Show I 1 if poi r the THE science I 1 11 A study that delles the IVIs wisdom doin of nan man to unfold lite life la Is indeed ft a peculiar study ono one might I 1 with great propriety ro riet and d wisdom fj 11 tan call it a science in n fact c t t it la s so ao much it a study that no man save bare tho the areat teacher bior ever completely in mastered astore 4 I 1 it t and consequently can be called a science ot of sciences the healthy man looks upon the sick find and pat palsied sied and wonders how it is that the same blessings though bhough not blessings to han he enjoys s lira are not the portion of 0 tho the enfeebled be fore ore him the rich lit in their gaudy attire pass the poor in th their air rags e and nd marvel why they are in such a condition the old parent with tile the snows of 0 I 1 many winters crowning III hla 8 head watches matches the last spark of life leave the youthful form and la is almost bewildered in trying to fathom the principles and reasons reasons that underlie the great science of f life it takes this variety of all things filings cnown known with their shades and light to in ike up tile grand and pro graming gramme of the science our individual r sorrows are but a drop in the wide ocean of grief we go lor for sympathy tym pathy to those who have their own troubles and we no get momentarily relief it is like fike the old story of tile the misfortunate fortunate parent A mother with a dead babe in her arms came camo to the god veda and asked to have her child restored st to life the god cod veda said to hers her ahyou you go and get a handful of must mustard see sead 10 f from r om a house in which there has bas been no death and I 1 will nill restore your child to life so the mother root her went out and she went nent from house to I 1 house and from home to home looking for a place where there had been n no sorrow r and ad where there had been no death but she found none she went blick back to the god veda and said my ay mission is a failure you see fee I 1 brought the mustard seed feed I 1 cant find a claie aglace where there has been no sorrow and no death oh says the god veda 1 u understand n d ala estand your sorrows are no worse than the sorrows of others we all it hive my 0 our heart beart breaks 1 laugh and I 1 the a world laughs with you w weep e and you weep atonal fo for r aba h edw tad sad old earth must borrow its mirth but has hai trouble enough of oella its owe ovo ov o lite life is too short too fleetin fleeting t to 0 allow afan of anything thing but practical pinc work nork T the h man an who s continually paying paving his way with intentions and promis esis tile tho man who la is going to get sadly left the history of grem men it if not the history of our own lives teaches us that brevity of intention te tion is the mainspring of existence by this we ive do not mean impulsive actions working by fits arid and starts but deliberate thought and substantial action the result of which will bo be soine something to tend to our stability and substantial reputation as in our affairs so BO also in those matters that pertain to a continuation of this life into another I 1 sphere phere of action wo must have tho the deliberato deliberate action talmage very appropriately says in this diree direction ion that in all religious discourse we want locomotive conlo co tive power find and prop propulsion we want at the same time stout brakes to letdown let down at tho the right ing instant tant it is a dismal thing after a hearer has bag comprehended the i hole subject to hear a man say now to lo recapitulate and a few words by way of implication castioni I 1 annonce and once more and final finally v 11 anil and I 1 now to con I 1 elude paul preached until midnight arid and Enty eutychus chus got sound bound asleep and fell out of a window and broke his neck some won would bay good tor for him bim 11 I 1 would rather be b sympathetic like paul and resuscitate him the accident is often quoted now lit in religious circles as a warning against somnolence in III church it is just as much a warning to ministers against prolixity Eutye eutychus buo was wrong in his somnolence but paul made a mistake when lie he kept on until midnight lie ought to have stopped at 11 and there rould have been no accident if paul might it have 1 I ve gone on to too great length let all I 1 those hoe of us no who tire bra pr preaching eacel t ing the gospel remember remember that there is ga a limit to religious d discourse ia or ought to be napoleon in an address of seven minutes thrilled his army and thrilled europe christs sermon on the mount the model sermon was less than eight pon pen minutes long at ordinary mode of delivery it is ia not electricity scattered all over the sky that strikes but ele electricity atric gathered into a thunderbolt and hurled and it is riot not religious truth scattered over spread out over a vast retch of time lime but religious truth projected in fit compact form that flashes light upon upon tho the boul and rivets its indifference when i lien the religious discourse of the lite future anides in this land and in tile the christian church the discourse which is to arouse tile the world and startle the nations I 1 and usher in the kit kingdom egdom it will w ill be a brief discourse ilear hear it all theological students all yo ye just entering upon religious work all ye ve men and women who iio in sabbath schools arid and other departments are tolling toiling for christ and tile salvation of immortals brevity I 1 Brevi brevity tyl |