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This being the ordinary architecture of the place, you may imagine something of the splendor of (jov. Felix’s residence In a room of that palace, floor tesselated, windows curtained, ceiling fretted, the whole scene affluent with Tyrian purple, and statues, and pictures, and carvings, sat a very dark-complexioned man by the name of Felix, and beside him a woman of extraordinary beauty, whom he had stolen by breaking up another domestic circle. She was only 1H years of age, a princess by birth, and unwittingly waiting for her doom —that of being buried alive in the ashes and scoria.* of Mount Vesuvius, which in sudden eruption, one day, ■put an end to her abominations. Well, one afternoon Drusilla, seated in the palace, weary with the magnificent stupidities of the place, says to Felix: “You have a very distinguished pris oner, I believe, by the name of Paul. Do you know he.is one of my country men? I should very much like to see him, and I should very much like to bear him speak, for 1 have heard so much about his eloquence. Be sides that, the other day, when he was being tried in another room of this palace, and the windows were open, 1 heard the applause that greeted the speech of Lawyer Ter tullus, as he denounced PauL Now, I very much wish I could hear Paul speak. Won’t you let me hear him speak?” "Y'es,” said Felix, “I will. I will order him up now from the guara-room. tiunk, cianic, comes a chain un the marble stairway anil there is a shuffle at the door, and in comes Paul, a little old man, prema turely old through exposure—only 60 years of age, but looking as though he were to. He bows very courteously before the governor and the beautiful woman by his side. . They say: “Paul, we have heard a great deal about your speaking; give us now a specimen of your eloquence.” Oh! if there ever was a chance for a man to show off, Paul had a chance there. He might have harangued them about Grecian art, about the wonderful water works he had seen at Corinth, about the Acropolis by moonlight, about prison life in Philippi, about ‘ what I saw in Thessalonica,” about the old mytholo gies; but “>io!” Paul said to himself: “I am now on the way to martyrdom, and this man and woman 'will soon be dead, and this is my only oppor tunity to talk to them about the things of eternity.” And just there and then, there brbke in upon the scene a peal of thunder. It was the voice of a judgment day speaking through the words of the decrepit apostle. As that grand old missionary proceeded with his remarks, the stoop begins to go out of his shoulders, and he rises up, and his countenance is illumined i with the glories of a future life, and his shackles rattle and grind as he 1 lifts his fettered arm, and with it i hurls upon his abashed auditors the ] bolts of God’s indignation. Felix ; grew very white about the lips. His ! heart beat unevenly. He put his hand I to his brow, as though to stop the , quickness and violence of his thoughts, i He drew his robe tighter about him, as under a sudden cliilL His eyes • glare and his knees shake, and, as he | clutches the side of his chair in a very paroxysm of terror, he orders the sheriff to take Paul back to the guard room. “Felix trembled, and said, Go thy way for this time; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee.” A young man came one night to our services, with pencil in hand, to .caricature the whole scene, and make mirth of those who should ex press any anxiety about their souls; but I met him at the door, his face very white, tears running down his cheek, as he said, “Do you think there is any chance for me?” Felix trem bled, and so may God grant it may be so with others. I propose to give you two or three reasons why 1 think Felix sent Paul back to the guard room and adjourned this whole subject of. religion. The first reason was, he did not want tc give up his sins. He looked around: there was Drusilla. He knew that when he became a Christian, he must send her back to Azizus, her lawful husband, and he said to himself, “1 will risk the destruction of my immor tal soul, sooner than 1 will do that.” How many there are now who can not get to be Christians, because they will not abandon their sins! In vain all their prayers and all their church go j ing. You can not keep these darling ! sins and win heaven; and now some ol you will have to decide between the wine cup, and unlawful amusements, and lascivious gratifications on one hand and eternal salvation on the other. Delilah sheared the locks oi tsamson; Salome danced Herod intc the pit; Drusilla blocked up the way to heaven for Felix. Yet when I pre sent the subject now, I fear that seme , of you will say, “Not quite yet. DouM be so precipitate in your demands. 