The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1914-08-28
First Lesson: Ps. 40. i-15.
Second Lesaon; Ino. IL. 1-2R.

Theme: THE Fullness of The Time
ITO every thing there is season."
sayeth the author OF Ecclesiastes, land
q time to every purpose under heaven"
And so there is. There is tide In
the affairs of men," wrote Shakes
peare. (which, taken at the Hood, leads
on to fortune; omitted, all the voyage
Of their life is bound in shadows and
miseries." And so there is.
Every right purpose has its own APP
propriate season. Every right word
has It's own proper time. Every right
act has Its own true moment Every
right impulse has It's suitable occasion.
And every right purpose. II executed
| In Its own appropriate season, taken
at the flood tide OF its suitable time,
leads on to success But IL 1t be I'M
timely. failure win be the Inevitable
result
Every right word. II uttered in its
own proper time. will find response In
the heart OF the hearer giving cheer,
comfort. inspiration, reproof. or In
struction according to that hearts
need. But IL that proper time. II the
opportune moment passes before the
word is uttered 1t falls upon dull and
inattentive ears or rankles in rebel
| lious heart.
Every right act put forth In its own
true moment accomplishes its end; but
II the opportunity is let pass even in
tensified activity may not avail. 'Tis
a homely adage. but fun of SUCCESS
tive truth that one must strike while
the iron Is hot
Every right impulse, IL put into ex-
preston on its suitable occasion, will
form a habit which will strengthen the
good and help to overcome the bad In
each OF us. But II suppressed, the
right impulse leaves the promptings of
good less able to move us In the future.
a good impulse given timely express
sion, a good act OPPORTUNITY done, a
wholesome purpose put into timely ex-
ecution, good word appropriately
spoken will accomplish much.
The proverb rings true when IL re-
cords that "a word fifty spoken is like
apples OF gold in baskets of silver"
prov. 25. IL. r. W
But the same word, the same deed
the same impulse, the same purpose
IL untimely is doomed TO failure and
disaster.
1t is the glory Of Wisdom" that all
her deeds are done in due season; that
all her words are fifty spoken; that all
her impulses are put into appropriate
action; that all her purposes are car
ried out at the opportune time.
This is true OF both human and d.
vine wisdom.
What makes the difference between
the tactful soul-winner and the fanat-
ic? Is 1t not because the one recog-
mixes and observes the appropriateness
Of times and conditions, while to the
other all times are alike?
What indeed is the difference be-
tween common sense" and the lack OF
1t, except this ability to sense the APP
propriateness of times and seasons?
And this regard for the suitableness
Of time and occasion is no less an ele-
ment OF Divine wisdom than of human
common sense.
1t is thus that God in his Wisdom
rules the world. In all his providen-
tial and moral government, God acts
and speaks in accordance with the fit
ness OF the time. II this were an ideal
world. and II man were perfect, and
on plane OF equal knowledge with
God, God could and would deal differ
emily with man. II this were such a
world, in which every being were as
perfect as God. each might follow every
impulse. perform every act. execute
every purpose. and speak every word
that came into his mind and would
need not TO consider the aptness OF
time and place. But we are not in
such a world. The world of reality
falls far short OF the ideal, and there