The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1890-03-08

consciousness was pleasureablo rath-
er thar distrcssfui. The cage of
the body has a door on easy
hinges, and when that door Of tho phys
ical cage opens the soul simply puts out
its wings and scars. But" you say, 81
fear to &c because the future il 40 full
of mystery" Well, | will tell you how
to treat the mysteries. The mysteries
have ceased bothcring me, for | do as
the judges Of your courts often do.
They near all tn" arguments in the case
and then say; II will take those papers
and give You my decision next week"
So | have heard all Arguments in regard
To the next world and spmu things are
uncertain and full of mystery, and so |
fold up the papers and reserve I'M
til the mex world my decision about
them. | can there study all the
mysteries to better advantage, for
the light will be better and my faculties
stronger, and ] viii ask the Christian
philosophers who have had all the ad-
vantages of Heaven for centuries, to
help me, and | may be permitted myself
humbly to ask the Lord, and / think
there will be only one mystery left, and
anu II w Nv" INV oo III uo
myself got into such an enraptured
place. Come up out of the sepulchral
shadows. If YOU are not Christians by
faith in Christ come up into The light;
and If you are already like Lazarus, re-
animated. but still have your grave
clothes on, get rid of them. The COM
mand Is: Loose him and let him 60"
The only part OF my recent journey
that l really dreaded, although | did
not say much about 1t beforehand, was
the landing at Joppa. That is the port
of entrance for the Holy Land, and
there are many rocks, and in rough
weather people can not and at all. The
boats Ia king the people from the steam
er to the docks must run between reefs
that looked to M to b" about fifty feet
apart, and one mis-stroke of an oarsmRn
on an unexpected wave has sometimes
been fatal, and hundreds have persisted
along those reefs. Besides that, as we
left Port Said the evening before an old
traveller said: THE wind Is just right to
give you a rough landing at Joppa; in.
deed, | think you will not DO able to land
at all" The fact was that when our Medi-
terranea steamer dropped anchor near
Joppa and we put out for shore in the
small boat, the water was as still as
though 1t had been sound asleep o
hundred years, and we landed as easily
as / came on this platform. Well. your
fears have pictured for you an appalling
arrival at the end of your voyage Of life
and they say that the seas will run high
and that the breakers will swallow you
up, or that if you reach Canaan at all 1t
will be a very rough landing. The very
opposite will be true II you have the
etornal God for your portion. Your dis
embarkation for b promised land will
be as smooth as was ours at Palestine
last December. Christ will meet you at
sea and pilot you into complete safety
and you will land with u hosanna on
one side of you and q h%allelujah on the
other.
Land ahead r. its fruits ara waving
Oer the hills OF fadele-s q cen.
And the living W tens tavlng
III res wneIe hsav My /, rms are seen.
Rocks and storms J. l fear no more.
When on that 9 ernhi -hore;
Drop the mn hort furl the sail;
lam safe within the vail