The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-06-08

Isaac Newton, or Joseph Henry! AllO'
gether on earth they could not guess
what the aurora bOTealis was. They all
know now, for they have been out there
to look for themselves.
What are the departed Christian
chemists doing? Studying chemistry.
They have since their death found out
ten thousand subtleties which puzzled
them in earthly laboratory, They can
now answer questions which the world
has for centuries been asking. They
now stand on the other side of that thin
wall of electricity which seems to divide
the physical from the spiritual, so thin
that we almost break through from one
side to the other; from this side by tele-
phones and telegraphic apparatus, and
from the other side by mysterious lnhu-
ences which in our Ignorance we call
| Spiritualistic demonstration. They
have cleared up the mystery and laugh
| to see us stand with contracted brow eX-
perimenting and wishing they could be
| allowed to throw us the key that would
open to us all the mysteries. AgaSsiZ,
who took off his hat in Brazil While
standing among his students of the eX-
plOring expedition, saying: "Gentlemen,
let us pray" has gone right ON and up
in his studies.
friends whose chief delight was in
studying law doing now? Studying
law unhindered in a universe where
everything is controlled by law from
flight of humming bird to flight of
world. Law, not hard and dry and
drudging, but righteous and magnlh-
cent law, before when men, anu angeIs'
and archangels, and God Himself DOW:
One great chain, long enough to wind
around infiinity and immensity and
eternity, the chain of law. What
place to study it where one can take up
the links in his own hand!
What are our departed Chrlstlan
friends who in this world found their
chief Joy in dOctOring the sick doing
now? Busy at their old business. No
sick in heaven, but plenty of pangs on
earth to alleviate. These physicians
sweep down this way, not in lazy doc
tors gigs, but by celestial locomotion.
, WHY did that patient get we'll when all
the earthly doctors said it was impOssi-
bleP l suppose that some AbeTcrOmbie
\ touched him; some AbercrOmbie, who,
. | after dOetOring the bodies and souls OF
2 men for good many years In Scotiand,
1 went up to God in 1874. My old friend,
d Dr.. John Brown, of Edinburgh, who
= died last month, as humble Chrlstla1
n as he was skillful physician and
| quaint an author, | warrant has before
!. fhis been back to see some of his former
Il | patients. Our Christian medical friends
8 departed all busy in benignant medica-
il ment. o,..
/. What are your departed Christian
n friends doing who found their chief de-
:. LIGHT in conversation and sOciality?
q Engaged in the brightest conversation
II and gTandest sOciality. What place
TO visit in where they have Kings and
!. Queens for next door nelghbOrS, them
e selves kingly and queenly. II they want
a to know how the first paradise looked
}. they have only to go over and see Adam,
!. If they want to know how the sun and
: the moon halted they have only to go
+ over and see Joshua. If they want to
g have the ancient ark more minutely
Y described they have only to go over and
a see Noah. If they want to know how
g the storm pelted SOdOm they have only
q to 90 over and see Lot. Ii they want to
q know how the Red Sea boiled when
t cloven they have only to go over and see
b Moses. If they want to get better idea
a of the animOsities of Haman they have
8 only to 90 over and see MOrdecai. Ii
s they want to get more Impressive
h view of the Bethlehem advent they have
s only to go over and talk with the serenad-
g ing angels. If they want to get more
i impressive view of the crucifxiOn they
9 have only to go over and talk with those
d who, standing amid the crOuching hills,
/, | were spectators. What a place to talk
+ and visit inl If eternity were one min
@ ute shorter it would not be long enough.
d Think of our departed Christian
s ateIy fond of flowers, turned out in
). Paradise. Only think Of our de-
v parted Christian t, 81 who reVt ]
It ed in the raising of fruits,
" turned out in an orchard where
,s the trees bear twelve different
# kinds at once, and bear them all the
d year round.
v But what are our departed Christian
e friends who found their chief joy in the
,s gospel ministry doing now? Visiting
d their old congregations The old minis
d ters in heaven have the most of their
" people with them. If L get to heaven,
and / feel that l am destined to that
20 very place, mean to come and see you
10 all, and all those to whom l have in
/ other days administered, yea the mil
It lions, to whom | am permitted through
3, the printing press in this and other
l. lands TO preach every week. They write
g. me from Australia and New Zealand,
10 and the uttermost ends OF the earth, as
Is well as from the nearer nations, TO say
T. l have helped them. | mean to visit
a- them. Our departed ministerial friends
o. are at that delectable undertaking now
What are our departed Christian
a. friends, whose chief joy was in doing
ir good, now employed IMP Doing good
le only doing it without any fatigue, with
I'd out any limit, without any hinderance
Y. John Howard about the prisons yet. The
ed dead women of Northern and Southern
battle fields abroad looking for the sich
IN and wounded yet. George Peabody car
tn ing for the poor yet. Thomas Clarkson
o. looking after the insOlvent yet. All OF
a them more busy since death. Their
g. tOmbstones were not the terminus, but
IN the starting point. .-.,.
in But what are our departed Christian
e, friends who used to find their ehlet de-
he light in studying God doingF Stuayi.ntg y.tg
ut Him not through revelation, but with
he out blanching, face to face. Their sins
e. ali gone; they have nothing to be fright.
IN ened about. They now dare handle thu
W omnipotent thunderbOlts as a child
ks handles the sword of his father, the com
of mander, returned from conquering bat.
ic, tie. Studying Christ with no need Of
g. any revelation but that of his scars
y That deep lettering will tell the story
ic quick enough. Christ Of the Bethlehem
tn caravansary, Christ of the massacre
with its scenes, Christ of the snatIerea
" | rno1.oIann, Cbriot fha atonement, Christ