The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-11-24

view. Your losses cannot, by breeding over them, be turned Into gains. It is hope cheers iis on. We have all commit ted h1unders. but does the calling of the roll of them make them any the less of o1 usefuiness. However much you may have accomplished for God and the worlds betterment. your greatest useful ness Is to come. "No." says some one, one nsnh my money ss sons IS gone sss so%s saSs some one. ',the most of my years are gone and, therefore, my usefulness" Why, you talk like an infideL Do you suppose ed in by this ~ ifes Are e you aS gong or s to a be a lounger and do nothing after you have quit this world? It is my business to tell you that your faculties are to be ifications for usefulness multiplied ten- fold. a hundredfold. thousandfold.
 Is your health gone? Then that is a sign that you are to enjoy a celesual jocund and hilarious vitality of earth is invalidfsm. Are your fortune spcnts ke- member you are to be kings and queens unto God and how much more wealth ever. I want to see you when you get your heavenly work dress on This It. tie bit of a speck Of world we call the earth is only the place where we get ahsfe but will be master workmen there. Heaven will have no loafers hanging around. The book says of the inhapit- ants. They rest not day nor night ,s,lay Mny Why seek a pillow when there is no night there? I want to see you after the pedestrianism of earth has been exchans- ed for the power or msns anc yea1css iss
 I suspect that the telescope of that ob- servatory brings in sight consteiiaIonss s need looking after and need help saintiy and missionary. There may be Worios that, like ours, have sinned ana need lo be rescued. perhaps saved by our Christ for other worlds as wise. as potent as lovely as the atonement is for our world. The laziness which has cursed us ip this world wilI not gain the land of eternal much inspiration in the society, go much t achievement after we get the shaokies of the flesh forever on. Do not dwell go much on opportunities past put put your our not count the battles lost, but SCOUT your muslxet for victories to come.
 Freed From Limitations.
 Am I 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 CTS of locomotion shall pc gulcKened mtg mtg q. bird have a swi6tness of wing when it is of no Importance how long 1t shall take to make its aerial way from forest to for rest and we, who have so mueh more iii- Slowly sVs ss The roebucE soutruns us. the hounds are quickker in the chase, but wait until God lets us loose from all limitations and indictments. Then we will fairly begin. The starting post will be the tombstone. Leaving the world Will be graduation day before the chief work of our mental and spiritual career. Hope I ' 'Ar-T- q. ar.a kAA rtrsfn nFf a in stirrup for the mounting The day day breaks-first flush of the horizon. Ine mission of hope wiu be an everlasting mission, as much of 1t in the heavenly have gained Sall S9s soon. as we xeuter | realms celesaAl--nothing more to learn, no other heights to climb, no new an- thems to raise, a monotony of existence, | the same thing over and over again Tor | endless years? No! More progress in | that world than we ever made In this. Hope will stand .on the hills of heaven | and look for ever brightening landscapes, other transfigurations of color. new glo- | ries rolling over the scene, new celehra- | tions of victories in other worlds, heaven rising into grander heavens, seas or glass mingled with fire. becoming a more prll- liant glass mingltng With more naWlAe l fire. (Which hope. | Now. let me introduce this feeling into the lives of some who are at times nope
 less. There is family whose son mas | about given him up, he seems so heaa- long, so ungrateful. so dissipated, ana the old folks do not know half the story ol
 moral precipitation: He nas s ceaseS eSro,,rh wsl people who like to carry bad news, ana every time the report is more depiorapie. sl He sswears, -lfe gamhles, he drinks, ne goes into all the shambles or sin. HIS TOT fner employer says there is no hope Tor him. and all outside the family agree m
 thinking he will never reform; The father
 and mother have not quite given him up. and these words are to strengthen thelr
 hope, That boy Is going to come back.
 You have a hold on him that you must
 not relax. Through prayer you may Wln M
 the eternal God for your Side or the struggle. You must enlist all the heav- enly dominions. cherubim and seraphi m and archangel, in the movement to save l your son. Some day or some night ne
 will call halt to his infamous pracoces'
 Something will happen to him, as nap ! pened In a New York hotel to son ot one of the most distinguished clergymen
 of Scotland and one of the queens chap-
 distinguished looking young man at the
 close of one of my services in BrooKiyn
 tabernacle, I said, You can see me
 now" He said. ";No; l want a private
 conversation with you ,., at your you .eTnl o%n
 SSrTow house; whdn pIsS sae SEn nnaes asked.
 He gave me his name. the exact name of his father, whose name was known anu l Is known LnrOuHn lHe Shi tSS~t, Ias v though years ago he departed this hIe;
 Returning home. l took up DOCK Sv. 1.
 which his father was the author; ana m
 the picture at the opening or the DOOR DOOR I found that the young man had most markedly his fathers features. So was
 sure there was no deception.
 Return of Lost Sheep
 : On the following evening he came. He l said that he was the. black sheep or tne
 family flock. He had wandered the world Lover and been in all kinds of wickedness,
 but few nights before, after reading 2
 letter from his mother in Scotland, ne | had retired for sleep, but in the adjoining l room he heard some young men in sucn l horrible converse ton he could not sleep He was shocked as he had never before 1 been by the talk of bad men. He arose
 struck light, took out the letter from
 and said, 70 Lord. God of my mother
 have mercy on mel' He said that since
 that prayer he was entirely changed and
 loved what he before hated and hated
 what he before loved and asked what
 thought 1t all meant. l replied, Yol
 have become Christian" He said h'
 might be called at any time 10 leave thu
 city.-s1 never saw him again. but 1t seem
 ed to me that he had turned his back | upon his wicked past and had started ir
 the right direction. And 1t may be s'
 with your boy. Write him often. Tel
 him how you are all thinking of him a
 home, and, 1t may be, your letter 1T
 hand. he may call upon bis mother
 God to help and save him. Hope, you o
 the gray hairs and wrinlrlesl Heavel
 has its thousands of souls who were
 Is. They repented, and they are witt | the old folks in the healthy air of tfJ,