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FOR WHAT IS YOUIt LIFE !
A SERMON,
Rev. T. T. Eaton, of Petersburg. Virginia.
James It: 14—For what in your life? It is even a
vapor that appcareth for % little time, and then
vanisbeth away.
There is no more vital question fac
ing us in this world of mystery, than
the one the apostle asks —“ What is
jour life ? ” Its beginning is hid by
the mists of forgetfulness, here and
there perhaps an incident of childhood
stands prominently forward in memory,
but the rest is a confused mingling of
Tecollections, blurred and unnatural as
objects seen through a fog. Over the
faculties of age gathers again the mist,
till the darkness of the tomb closes
round us, and the day giveth place to
the night of death. Look over the
earth and find the things with which
we may compare our life. The tree of
the forest ? Nay, that endures. The
tree beneath whose branches we played
in infancy stands, as we totter beneath
it when the grasshopper becomes a
burden and the almond tree flourishes,
and it throws its undiminished shadow
•over the mourners when we go to our
long home. The oaks we see to-day,
looked down in the ages past upon the
Indian’s wigwam, and it may be upon
the mound builder’s home.
Still loss can we compare our lives
with the mountains and streams; the
solid granite laughs us to scorn, the
river which lias covered the ruins of
great cities flows on still to the sea.
Much of the awe which seizes our souls
■as we stand in the shadow of the Alps,
■or watch the rapid waters of the Eu
phrates, is due to the thought of their
abiding existence. They show to our
■eyes the same stern majesty which
awed the infancy of our raco. Not with
the everlasting mountains and perpet
ual hills can man compare his life;
nor yet with the vault of Heaven, nor
the wide expanse of the sea. Even
man’s own works have more endurance
than he. We look yet upon crimson
worn once by heroes; where now are the
martial forms that bore it to battle ?
We admire the statues of Phidias;
whore is the great sculptor, and where
his countrymen ? With uncertainty wo
decipher the inscriptions of Ninevah,
whoso raco and language have disap
peared ages agone. Parchments exist,
while the hands which wrote them are
turned to dust; poems are sung when
the voices that first chanted them are
heard no more forever.
Not with these things can man’s life
bo compared, but above and around us
aro things as frail and fleeting as the
generations of men. Not as the tree
in its proud strength, defying tho
storms of ages, but as the leaf which
clothes tho tree in its green mantle,
and fades away when tho winter blasts
comes upon it. Not as the river flow
ing on and on, but as the foam upon
its bosom, tossed by the wavos and
broken in their wild play. Not as the
mountains and hills in their granite
strength, but as the grass and the
flower upon them, seem but a moment
ere they wither away. Not as the
calm, unchanging firmament, but as
the vapor upon its front, born of the
sea, sport of the winds, and disappear
ing before tho rays of the sun.
The leaf, the flower, the cloud; these
are tho types of our lives ; upon these,
the Bible bids us look, that we may
remember how frail we are. “What is
your life ? It is even a vapor.” Let
us consider, briefly, in what respects
our life is typified by a vapor: 1.
When the vapor is in the form of
MIST UPON THE GROUND. 2. WIIEN IT
RISES AS A CLOUD IN THE EXPANSE OF
Heaven.
Look out in the morning, when all
things are covered with the fog. The
light of the sun is dimmed ; the objects
which are near are magnified and dis
torted, while distant ones are hidden
from view. Does not life thus ?
making near objects seem more impor
tant than all else ? Aye, and hide
their true character as well, so that
imagination may robe them in all her
attractiveness ? Think you men
would strive, as they do, for earthly
fortunes, if they saw clearly ? So we
see through the mist; wealth, sur
rounded by pleasures, dignity and hap.
piness, while in vain those who see
clearly, tell us of its troubles, its hard
ening influences, its dwarfing effect on
the soul, the absorbing idolatry it en
genders to the rust that eats like fire.
But heedless we go on in the chase,
till the stern voice is heard, “thou
fool! this night thy soul shall be re
quired of thee;”—and as life rolls
away sullenly before the clear dawn
ing of eternity, we see plainly our
moth-eaten garments and cankered
gold, but see, alas ! forever too late !
All earth’s pleasures are so magni
fied by this vapor that we cannot see
the pain and despair that follow them.
