Milford chronicle., 1906-01-05

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arJ surrendering the Past.
FRS our past lives cannot be lived wifi
ID out surrendering the present: bu
ur thahk God, we can live out the futur
nd WIN the present and the past to
DO great extent combined into one. An,
lie we can combine the present and FIN
ID past IN the year which is to come b,
a. guarding against the most awful mis-
if take we made in past years. We have
)t trleu TO fight the battle of life alone
4 we nave tried to conquer in our
j." own strength rather than in the
,. strength of the Lord God Almighty.
e VINO mas always promised to sustain
+. US II we would put our trust in him
= We can now grip hold of the arm of
the Almighty God if we will And oh,
? my friends, if we put our trust in
christ do you not believe that with his
help we could during the coming years
overcome many of the mistakes of the
past: We can make the past. purified
d us evils, live and breathe again in
the future. We can, Yes, we cam If
we only enter the new year with
/ ChriSt'S help we should be able TO undo
many OF the wrongs of the past he.
sides taking advantage of the blessed
l opportunities Of the future.
Not only that, bur still another bless
ing may be ours. In Christ we NAV be
able TO live again during the years of
the coming eternity with those who
nave made the past years for us 50
happy. We shall not be at that time
like the Old lady who lived for many
years III the city of Los Angeles. She
dled there at eighty-four years of age
III November. l905. When she died if
was found out thar Tor the last twen- :
N-elSht years of her life she had con s
ceaIed III her attic the dead body of her f
Oldest daughter. This was the BODY of f
a young girl of twenty-seven years n
VINO mad breathed her last in the far r.
east, and her body had been Skinned "
from Amherst Mass, to the home Of 81
ler mother in the far west. For nearly ~
hirty long years this broken hearted M
mother had chung to the body of her If
MID ana carried it wherever she went =,
20 some of us have been clfnging to oo
he dead bodies of our loved ones or
'hlch were buried many. many wears oe
go. But if we will only give orr Tf
carts TO Christ here and now on tho ro
ISL Sunday of the year Christ will sa
'Lne DAY give our loved ones alive se,
lck 10 us Then we will not have to Pb
looSe between wife and mother or
isDand and father or brother and
lId. Then we shall have them All to. z
ther again. Then the past and the use
esent and the future shall be united nm
10 one. Then father and mother cuI
1lher ana sister, wife and husband. it,.
idren ana grandchildren shall all as fift
hble together before the throne of nun
d 10 forever sing the song of Moses call
! the Lamb. Oh, my friends. will sar,
let your past life live again in desl
'ist? tbe
A joyful Ending. cato
nus IN closing this sermon on the sire,
sunday of the year do not feel ofic
-nSe oI sadness such as l have Of and
Ielt upon similar occasions in the cate
e whenever l have attended the for
ch night meetings of previous New they
rs ewes the ringing of the bell singl
Il the clock struck - has alwavs mittt
ided 10 me like the tolling Of A ed of
t. II mas been to me a death bette
l. 1t has been like the tolIing of for a
bell when the hearse enters tba alwa-
'tely' As the clock struck 1. .. g. Hera
q, Z, 8, 8, 10, II. -. it seemed IN
Dead and gone! The years of
and 1901 and 1902 aud 1903 and The
ana 1903 are dead and gone, consu
are dead and gone forever! Hear whisk
hVlng! Dead and gone foreverr $4,000
Us near the clock striking the $1,000
gnU hour tonight it will not be a SJOOU
but a promise of reunion. II for w
ring; "The year Of 1905 is not gallons
and gone forever. Thou shalt cOstins
1t with its sanctifed joys and least
VS.. Thou shalt meet it again beer, $
g with the faces of those who This
made thy last twelve months a sum
ana blessed. Thou shalt meet tain f
ar of 1908 coming forth to greet Yale or
Christian, with the sacred 1t is
Oh lS9O and 1880 and 1870 by its slider Il
All these years shall live again were Dl
u wilt put thy faith in Christ to run
I'VE him live in thee and thou in at the
My friends, on this last Sun recepta
the year, wilt thou have the and thi
INT bell toll for thee a dirge or Pearson
ut for thee a gospel triumph?
IN here and now decide if Won
We over again your happy past.
blessed past with our hallowed
mes! Art thou alive? Shall it e.LI-DeY ne ,'l
orth to greet us at the day of io.L,'i LoIliieU
mt and, purified Of all evil. live EH iuOi ; ~
through all the coming eterni- ~ "uc
md asson,I,Io -. u ioO', ~ been pa
hat NO ,,.,,'>, -Oi us 'nS uear land T
+ ~, ~ ~ -nsseilioie Iliell of Annie
)m our ascension mount. and hoo, w..
r US shall be no longer except - Hal
-. -ao- ''iiie WIN oHrlst' wig on!
-'V'' ~ LOUIS Alopseh.l Sterne's