The Brookhaven leader., 1886-01-21

verish people Of the world, try this Al.
mighty sedative; you will live twenty.
\ Ave years longer under lts soothing
power. It Is not choral that you want,
or more time that you want, It Is the gos.
pei Of Jesus Christ.
Again, practical religion is a friend OF
/ long life, in the fact that 10 removes all
! corroding care about future existence.
| Every man wants to know what lie
/ TO become of him. IL you get on
board railroad train you want to know
at what depot it is going to stop; il you
| get on board a ship you want to know
into what harbor it is going to run; and
| IL YOU should tell me you have no interest
| in what is to be your future destiny,
would, in as polite way as know how,
/ tell you | did not believe you. Before
had this matter settled with refer
| ence to my future existence, the
question almost worried me into ruined
health. The anxieties men have upon this
subject, il put together, would make
martyrdom. This is a state of awful I'M
healthinesss. There are people who fret
themselves to death for fear of dying.
want this morning to take the strain Off
your nerves and the depression off your
soul, and will make two or three expert
mentS.
Experiment the first: When you go ont
of the world it does not make any differ
ence 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
irfa ha haA nj
good can not live together forever. You
give me no comfort in that experiment"
Experiment the second-When you leave
this world you will go into an intermediate
state, where you can get converted and
prepared for heaven. Impossible" you
say; las the tree falleth so it must le and
l can not postpone to an intermediate state
that reformation which ought to have been
effected in this state"
Experiment the thrd-There is no fu.
ture 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 som ething that tells me that
death is not the appendix but the preface;
there is something that tolls me that on this
side ofthe grave only get started, and that
shall go on forever. My power to think
says Forever my affections say 'Forev
err my capacity to enjoy or suffer says
Forever"
Well, you defeat me in my three expert
ments. l have only one more to make, and
if you defeat me in that | am exhausted.
A Mighty One on knoll back of Jeru-
salem one day, the sky filled with forked
lightnings and the earth filled with vol
canic disturbances, turned his pale and
agonized face toward the heavens, and
said: 81 take the sins and sorrows of the
ages into my own heart. am the expia
ton. Witness earth and heaven and hell.
| am the expiration" And the hammer
struck him, and the spears punctured him,
and heaven Numbered: THE wages of
sin is death" The soul that sinneth it
shall die;" Il will by no means clear the
guilty" Then there was silence for half
an hour, and the lightnings were drawn
back into the scabbard of the sky, and the
earth ceased to culver, and all the colors
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,
~ was bruised for their iniquties;" and
along the line of the red l saw the words,
THE blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from
all SIM" and along the line of the green
saw the words, 1.-The leaves of the tree OF
q nf "a -
along the line of the orange l saw the
words, THE day spring from on high hath
visited U.s." And thenI saw the storm was
over, and the rainbow rose higher AND
higher, until it seemed retreating to anoth.
or heaven, and planting one column of its
cOlors on one side the eternal hill, anG
planting the other column of its colors on
the other side the eternal hiil, it rose up
ward and upward, and behold there was
a rainbow round about the throne.
Accept that sacrifice and quit worrying.
Take the tonic, the inspiration, the longev-
ity of this truth. Religion is sunshine;
that is healthy. Religion is fresh air and
pure water; they are healthy. Ask all the
doctors and they will tell you that quiet
conscience and pleasant anticipations are
hygienic. offer you perfect peace now
and hereafter. What do you want in the
future world! Tell me and you shall have
it. Orchards? 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
glassmingled with fire. Do you want
music? There is the oratorio of the Crea-
ton, led on by Adam; and the oratorio of
the Red Sea, led on by Moses; and the
oratorio of the Messiah, led on by st.
Paul, while the archangel, with swing
| ing baton, controls the 144,000 who
make up the orchestra. Do you want re.
union? There are your dead children watt
ing to kiss you, waiting to embrace you
waiting to twist garlands in your hair.
| You have been accustomed to open the
door on this side the sepulcher: this morn
| ing open the door on the other side the
sepulcher. You have been accustomed to
walk in wet grass on the top of the grave;
show you the under side of the grave.
The bottom has fallen out and the long
| ropes with which the pail bearers let down
| your dead, let them clear through into
heaven. Glory be to God for this robust,
healthy religionl 1t will have tendency
to make you live long in this world, and in
the world to come you will have eternal
longevity.
TAR-HEEL SQUIRRELS