Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1888-06-20

side; He will take care of your reputation
b if God be for you, who can be against your
How much should that man worry abou
t his reputation? Not much. If that broke
i who some years ago in Wall street, after b
] had lost money, sat down and wrote fare
we'll letter to his wife before he blew hi
< brains out-if instead of taking out of hi
+ pocket pistol he had taken out well.rea(
New Testament there would have been on,
} less suicide. o nervous and feverish people
of the world, try this almighty sedative
You will live twenty-five years longer undel
} its soothing power. 1t is not choral tina
: you want, or morphine that you want; it il
the gospel of Jesus Christ. "With long
i life will Isatisfy him.
Again, practical religion is friend o1
J longevity in the fact that it removes all cor
rodiDg care about future existence. Every
man wants to know what is to become Of
him. If you get on board rail train you
want to know at what depot it is going te
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 in.
terest in what is to be your future destiny,
l would in as polite a way as know how
tell you did not believe you. Before | had
this matter settled with reference to my
ried me into ruined health. The anxieties
men have upon this subject put together
would shake martyrdom. This is state
of awful unhealthiness. There are people
who fret themselves to death for fear of
dying.
| l want to take the strain off your nerves
and the depression off your soul, and make
two. or three experiments. Experiment
first: When you go out of this world it does
not make any difference whether you have
been good or bad, or whether you believed
truth or error, you will 60 straight to glory.
Impossible" you say; s'my common sense
as well as my religion teaches that the bad
and the good cannot live together forever.
You give me no comfort in that expert
mentl" Experiment the second: When
you leave this world you will 90 into an in
termediate state where you can get convert
ed and prepared for heaven. "lmpossible, :"
you say; "as the tree falleth so it must lie,
and cannot postpone to an intermediate
state reformation which ought to have been
effected in this state" Experiment the
third: There is no future world; when a
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.
| '1mpossible," you say; ''there is some
thing that tells me that death is not the ap-
pendix, but the preface; there is something
that tells me that on this side of the grave
l only get started, and that l shall 60 on
forever; my power to think says forever,
my affections say forever my capacity to
enjoy or suffer, forever
| Well, you defeat me In my three expert
ments. I have only one more to make, and
if you defeat me in that I am exhausted.
A mighty Ono on a knoll back of Jerusalem
one day, the skies filed with forked light
nings and the earth filled with volcanic dis
turbances, 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 expiation. Witness
earth and heaven and hell, 1 am the expia-
tion." And the hammer struck him, and
the spears punctured him, and heaven
thundered: The wages of sin is deathP'
''The soul that sinneth it shall die!'' 81
will by no means clear the guilty." Then
there was silence for half an hour, and the
| lightnings were drawn back into the scab-
bard of the sky, and the earth ceased TO
quiver, 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 saw the words: 81
was bruised for their iniquities." And
along the line of the red I saw the words:
"The blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from
all sin.' And along the line of the green l
saw the words; "The leaves of the tree of
life for the healing of the nations" And
along the line of the orange l saw the
| ka 10 irh
hath visited u.s."
And then l saw the storm was over and
the raiubuw rose higher and higher until 1t
seemed retreating to another heaven, and
planting one column of it's 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 worrying.
Take the tonic, the inspiration, the lOngevi-
ty 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 doc
tors and they will tell you that quiet con-
science and pleasant anticipations are hygi.
enic. 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 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
the Creation. led on by Adam, and the ora
torio of the Red Sea led on by Moses, and
the oratorio of the Messiah led OF by St.
Paul, while the archangel with swinging
baton controls the one hundred and forty
four thousand who make up the orchestra.
Do you want reunion? There are your
dead children waiting 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 sepulchre.
open the door on the other side the Sc
pulchre. You have been accustomed to
walk in the 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 pall-bearers
down your dead, let them clear through
into heaven.
Glory be to God for this robust, healthy
religion. 1t will have a tendency to make
you live long in this world, and in the
world to come you will have eternal life
''With long life will I satisfy him."
"The happiest moment of mans life,
he said tenderly, sis when he knows tha
he has won girls heart" sis it?'' sh'
!: ishyly asked. EYES," he replied; s'now tel
me what is the happiest moment in {
!; ;woman's life." She blushed and hung hel
J head. ''Tell me-" he whispered. "Yol
/ won't think me too bold?" ''Certainly not.
, "When she's asked to name the day.
, Boston Courier.
; A pile of strength that would reach hal
way to the moon is wasted in this countr,
every year by people holding up hyml
books in church who don't know B fla
note from the howl of brinde cat.--Dakot
Bell.
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