1 have a few tickets yet that I have tc i use. I have a few engagements that-.' must keep. I want to stay a little I longer in the whirl of convivialty—a j few more guffaws of unclean laughter, I a few more steps on the road to death. and then, sir, 1 will listen to what you ; say. Go thy way for this time; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee. ’ ” Another reason why Felix sent Paul back to the guard room and adjourned this subject was, he was so very busy. In ordinary times he found the affairs of state absorbing, but those were ex traordinary times. The whole land was ripe for insurrection. The Sicarii, a band of assassins, were already prowling around the palace, and 1 suppose he thought, “I can’t attend to religion while I am so pressed by affairs of state.” It was business, among other things, that ruined his soiil, and I suppose there are thou sands of people who are not children of God because they have so much business. It is business in the store— losses, gains, unfaithful employes. It is business in your law olliee—sub poenas, writs you have to write out, papers you have to file, arguments you have to make. It is your medical pro fession, with its broken nights, and the exhausted anxieties of life hang ing upon your treatment It is your real estate office, your business with landlords and tenants, and the failure of men to meet their obligations with you. Ay, with some of those who are here, it is the annoy ance of the kitchen, and the sitting room, and the parlor—the wearing economy of trying to meet large ex penses with a small income. Ten thousand voices of “business, busi ness, business,” drown the voice of the Eternal spirit, silencing the voice of the advancing judgment day, over coming the voice of eternity; and they can not hear, they can not listen. They say, “Go thy way for this time.” Some of you look upon your goods, look upon your profession, you look upon your memorandum-books, and you see the demands that are made this very week upon your time and your patience and your money; and while I am entreating you about your soul and the danger of procrastination you say, “Go thy way for this time: when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee.” Oh. Felix, why be bothered about the affairs of this world so much more than about the affairs of eternity? Do you not know that when death comes you will have to stop business, though it be in the most exacting period of it—between the payment of the money and the taking of the re ceipt? The moment he comes you will have to go. Death waits for no man, however high, however low. AA'ill you put your office, will you put your shop in comparison with the affairs of an eternal world? Affairs that in volve thrones, palaces, dominions eternal? Will you put 200 acres of ground against immensity? Will you put forty or fifty years of your life against millions of ages? Oh, Felix, you might better postpone everything else! for do you not know that the up holstering of Tyrian purple in vour palace will fade, and the marble blocks of Cesarea will crumble and the breakwater at the beach, made of great blocks of stone sixty feet long, must give way before the perpetual wash of the sea; but the redemption that Paul offers you will be forever? And yet, and yet, and yet you wave him back to the guard room, saying, “Go thy way for this time; when I have a convenient season 1 will call for thee.” Again, Felix adjourned this subject of religion and put off Paul's argu ment, because he could not give up the honors of the world. He was afraid somehow he would be compromised lnmself in this matter. Remarks he made afterward showed him to be in tensely ambitious. Oh, how he hugged the favor of men! I never saw the honors of this world in their hollowness and hypocrisy so much as in the life and death of that wonderful mau, Charles Sumner. As he went toward the place of burial, even Independence hall, in Philadel phia, asked that his remains stop there 011 their way to Boston. The flags were at half-mast, and the minute guns on Boston Common throbbed after his heart had ceased to beat. Was it alwavs so? While he lived, how censured of legislative resolu tions, how caricatured of the pictori als; how charged with every motive mean and ridiculous; how all the urns of scorn and hatred and billings gate emptied upon his head: how, when struck down in senate chamber, there were hundreds of thousands of people who said, "Good for him, served him right!” how he had to put the ocean between him and his maligners, that he might have a little peace, and how, when he went off sick, they said he was broken hearted because he could not get to be President or secretary of state. Oh Commonwealth of Massachusetts! who is that mau who sleeps in your public hall, covered with garlands and wrapped in the stars and stripes? Is that the man who, only a few months before, you denounced as the foe of republican and democratic insti tutions? Is that the same man? Ye American people, ye could not by one week of funeral eulogium and news j paper leaders, which the dead sena tor could neither read nor hear, atone for twenty-five years of maltreatment and caricature. When I see a man ; like that, pursued by all the hounds of the political kennel so long as he I lives, and then buried under a great pile of garlands, and amidst the lamentations of a whole nation, I say to myself: What an unutterably hypoeritic.il thing is all human ap plause and all human favor! You took twenty-five years in trying to pull down his fame, and then take ! twenty-five years in trying to build his monument My friends, was there ever a better commentary on the hol lowness of all earthly favor? If there are young men who read this who are postponing religion in order that thev may have the favors of this world, let me persuade them of their complete folly. If you are looking forward tc gubernatorial, senatorial or Presiden tial chair, let me show you your great mistake: Can it be that there is now any young man saying, “Let me have pflitical office, let me have some of the high positions of trust and power, and then I will attend to religion; but not now. ‘Go thy way for this time; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee!’” FOUND THE LEG. Which Ho Lo.. I .. Oniiilia—34 I \% La ten iiiisucuuj; Abie, ilatuitui.. xeniioii tliu Paper.