Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1905-01-12

spears. battleaxes and darts, but they
harmed him not. At last one Of the
gods picked M a piece Of mistletoe.
lie threw It Mt Baldur. The little twig
pierced the skin and the heart, and Bal
dur dropped corpse. Many OF these
visits of the "destroycrs OF time" may
seem TO be harmless. But are they?
Like the despised mistletoe of heather
mythology, they may be fatal for whole
days, whole months and years, that
should have been used in service Of the
Master.
Time Belongs to God.
Would God we might one and all
fight rclentlessly against these dc
stroyers Of time" You cannot afford to
give away what Is not your own. Your
time belongs not to you, but to another.
Go with me to a concert this after
noon" said one salesman to another
who was employed in large ware
house. II cannot 20 this afternoon"
was the answer. my time is not my
| own. Ii belongs to another" ITO
whom" TO my employer" The fol
lowing Sabbath afternoon the same
salesman said to the same clerk, Come
and go riding with me this afternoon"
Il cannot" said the other. MY time is
not my own; it belongs to another"
ITO whonl" "ro God. who said. Re
member the Sabbath day to keep it
holy" VIII you and | waste our pre-.
clors moments hereafter? Shall we not
always feel that in reality time does
1,f,f hnI. d. I.
higher. nobler and purcr sense. to them
whom we are sent TO serve and to the
great God. who will demand at the
Judgment an accounting for every mo-
mcnt we fritter away
This thought flashed upon me as
sat upon the decl Of the steamship
Alameda. trying 10 figure out how
lost that day. If instead of following
tn" setting sun | had been going to
ward the east | would not have lost a
day. but gained an extra day; If In
stead of going from New York to San
Francisco and New Zealand | had been
travelling from London through the
Suez canal to Australia, instead Of
having lost Il Thursday, ! would have
mattcrcd nothing on our voyage which
course we took. but in the voyage of
life II matters Il great deal. They who
take the star in the east as, their
guide in tho journey of life. who fol-
low Christ. who are led by him, have
no lost days In this life they have u-
finite delights and in the end eternal
life
In which direction are you sailing
Are you gong away from the haven OF
peace, Are YOU and travelling away
from Godt Are we following the set
ting sun" whore We have our lost
days" or are we leading toward The
star Of the cast, where we shall
have our found days. Are we sail.
ing from God at point where we shall
crash upon the rocks of sin. or are VIC
sailing toward the harbor of peace
where We shall meet all our dear ones
with Christi
Hrt PERHAPS. after all. the caption o.
my sermon is Il misleading one. Their,
is truly no lost day" In mans life
Every day Is yet to be found day
All days will be found days" at tho
= Judgment scat OF Christ, where the!
shall testify for our eternal salvation
or our ctcrEal condemnation. May nj
our days he days which shall be bless
ed by consccra non 10 the service of the
Master. and may his day be the hcSt
OF all found days for ii is here anC
now deciding our Destiny, oh, for til,
golden sunrise of tAAt millennial dawn
where sin and cyl days have forever
passed away.
>. Copyright. 1903 .y Louis Nopschl