The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-02-08

7 there III that little body yau have. fsSInr
UP here; here is a better place 70 leaFl
5 AS was about 10 say, IT seems ~ M
: that that Is the philosophy 81 the res
direction of the body. Ii impressed IN,
some years ago why It was when Tia,
Savior sent out the apostles he uniform
ly said to them: $50 and preach Chris
; and the resurrection and always bring.
In the resurrection Preach Christ and
J the resurrection. All the apostles were
, TO preach Christ and The resurrection
Why is it. This instrument that have
along with me here was given me in
part to learn as a means for the devotion.
nlent of the soul When | have seTuti-
nized anything as keeniy as | can with
nay eye, l carry here in my pocket a
pair of glasses. find that the marks
of age are coming on and take my
glasses and that helps me little; but
thai does not carry me very far down
into that ] GO In once IN a while into
the labratory and say: professor, let
me have your hest microscope" fake
the microscope and go just a far down
as can. And then sometimes ! say TO
! him Have YOU any greater diameter
| than this | would like 10 look a little
farther down. and when found the
best microscope there Is | wished had
one OF ten thousand more diameters 10
60 down into the place below and bring
mp The truth have never looked
out into the starry sky through
| the milky way and brought out
thai silver dust that Is sprinkied there
| into great flaming suns, bal what / wish
is that might move the telescope oyer
onto the taTtbcst aud take another look
of into nature beyond and see what
theFe WAS on lhe other side; and ! think
/ if cQpll move tn the very farthest fixed
| star in the milky way with the hest tele-
| scope that ever scsppel the heavens my
very heart N He Woald ache tn move
| farther IN The limiIless universe and see
| What there Is beyond And the soul
nsVcT would gt full Of looking at the
infiniiy above or the infinity that is I'M
| der my feet. take microscope. 10
look into the iutlniiy tia, is helea my
eyes / The u telescope Ia lulk Ii,t t,t
inilinity above me II help my eye,
Now, when think of t.e r,.surrrctc.l
body | think | shall have in the body
itself an instrument perfectly adapted To
the pursuit Of truth aGa M, going 10
heve peeI inF any microscope or any
telescope. | h@lieye that in that ceies-
| tlal world with that reSnrreeted body
that Is touched with the power of i'm
mortality and of unity with Christ's
lite and His Own redemptivc
grace that the ,,0ay shall
IL PeFfeet instrument for the Inyesti.
Cation of truth. think will see on
the one hand material nature that is
down below me and the spiritual nature
as 1t reaches God above me, that thai
body with which | small he clothed upon
afIer IA while will he the perfect instru-
nlent adapted to the qualities of the
soul, and the hungry soul shall have the !
apparatus with it fnT the Investigation
hf Truth, material aud spiritual, and that
is why it seems ia me UhriSt and the
apostles said so much about the resur-
FeptioA. | think there will be something
grand TO do, TOO. The longer live the |
more | am thinking of going to a
heaven with something to do. | can't /
persuade myself that shall sit down
there in choir and sing all the tins
with that chpiri have GONE 10 think /
that God has sOme work for every
thoughtful, intelligent person TO do !
that the hunger planted In the heart for |
truth that tins longing to know as we'll /
as to feel, is u part of mans deathless
nature that will stay with him forever
He will have something Ia do, Ia look
after and TO Ihink abant. | tell you, my
friends, think it is Il glorious thing to
live grand life and 20 To the skies
where God gives Us work worthy of the
immortal spirit that is 10 live and love
forever.
But beyond this there is another line
of victory, and that is the sniriipai line.
God designs thai Man sh;tll not only
have victory over nature and appropTi.
ate il 10 himself anti triumph in the
victory of mind, but mans moral nature
shall have dominion. | know not what
angels and archangles are, but it does
occur Ia me that man needs spiritual
victory as . soil of q la0del Hxed before
| HIM that CANNOT ne surpassed. Paul
said I'VE shall he like HIM." that is,
like Christ. | believe heaven To he
grand country, place where there is
stored up everything that is beautiful
and true and good: that there is not TO
drop out of being "a single noble Thug
| in all the worlds history. en- one sense
/ il seeHs iOine that heaven will be sort
of museum where every beautiful thing
and beautiful thought In the whole uni
verse viii be OenteTed for the study and
/ enlargement of his children.
/ am passionately fond of flowers
About the first thing think of when |
see pretty flower, is Well, wish
i you did not fade-I wish I had some
I way that might touch you and tiS that
! beauty and fragrance sa your beauty and
/ fragrance might forever remain. Then
| | say 10 mosclf: Now there is no use
worrying about that, because God does
not intend any beautiful thing shall fade.
| If there is beauty there God will search
/ the riches Il al the earth and place it
/ up there along the River of Life. Ii
| there is beauty under your feet or about
your head or in the heavens above you
| or anywhere here below, God will store
| il away up there, and so bye and bye all
the richness and beauty of earth you
shall! enjoy mp thart. THAT is heaven,
! And in The FictOry oil our moral natures
We shall be- like Christ.
r,mt n,bcr when was little boy
there VAS a man who Used Ia come to
my fathers house and take me on his
knee and talk 10 me and then nut his
hapd on aly head and say willie, God
bless you, yOu look just like your moth
err Well, thought my mother was
the gTandest woman that God ever
made. And think SO yet. He took
her 10 the skies thirty years ago. That
seems a long time. | was a little hoy
that thirty years in my pain and my
doubt mothers face and my mothers
kindness came along with me. In
1876, at the centennial in Philadelphia,
! was going across from one building TO
another, gentleman met me, stopped,
put out his hand, 3miiel and Shook
. hands with lie very cordially. Says he
Il presume you don't know me :" No
, sir" said /, Il don't know you"
why" says he; 81 would know you
anywhere; you were Il little bit of boy
the last time / saw you, only two OF
three years old; but" says he, - would
!. have known Ya0 anywhere, you look SC
, much like your mother" We had quite
, IL talk and then separated. The first
, thing that came into my heart after We
separated, as was walking away, was
|, thank God that still look like my
mother 1 would rather haye had tina
man say to me: You look like your
. mother, Than 20 haze hial said, you iooI
like IN angel. II was worth more 10 me
: more Ia my heart. ! can remembe
. when IA little boy when that NAL
: used 10 say To me: You look sD mucl
! like your mother" used to go out q
= the house and say 10 myself: Well
! will make man, know | will. IDOL
like my mother. II seemed a sort q
moral qua amy that | would make
: man bye and bye, and when this man sal
: TO mel would know you anywhere, yO
2 look SO much like your mother, ! thank
!, ed God that | sill looked like IN
), mother | consider if some of yO
:. would meet me in q thousand years froi
tO-udy aloBg tlS ndaRs al tue bthutlii
), river, and lake me by the hand and say
= 'You look like Christ. yon have bee
!, moulded and shaped IN your moral nj
- ture and fashioned in every outline I
your being and made into spiritu
nature; you have become victorious
&c spirit until you look like Christ. d
y, that ware heaven There is so muC
he defeat here in this woTIj. ! want
e, be more like Christ There is sort
ne an intellectual defeat that meet ever
We day of my life. take mp line of STUD
We aud go along with Il until come 10
l place where | cannot unTavel it. | sd
lie to myself; g! cannot understand This
pc Then | say Never mind, Just wa
ne and in thousand years from now VI
e. take hold RI This line of truth and
in riybt down To tLf. hoitom off n Chri
will helm me then. take no