, 1874-03-09
THE PULPIT.
tContlnuctl from t,,e Third rnxo.)

tlloso fow ycnts ho becomes acquainted Will,
this little world, climbs Its mountains, sails ttB
,i. oeaann. md studies Its shape antl paee In tho
Btulies other worltls. calculates their aizo,
nnd distances, and revolutions, and construats
!llhtrutncnta by which ho mnkos the sun give up
ats secrets, aud Till THO worry elomonts that glow
tant star register It's inporcoptiblo warmth. ALL
this III n few yearsl nen,uinbor, tho universe
Ball stand forever, md nil these tcalmn OF truth
forever invite tho ulniring mind, md horo IL n
ward aud upward and nnrsed, md guided, and
helped by tho Almlglty,-sooming1 made to
loarn and enjoy this mighty ayste'n OF things,
capablo Of learning OH foEoyer-b'it, jlHt as llo
feachos point whore his existence III . boon. hc
linaecotntnbly coaAos to be, and another
child is borl md tolls on up to tho satno point,
or falls short OF IT, or goes junt little beyond,
mud ho dies. And so on, and on, age after ago.
I ask. II tfore airy reason or sense III such G
proposition9 There liz but az, nrawor.-
Or look n anothor lircctio1fA' What lnoans the
nircctional liro2 Ask tho heart to give up itB
sccrots, to tell ita lons,ngH, its atrlggleu. its
mo.lloss's love What moatl the tours, and sor-
rows, n,,tl separations of }fe2 Are tho heArt's
ngontes 70 know no reconpcnso? ARC all its
loves and Joys to 50 ont It, death7 Must NC MI
no to ol1r graves without llopoS
Alas for him who never Reca
Tho stara abovo his cypress trees.
Look, too, at the struggles of Vrtuo to
gain . footing on the telds Of right.
All thia effort To- put down tho wrong,
md to build up III ourselves the right
this longing and soeking after dod, i
has It no ,sleauing but annihilaton7 Is TINT the
ony end for n bcing put upon such suolino Nh
tlertakings7 Must There not 30 some aftor-
death spllore where tho wrongs OF this life mRy
bo rlghtcd7 10 all of which reason can give
but onn answor.
Having GLANCED atsome of tho arguments from
reason in favor Of tic continued aster-tcath OK
istonca Of mum, lot us look Mt another kind OF
Testimony, tho rhenomonal. cannot ssk fer
this The snrlo placo or weight in a minds TINT IL
csaimed for MI argument founded IN pure reason,
whilst to lany it il conclusive III itself. md to
al Is worthy q tho.Eht haye slsoaay roIefsea ID
tho soul, bus asdo from this thoro aro not
q few cascs whero tho general bolief
rises to absolute certainty III individual minds.
There arc thousands Oh earth to-day to whom
t!.o future is lust aa certain az t the prcbcntt;;
That III. they lago no moro doubt that they will
continue tu 1.-Two on nftor death than they have
that they aro nov Lying, You may ask, "Mow
it is by tue iuward experiences OF the soul, by
which thoy know that they aro 'botn again ~
have CONC into now life,-nnd have conn
nunion with God, and tho witnosH Of tho Spirit
that tl,oy aro tho children of God. and in this
inwnrd and higher experience there il to tliom
tho same certainty TINT tlloro is i'll tho Testimony
Of consciousness In anything c1se.
II il notllor reasonable nor philosophical to
deny this experience i'll others, simply because
It may not 10 in us. They say they have fol-
lowol tho lcasing Of their npirtB along the gol-
eral limo of human beliof III tho Bouls continued
lie until tho certainty las dawnod upon their
minds, and 1t must havo woight with nll candid
seekers for truth. And what is more romarka-
ble, this senso Of certainty j. not obscurcd by
advancing years, but, il possible, becomes moro
clear and exults in its certainty, as tho night
cotncs on. and cries victory in tho Inst moment
Tho late Bishop Clarke sald to his weeping fam
1t1xf hnf f7ra fu iG
very preHont to mo, that Bhnll be permitted to
bo with you utter | nm gono, though you may
not bo conscious Of my prcHonce "-or words Of
similar import. And there il Il sweok sentiment
their departed friends aro oftea about Them.
