The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1902-04-18

tory. 10 the mason as his plumb line.
TO tho carpenter as his plane. TO tho
child AZ his marbles
No time 20 be religious here! You
have no time not 20 be religious. You
might as well have no clerks In your
store. no books in your library. no
compass on your ship. no rifle In the
battle. no hat for your head. no coat
for your back. no shoes for your feet.
Better travel on toward eternity bare
headed and barefooted and houseless
and homeless and friendless than 10 go
through life without religion.
Why. my friends. religion Is the best
security In every bargain; Il Ia the
sweetest note In every song: IL Is the
brightest gem In every coronet. No
time TO be religious? Why. you Will
have To take time 20 be sick. 10 be
troubled. To die Our world Is only the
wharf from which we are 10 embark
FOR heaven. No timo Co secure the
friendship OF Christ? No time 20 buy a
lamp and trim IL for that walk through
the darkness which otherwise will be
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lombstones? No time 20 educate the
eye for heavenly splendors or the hand
for choral harps or the ear for ever
lasting songs or the soul for honor,
glory and immortality? One would
think we had time for nothing else.
Other persons apologize for not en-
tertng the Christian life because Il is
time enough yet. That Is very like
those persons who send regrets and
say. Il will come I'm perhaps at IL or Il
O'Clock; | will not be there at the open
Ing OF the banquet, but will be there
at the close" Not yet. Not yeti.
Now. DO not give any doleful view
OF this life. There Is nothing In my
nature. nothing In the grace OF God.
that tends toward n doleful view OF
human life. have not much sympa-
thy with Addison's description OF the
Vision of Mira" where he represents
human life as being a bridge OF hun
dred arches and both ends OF the
bridge covered with clouds. and the
race coming on. the most OF them fall
ing down through the first span and
all OF them falling down through the
last span. IL Is very dismal picture
| have not much sympathy with the
spanish provcrb which says. The sky
rs good and the earth Is good; that
which Is bad is between tho earth and
the sky But white We as Christian
men are bound to take a cheerful view
OF life. we must also confess that life
Is great uncertainty. and that man
who says Il can't become n Christian
yet is running a risk infinite. You do
not perhaps realize the fact that this
descending grade OF sin gets sleeper
and sleeper and that you are gathering
up a rush and velocity which after
a while may not answer TO the brakes.
BE not among those who give their
whole life TO tho world and then give
their corpse 90 God. II does not seem
fair that while our pulses arc In full
play OF health we serve ourselves and
serve the world and then make God at
last the present OF a coffin. IL does not
seem right that we run our ship from
coast 10 coast carrying cargoes for
ourselves and then. when the ship is
crushed in the rocks. give 20 God the
shlyered timbers II is a great thing
FOR man on his dying pillow TO re-
pont-bettor that than never AT all:
but how much better. how much more
generous IL would have been " he had
rcpented Gfty years before, My friends.
you viii never set over these procras-
;inations.
We have started on a march from
which there Is no retreat. The shad-
ows OF eternity gather on our path
way. How insignificant Is time COM
pared with the vast eternity! As 1
was thinking of this one day while
coming down over the Allegheny
mountains at noon. by that wonderful
pass which you all have heard de-
scrihcd as the Horseshoe-a depression
I'm the side OF the mountain where the
train almost turns back again upon
itself. and you see how appropriate IL
tho name OF the HoTseshoe-and think
ing on this very theme and preparing
this very sermon. IL seemed 90 me as IL
the great courser OF eternity speeding
along had just struck the mountain
with one hoof and gone on into illlmit-
able space. So short is time. so insig-
nihcant IS earth. compared with the
vast eternity! This moment voices
roll down the sky and all the worlds OF
light are ready to rejoice at your dis
enthrallment. Rush not into tho pres
encc OF the King ragged with sin when
you may have this robe OF righteous
ness. Dash not your feet TO pieces
against the throne OF a erucifed Christ
Throw not your crown OF life on the
battlements. All the scribes OF God
arc at this hour ready with volumes OF
living light 20 record the news OF your
soul cmancipatcd.
Judges witty Remark.