Show WHETHER THE BEE OR THE BUTTERFLY Its It's the Thing Not the Seeming Seeming Seem Seem- ing inch That Counts in Life Says Rev P. P A. A Simpkin OPPORTUNITY MAY PERISH Man May Profit by All Other Experience Than the Chance That Was Lost At Phillips Congregational chu church h hl l last st evening the pastor Rev P. P A A. A preached a 1 sermon on en Tho TIme Thol l Finished Year From Prom the old song lIong of Moses Ioles familiar as the ninetieth psalm the tho preacher selected the thc words Wo Yo spend our years cars j i-j a tale talc that is told tOllI The new conditions of ot life ro no dl dl- dl ver verse from those mentioned In this psalm with its Oriental imagery tr its d' d of quirt eniet and Its majesty of thought are arc but hut surface differences nil all said Mr lr Simpkin God Goel an and 11 life the swift how flow of the time years the deep things thing's that thul make mako human life are arc still the same No thought of life I Is more sobering to the cr a e human being than that of tho the brevity of our journey y in the earth Like the flash lash o of a l swallows swallow's wing beats the time flying rI ln year far and one is nearer the bourne of time and anel the end enl of earths earth's things The Ihl first portion of or the sermon was waa cn given to a review of several of the most mOlt Important tendencies in tho the world life of or tho year in which an nn exaltation ex ex- lIon of or time the ideas and arid duties duts of oC citizenship in this land coupled with witha a n relegation atlon of or mat material rial things to second second sec see ond place wa was tho the m most st noteworthy Tho The main thought however was wms ad addressed addressed l d dressed to tho th life experiences of the thc year car and an In exhortation to men to find lifes life's highest hest end in a mm being in inline inline line with the In infinite will and pur I pose I Timing Tiling I In It Important The thou thought ht of or lifes life's variant notes rather than thon the time thing Itself said tho the preacher is too much with men The bee and the thc butterfly find their life and Joy in the time same sunshine amid tho the samo sarno flowers Clowers but ut one ono fades with the ln summer S glory into forgotten dust lust the tIme other In time tho well filled hive finds life Ufe sustained In tho the store of or the summers summer's sw sweetness etness All Ahl the groat r lt difference o In tn life lies in n Just that whether one is the lice hoo or the butterf butterfly Th Time The butterf butterfly life Ie satisfied with sunn sunny dalliance and pleasure comes bankrupt to the years year's end It is not that ori ono one must come to dwell in n joy kill keep it is but hut that pleasure pleas pleas- ure imre shall not crowd out jO joy For wo arc ire pilgrims to to- eternity If U for tor us its us as asfor asfor for tor the worn out mechanism o of the shop hop the tho end enel th heap scrap and tho time vale of or or the recreation rc of furnace and mold and forge then forge thon one could afford to play for tor lifes life's s 's low how prizes But we move mo to the eternal The Time joys joy of or the year have hae blossomed blossomed blos bIos and lied died and if th they have been true they abide The Time sorrows of tho time year ear have laid ald their blistering fingers on tho the t tender ou the time things we ve thought would now nov ur er pass Jass are gone gon On Ono One Thing Irrevocable The Important thing Is whether In itt their passing th they Y have o enriched or corroded the thc heart hoart For with us lies lIe the tha Secret of ot their effect affect upon us Tho The only timing thing whose passing we WI ne need d mourn because It Is irrevocable is that master timing thinS so large that Jt t seems akin to fate opportunity The tragedy that lies In the shadows shadows shad shad- piling above o the thc dying years year's out outgoing opt opt- going is all in what might have havo been done lotte and said and given either cither for time the fuller realizing of Go GoTa Gots s plan within our own ot 11 05 or the tho 1 ilch mich ministry to others which Is tho human gl glory o ry Something of g gain aln 1111 come from all that ha has made the year Eor save e op opportunity opportunity opportunity op- op lost Vanished with the dead days das it comes no more tp t greet s us as 38 asa asa a Cl living thing thinh warm with rith thE tho touch of love lo and power for on service but hut only as ns a skeleton a a. thing forever dead Unless t to the thc Tear car has ugh us wh where where- ro sacrifice Is a n. deeper leeper r jO joy oth Oliver r service a tho UH realising realis lag ing of the time divine will and 1 purpose within with with- in the time soul Boul lifes life's most mos most strenuous task wo 0 have passed through h the year rear in vain The new version sn says s We c spend our years ears ns as a n sigh Aye and amid all the tho sadness the sigh sigh- holds all the time heartbreak heart heart- break and disillusion it speaks speaks' all the hopelessness of which it Rr i is c the tho expression sion are Ion are formed formell in the Hie which is busied about Its circumstance rather than titan itself in ministry to it rather than outpour from front it for such a life Is like lIko an idle tale talo told b by the dying firo tire that th passes parses hike the tho curling smoke a a. thing useless and vain vuin 5 U |