Tho stream that glitles botWcen tho shores Of
this md tue other world has, to very many
Bonls, BECOME indeed worry "narrow." Aud
there ia much reason to bolioyo that, as the spir
ituality Of tllo raco becomes moro exalted, tho
veil Tint now but I" lirnly interyenes botwcen
this and tho fair city above" may be lifted to
tho visions Of tnore and more, until all sha livo
i'll tlle consciousness of tue divine. Tlolo il n
feeling III inany hearts that we arc near upolt
such time now, and that to tho npited vision
at tho pure III huart, tho divine and tho spiritual
are tu DO more fully rOvonled even on oartli.
There may DO moro i'll a true spirituallsm than
some Of lii have thought.
tnont Of the Scripture argument It iH
onca out Alone but revealed, illnn,lued., Our
Savior Buys, III John Il: q III my Fathers honso
are many mansions, If it were not 20. would
hnve told you. I go to prepare place for you: +"
lie hero scokA to confirm tho faith Of mankind in
the future, aud says il it were not ,"-if all
kue ages were mistaken in tho belief" I would
havo told you" We hayo atood OH tho shorcB Of
pur little world md tried to casL our linoB Of
thought and hope afar ACROSS the grave mud said
lit il reasonable; it il desirable; bore it ii
so;" aid now our Blessed Lo,d comes from tho
otitcr world mud says: ''fou are not deceived !;
It is 3d." lii Acts %, we read that when con-
lrovursy arose between the rharisooB mud Saddu-
cccs about tho resurrection, Paul said, "Aloa
and brethren am . pharisco. Now
tho Satl.lucees Eay there is neither Angel
nor epilit, but tic pIariHccs confess botIi.'
Paul distinctly took sides with the Pharisees on
spirit lifo. Ia Matthew. 224., our Bayior nayn
tint God is the " God Of Abraham, aud the God
Of Iraac, and tho God OF Jacob. God is moi
the t;od of tho dond, but Of the living" I'heHe
worthless had been long dead 30 fur as tho bod,
ia concerned, and jet they are spoken Of as alive
for God is not tho God Of tho doad, but Of tllt
living" Thcre ia moro than tho baro statemon
Df q fact here. The toxt is full O.
Tou1,tlntlonb OF truth. md rosts tho lto oi
tho soul upon tho life of God. 11o is tho +" liy
ing God," aud therefore tho God Of lite, and
tho : God Of tho dead" tho God Of death. III.
would be gutherng death, uud not life, to Him
Hof, md would, aftor the Inst struggle way past
nit solitary and aOno In universe Of DEATH nllt
rciyn only over fadcd flowers, wasted beauty
and scattorol dust. But 11e is tho God OF life
aud is gathering life, and not death to Himself
Ihe lives of poriHhing mortalB arc erer
more ascending to tho Kingdom OF Life
MI! wl.cu the long. conflict is cudod, death vii
ho overcome, aud lifc.-frec, full. bounding
lifo,-swcops on through the sweet fields for
ever. Thcro shall bo no more DEATH"
O, tho blindness Of lfet We hayo 1a!a OIL
loved ones away under the SHOWS of winter, 0
to sleep meath tho tall glasR or tho wild flowers
but their lifo ia with God, and from thoi
Auayonly homo they watch and wait cur coming
O children OF sorrow, B,ltierera for an houi
mournors for night, tho morning comoll
En1lcsa yonrs ald entl|cBB joys beckon 20
onward. THINK God, Immortality il not only
faith, it III fuct.
TIE WoMEN's CRUSADE.
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