News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-06-28
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| the aged Christian man, walked along by
| that unhappy one until you came to tht
| golden pillar of a Christian life. That is al
the difference between you. Oh. if this re
ligion is protest against all forms of dissi
patton. then it is an iliustrious friend o.
longevity. "With long life will l satisfy
him.
Again, religion is a friend of longevity il
the TACT that it takes the worry out of on
temporalities. 1t is not work that kills men
it is worry. When m1n becomes n genuin,
Christian he makes over to God not only his
affections bur his family, his business, hi
reputation, his boly, his IN nd, his soul
everything Industrious he will be. hui
never worrying, because God is managing
his affairs. How can he worry about hUsi
ness when in answer to his prayers God tell
him when to buy and when to Sc |; and if be
gain that is best, and if he lose that is best!
suppose you had supernatural neighboI
| who came in and said; 'Sir, want you tc
c.If on me in every exigency; an your fast
frien1; Ieould fall back on SO, 900, 600; can
foresee panic ten years; | hold the control.
ling stock in thirty Of the best monetary in
stitutlonS of New York; whenever you are
IN trouble call on me and | will help you,
you can have my money and you can have
my influence; here is my hand in pledge for
it. How much woulI you worry about
business! Why, you would say: "I'll do the
best | can, and then I'll depend on my
friends generosity for the rest"
Now more than that is promised to every
Christian business man. God says to him:
81 own New York and London and St
Petersburg and Pekin, and Australia and
California are mine; l can foresee panic a
million years; have all the resources of the
universe, and | am your fast friend: when
you geC In business trouble or any other
trouble, call on me and | will help; here is
my hand in pledge of omnipotent deliver
ance." How much should that man worry!
Not much. What lion will dare to put his
rrNv, hat nr,, 81 7,
this: is there not an eternal vacation in
this!
"Oh," you say, ''here is man who asked
God for blessing in a certain enterprise,
and he lost five thousand dollars in it. Ex-
plain that" | will. Youder is a factory.
and one wheel Is going north and the other
wheel is going south, and one wheel plays
laterally AMI the other plays vertically. |
go to the manufacturer and say: 80 manu-.
facturer, your machinery is contradiction.
Why do you not make all the wheels go one
way!n We'll" he says, Il made them to go in
opposite directions on purpose, and they pro-
duce the right result You go downstairs
and examine the carpets we are turning out
in this establishment and You will se1.n I
go down on the other floor and l see
the carpets, and l am obliged to confess that
though the wheels in that factory go in op-
posite directions they turn out beautiful re-
suit; and while | am standing there looking
at the exquisite fabric an old Scripture
passage comes into my mind: 'All things
work together for gool to them who love
God" Is there not rest in that! Is there
not tonic in that! Is there no5 longevity in
that!
Suppose e man is all the time worried
about his reputation. One man says he lies,
another says he is stupid, another says he is
dishonest, and half dozen printing estab-
Iishments attack him, and he is in a great
state of excitement and worry and fume, and
h1t icriO IN n
says: Man, God is on your side; he will
take care of your reputation; if God be for
you, who can be against you" How much
should that man worry about his reputation!
Not much. If that broker who some years
ago in Wall street, after he had lost money,
Sae down and wrote farewell let
tet to his vile 1efOTe he blew his
is urains out-it instead of taking out OF his
tocheG q, a pistol he had taken out a well read
Ne" Testament there would have been one
IaSs suicide. On, nervous and feverish people
@I 81 the world, try this almighty seiative
on wall live twenty five years longer under.
ats soothing power. 1t is not chlorau that
you want, or morphine that you want; it is
the Gospel of Jesus Christ with long life
will | satisfy him"
Again, practical religion is n friend M
longevity In the fact that it removes all cor
rodlng care about future existence. Every
man wants to know what is to become of
MN. If you get on board of a rail train YOU
want to know at what depot IL is GOING to
stop; if you get ON board a ship YOU want to
know into what harbor it is going to RIM and
If you shall tell me you have no interest in
what IS to be your future destiny, l would in
as polite way as knew how tell Won 7 did
not believe you. Before l had this matter
settled with reference to my future existence
the question almost worried me into ruined
health. The anxieties men have upon this
subject put together would make a martyr
dom. This is a state of awful unhealthiness
There are people who fret themselves to death
for fear of dying.
1 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 go straight to glory I'm
possible" you say; 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 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; 'as the tree falleth so it must lie, and
| cannot postpone to an intermediate state
which ought to have been ef-
fected in this state" Experiment the third.
There is no future world; when man dies
that is the last of him. Do not worry about
whit you are to do in another state of being:
you will not do anything. Impossible
you say; there is something that tells me
that death is not the appendix, but the pref
ace there is something that tells me that on
this side of the grave | only get started, and
that l shall go on forever; my power to
think says forever, my affections say for
ever my capacity to enjoy or suffer, for
sVcr'n
Well, you defeat me in my three expert
mentS. / have only one more to make, and
if you defeat me in that | am exhausted. A
mighty One on knoll back of Jerusalem one
i. 1.rrkk,
and the earth filled with volcanic disturb
His pale and agonized face
toward the heavens and said: 81 take the
sins and sorrows of the ages into my own
heart. l am the expiation, Witness earth
and heaven AMI hell, l am the expiation."
And the hammer struck him, and the spears
punctured him, and heaven thundered: "The
wages of sin is DEATH" The soul that sin
meth it shall die" az will by no means
clear the guilty?" Then there was ST.
lence for half an hour, and the light
nings were drawn back into the scab-
TO culver, and all the colors of the sky |
began to shift themselves into a rainbow |
woven out of the fallen 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 |
here was orange as of the day dawn. And |
along the line of the blue l saw the words: |
Il was bruised for their iniquities" And |
along the line of the red I saw the words: |
THE blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from |
Ill SIM" And along the line of the green l |
Jaw the words: The leaves of the tree of |
ife for the healing of all nations And |
llong the line of the orange | saw the words: |
The DAY spring from on high hath visited |
ls."
And then l saw the storm was over, and
he rainbow rose higher and higher, until it
eomed retreating to another heaven, and
PLANTING one column of its colors on one side |
he eternal hill and planting the other column
If its colors on the other side of the eternal
lill, it rose upward and upward. land behold |
here was a rainbow about the throne"
Accept that sacrifice and quit worrying. |
Take the tonic, the inspiration, the longevity
# this truth Religion is sunshine that is
lealth Religion is fresh air and pure |
water, they are healthy. Religion is warmth; |
hat is healthy. Ask ali the doctors and
hey will tell you that a quiet conscience and
pleasant anticipations are hygienic. oHer
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
rultS, Yielding fruit every month. Water
scenery! There is the River of Life, from
Inder the throne of God, clear as crystal,
md the sea of glass mingled with fire. DO
YOU want music! There is the cratorio OF
he Creation led on by Adam, and the orato-
10 of the Red Sea led on by Moses, and the
,ratorio of the Messiah led on 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! Th re are your
lead children waiting to kiss you, waiting to
embrace you, waiting to twist garandS in
your hair. You have been accustomed to
open the door on this side of the sepulchre.
open the door on the other side of tho sepul-
hire You have been accustomed to walk in
he wet grass on the top of the grave. l show
you the under side of the grave; the bottom
las fallen out, and the lonE ropes with which