We see the wine-cup with its pleasura
ble stimulus to the fancy, and the com
fortable feeling of greatness and super
iority it gives, but see not the dishouor
of the grave that lies behind it. World
ly promotion seems very groat, looming
ap through this mist, therefore “to get
on” in the world, becomes our chief
aim, while we heed not the voice of one
who reached the very pinnacle of earth
ly greatness —wise, powerful, wealthy
and famous ; what more does earth of
fer to any of us ? “Vanity of vanities,
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all is vanity.” We prefor to believe in
our own eves, looking through the
midst, and they tell us ambition is not
vanity, and the goal of earthly success
no delusion. Alas ! for this vapor that
blinds us ! If only we could see these
things as the angels see them ; as they
shall look to us when the death angel,
with one sweep of his mighty wings
clears away the vapor, and we see the
littleness of this world as it disappears
from our view. Distant things are
hidden. This vapor makes the little
circle of the present seem all important
and engrossing. It hides the short
ness of the step from the cradle to the
grave, magnifying the beginning till
life seems almost an endless journey,
with time enough in the future for all
that may be called duty —let the pres
ent be given to pleasure. Jufct before
us may lie the end, but this vapor con
ceals it, and we may dance on till we
drop over death’s precipice—where ?
Think you if men saw clearly they
would go on so unconcernedly ? Think
you they would grasp at trifles, could
they discern the grandeur of wisdom’s
gifts, the eternal value of her blessings?
Occasionally we catch brief glimpses of
the stains upon our souls the vapor
lifts for a moment and see the insignifi
cance of our aims, the pitiful littleness
of our desires. You can recall such
moments, when life seemed hollow and
unreal, and you stood aghast at the
foulness of sin, but the mists closed
again and we went on our way. There
is no greater mystery than this blind
ness of soul in the vapor which casts
such a glamour upon the straws we
are gathering with our muck rake, and
hides the offered crown entirely from
our view. Oh, the blindness, the fatal
blindness of tho sons of men! The
blindness which thinks it sees and has
faith only in its own eyes 1
This vapor of life conceals tho shin
ning of the Son of Righteousness,
which would show us truly our own
natures, the world and the hereafter.
Originally, life did not so, but when
man fell the smoke of the pit mingled
with the mist, and obscured the light.
God left not man in the darkness, but
gave him His Word “as a lamp for
his feet,” and in steady light shall
safely guide all who put their trust
therein. A lamp to our feet —and as
we follow its guidance, earthly pleas
ures and terrors fall away to their true
size ; the world’s frown loses its gloom,
when we see beyond it a Father's
smile; the heaviest afflictions grow
light to eyes fixed on the “far mor6 ex
ceeding and eternal weight of glory ;”
and the danger of the conflict is for
gotten by the soul, already shouting—
“thanks bo to God who giveth us the
victory.” Aye, and the greatest of all
torrors seen through life’s vapor, tho
gaunt, grim spectre of death, viewed
tho lamp of His Word, is but a radiant
angel, with strangely loving face and
Heavenly smile, who comes to bear
us beyond earth’s storms and dark
ness, its sorrow and pain, to that eter
nal world of beauty and truth, where
life is not a vapor and vanisbeth never
away.
11. Our life is also as a vapor, when
that vapor appears as a cloud in the
firmament. It is as a cloud in the
mystery of its being. No scientific ex
planation has yet accounted for the
balancing of the clouds—the question
baffles human wisdom to-day, as when
Job and his friends discoursed togeth
er of the works of God. Yet knowing
that nature defies their analysis, men
will endeavor to explain the soul and
deny, because they cannot compre
hend, its existence. They can decom
pose the body and talk learnedly of its
gases, but the soul smiles at their ex
periments. Till we can comprehend
the life of the tree, and the balancing
of the clouds, with their level bases
and sharply hewn edges, let us ac
knowledge our finiteness, and be wil
ling to stand reverently before the
revelation of our God. I fear it is of
ten true, of even Christians that they
are “without God” in the world—that
in the investigation of secondary
causes, they forgot the presence of the
great first cause.
The clouds may come according to
law, but to stop with the contempla
tion of the law, nor consider the hand
which enforces it, is as if we thought
only of the steam in the motion of the
train, and not of the engineer who
guides and controls. God is not mere
ly the great originator, wrapped in in
scrutible majesty, but He is a very
present help, a watchful governor, a
sleepless king. The clouds may come
by secondary law, yet is His will direct
ly concerned with them all —Job
xxxvii:ll, 12. We need a more re
alizing sense of His presence. Let us
beware how we shut Him out from the
world He has made, and from the lives
dependent on His pleasure.
Our lives are like clouds in their in
finite variety. From day to day, from
hour to hour, the clouds arc changing
—no two sun sets have been exactly
alike since time began. So the lives
of men differ. Placed, seemingly, in
the same circumstances, with the same
winds to drive, and the same tempera
tur ■ to mould, the clouds stand above
us distinct in their individuality, show
ing the infinity of their Creator.
