Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1905-01-12
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Sermon
BY Rev.
Frank De Witt Talrnaec, D. ID.

lost by solar reckoning in a westerly
voyage around The world furnishes the
preacher in this sermon with an Illus
tratlon hy which. as he shows. days
are continually being lost in the voy-
age Of life: text. Ecclesiastcs ix. 10,
"Whatsocvcr thy haud hndcth 10 do.
do it with thy might"
What tragic significance there may
I've in that little " ord Lost" We hear
ii in the dcspailng cry Of the miners
starving in The Death valley of the
Mojavc desert. We hear it in the BIT
TOR cry OF the travellers brwildcrcd in
mldwintcr on the Montana prairics. 1t
is u shrek Of horror ON the lips of the
poor children on the General SOcum
burning on the sound Of New York.
II IS cry Of dismay from the crcw OF
the Royal Charter wrecked ON the
Irish coast It is Il cry of agony from
the man in the upper story Of the
Windsor hotel in New York, whose
body with suppliant arms stretched In
ontrcaty to the flrencn falls into the
soothing furnace. "llc is lost, we
crv as one Of our number slides over
the edge Of the Alpine glacier He is
lost" we SAID in sorrow when our
friend: the Rev. by Robert l.. Taylor
of san Diego, made false step from
tho deck of lie saibOat and sank TO
rise no more Lost" cries the mother
frantcally pacing The streets looking
for her wandering child. Lost cries
the gambler who has vonturPd his last
coin on the turn of the wheel. Horror
and dismay ana agony and despair are
heard in that thrilling word
There is another Kind Of loss Of which
] want to speak to you today At the
beginning Of Il now year it Is Impressed
upon lis with solemn import. Looking
back ward over the year that IS gone,
how sad is the thought of our lost
days, Days there have been in which
va might have done work for cod
which we have suffered TO pass away
I'm idloncss, days which can never be
recalled which We have frittered away
u,ocs;ly.
we all know the old adaEe that time
IS money" We are all ready to graft
that This axiom is trio IF a man has
NO regard for lie tiloc Of other men"
wrote Horace Groc'cy, why should he
fcr,ncc between stealing mans hour
and stealing his So: Their ar" many
men to whom each hour of The business
day IS WORTH moro than 50" But. though
fine means money to most Of us. time
shoull mean more than that 1t is n
sarrcd trust committcd 70 ne. for the
right use Of which we shall have to
give account. Little enough is the por-
tor We ear devote to our Masters scrv-
ice. If we waste IL we dcfrand God.
Losing thc Minutes.
We waste These DAYS simulv bv vast
Inc horn a minnie and ,hcre a minute.
hi. Thought WAS brought nome 10 me
in INV tou,. oro,1,,d tnc world In 1902
NV father and Icet our homes In the
cast and started OH our tourney. We
fnllowod tbc course 81 the sctting sun.
We travelled FROM, kew York 10 Pitts
Iur, from pittsburs, 10 Chicago. from
Cht,o~, 10 81 IouiS from, 81 I.ouis "a
Denver ond tbc, 10 san Francisco. we
zic,oorod nm and ao,vr lint olwo IS
lont rushinr toward tho yyos. At san
Francisco we set sail for the Sandwich
Islands Then we wen, on TO Samoa
Sometimes we would stop Two or three
DAYS IN town sometimes a full woel,
II took ne srven lon,, months to encir
rlo thn globe Each day. as q rule. was
far l,s NOT tv.cntv-four hours. but TWEEN
tr-fo,,, hours and ton NJ fifteen or eyer
thirtv minutes long OF course vo,
orosn NY meaning We were lenpthcn
inc o,,r days because we were travel
vostwora IJov yynro we 10 straight
on out o,,r calnndarp This was the wa,
,ve did,+ ono NIGHT ,yc wont to bed IN
yvodnasd,v Tho novt mornino ,vhc,
we owol;p if WINS Friday There in III,
middle of thc Pacific ocoon we lost ,
full aov How did tbof day disanneor
AsJ SAT that Fridov morning nfte
Thursday was dronncd ont of my cal
end,r said IN n,vself. "yes ves T-hi
&c the wov many davs ore lost ia
Christ in our great Journey Of life
IIere If ia a few minutes wasted 70
Christ IN ,he luoruinn There il IL
fcw minutes wasted M moon ar q
eventide or ot nicbt Those few min
utoe do mot soo,,, IN amount 70 much n
,he limo but ih the ogoropotn tho
mako nm whole days v.oeka ,nonth
and rnrhops whole voars Of ,voste
time that might have been snent /
sprvicp for the Muster"