South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-10-01
Sunday MOrning Breakfast Talk
By Reu. Elmer Ward Cole

Mark the man who IS always look
Ing back. telling how things used 20
be what he used 70 do when ne was
a BOY, how children were made TO
mind in those days when the earth
was Garden OF Eden and without
sin. ad infnitum world without end
Amen. Avoid that man FOR he viii
do the world injury all the days OF
bic useless tales and when he dies
the world will bury a useless old man
full Of years but empty Of any worth
while deeds. For our meditation the
preacher wants 20 take a teXt-"R
member Lots wife" The penalty for
her looking back was 90 turn 10 n
pillar of sale and from that day 10
this the penalty has been the same
and We could easily add. "the salt
has lost is SAVIOR"
The story OF Sodom is familiar TO
every boy and girl as well rs TO
every man and woman. Today. were
YOU 20 visit the old site OF Sodom
YOU would find only a little way from
there a perpendicular stone that the
guide would tell you. with a twinkle
in his eye, was Lots wife When Lot.
h.s wife and two daughters were
told TO leave Sodom he was com
manded 10 look forward and not
back. but the wife hated 20 leave
home and kindred the things she
loved about the old city. the asso-
Citations that were dear 20 her and
tho thousand things that make the
breaking up OF the old home hard
for ne all. and so she looked back.
She could not rerst the impellug
power or the rast. and she petrihed
and was stunted. grew no more.
turned 90 "A pillar OF salt The COM
mand that was given 20 Lot and his
wife is given 90 every man 10 this
day look forward not back. GEAR,
the city 10 which they were journey
ing means the unseen. the city they
werc 90 leave means the seen-the
material-and there is the lesson
for us all. God gives US a goal. the
ideal, the unseen. toward which We
must journey. and TO look forward
toward IL is to sanctify and 20 look
back is TO petrify.
II IS a great thing 20 become
martyr providing we become martys
TO the future, like Galdleo. Bruno.
Fox. Knox and the greatest OF all
the divine Son of God. Jesus. who
died a martyr TO the future. Il is
great thing to live ahead. where
faith and hope lead 10 the promised
land for trouble. failure and the
dead line are behind. Here IS we'll
illustrated the principle Of Gain
through Loss laid down by Jesus in
the remark "WhOsoever shall seek
TO save his life shall loose &c." and
visa versa. Lots wife like a great
multitude OF her followers failed 10
grasp this principle and so Glove TO
the lower life when the higher was
In waiting beyond. Paul brings this
same principle into the wOrds-"For-
getting those things which arc be-
hind and reaching forth unto those
things which are before. press
toward the mark OF the high calling
OF God i'm Christ Jesus" To enter
any department. OF life with this
principle is to succeed: TO neglect il
is 10 fail
There are hundreds OF men who
can learn nothing and who can for
get nothing. In political life it is the
statesman who looks forward and
the politician who looks backward.
Arnold. Webster and Douglass petri-
fed because they looked backward.
Washington. Brown, Garrison and
Lincoln are sanctified because they
looked forward. they were men OF
vision they saw into the future. In
the ministry there are hundreds of
fossils. rightly called. because they
refuse TO look forward; this latter
cross the dead line early IN life and
then complain against life and fate
because the world has no place for
an old man. and neither does 81. but
what is the use OF any man getting
old before he crosses the century
mark. You are Just as old as YOU