There is no sameness in creation. Man
builds his dwellings alike, and shapes
his stones by measure, but whether
God make a leaf, a cioud, or a soul, it
stands forth unique, distinguishable
from all others of its kind. Like
clouds, we are driven by winds of pas
sioD, or by thrf constraining power of
external influences. Few lives are as
they were marked out at their begin
ning. In youth, we have the world
before us, and life is to be what we
make it; but strange currents meet us,
outward events press upon us, and we
go through life moulded and directed,
to a great extent, by their power. Yet,
in many things life is what we make it.
The wind decides the direction of the
cloud, but the strong cumuli keeps
their forms unchanged, as they move
majestically across the Heavens.
Others may determine our fate in re
spect of our profession, residence, pos
sessions and learning, but we can
mould the shape of our souls, and
either bend weakly at the will of the
breeze, and be torn to fragments by
the stronger blasts, or we can maintain
our integrity, and wave across the
firmament of life, grand in our un
shaken steadfastness.
Bri if as is their existenee and frail as
is their substance, those clouds bear
strange fire in their shadowy bosoms.
Rocks are rent, forests shattered and
cities overthrown by the might of their
power. Long after the cloud has passed
away, men look with awe upon the track
of its destructive lightning stroke. So
in human history, there are lives which
light the heavens with the glare of their
deeds—beneath whose power, as be
neath the tempest’s breath, the face of
nature changes, while burning cities
and blackened plains mark the track of
of their devastating career. Long after
they have passed away, men tell, with
bated breath, of the deeds which made
them the scourges of their race. Yet
do these strange lightning-laden lives
accomplish the purposes of Providence.
The tempest’s error may be for cor
rection as its result is destruction, yet
it purifies the air and sweeps away
the foul miasma. So these scourges
of the race sweep over the fe
ver-laden atmosphere of corruption,
bred by long peace and uninterrupted
luxury, and from the wrecks of their
former greatness the nations arise to
a purer life.
While the clouds are often messen
gers of wrath, they yet bring us the
countless blessings of the rain. We
stand in awe before the thunders, an
swering each other with hoarse voices
across the heavens, but with earnest
thanksgiving, welcome the rain-clouds.
All that is bright and beautiful, and
life-supporting on the earth, is due to
their gentle ministry. Man, beast and
plant alike, rejoice at their coming, and
alike suffer when the slow weeks pass
on and they come not. Blessed be the
lives which resemble these rain-clouds.
Lives darkened, it may be, by suffering
and withdrawn from the sunlight of
prosperity, grave and stern in seeming,
perhaps, not beautiful with the gor
geous colors which robe the children of
the sunset, yet lives which bring to the
world untold blessings, and gladden
many hearts; lives whose coming and
going we scarcely heed, perhaps, till
for a time we are deprived of their
ministry, and then we miss them so
sorely.
When all is prosperous we gaze with
delight upon the purple and crimson
and gold with which the higher clouds
deck out the taberuacle of tho sun. How
radient their loveliness ! How dazzling
their brilliance! How wonderful the
mingling of their melting hues! While
we admire the beauty of these, it is for
the dark gray, unadorned face of the
rain-cloud, that we watch and pray ;
the rain-clcAid which hath no loveliness
of bright color to commend it, but
which gives its life to our race in the
blessings it brings. It is well to be
fair to look upon that eyes may be
pleased with dur beauty ; it is better
far to bring life and blessing to the
world. Make your lives as this rain
cloud, I beg you dear faiends, that men
may be refreshed by your presence and
strengthened by your aid ; that faces
may look brighter as you pass, though
you give your life as that cloud does to
the shower. Make yourselves useful
to your race; that is the highest earth
ly duty before you, and I use the word
“useful” in no narrow, modem sense.
The raiu does not fall merely on garden
beds, or cause only the wheat to grow ;
so a truly useful life never forgets that
“life is more than meat and the body
than raiment.” Let your gentle influ
ence make green all parts of human
life, strengthening the mind and soul
as well as the body ; producing thought
as well as wealth. Clothed in the soft
gray of duty, caring not for the bright
colors of happiness and joy for your
self, yet making the flowers bright and
fadeless in all the lives which surround
you.
