Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1901-07-27

or citizens in various kinds OF eusf-
ness had very poor opportunity at
the start because we had IL too easy
far too easy. We never appreci-
ated what il is TO get an education
because our fathers or older brothers
paid the schooling. and We did not get
the muscle which nothing but hard
work can develop. congratulate 4
you. young man. IL 20 you life is
struggle. IL is out of such circum-
stances God makes heroes. IL they
are willing TO be made. Cut your
way through II Il were proper 10 do
so and you should stand i'm any board
OF bank directors, I'm any board of
trade, in any legislature. state or ma
tional, and ask ali who were brought \
up in luxury and ease 20 lift their
hand. here and there a hand might
be lifted. But ask those who had an
awful hard time at the start 20 lift
their hands. and most of the hands
would be lifted. The heroes of church
and state were not brought up or
confectionery and cake
But my subject takes another step
Through medical science aud dentistry
that has improved the worlds masti-
climatic changes and better under
standing OF the laws OF health human
life has been greatly prolonged. But
a centenarian Is still wonder. How
many people do you know a hundred
years old? I do not know one. We
talk OF a century as though il were
a very long reach Of time. But what
is one century on earth compared
with centuries that we are 10 live
somewhere. somehow-ten centuries.
a million centuries, a qu;ntillion OF
centuries2 We are all determined 20
get ready for the longer life we are
20 live after our exit from things SUBJ
lunsry. We are waiting for more pro-
Pitious opportunity. We have too
much business 20 attend 10 now or too
much pleasure TO allow anything 70
interfere with its brilliant progress.
We arc waiting until the wind blows
in the right direction. We are going
20 sow, and SOW the very best grain.
and we ore going 20 raise an eternal
harvest Of happiness. We like what
you say about Heaven. and We are GO
ing there, and az Che right time we
will get ready. But my lungs are
sound. my digestion is good, the exam
lining physician Of the life insurance
company says my heart beats just the
right number Of times a minute, and
am cautious about sitting in a draft.
and i observe all the laws Of hygiene,
and my father and mother lived 10 be
very old, and ! come OF a lonc lived
family. So we adjourn and postpone
until, Ike the farmer suggested by
my text, we allow the seedtime to
pass. and sudden pneumonia or a reck-
less bicycle OF an ungoverned automo-
bile puts Us out OF life with all it's mag
niflcent opportunities of deciding
Alright the question of everlasting res
idence. 4 Spanish proverb says; The
road OF By and BY leads 10 the town Of
Never"
Whether I'm your life IL Is south
wind or an cas-; wind that Is now
blowing. do you not feel like Sayings
This whole subject now decide.
LordNGod, through Thy Son Jesus
Christ. my Saviour. ! am Thine for
ever. / throw myself. reckless OF
Everything else, into the fathomless
ocean of Thy mercy"
But" says someone in a frivolous
and rOllicking way, II am not like the
farmer you find in your text. do
not watch the wind. What do / care
about the weather vRne? ! am sow
ing now" What are you sowing.
| my brothcr2 Are you sowing evil
| habits? Are you sowing infdel and
atheistic beliefs? Are YOU sowing
/ hatreds, revenges, discontents, uu-
clean thoughts or unclean Rctions7
II so. you win raise a big crop-a
very big crop. The farmer sometimes
| plants things that do not come up.
and he has 10 plant them over again.
But those evil things that you have
planted will take root and come up in
harvest Of disappointment, In harvest
Of pain. in harvest of despair. in har-
vest OF fire. Go right through some
of the the unhappy homes of Wash
ington and New York and ali the
cities and through the hospitals and
penitentiariaS. and you will End
stacked up. piled together, the
sheaves OF such an awful harvest.
Hosea, one of the first Of all the writ
ing prophets, although four of the
other prophets are put before him
in the canon Of Scripture. wrote an
astounding metaphor that may be
quoted as descriptive of those who do
evil: They have sown the wind.
and they shall reap the whilwind."
Someone has said: children may be
strangled, but deeds never"
There are other persons who truth
fully say: II am doing the best |
can. The clouds are thick and the
wind blows the wrong way. but am
sowing prayers and sowing kind,
nesses and sowing helpfulness and
sowing hopes of q better world.r
Good for You, my brother. my sister,
What you plant will come up. What