Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-06-05
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miJiiary spent in them was God. implanted.
They cannot keep still at the sound OF
drum and fife. They are Christians, and
when they fight they fight. on the right
side,e When such q man dies
there is a place for. him in the
Sublunar Harmepies.
The people who die liking music will find
thefe abundance of regalement. Because
their Voice is still in death and their ear
has become deaf in dissolution is no rea-
SON to think that the souls capacity to
make or catch sweet sounds has vanished.
Can the spirits sing? We often compliment
soul IN her song In heaven it will be all
soul till the body comes up in the resurrec-
ton; and that will be an additional heaven.
Surely the soul can hear. No one can doubt
that. We'll, if the soul can hear, can 1t not
hear music2 Do not, as in some house
holds, when q member departs for heaven
keep the piano closed or the harp unstrung
for i've wears because the fingers that played
ON IL are still The departed soul has bot
ter instruments. VIII there be real harps
and real trumpets, and real organs for the
resurreeted body at last to play on and the
resurrected ear to hear? l do not know,
but should not wonder il the God who
owns all the forests and metals of earth
if He desired, find wood and metal enough
to make real harps and trumpets and or
eans. Old and sick Haydn, the composer,
was carried for the last time into great
hall 10 hear his own oratorio OF the Crea-
tiea. At the passage
Celestial Regiment
1 suppose in one hour such men are enlist
ed in some great campaign. They volun-
teer right away. Heaven must have SOL
iiers with soldiery spirits. There are pa
rade DAYS in heaven when the King re-
views the troops There must be armed es-
csrts sent oat to accompany those from
earth who were "moEe than conquerers"
as they come through the gates. There are
great crusades filing out for all parts OF
Gods universe. There are angels OF evil to
be fought down, and Dsbellious worlds to be
coneuered, worlds to be saved and worlds
to be demolished. Yea, there are battles to
fight in this world for the right against the
mingle. That gives rs Christian reformers
SO much courage. Phe churches are few
against the many gros shops, the good men
few against the bad, the pure printing
presses few against the polluted, while the
armies of evil are mightier than the armies
of the Church militant the air iSflled with
cohorts fighting on our side. My faith is
not so much in the army on the ground as
the arny in the aiR Perhaps the celestial
soldiers are out now. Perhaps they come
this way to fight iOr us and drive back sin
and inpenitence and Satan from all our
hearts. Yonder they are! Coming! Coming!
But what are the mathematicians who
find their chief JOY in figures, and to whom
Euclid was more than John Milton, doing
now? Why, they are busy at figures. No
place
Like heaven for Figures.
Infinite numbers, infinite distances, inf
mite calculotion, arithmetics, algebraS,
geometries and trigonOmetiies to all eter.
nifty! What surveying Of fields of space !!
What diamssers, what circumiersnces,
what triangles, what quaternious, what
epervcles and parallelosrams and comic
sections
See likewise the transported metsuhysi-
clans are now engaged in their fayorite
study under the best possible eircnm-
stances On earth they studied the mind
i'm the dali sheath of the body. Now they
look at the mind uNsheathed-the sword
outside the scabbard.
But what are our departed Christian ex-
plorerS doing? Exploring yet. With
lightning locomotion and vision micro
stopie and telescope, a continent at
glance and world in circuit, planetary
system in n morning, Christian Sir John
Franklin no more trying in disabled Erebus
to find the north pole, or Christian DE
Long trying TO free the blockaded Jean.
nette from the ice, but in the twinkhng oil
an eve taking in the once unsearchable.
What are those departed Christian friends
doing, who on earth found their chief Joy
study? Studying yet. Notafew thousand
books on few shelves, but all the
Volumes Of Creation.
open before them. Geologic, ornithologic
geologic, conchologic, astrOnomic, phuo'
sophie. No need of Leyden jars on electric
batteries or voltaio piles or apparatus, bu'
face TO face with the facts of the universe
What are the historians doing? Studying
history. Not only Of the few centuries ol
the earth's existence, but the history oil the
eternities. whole millenniums before Nen
ophon or Herodolus or Moses or Adam
were born. History OF one world, history
of all worlds.
What are the astronomers doing? Study
ing astronomy. Not through the lens II
earthly observatory, but with sweep, O
wing going right out to Jupiter ana Mer
curry and Mars, and the Pleiades and orion
and overtaking and passing the swiites
meteror in the flight. Herschel died
Cbristian Have YOU any doubt what Her
| schel is doing? or Isaac Newton or Josept
Henry? Altogether on earth they coulc
not euess what the Aurora Borealls was
They all know now, for they have been
! out there
To Look for Themselves,
What are the departed Christian chemist
| doing? Studying chemistry. Ihey nav
! since their death found out ten thousan'
subtleties which puzzled them in earthl.
| laboratory. They can now answer ques
| tions which the world has for centurle
| been asking They now stand on the othe
side of that thin wall of electricity, whlcl
| seems TO divide the physical from the spir
| final 50 thin that we almost break through
from one side to the other, from this sid
! kv telephones and telegraphie apparatu
and from tbe other side by mysterious in
| fluences which in our ignorance we cal
spiritualistic demonstration. They hay
| cleared up the mystery and laugh 10 see u
stand with contracted brow experimenting
and wishing they could be allowed to throw
| us the key that would open to US all Tn
mysteries. Agaziz who took off his hat II
BraziI while standing among his student
of the exploring expedition saying: Gen
tlemen, let US pray" has gone right up IL
| his studies.
| NDdI are our Nhi
| whose chief delight was in studying leV
doing now? Studying law unhindered mi
universe where everything is controlled b
,, -. from flight OF humming bird to figh
ni lJ% worId Law, not dry, and hard, an
drudging, but .a.1
Righteous and "a. sn"ee"' -""'
before which men and angels ana arcn
angels and God Himself bow. One gr..t,
chain long enough TO wind round irtlnit.
and immeDsity and eternity. the chain o
law. What place to study 1t SlfefS on
| can take UP the links in his own hanS!
What are your departed Christian friend
whs is,this world found their chief Joy il
dottoting the sick doing now? Busy a
/, their eiR business. No sick in heaven, bu
plenty OF penes on earth to alleviate. Thes
physicians sweep down this way, not ir
lazy doctors gigs, but by celestial locomo
ton. Why did that patient get well aftel
all the earthly doctors said it was impossi
BILE? suppose that some Abercrombit
touched him, some Abercrombie who, afte
doctoring the bodies and souls of men for
good many years in Scotland, went up Il
God in 1874. My old friend DIR. Johr
Brown, of Edinburgh, who died last month
as humble Christian as he was skillful ;
physician and Quaint an author | warrant