The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1890-03-05

doing you felt Silly enough2 That is
what some Of you are doing IN religious
things. You have got so used to sadness
that though the rain has stopped you
still have yoar umlrella pp, Come out
OF the shadow. Ascend Che stairs OF
your sepulcher Step out into the broad
hight Of MONDAY. We come around yon
70 helpremove your grave clothes, and
avoice freyh the heavens, tromulous and
omnipotept, Commands; "Loose him
and let him go."
Again, my text has good advice con-
cerning anY fhri5tian hampered and
bothered and bound oy fear Of his own
dissolution. 70 such TIE book refers
when II speaas OF those who through
fear OF death were all their lifetime sub
ject To bondage. The most of us, even
II we have the Christian hope, Ne
edwards abort death. Il slank fall
from a seaiIolling and just grazes our
hat how pale we look. II the Atlantic
Ocean plays with tho steamship, pitch
ing 1t towards the heavens and letting
1t suddenly drop, how even the Chris
tian passengers poster the steward or
stewardess as to whether there is any
danger, and the captain, who has been
all night on the bridge and chilled
through, coming In for cup Of coffee, is
assailed with whole battery of questions
as to what he thinks Of the weather.
And many OF the best people are, as
Paul says, throughout their lifetime in
bondage by fear OF death My brothers
and sisters, II voc 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 and see how many
worlds there are and reflect that all you
have seen compared with the number Of
worlds in existence are less than the
fingers Of your right hand as compared
with all the fingers OF the human race.
How foolish then for us to think that
ours is the only world At for US to stag
in. l think that all the stars are in
habited, and by beings like the human
race in feelings and sentiments and the
difference is in lung respiration and
heart beat and physical conformation,
their physical conformation fit for
the climate OF their world and our
physical conformation at 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 realizations in getting
out Of this world, think, will be that
N this world we were very much pent
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 will drown" A few
thousand feet up the atmosphere is un-
inhabitable, and the atmosphere says TO
the human race: Don't 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 mount
aims are full Of poisonous gases,
and the gases say: Don't come
here or you will be asphyxiatsd.
And, crossing rail track, you
must look out or you will be crushed.
And, standing by steam boiler, you
must look out or you will bs blown up.
And pnoumonias and pleurisies and con-
sumptions and apoplexies go across this
earth in flocks, in droves, in herds, and
1t Is world OF equinoxes and cyclones
and graves. Yet we are under the de-
lusion that 1t is the only place fit to stay
in. We want to stick to the wet plank
mid ocean, while the great ship, "the
City OF God" OF the Celestial line, goes
sailing past, and would gladly take US
up in life-boat. My Christian friends
let me tear of your dependencies and
frights about dissolution. My Lord
commends me regarding you, saying:
Loose him and let him 60"
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 COM
press them all into one hour, and tAat
hour would be requiem, fast day, a
gloom, horror, as compared with the
poorest hour they have ever had in
Heaven since its first tower was built
or Its first gates swung or It's first song
caroled. 90" you say, "that may be
true, but / am so afraid Of crossing
over from this world 10 the next, and
| fear the swapping OF the cord be-
tween soul and body" Well, all the sur
seons and physicians and scientists do
clare that there is no pang at the parting
Of the body and the soul, and all the
seeming restlessness at the closing hour
Of life is involuntary and no distress at
all. And agree with the doctors, for
what thoy say Is confirmed by the fact
that persons who were drowned or we're
submerged until all consciousness de-
parted that 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 thatdooro OF the physical cage opens
the soul simply puts out Its wings and
scars. But" you say, II fear TO
20 because the future is 80 full Of
Well, will tell 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: 81 will take
these papers and give you my decision
next week. have heard all the argu.
ments in regard 10 the next world, arsl
some things are uncertain and full OF
and so fold up the papers and
reserve until the next world my de-
,ision about them. can there study
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