Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1910-01-06
Weekly Sermon.
BY Rev. c. s KENNARO, Pastor
BAFasl Church.
Heb. Is-s.

4 ~~@~~t - e-A ~AAAk - gSA ~ TIC &c
ginning OF ,ne new year. il has seem
cd to me mat nothing could better
fis my purpose to impart 70 you
great glad .esss aud hope and cour-
age than tls truth contained N these
words; "J-sus Christ is the same
yesterday aad today. yea and for
ever"
We live il a.world Of change. Of
change that results in nothing final
and satisfying. but effects US with
nameless weRriness. The seasons
come and so; the years flow one in
20 another; centuries increase to
millsnniums; tine is but wearisome
change, repeating itself in moaoto-
nous cycles. We Try to divert our
! minds from the WEAKNESS of watch
ing its ceaseless flow b. marking II
off into seconds. moments. hours.
lays. weeks. months. and years
Cnese We count as children coun,
heir toys. We m -asure BY such
units the growing distance between
as and past dissppoiutments anc
sorrows. and the lessening distance
between US and imaginary JOYS tha'
fancy has fixed in the future; and in
this way we so TAR escape the sense
IF monotony as to make the present
lie endurable. AS We thus colr
# he passing years. and build our Ht
y tie hopes only to see them fade ou,
e by one. we see and feel the change,
IS thstcome overus. Our step become,
{ less firm and elastic. The dinpl
) IF youth grow into the wrinkles o
age, and the rose-hius1 Of the chez
. fades into an unhealthy paror. TIL
eye loses IT'S youthful luster. and ,h
= wealth Of pearl that adorned IN
!, mouth dwindles to a few scauerin
slags that have lost their whiteness
. Nor are the changes that TAX
!. place IN Us confiaed to our physics
nature. We change in opinions. be
iets, character. How different az
10 We now from the persons We wer
ol twenty, even ten years agol Il
re difficul, ,oE the aged to keep
as sympathy with the young. Tt
Is man OF forty mas lost the illusions
oy his youth. His school boy dream
&c have faded He is now a practic
as man. struggling win the stern real
ties Of life. Soon. ne wall be turi
ing the goal of middle lite. an,
with a still deeper sense of the fol
to OF earthly ambitions. will DC reac
SIS. ing after the things thas lie in 4
ny invisible beyond.
II What We realize in ourselves, al
see in the material world around .
We also see in all mankind and
human Institutions. Political, &C
nomic. and social changes are CO
SANITY occurring. In these chang
We mark some progress arter q
a lapse of ages; but progress here is
slowly ascending spiral that close
resembles the mOnotonous cycles
!. which time and individual lives mo-
on. Looking back over six thou
IT. and years OF history. one sees So
p cessive waves OF progress and reu
nc gression, like the ebo and flow
= the tide; and like the sound of
n dirge, or the beating of the sarf u
on the shore. the pessimissic refra
ot Solomon seems TO fall upon o.
ears: One generation goetn, an
Is another generation cometn; but Il
~ earth aoideth scr ever" WHAT c
~ ement of certainty is there in Il
!, midst of all this mutability7 A
y. most impercepdole is human or,
gress toward a goal of glorious ar
unchangeable completeness.
AS the years how on. bringing
nd only sad vicissitudcs aud loss. Sc
m ering all earthly loves aud frien
ships. blasting eli earthly hopes al
amoluonS. and finally fraDSocr,;,