Classic Sermon Outlines (continued)
The Sluggard in Harvest what nature and Providence, almost as really as grace and Christ, say to every young man and woman.
B. The Easy Road Is Generally the Wrong Road. he ce | stacles in the way of a noble life. There are always Bhstales) in ae way vor a noble! tie If a man is going to be anything worth being or to do anything worth doing he must start with and adhere to the resolve "to scorn delights and live laborious days."
2. The condition to be met in order to live a noble life. Self-denial and. rigid self-control, in its two forms, of stopping your ears to the attractions of lower pleasures and of cheerily encountering difficulties is an indispensable condition of any life which shall at last yield a harvest worth the gathering.
C. The Season Let Slip Is Gone Forever.
1. The tragedy of lost opportunity. Opportunity is bald behind and must be grasped by the forelock. Life is full of tragic might-have-beens. No regret, no remorse, no self-accusation, no clear recognition that I was a fool will avail one jot. "Too late" is the saddest of human words.
II. THE APPLICATION OF THE PRINCIPLES CRYSTALIZED IN THE PICTURESQUE PROVERB.
A. The Application to Daily Secular Work.
1. The necessity of hard work. Do not trust to any way of getting on by dodges or speculation, or favor, or by anything but downright hard work. Don't shirk difficulties, don't try to put the weight of the work upon some colleague or other, that you may have an easier life of it.
2. The blessing of work. "In all labor there is profit." Whether the profit comes to you in the shape of advancement, position, promotion in your