The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-03

tuaJ IL Is the only place III 20 stay llls W.
want to stick to the wet plank mid ocean
while the great ship, "the City of Cod" OF
the Celestial line, goes sailing past, ana
would gladly take US up in a life boat. My
christian friends, let me tear of your de-
spondencies and frights about dissolution.
My Lord commands me regarding you.
saying: Loose him, and let him CO."
Heaven is ninety-five per cent. better
than this world, a thousand per cent. bet
ter, 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 DO a
requiem, fast day, gloom, horror, as
compared with the poorest hour they have
had in heaven since its first tower was
song caroled. "Oh," you say, that
may be true, but I am so afraid of
crossing over from this world to the
next, and | fear the swapping OF the
cord between soul and body" Well, all the
surgeons and physicians and scientists de-
clare that there Is no pang at the parting OF
the body and soul, aud all the seeming rest
lessness at the closing hour OF life Is invol-
untary aud no distress at all. And l agree
with the doctors, for what they say is con-
firmed by the fact that persons VINO were
drowned or were submerged until all con-
seriousness departed aud were afterward re-
suScitated declare that the sensation OF pass
ing into Inconsistencies was pleasurabie
rather than distressfuL The cage Of
the body has q door on easy hinges, and
when that door of the physical cage opens
the soul simply puts on its wings aud scars.
"But,n you say, 81 fear to go because the
future Is so full of mystery" We'll, 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
AaIy ri Va
you my decision next week." SO l have
heard all tho arguments in regard to
the next world, and some things are uncer-
tain and full of mystery, and 80 fold up
the papers and reserve until the next world
my decision about them. l can there study
all the mysteries TO better advantage, for
the light will be better and my faculties
stronger, and l will ask the christian phil
osophers, who have had all the advantages
of heaven for centuries, TO help me, and
may be permitted myself humbly to ask the
Lord, aud think there will b3 only one
mys cry left, and that will be how one so
unworthy as myself got into such an en-
raptured place. Come up out OF the sepul-
chral shadows. IL you are not christians by
faith Of Christ come up into the light; and
if you arc already like Lazarus, reani-
mated, but still have your grave clothes on,
get rid Of them. The command Is: Loose
him, and let him go.r The only part of my
recent journey that l really dreaded, al
though | did not say much about 1t 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 steamer to the docks must run be-
tween reefs that looked to me to be about
| fifty feet apart, and one misstroke OF an
oarsman or an unexpec cd wave has some
| times been fatal, and hundreds have per-
ished 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; indeed.
| | think you will not be able to land at
| all.n The fact was that when our
Mediterranean steamer dropped anchor
near Joppa and we put out for shore I'm
| the small boat the water was as still as
| though it had been sound asleep hum
dred years, and we landed as easily as
1 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 it will be
very rough landing. The very opposite
| will be true If you nave 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 SAT ty, and you win land with a
hosanna on one side of you aud a hallelujah
| on the other.
LAND aheadi" It's fruits are waving
Ger the hills OF fadeless green,
And the living waters having
Shores where heavenly forms are seen.
Rocks and storms I'll fear no more,
When on that eternal shore;
Drop the ancnor furl the sail
lam safe within the veil