shall be quickened into
the immortal spirits speed? Why should
a bird have a swiftness of wing when it
is of no Importance how long it shall take
to make its aerial way from forest to for
est and we, who have so much more i'm
portant errand in the world, get on SO
slowly? The roebuck outruns us, the
hounds are quicker in the chase, but wait
until God lets US loose from all limita-
tions and indictments. Then we will fair
u begin. The starting post will be the
tombstone. Leaving the world will be
graduation day before the chief work Of
or mental and spiritual career. Hope
sees the doors opening. the victor's foot
in stirrup for the mounting. The day
bceaks-frst flush Of the horizon. The
mission o. hope will be an everlasting
mission, as much Of it in the heavenly
hereafter as in the earthly now. Shall We
have gained all as soon as we enter
realms celcstial-rothinG more to learn,
10 other heights to climb, no new an
then to raise. i monotOny of existence,
tie same thing over and over again for
endless years? Noi More progress in
that world than we ever made In this.
Hope will stand on the hills of heaven
ard look for ever Frightening landscapes,
ether transformations of color, new glo-
ries rolling over the scene, new celebra-
tions of victories in other worlds, heaven
rising into grander heavens, seas of glass
mingled with fire, becoming a more bril-
liant glass mingling with more flaming
fire. (which hope"
Now, let NE introduce this feeling into
the lives of some who are at times hope
less. There is a family whose son has
gone wrong. Father and mother have
about given him up, he seems so head
long, SO ungrateful, so dissipated, and the
old folks do not know half the story Of
moral precipitation. He has ceased writ
ing home, but they hear Of him through
people who like to carry bad news, and
every time the report is more deplorable.
He swears, he CANDLES, he drinks, he
goes into all the shambles of sin. His for
mer employer says there is no hope for
him, and all outside the family agree in
thinking he will never reform. The father
and mother have not quite given him up,
and these words are to strengthen their
hope. That boy is going to come back.
You have a hold on him that you must
not relax. Through prayer you may wiz
the eternal God for your side Of the
struggle. You must enlist all the heaven
ly dominions, cherubim and seraphim and
archangel, III the movement to save your
son. Some Gay or some night he will cali
halt to his infamous practices. Some
thing will happen to him, as happened in
New York hotel to a son of one of the
most distinguished clergymen of Scotland
and one of the queens chaplains. when
can | see you?" said distinguished
looking young man at the close of one of
my services in Brooklyn tabernacle.
. said, 'You can see me now" He said:
No; l want a private conversation with
you at your own house. When can |
Gomez l said, Tomorrow night" Your
name?" l asked He gave me mis- name,