Sharp County record., 1890-03-20

amokeStaCKS, OPEN i" AO" ,,ro aud
~ the planks, lay out new course I "i,'
IN in ' soiI for Heaven. You have hau
fbo tb sriritual dumps long enough.
Won S will please the Lord more py
being happy than by being miserable, a,s4 q,
Have you not sometimes starred oaO -
+he rain with your umbrella and you
were busy and you did not notlce tnaS
tbe rain had stopped, and though II nao
cleared off you still had your umDrella
un and when you disc overed what you
we're we doing you felt silly enough? lna'
is what some of you are doing in rel1g-
ious things. You have got SO useu W
cadness that though the ram HAS
stopped you still have your um orell" up up,
Come out of the shadow. Ascend the
stairs of your sepulcher. Step out lnVo
the broad light of MONDAY we come
around you to help remove your grave
clothes, and voice from the heavens
tremulous but omnipotent, commancS'
Loose him and let him go.
think that all the stars are lnhaD'
tied, and by beings like the human race
in feelings and sentim ents, ana tne I'LL
forence is in lung respiration and heart
beat and physical conformation; tneir
nhvsical conformation fit for the cil-
mate of their world and our physlcal
conformation fit for the climate OF our
world So we shall feel at home in any
Of the stellar neighborhoods, our physlc.
al limita ton having ceased. One OF
onr first realizations in getting out OF
this world l think, will be that in this
world we we're very much pent up,
and had cramped apartments ana
were kept on the limits The most
even our small world is water, and the
water saws to the human race: Don't
come here or you will drown" A rev
thousand feet up the atmosphere IS un-
inhabitable, and the atmosphere says 10
the human race: Don't come up here or
Won cannot breathe" Afew miles down
the earth is a furnace OF fire, and the
fire saws: Don't come here or you Will
burn" The caverns of the mountains
are full of poisonous gasses, and the
gases say: Don't come here you Will
he asphvxiated." 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 pneumonias and
pleurisies and consumptions and apo
pickles 60 across this earth in t1ocks, IN
droves, in herds, and it is world OF
eouinoxes 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," OF
the Celestial line, goes sailing past, and
would gladly take us up in a life-boat,
Nv Christian friends, let me tear Off
your despondence and fright about disso-
luton. My Lord commands me regard
you, saying:
Loose him and let him go.
Heaven is ninety-fve per cent better
than this world, one thousand per cent.
better, one million per cent better,
Take the gladdest, brightest, most jubi'
j.. liant days you ever had on earth and
compress them all into one hour, and
that hour would be a requiem, a fast
day, a gloom, horror, as compared
with the poorest hour they have had in
Heaven since its first tower was built or
it's first gates swung or it's first song
caroled.
"Oh," you say, 'that may be true, but
l am so afraid of crossing over from this
world to the next, and fear the snap.
ping of the cord between soul and body
Well, all the surgeons and physicians
and scientists declare that there is nc
pang at the parting of the body and
soul, and all the seeming restlessness al
the closing hours of life is involuntary,
and no distress tall. And / agree with
the doctors, for what they say is con
| tirmed by the fact that persons who were
= drowned, or were submerged until al
} consciousness departed, and we're after
, ward resuscitated, declare that the sen
, odVlou VI pdoo1IS 1uuo ullOOuoOlououCo'
= was pleasurable rather than distressful
= The cage of the body has door on easy
/ hinges, and when that door of the phys
ical cage opens the soul simply puts out
| its wings and scars.
Loose him, and let him go.
The only part of my recent journey
thaS really dreaded, although did no
{ say much about it beforehand, was the
t landing at Joppa, That is the port O
, entrance for the Holy Land, and there
f are many rocks, and in rough weather
r people can not land at all. The boat
taking the people from the steamer t.
. the docks must run between reefs tina
= looked to me to be about fifty feet apart
and one misstroke of an oarsman o.
= an unexpected wave has sometimes beer
s fatal, and hundreds have perished along
f those reefs. Besides that, as we lef
f Port Said the evening before, an ole
traveller said:
S The wind is just right to give you /;
l rough landing at Joppa; indeed, thinl
3 you will not be able to land at ALL"
t The fact was that when our Mediterra
| mean steamer dropped anchor near Jopps
l andwe put out for shore inthe small boat,
the water was as still as though it had
: been sound asleep hundred years, ant
5 we landed as easily as I came on thi
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