The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-08-17


right result. You 60 down stairs and
examine the carpets we are turning
out in this establishment, and you will
see." l go down on the other floor, and l
see the carpets, and am obliged to confess
that, though the wheels in that factory
go in opposite directions, they turn out
beautiful result; and while l am
standing there, looking at the exquisite
fabric, an old Scripture passage comes
into my head: "Alf things work tOgeth-
er for good to them who love God" Is
there not rest in that? Is there not
tonic in that? Is there not longevity
in that? Suppose man is all the time
worried about his reputation? One man
says he lies, another says he is stupid,
another says he is dishonest, and half
dozen printing establishments attack
him, and he is in a great state of ex-
| citement, and worry, and fume, and can
not sleep; but religion comes to him
and says: Man, God is on your side. He
will take care of your reputation. If
God be for you who can be against you?
How much should that man worry about
his reputation? Not much. If that
broker, who, some time ago in Wall
street, after he had lost money, sat down
and wrote farewell letter to his wife,
before he blew his brains out-if, in
| stead of taking out of his pocket a pis-
tOl he had taken out well-read New
| Testament, there would have been one
| less suicide. 0 nervous and foolish peo-
pie of the world, try this almighty sed-
ative; you will live twenty-five years
longer under its soothing power. 1t is
not chlOral that you want, or morphine
that you want; it is the Gospel of Jesus
Christ. with long life will l satisfy
him."
Again, practical religion is friend
| nf IN, hn 60 % hok
| all cOrrOding care about future exist
ence. Every man wants to know what
| is to become of him. If you get on
board a railroad train you want to know
| at what depot it is going to stop; if you
| get on board ship you want to know
into what harbOr it is going to run, and
if you should tell me you have no inter
est in what is to be your future destiny,
l would, in as polite a way as know
how, tell you did not believe you. Be-
| fore | had this matter settled with ref
erence to my future existence the ques-
| tiOn almost worried me into ruined
health. The anXieties men have upon
this subject, put together, would make
| a martyrdOm. This is state of awful
unhealthiness. There are people who
fret themselves to death for fear of dy-
| ing. l want to take the strain off your
nerves and the depression off your soul,
| Il
Experiment the first: when you go out
of this world it does not make any diff
| ference whether you have been good or
| bad, or whether you believed truth or
| error, you will go straight to glory.
Impossible" you say; my common
| sense as well as my religion teach that
the bad and the good cannot live to-
| gether forever. You give me no COM
fort in that experiment" Experiment
| tho GnoOOd. WhnD Won Inaua thiu xUor Ia
you will go into an intermediate state,
where you can get converted and pre-
| pared for heaven" impossible" YOU
say: 'as the tree falleth, so it must lie,
and | cannot postpone to an intermedi-
ate state that reformation which ought
to have been effected in this state" Ex-
pertinent the third: There is no future
world; when man dies that is the last
| of him. Do not worry about what you
are to do in another state of being-you
will not do anything" impossible" /"
you say; "there is something that tells
me that death is not the appendix, but
| the preface; there is something that
tells me that on this side of the grave ]
only get started, and that shall go on
forever; my power to think says for
| eVer;' my affections say forever; my
| capacity to enjoy or suffer, forever"
| Well, you defeat me in my three expert
ments. 1 have only one more to make,
and if you defeat me in that l am ex-
hausted. A mighty One on knoll back
of Jerusalem one day, the skies filled
with fOrked lightning, and the earth
! filled with volcanic disturbances, turn
| ed his pale and agonized face toward the
| heavens and said: 81 take the sins and
SORROWS of the ages into my own heart.
l am the eXpiatiOn. Witness earth and
heaven and hell. am the expiation."
| ho no
spears punctured him and Heaven thun-
dered: "The wages of sin is DEATH
"The soul that sinneth 1t shall die"
81 will by no means clear the guiltyP'
Then there was silence for half an hour
and the ightnings were drawn back
into the scabbard of the sky, and the
earth ceased to quiVer, and all the col
Ors of the sky began to shift themselves
into rainbow, woven out of the falling
tears of Jesus; and there was red as OF
the blOOd-shedding, and there was blue
as of the bruising, and there was green
as of the heavenly foliage, and there was
orange as of the day dawn, and along
the line of the blue L saw the words;
II was bruised for their iniquities 2 and
along the line of the red 1 saw the
words: "The blood of Jesus Christ
cleanseth from all sim" And along the
line of the green saw the words: "The
of the nations" And along the line OF
the orange l saw the words: "The day
spring from on high hath visited u.s.
And then l saw lhe storm was over, and
the rainbow rose higher and higher, un-
til it seemed retreating to another
heaven, and planting one column of its
colors on one side the eternal hill, and
planting the other column of its colOrs
on the other side the eternal hill, it rose
upward and upward, and, behold there
was rainbow about the throne.
Accept that sacrifice and quit worry
ing. Take the tonic, the inspiration,
the longevity of this truth. Religion
is sunshine; that is health. Religion is
fresh air and pure water; they are
healthy. Religion is warmth; that is
healthy. Ask all the doctors, and they
will tell you that quiet conscience
and pleasant anticipations are hygienic.
offer you perfect peace now and here
after. What do you want in the future
world2 Tell me, and you shall have it.
OrchardsP There are the trees with
twelve manner Of fruits, yielding fruit
every month. Water scenery? There
is the river of life from under the
throne of God, clear as crystal, and the
sea of glass mingled with fire. Do you
want music? There is the OratoriO of