The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-05-23

respiration and heart beat and physical con- 2
/ formation, their physical conformation tit
4 for the climate of their world and
4 our physical conformation fit for the
climate of our world. So we shall
] teel at home In any of the stellar neighbor-
I hoods our physical limitations having ceased.
One Of our first reahzations in getting out of
this world, 1 think, win be that in this world
we were very much peI1t up and had cramped
apartments and were kept on the limits. The
most even of our small world is water, and
the water says TO the human race; Don't
come here or you win drown few thou
sand feet up the atmosphere is uuin-
habttable, and the atmosphere says
to the human race: Don't come
up here or You cannot breathe'' A
few miles down the earth is a furnace Of FIRE
and the fire says: Don't come here or you
viii burn" The caverns of the mountains
are full OF poisonous gases, and the gases saw:
Don't come here or. you will be,asphy xiated p
And, crossing a rail track you must look out
or you will be crushed. And. standing by a
steam boiler, you must look out or you will
be blown up. And pneuRnonias and pleurisies
and consumptions and apoplexies 20 across
this earth IN focks, in droves, in herds, and It
IS a world Of equinoxes and cyclones and
graves. Yet we are under the delusion that
1t IS the only place fit 20 stay in. We want
70 stick TO the wet plank mid ocean while
the great ship, ''the City of Cod of the
Celestial line, goes sailing past, and would
gladly take US upln life boat. Ny Chris
tian friends, let me tear OFF your desponden-
cies and frights about dissolution. Ny Lord
commands me regarding YOU saving:
Loose him, and let him go.n =
Heaven IS ninety-fve per cent. better than
this world, thousand per cent better. a
million per cent. better. Take the gladdest.
brightest, most jubilant days you ever had
on earth and compress them all into one
hour, and that hour would be requiem.
fast day, a gloom, horror, as compared
with the poorest hour they have had "a
heaven since its first tower was built or its
first gates swung or its first song caroled
'Ob," you say, that may be true, but am
so afraid of crossing over from this world
to the next, and l fear the swapping OF the
cord between soul and BODY Well,
all the surgeons and physicians and
scientists declare that there is no pang at
the parting of the body and soul and all the
seeming restleSsness at the closing hour OF
life is involuntary and no disease 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 departed and were afterward
resuscitated declare that the sensation Of
passing into uiconsciousness was pleasurable
rather than distressful. The cage of
the body has door ON ensy hinges and
when that door of the physical cage opens
the soul simply puts out its wings and scars.
But, you say, II fear to go because the
future is so full of Mystery Well l will
tel you how to treat the mysteries The
mysteries have ceased bothering me, for
do as the judges Of your courts often do.
They hear all the arguments in the case and
then say: Il will take these papers and give
you my decision next week. So have
heard all the arguments in regard 10
the next world. and some things are
uncertain and full of mystery, and so
1 Told up the papers and reserve until the
next world my decision about them. can
there study all the mysteries to betteriad-
vantage, for the light will be better and my
faculties stronger, and will ask the Christian
philosophers, who have had all the advan-
tages of heaven for centuries. to help me,
and l may permit myself humbly to ask the
Lord, and think there will be only one nys-
terry left, and that will be how one so I'm
worthy as myself got into such an enrap-
tJIred 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.
reanimated, but still have your grave clothes
on, get rid of them The command Is:
Loose him, and let him go.p The only part
OF my recent journey that really dreaded,
although did not say much about it before
hand, 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 cannot land at all. The boats taking
the people from the sf-~saas- 70 theaocks must
run oct veen reefs that looked to me to be abort
fifty feet apart. and one mis-stroke of an
oarsnen or an unexpected wave has some
times been fatal and hundreds have persisted
along those reefs. Besides that, as we lett
Port Said the evening before an old traveller
said: THE wind is just right to give you a
rough landing at Joppa; indeed, 1 think
you viii not be able 10 land at ALL" 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 1t had been
sound asleep a hundred years, and we landed
as easily as / came on this platform. Well,
your fears have pictured for you an ap-
palling arrival at the end OF your Toy-
age Of life, and they say that the seas
will run high and inst the breakers
viii swallow you up, or that Il you reach
Canaan at all it win be a very trough
landing. The very opposite viii be true Il
YOU have the eternal God for your portion
Your Decentralization for the promised land
will be IS smooth as was ours at Palestine
f7st December. Christ will meet you far out
.a1'tsE ,1ilot YOU into complete safety,
ealth of Hand with hosanna on one side
sallelujah on the other.
ow that the
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the cotton planI5eIess green.
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