Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1869-07-08
Written for the Republican

MR.. EDITOR: A sermon, recently delivered
here by Rev. H. B. Fry, Of your place, sug-
gested the following thoughts, which, hope,
you will see proper to give place in your
paper. IL.
Vain men in their wickedness, error and pride,
Have striven the teachings of God to deride,
By boldly promulgating system of lies,
Which leads them the truth of his word to de-
spise.
That man who declares he possesses no soul,
Is morally low as the beast in the stall;
His thoughts to communion in Heaven ne'er
rise.
But like other brutes in debasement he dies,
That heavenly spark from Divinity caught,
Goes out like brute's, and he sinks into
naught,
His high asperations, his pleasure, and pain
Could naught but unconscious nonentity
gain.
Had he been but a brute, he might have found
rest
And ne'er with the burden of grief been op-
pressed.
But alasI he was man, with an intellect
bright, .-.
| To reason, and suffer, and sink into night.
Had he not better far have been dumb brute,
Than to haye been endowed with mind like
| aGod, d,r-.az-1s--s----'--
So soon like brute to be hid meath the sod?
Must this spark of Divinity live but day,
Then fade with our earthly existence away?
Methinks that this spark will eternally shine
Thus struck from the altar of glory divine,
This beam of ethereal glory which man
Received when his earthly eXistance began,
| Iiuo Ia OF ifu3c Shon oil
A conscious, immortal, and undying soul.
Did Christ come to earth, fallen sinners to save
Then sink redeemed souls in the gloom of the
| grave!
Did he not to the penitent thief on the cross,
Who feared that his soul was eternally lost,
Declare that this day thy soul shall arise,
And enter with me into blest paradise?
Could we ask the Reformers whose souls art
| at rest.
In the arms of their Saviour eternally blessed
If they ceased to live when the angel of dcatf
Caught the last flow oflife's natural breath.
Quickly, methinks, would their answer b.
| given.
We are shouting Gods praise in the kingdom
of heaven,
With Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob we live,
Our praise to our Savious forever to give.
|
soul
| Moved but in response to his Saviour's control
Believe that his soul with his body would die
And go down to the grave in corruption to lie
Nay, lily, he. ere the messenger came,
To quench the last ray of lifes fickerin
flame,
Was permitted, he said. with the eye of hi
mind,
To catch faint glimpse of the glory divine
JOY seemed his desire to speak to assist;
Said he. "I've communed with mysSavious i
bliss"
Then turning to dear ones who sat near hi
he'd,
Ere his sapctified spirit to glorv had fed.
Said he, mad ever believed that the soul
Would die with the body, unconciou
whole
Or had through error been led to mistrust.
That the soul with the body would sink int
| dust.
I should now be compelled to declare it ur
| true,
For I've been permitted in spirit to view,
Friends who have gone to that beautiful shor
And are anxiously waiting to welcome m
DER.
.Yes, I've been permitted almost to shak
hands
With friends who stood waving their HEAVIER
1y palms,
I know that my spirit will shortly be there,
Their bliss through eternity's ages to share
Yes. shall soon fly to that king gdom of ligh
Where filth shall be changed to perfection
sight,
To dwell in those mansions of glory above,
And live co eternal with Jesus in love "
hi &c
With angels in glory where saints never die