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Show L siojy SERHUI g 17 . J, Aev. ChrlsUan R. Garver preached a jrmon Sunday morning at the Metho-ist Metho-ist Episcopal church on the theme, P'The Aid of Life," using for a text the ninth verse of the first chapter of the book of Lamentations. "She remem-bereth remem-bereth not hor last end; therefore she came down wonderfully; she had no comforter." "Looking into the future is ever a sign of superiority. Forethought makes the difference between the child and the man. The child takes no distant dis-tant views, he thinks only of immediate imme-diate gratification; a confectionery is more interesting to him now than the quetslon'of lands and property; he prefers a sparrow in the hand to all the singing birds In our whole country coun-try In the bush but the man looks Into the distant years and regulates his present conduct by remote considerations. con-siderations. This looking Into tho future fu-ture marks the difference between the savage and the civilized. Tho barbarian barbar-ian thinkB only of immediate fighting and feasting; if you were to require him to work today, or to abstain from feasting, with the promise of large advantage in a year's time, he would not understand you. The savage Is a being without a future; but, on the other hand, the civilized man recognizes recog-nizes the future, lives In tho future, is always making sacrifices for the future. fu-ture. Tho habit of considering tho re-I re-I mote often marks the difference be-I be-I tween the superior and inferior classes of society. "No life can be truo and successful that ls, lived haphazard, lived from jnand to mouth, lived at random, disjoined, dis-joined, purposeless. If life Is to prove satisfactory wo must from its beginning begin-ning contemplate its end and aim. Ab we look around we see that men live for various ends, with many It is merely a question of animal indulgence; indul-gence; others social pleasure; the. chief delight to the sordid crowd Is to see "the pile grow"; some are inspired in-spired by ambition; while others desire de-sire intellectual excellency and perfection. per-fection. If at the advant of the New Year, precisely at midnight, men should take out their watches and wish tho true wish of their hearts in a single word, one would cry gold, another an-other pleasure, another greatness, another an-other fame; but surely we ought to have better ideals than these. "We must aim at the highest, and to do this is to live a truly Christian life. Every true life, like that of Christ, is a life of loving service; living truly we live to bless all about us. We are like a dawn filling the sky with cheerful light; like a river which makes everything" every-thing" to live whereever it flows; like a rose, filling the air with sweetness; like a bird filling the field and the forest with music. "Hero, then, is the full, clear, brilliant bril-liant picture of what life ought to be we see it in Him who sets us an example ex-ample that we might follow In His steps: 'I have set the Lord always be-fore be-fore me.' " |