Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-03-08
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formation, their physical conformation lit
for the climate of their world and
our physical conformation fit for the
clirnate of our world So we shall
hoods, our physical limitations having ceased.
One of our first realizations in getting out of
this world, l think, will be that III this world
we were very much pent up and had cranped
apartments and were kept on tho 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 thou
sand feet up the atmosphere is unin-
habitabe, 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 caverns Of tho mountains
are full of poisonous guses, and the gases say:
Don't come here or you will be asphy1iated."
And, crossing rail track, you must look out
or YOU will be crushed. And, standing by u
steam boiler, you must look ont or you will
be blown up And pneumonias and pleurisies
and consumptions and apoplexies go across
this earth in focks, III droves i'll herds audit
is q world OF equinoXes and cyclones and
graves Yet we are under the delusion that
t is the only place fit TO stay in. We want
to stick to the wet plank mid ocean while
The great ship, s:the City of God" of the
Celestial line, goes sailing past, and would
gladly take us UP int life bout. My Chris
bian friends, let me tear off your desponden-
ties and frights about dissolution. My Lord
commands me regarding you, saying:
Loose him, and let him CO."
Heaven is nincty-five per cent. better than
this world, II thousand per cent. better.
million per cent. better. Take the gladdest,
brightest, most jubilant days you ever had
Oh earth and compress them all into one
hour, and that hour would DO requiem,
fast day, n gloom, horror, as compared
with the poorest hour they have had in
heaven since its first tower was built OF its
first gates swung or its first song caroled.
"Ob,n you say, that may be true, but l am
so afraid of crossing over from this world
to the next, and / fear the swapping Of the
cord between soul and body" We'll,
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 uncousciousness was pleasurabie
rather than distressful. Tho cage of
the body has n door on easy hinges, and
when that door of the physical cage opens
the soul simply puts out its wings and soars
"But," you say. Il fear to so because the
future is so full Of mystery" Well, will
tell you how to treat the mysteries Tie
mysteries have ceased bothering me, for |
do as the Judges of your courts often do.
rrhay hanr oil tho arcy,iU1p,,tc in tha nrI
then say: 81 will take these papers and give
you my decision next week" So have
heard MI the arguments in regard to
the next world. and some things are
uncertain and full of mystery, and SO
fold up the papers and reserve until the
next world my decision about them. l can
there study all the mysteries to better adj
vantage, for the light will bn better and my
faculties stronger, and will ask the Christian
philosophers, who hive had all tile advan-
;ages OF heaven for centuries to help me,
nd may permit myself hulnbIy to ask the
Lord, and thllk there will be only one mys
terry left, and that will he how one so un-
worthy as myself got into such an cnrap-
turcd 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 hre already like lazarus
reanmated, but still have your grave clothes
Oh, get rid of them. The command is;
Loose him, and let him co. 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 bonts taking
the people from the steamer TO the docks must
run between reefs that looked to he to be about
fifty feet apart and one mis-Stroke OF Nh
oarsman OF an unexpected wave has some
times been fatal, and hundreds have persisted
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
rough landing at Joppa; indeed, think
fact was that when our Mediterranean
steamer dropped anchor near Joppl
and we put out for shore i'll the small boat,
the water was as still rs though il had been
sound asleep hundred years, and we landed
rs easily rs / 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 snv that the seas
will run high and that the breakers
will swallow you up. OF that II you reacn
Canaan at all it Will be very rough
IonJ; ir,al The very opposite will be true if
Won have the eternal God for your portion;
Sour decentralization for the promised land
will III he rs smooth as was ours at Palestine
last December. Christ will meet you Tar out
at sea and pilot you into complete safety,
and Won will land with a hosanna on one size
of YOU and hallelujah on tine other.
Land ahead /" its fruits nre waving
DER The hills of fadccss arccn
And the living waters having
Shores where heavenly forms ARE Eccn.
Rocks and storms I'll fear no moro
When on thu. eternal shore;
Drop the anch0f furi the sail:
an safe within the ye!i