“It is even a vapor that appeareth
for a little time and then vanisheth
away ;” it is the brevity of the cloud
life to which the Apostle m ikes chief
reference in his comparison. “Appear
eth for a little time.” Go out and look
up in the sky, and can you see now, at
noon, the clouds which were there in
the early morning ? Ere the sun had
fairly risen upon the earth many of
them had disappeared, some remain,
perhaps, till he reaches the zenith, but
rarely does a cloud which faced his first
beams stand yet in the heavens, when
he sinks below the horizon. Are our
lives like that? Yea; just so fleeting,
compared with the things that sur
round us here. How many have gath
ered in these walls who gather on earth
no’more forever, passing as the clouds
pass from our view ? Let the day of
life be three score years and ten,
and how few of our race remain till
the sunset ? More than half pass away
in the early morning hours, ere the
heat of the day heats down upon them;
pass away while yet lingers upon their
young faces the glow of life’s rising
sun. Shall we mourn that they thus
pass away ? Nay, our own day is too
short for mourning; in “a little time”
we shall have followed them beyond
the horizon of human vision.
Beautiful as are the clouds, their
glory lies not in their brilliant hues,
nor might of fire, but in that “clouds
and darkness are round about Him ;”
the tempest is his messenger and the
thunder the rolling of His chariot whee'i
But dearer still are the clouds to the
Christian heart, because they closed
round our Redeemer as He ascended
On High, leading captivity captive—for
it is written, “a cloud received Him out
of their sight.” And in them shall He
again apppear, when He comes with
His saints and angels to judge the world.
Human life in itself, is a grand and
beautiful thing, but its glory consists
in that Jesus took not upon Himself
the nature of angels, but threw around
the unapproachable splendor of His
Divinity the clay mantle of human
life. “It is even a vapor that appear -
eth for a little time and then vanish
eth away”— f o give place to a life that
is not a vapor, and vanisheth never
through the ages of eternity, but re
mains forever as a lively stone in the
great temple of our God, and nought
shall remain of the cloud of life save
the rainbow encircling the Throne of
our Redeemer and King.
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Eufaula, C. N., January 24,1876.
Yesterday, I visited Quarsadely
church, but it rained so heavily that
there was no congregation, and the
waters rose so rapidly that I had to
ride twenty miles out of my way, to
cross them and reach home.
The winter has been unusually mild
in this Nation ; yesterday the butter
flies were out in swarms; the wild
onions an inch high in the bottoms,
and the frogs were discoursing sweet
music in the ponds; but to-day, we
have had a severe norther, and we may
yet have pay interest on the bor
rowed warm weather.
The Managing Board of the Musko
gee Baptist Association has received,
through our missionary to the wild
tribes, an urgent appeal to the Baptist
denomination for missionaries, and for
the establishment of a Baptist Mission
School among tho Absentee Shawnees.
I have forwarded it to Dr. Mclntosh,
and I do hope he will give it to the
public, either in the form of a circular,
or through the Baptist press general
ly. The appeal was prepared by spe
cial act of council, and was signed by
all their chiefs, principal head men and
warriors.
A delegation of three Absentee
Shawnees visited one of our Creek
Baptist churches, on our Western
frontier, on Christmas, for the special
purpose of witnessing for themselves,
our mode of worshiping the Great
Spirit. The meeting was at Tulmo
churse town, and brother John Sim
mons, one of our native preachers,
baptized six converts.
The Shawnees professed to be wonder
fully pleased, and my fears are, unless
we send them a missionary, that they
will return so well pleased, and report
so favorably’to their tribe, that they
will set up for themselves, and go to
making Baptists without regeneration!
I have actually known the like out
West, of the Creeks, since I have been
a missionary. We ought to send
them a missionary to teach them the
way of the Lord more perfectly. Our
missionary is a layman, without salary,
who can visit them only about
twice a year.
The Creek Council, at its last ses
sion, passed an act authorizing the es
tablishment of a Mission school
among the Creeks, to be under the
patronage of the Baptist denomina
tion.
The work here is enlarging, and falls
too heavilj on one ; I need help in the
way of more laborers. True, I have
Boyce and Helm, and qnite recently,
Sumner has been added to us, but
these only increase my responsibilities,
and furnish additional proof of my in
discretion.
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though I miss it greatly The
Christian Index was the first paper
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but it would be impossible for me to
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come to me, for I cannot even read
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received on salary. The Lord kindly
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member any of the Indian missionaries
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THE CHALDEAN ACCOUNT OF GENESIS.
Mr. George Smith has just put forth
in London a long looked for volume
on the “Chaldean Account of Genesis.”
