The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1870-10-20

and mountains, all that Is most beautiful in
nature, viii be found to represent to them
the Heavenly state. So man may take all
the elements they have learned to esteem and
make heaven out of them. The true use
then to be made of the Scripture Is not to
give literal representation Of its symbols,
for it is quite possible for the Bible itself 70
stand in the way of understanding the Bible,
but the true use IS to repeat the Psoce: Of
reasoning as was done in the olden time.
much admiration of heavenly princea
Counts, / have seen them, and I do not
think mnch ofthem; but while these pictuyes
do not do me much good, for l am a Demo-
cratic Republican-(ahem!)-a Republican
Democrat mean, they may do good to 9TH
ers, and may 90 far towards interpreting the
heavenly state. But when We want to make
for ourselves heaven, we have got to pic
ture all that we value rs noblest and best. A
maiden may imagine for herself heaven
made up of her own purity, and a matron
may also imagine her own heaven. Every
one may fashion for himself his own heaven,
which shall bring it clearer to him than any
other man can make ii for him. You may
be shocked at this language when tell you
that you may make your own heaven,
but you do it nevertheless. God
makes your hearts wiser than your heads,
and that is the case with many who other
wise would be absolute fools. Our idea of
heaven mus be pictorial: it cannot be other
wise We are not developed here. 1--WE
now see as through glass, darkly," an dom
ly by and by shall We see face to face. Take,
for instance, the lower classes of society
not the poorer class, but the vicious, the
gross. They cannot understand the picture
Of pure family, they faint it with their
own slime. In other words, the bottom can
not understand the top although the top can
and does understand the bottom. All
that wescan know of heaven is that it lisa place
of blessedness a place of rest. No great
nature ever lived but what found the world
insufficient for him, but on your way heav-
onward do not despond, do not find fault; if
you do you are no gentleman. 1t Is but for
time that you are to be here
and then you will go home.
When go to Europe 1 find fault with the
ship, with the attendants, with the sea sick
ness, but lay on my back and charge ten
days to profit and loss and wipe il all out.
When travellers find fault at hotels the land
lords say sit is because they never lived we'll at
home, and there is great philosophy in this,
for the man that lives we'll at home says,
why should l complain? l am only here
for time; l shall soon go home where / can
live well again. So when the time comes,
which cannot long be delayed, and my gray
hairs become white, and my hand palsied,
and can scarcely pronounce the benedic-
ton, you will say remember him in the
days Of his power, he is old now, he must
pass of, it is sad to see him here; but then
you will say he is like an old tree in NOvem-
Der, and March is not far of, it is but step.
1t is only the outward part that is wasting;
for though the outward man perish, the in
ward man is renewed day by day. am
glad to know that l have been able to do
some good; but l am willing to lay down
my task when God requires it of me, for /
have this imagination of heaven which makes
me cheerful and indomitable in the day Of
trial.