Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1888 — So Little of Now in Life. [ARTICLE]

So Little of Now in Life.

There is bo little of now in our lives! It is always “to-morrow. ” Balpli Waldo Emerson has likened to-day to a king in the disguise of a beggar who comes to our doors, and waits patiently for that which we may have to give. Woe to him who sends this royal mendicant away empty handed; for under his common, perhaps ragged, garment he wears a priceless robe whose hem we should be glad to kiss as we welcome him in.

There is so little of now in our religion. It is next Sunday’s affair. Next Sunday we will put on our soul’s best clothes, partake of the bread and wine, and get so near Heaven that our very gloves and bonnet strings will exhale sancitv. “Peace on earth, good-will to men,” will beam from our homeward turned faces, and a good dinner and an evening of pleasant repose will tend to assure ns what very good people we are, to be sure! thus to have spent a day in the service of the Lord. We shall feel comfortably convinced that we have, somehow, honored the Lord’s day and kept it very holy indeed.— Emily Leland Moore , in Si. Louis Magazine.