The legend of the creation is of sur
passing interest, giving, as it does, an
account agreeing mainly with that we
find in Genesis, but at the same time
showing traces of having originally in
cluded much more matter. Thus we
have a clear idea of the Chaos, or void;
the Tiamat, or sea, evidently consider
ed as the great mother of all things ;
of the creation of the land, of the
heavenly bodies, of land animals, of
man and his fall, and of a war between
the gods and the evil' spirits. It would
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written on twelve tablets, each includ
ing when perfect, about one hundred
lines of cuneiform text. Those rela
ting to the creation of light, or of the
atmosphere or firmament, of the dry
land, and of plants, have not yet been
recovered, though on some small frag
ments there are allusions apparently
alluding to these missing subjects. It
is worthy of note “that the fifth table
commences with the statement that
the previous creations were ‘delightful’
or satisfactory, agreeing with the oft
repeated statements of Genesis, after
each act of creative power, that ‘God
saw that it was good.’ The only dif
ference here is of detail.” It certainly
seems reasonable to believe that, as a
considerable period must have elapsed
since the events these legends profess
to record, Moses, having before him the
traditions of the nations around him,
selected and those portions we now
read, under the name of “Genesis,”
which most clearly served his purpose,
as showing that the universe was the
creation of an Intelligent Being, and
not the result of the chance evolu
tion of any number of material atoms.
It is, indeed, impossible to doubt the
story of the creation in Genesis and
that to bo gathered from the Babvlo
nian legends have a very near connec
tion ; and one which future researches
will make even more evident. We
ought to add that, on one of the tab
lets, the race of human beings is spoken
of as the dark race, and that on the
other fragments they are called Adrni
or Adami, the very name of the first
man in Genesis; it has, indeed, already
been pointed out by Sir Henry Rawlin
son that the Babylonians recognized
two principal races—the Adama, or
dark, and Sarku, or light people; much,
it would seem, in the same way as we
read in Genesis of sons of Adam, and
of the sons of God! No doubt Assy
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it has yet displayed, and the Bible
student may, more confidently than
ever, look forward to discoveries which
shall, as the present revelations do, at
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We can furnish any kind of Agricultural Im
plements, Fanning Machinery, or Field Seeds,
of best quality, and at lowest prices.
Don’t buy "until yon write to us for anything
yon want.
Address all orders to X. 11. Jones Sc C*.
Nashville, Tenn. jan22.4m(®
WEBER" PIANOS
I WILL SELL FOR LESS MONEY and on
better terms than any other house. I mean
business. For proof, address the only ex
clusive Piano and Organ dealer in the South.
G. P. GUILFORD,
Manufacturers’ Agent for the South,
oct2l No. 52 Whitehall street, Atlanta, Ga.
fi ATERS’ CONCERTO PARLOR ORGANS
/Ml ore tb. most beautiful in style
ana perfect in tone ever nuule.
The CONCERTO STOP is the
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WATERS* NEW SCALE PIANOS
have great power and a fine singing tone, with all
modern Improvements, and are the BEST PI
ANOS .MADE. These Organs and Pianos arc
warranted/or six years. PRICES EXTREME
LY LOW for rash or part cash and balance in
monthly payments. Second-Hand instruments
at great bargains. Pianos and Organs to rent
nntU paid for ns per contract* AGENTS WAN
TED Special inducements to the trade. A lib
eral discount to Tracker*. Ministers, Churches,Schools,
Lodges, etc, JLLUSTRA TED CA TALOGUESMAILED.
HORACE WATERS fc SONS,
481 Broadway, New York. P, 6. Box 3507.
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EDWARD J. EVANS & CO.,
Nurserymen and Seedsmen,
YORK, PENN.
C LT* If Cl Garden, Flower and Grass
OXli-Jui JLy O Seeds, Seed Cam, Seed Pota
toes, Seed Wheats, Tree and Hedge Seeds, etc.
Bulbs of all kinds, for Spring and Fall planting.
Standard and Dwarf Fruit Trees, Grapes and
Small Fruits, Evergreens, Ornamental Trees and
Shrubs, Boses, Hedge Plants, etc. Enclose
stamp for price list; 25 cents for full descriptive
catalogue. jan2o.tf
Root's Garden Manual
IS filled with topics of interest to every owner
of a garden—is pointed, practical
and thorough, and contains one-half as
much as $1.50 books on the subject. Gardeners
throughout the country commend its practical
labor-saving methods as invaluable to them.
Sent lor 10 cents, which will bo allowed on }he
first order for seeds. Address
J, B. ROOT. Seed Grower,
jan2o.tf Rockford, Illinois.
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