Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-03


questions as to what he thinks of the
weather. And many of the best people
are. as Paul says, throughout their life
time in bondage by fear OF death. My
brothers and sisters, If we made full
use of our religion, we would soon get
over this. Backed up by the teachings
of your Bible, just look through the
telescope some bright night aud see how
many worlds there are, aud reflect that
all you have seen, compared with the
number of worlds in existence, are less
than the fingers of YOUR right hand as
com AIRED with all the fingers of the hu-
man race. How foolish, then, for us TO
think that ours is the only world fit for
Us to stay in. think that all the stars
are inhabited, and by beings like the
human race in feelings and sentiments,
and the difference is in lung respiration
and heart beat and physical conforma-
ton, their physical conformation fit
for the climate of their world and our
physical conformation fit for the climate
of our world. So we shall feel at home
in any of the stellar neighborhoods our
physical limitations having ceased. One
of our first realizatIUns i'll getting out of
this world, 1 think, will be that in this
world we were very much pent up and
had cramped apartments and were kept
OH the limits. The most even of our
small world is water, and the wafer says
TO the human race: ''DOu t come here
or you will drown A few thousand
feet up the atmosphere is uninhabitable,
and the atmosphere says to the human
race: "DOn'L come up here or you can
not breathe. - a few miles down the
earth is furnace of fire, and the fire
says: "Don't come here or you will
burn. - The caverns of the mountains
are full of poisonous gases,
and the gases say: Don't come
here or you will be asphyXiated. - Aud
crossing rail track, you must look out,
or you will be crushed. And standing
by steam boiler, you must look out,
or you will be blown up. And pneumo-
MAS or pleurisies aud consumptions and
apoplexies go across this earth i'll fiocks,
in droves, in herds, and it is world OF
equinoxes and cyclones and graves. Yet
we are under the delusion that it is the
only place fit to stay in. We want TO
stick to the wet plank milocean while
the great ship, 1.-THE City OF Goi,' OF
the Celestial line, goes sailing past, and
would gladly take us up in lifeboat.
Ny Christian friends, let me tear off
YOUR dependencies ami rights about
dissolution. My Lord commands me re-
garding you, saying: "Loose him, and
let him 90.
Heaven is nInety-tive per cent. better
than this world, thousand per cent.
better, Il million per cent. better. Take
the gladdest, brightest, most jubilant
days YOU ever had on earth and compress
them oil into one hour, and that hour
would be requiem, fast day, gloom,
q horror, as compared with the poorest
hour they have had in heaven since its
first tower was built or Its first gates
swung, or its first song carOlled. ooh -
you say, "that NAV be true, but am
so afraid Of crossing over from tits world
TO the next, and l fear the swapping of
the cord between soul and body Well,
all the surgeons and physicians and sci
entists declare that there is no pang at the
parting of the body and soul, aud all the
seeming restlessness at the closing hour
of lifs is involuntary and no distress at
all. And / agree with the doctors, for
what they say is confirmed by the fact
that persons who were drowned or were
submerged until all consciousness de-
parted and were afterwards resuscitated
declare that the sensation of passing into
Inconsistencies was pleasurable rather
than distressful. The cage of the body
has door on easy hinges, and when that
door of the physical cage opens the soul
simply puts out its wings and scars.
"But, - you say, ~ fear to go because
the future is so full of Mystery Well,
l will tell you how to treat the mysteries.
The mysteries have eensed bothering me,
for l do as the judges of your courts
often do. They hear all the argu-
ments in the case and then they say:
Il will take these papers and give you
my decision next week. So
have heard all the arguments IN regard
to the next world, and some things are
uncertain and full Of mystery, and so 1
fold up the papers and reserve until the
next world my decision about them. 1
can there study all the mysteries to bet
ter advantage. for the light will be bet
ter and my faculties stronger, and / will
ask the Christian philosophers, who have
had all the advantages of heaven for
centuries, to help me, and l may be per-
United myself humbly to ask the Lord,
and l think there will be only one mys-
terry left, and that will be how one so
unworthy as myself got into such an en-
raptured place. Come up out of the
sepuichral shadows. If you are not
Christians by faith in Christ, come
up into the light; and if you are
already like Lazarus. terminated,
but Still nave your grave clothes
on, get rid of them. The command is:
"Loose him. and let him go.' The
only part of my recent journey that
really dreaded, though l did not say
much about it beforehand, was the land
ing at Joppa. That is the port OF entrance
for the Holly Land and there are many
rocks, and in rough weather people can
not land at all. The boats taking the
people from the steamer to the docks
must run between reefs that looked to
me to be about fifty feet apart, and one
mIsstroke of an oarsman or au unex-
pected 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:
1.-The wind is just right to give a rough
landing ut Joppa; indeed, 1 think
you will not be able to land
at oil. - The fact was that when
our Mediterranean steamer dropped
anchor near Joppa and we put out
for shore in the small boat the water was
As still as though it had been sound asleep
hundred years. and we landed as easily