The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-02-20

he head without touching their hats,and
the week after the Sheriff had sold him
ont. people were busy looking IN tue
as they passed him. But
religion delights to come to man When ,
he is down. 1t assures him that tnere
are some things more important thsh
money, 1t says your sickness ls merely
II says God wants TO trans,
plant your family to heaven, and lie had
10 begin somewhere, and OF course lie
took the one best fitted to GO do not
saw religion makes everything pam,
down TO the Ininutia, but it has several
explanations very coneolatory' 1ou
know the principle of telegraphy by cl
pliers. Not wishing the public TO- know
The telegram, the merchant IN ChIGago
teleprsphs TO the merchant in New YORK
certain words, which are simply non
sense TO Others, but at euch end OF the
route there is q man who mas the Key Dy
which these meaningless words become
important information, on which 6nsl.,
ness operations of tens of thousands OF
dollars depend. So the vicissltudes OF
our life sometimes seem a senseless rig
marole. or a contradiction, or a mysterl,
ous cipher But God has key to itand
the Christian has key to it, and though.
we may have some difficulty in spelling
il ont. we shall get enough meaning ont
of it to learn that God is doing ev ry-
thing for the very best. Is there no
sunshine in that2 1t is pleasure far
beyond laughter. 1t is nearer the foun'
tain of tears than of noisy demonstra
ton. Have you ever cried icr joy? There
are tears which are eteru'l rapture in
this relation. There are thousands here
who walk in the full satisfaction and the
nerpetual delight that all is well. do
not know how men, without the expla-
nations of religion, keep out of the in
sane asylum. Your child dead, aud that
is the end of it. Your property gone,
and that is the end Of it. Your reputa
ton perished, and that is the end OF It,
Tell me how you can stand all thie? Are
vour nerves and muscles different from
miner Where did you get this supernat'
nral toughness? No religion and yet not
maniac!
find much sunshine in the ciimac
teric lows of the next life. A man who
rises and leaves the building after the
opening voluntary Of a concert has been
piayed. and before the prjmG donna takes
the platform, or the full orchestra has
begun, has as good an idea of the whole
concert AZ that man has of the pleasures
of rail- ion, " no thinks that they stop at
the end of this life We only here have
the first notes of the eternal oratorio. In
that blessed land we shall have the pleas
ures of discovery. In five minutes we
will catch up with all the geographels,
philosophers and scientists and mathe
maticians who 80 far dstanCed us in this
world. | adjourn for the most part geoI'
ogy. astronomy and mathematics to the
next world. We will have better appar
atus and more opportunity. l must learn
these arts and sciences 50 as to be quail
fed for my work, but | shall toll on IN
my work, trying 10 save my own soul,
and the souls Of others, with the su.
preme satisfaction that in one flash of
eternity | will get it all. Oh, what an
observatory heaven will be from which
to study astronomy! No telescope but a
supernatural vision, comprising every
thing, and if something be doubtful III.
600 600 miles away, sweeping there and
back quicker than | can tell you. Geol'
ogy-what place to study geology when
the world is being picked apart as easily
as a schoolgirl in botanical studies pulls
the leaf from the buralIa. We some
times wish we knew more about archi-
lecture. But oh, what a place heaven
will be to study architecture Mid the
thrones and palaces aad cathedrals;
where st. Marks and st. PauPs would
he only mockeres. We envy the man
who has the time and means to travel
all around the world, We haven't the
time nor the means But we will make
that trip during the muslcal pause be-
tween an eternal anthem. Discovery!
| shall know everything that is worth
knowing. You will too. | say this for
the encouragement of all those people
who are living what they call a hum
drum life, who have a passion for know
ledge and yet no means OF satisfying 1t,
who work and toll for a ii likelihood, and
saw, "Oh, wish had the opportunities
these men have. Then | would fill my
mind with knowledge" My friend, the
day will come when you will go to the
University. Death will matriGuIate you
into the royal University of Heaven.
In addition to the pleasures of discoy-
cry in that world, We will have the pleas
ures of association. We win go right up
IN front of God, without any fright, be
caus. our sins will all be gone, and there
will be nothing to be frightened about.
God will look upon us with radiant
benediction. Then our old friends will
gather around us 1st as sometimes our
sick friends 20 to Florida, the Land OF
Flowers or to the south of France and
then after while we meet them, and
the hoilows under the eyes are filed up,
and the Crutch has been thrown away,
and the appetite has come back, and the
man is entirely changed, and we cay to
him, How yOu have changed. | never
saw you looking 80 we'll" "Oh," says
he, in this calm cline | could not help
hut get we'll. have been ranging these
hills. and hat has given me this elastic
ity. could not help but get we'll" And
80 our departed Christian friends are only
away for their health IN a better CLINE,
and you will meet them after while,
and they will be SO changed for the bet
ter that perhaps We will hardly know
them. and when we find oul who they
are we say "Where is that cough that
that consumption ?" And
ihey will say, "Snce we came to this
beautiful cline we have got well. | have
been here FIVE wears and have not heard
a cough, nor heard man say l am
tired"
And then l will take any place at the
celestial gate to watch the numerous pro
,essions coming cut of the gate of that
city, and see great PROFESSIONS coming,
professions of children with their arms
foil Of flowers. professions Of Kings and
and Queens pa sing In celestial pagenC
ry; loug professions, but npt one black
planned vehicle, not one wAe ing grOnp