The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1902-12-26

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whose passions flame at the sight of a
wanton face, Nature says: I will take
the rose from your check and put in
its place the faded leaf of dissipation.
l will take the strength and supple
ness out of your body, and put in their
place the withered leaf of enervatiOn.
Not the leaf that nature tints and
beauties, but the leaf scorched and
shriveled by the fires of passion. Ma
ture says to the drunkard: If you drink
alcohol, will take the pink glow of
health out Of your cheeks and in it's place
the crimson leaf, scOrched and wither-
ed by alcoholic fires.
Nature will collect the debts which
she has against those who have con-
tracted them. They who disobey ma
lures laws must pay the penalty. If
we SOW to the flesh, we shall of the
flesh, reap corruption. This is the
kprinciple of spiritual husbandry. Just
Fas 1t is principle of natural husband
dry that that the nature of the har-
vest reaped will be according to the
nature Of the seed sOwn. -. ssl+-
The deceitful and bloody man shall
not live out half his days: that is if a
man SOW blood and deceit he shall reap
less than half harvest of years.
Now 1T is different with those who
obey natures laws. Beecher says, a
man who is twenty years old has more
chances of life than boy who is only
! 10 years old, man at 80 has more
chances of life than man at 20, man
| OF 40 has more chances of life than a
man at 3d.. The Interpretation of this
factis that God gives a premium to
| men fort the observation of the great
laws OF nature, augmenting the chances
of long life in this world in the cases of
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God says of the saint, whose love and
obedience have come up before him,
because he has set his love upon me,
therefore will deliver him; will set
my name.S He shall call upon me and d
will answer him: I will be with him
in trouble, will deliver him and hon.
our him. With long life will 1 satisfy
Him and show him, my salvation u
Such a man fades naturally. Some
days as he did to Moses, God will come
and kiss away his spirit into peace,
whether old, young or middle-aged,
such one is ripe for glory when God
calls him. Such compose that great
multitude that no man can number.
They stand forth in the kingdom of
God as cOnquerOrS and are clad in robes
of Immortality. When the leaf fades
it falls; it is better so, have seen the
withered, dried up leaf cling to its
stem on the shrub oak, smitten by the
frost, and shaken by the bleak winters
wind, and still it chung as if its only
hope was in it's not being torn from its
hold. Such have no beauty and nobody
appreciates them. No one wants tt
sit beneath their shade on bleak De
cember day. The thing for the faded
leaf to do is to fall and decay and then
in the spring time to be resurrected
and transformed into the new sweet
life OF the snOwdrOp, the anemOne and
the trailing arbutus. The beauty OF
the Christian religion is that it ripens
it's possessor for glory and when Coo
say, "Well done, enter thou into the
the'jOy of thy Lord" he Is not afraid tt
loosen his hold upon mortality, fOl
he knows in whom he has believed anG
is purSuaded that henceforth there i!
laid up for him a crown of righteOu
ness which the Lord the righteous
Judge will give him in that day.
1.-THE LEAF FADES GRADUALLY
The ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS but faint
]y at first, beginning at theedges and thef
working gradually to the body of the
leaf. Each day increases the color un.
till the crimson hue is obtained anC
the leaf is finely painted by the brush
of nature as no artist could paint it,
Age comes to us grad ually. Mr.!
Sangster says: "Perhaps the keenes1
pang woman ever feels is in the day
that she realizes nat hel
youth is gone. The n is al
ways some external sign oy which
this knowledge is reached. It may
be slight at first. There may appear 3
few threads of silver woven into bel
wrinkles at the corners Oh the eye
dimness of vision; she has to confess
that it is more difficult to thread he
needle by lamp-light than it used t.
be. The cares and labor If the day
weigh more heavily upon her now thar
they did ten years ago. The limbs art
not SO elastic and the step not quite al
light as in. days gone by, and tina
''tired feeling' is now an every-da,
experience. All, my friend, you arr
growing old Don't try to throw of
one, two or three of the accumulated
r years! Old Time has put them upo1
you to stay. You will never grow
young again until you breathe the un
) tainted air of heaven, and your foot
: steps ring upon the golden streets. L
full to-day and trustful tomorrow
The falling leaf does not affect the life
t of the tree; the tree is just as full O.
life and vigor in its winter nudity al
when the June birds sang and nesteC
in it's branches.
!. The outward man may fade, the
physical energies become exhausted
and he may be stripped of youth anc