The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-03-13

respiration and heart beat and physical con-
formation, their physical conformation iit
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 neighbor-
hoods, our physical limitations having ceased
One OF our first realizations in getting out of
this world, think, win be that In this world
we We're very much pent up and had cramped
apartments and We're 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.n A few thou
sand feet up the atmosphere is unin-
habitable aud the atmosphere says
TO the human race: "Don't come
up here or you cannot breathe A
few miles down the earth is furnace of fire
and the fire says; Don't come here or you
will burn" The cayerns of the mountains
are full OF poisonous gases, and the gases say:
Don't come here or you will be asphy xiated."
And, crossing rail track, you must look out
or you win be crushed. And, standing by
steam boiler you must look out or you will
be blown up. And pneumonias and pleurisies
and consumptions and apoplexies go across
this earth in 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 mid ocean while
the great ship, ''the City of God,n Of the
Celestial line goes sailing past, and would
gladly take us up in a life boat. My Chris
tian friends let me tear of your desponden-
cies and frights about dissolution. NY Lord
commands me regarding you, saying:
Loose him, and let him CO."
Heaven Is ninety-five per cent better than
tins world, thousand per cent. better.
ma ont ttar To a fha 1oI
brightest, most jubilant days you ever had
on earth and compress them all into one
hour, and that hour would be a requiem, a
fast day, gloom, a 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 caroled
oh" you say, that may Is true, but am
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
l agree with the doctors, for what they say
is confirmed by the fact that persons who
were drowned or We're submerged until all
consciousness departed and Were afterward
restiscitated declare that the sensation of
passing into Inconsistencies we pleasurable
rather than distresSfu 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, II fear to go because the
future is SO full of mystery" Well, will
tell you how to treat the mysteries Tn,
mysteries have ceased bothering me. for ]
do as the judges of your courts often do
They hear all the arguments in the case anc
then say: II will take these papers and give
you my decision next week" So | hav,
heard all the arguments in regard t,
the next world. and some things arr
uncertain and full of mystery, and SC
fold up the papers and reserve until the
next world my decision about them. / car
there study all the mysteries to better ad
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
aud may permit myself humbly to ask tn
Lord, and I think there win be only one mys
terry left, and that will be how one so un.
worthy as myself got into such an enrap-
tured place. Come up out of the sepulchra
shadows. Ii you are not Christians by
faith in Christ come up into the light;
and if you are already like Lazarus
terminated, but still have your grave clothe:
on, get rid of them The command is
of my recent journey that l really dreaded
although did not say much about it before
hand, was the landing at Joppa That il
the port of entrance for the Holy Land. anc
there are many rocks and in rough weather
people cannot land at all. The boats taking
the people from the steamer to the docks mus
run between reefs that looked to me to be abou
fifty feet apart and one mis-stro&e of al
Oarsman or an unexpected wave has some
times been fatal and hundreds have persisted
along those reefs. Besides that, as we lief
Port Said the evening before an old traveller
said: "The wind is Just right to give you
rough landing at Joppa; indeed. | think
you will not be able to land at ALL" TIL,
fact was that when our Mediterranean
steamer dropped anchor near Jopps
and we put out for shore in the small boat
the water was as still as though it had beer
sound asleep hundred years, and we landed
easily as came on this platform. Well
your fears have pictured for you an ap
palling arrival at the end of your voy
age Of life, and they say that the sea
will run high and that the breakers
will swallow you up, or that If you reach
Canaan at all it viii be a very rough
landing. The very opposite will be true if
you have the eternal God for your portion.
Your Decentralization for the promised land
will be as smooth as was ours at Palestine
last December. Christ will meet you far out
at sea and pilot you into complete safety,
and you will land with hosanna on one side
of you and a halelujah on the other
land ahead " its fruits are waving
Ger the hills OF fadeless green,
And the living waters laving
Shores where heavenly forms are seen
Rocks and storms Til fear no more
When on that eternal shore;
Drop the anchor furl the sail!
am safe within the veil!