Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-03-03

from this world to the next, and l fear the
swapping of the cord between soul and
body" Well, all the surgeons and ply.
sicians
AND SCIENTISTS DECLARE
that there is no pspg at the parting of the
body and soul, and all the seeming rest
lessness at the closing hours of life is in
voluntary and no distress at ell. And I
agree with the doctors, for Whist they say
ia COL fifmsd by the fact that persons who
we're drowned or we're submerged until
all consciousness departed and were after
wards resusciated declare that the sensa-
ton OF passing into unconsciousness was
plessursble rather than distressful. The
cage Of the body has door On easy hinges,
and when that door of the physical cage
opens the soul simply pnts on its wings
and soars. Bat" you soy, II fear to go
because the future is CD full of mystery"
Well, l will tell yen how to treat the nys-
teries. The mysteries Rave CEASED bother
ing me, for do as the judges OF cour,s
often do. They hear all the arguments in
the CAGE and then say: 81 will take these
papers end give you my decision next
week" So have heard ell the arguments
in regard to the next world, and some
things are uncertain aud full of mystery,
and so fold up the papers, and reserve
until the next world my decision abnus
them. / can there study all the mysteries
TO batter advantage, for the light will be
better and nv faculties stronger. and /
sill ask the Christian philosophers, wh1
hsvs had all the advantage Of heaven for
centuries, to help me, and / msy be per
mitted myself bumbly 10 ask the Lord,
aud think there will be only
ONE MYSTERY LIFT,
and that will be how one so unworthy as
myself got into such an epiaptured place.
Come up out OF the sspulchral shadows
II sou are not Christians by faith in Christ
come up into the light; and il you are al
ready like Lazarus, terminated, but still
have your grave clothes on, get rid OF
them. The command is: "Lcose him, and
Let him Co." The only part of my recent
journey that l really dreaded, although
did rot say much about it beforehand, was
the lsr ding at Joppa. That is the port OF
entrance for the Holy Land, and there are
many rocks, and 10 rough weather people
cannot land at sll. TIE bosts taking the
people from the steamer to the docks must
run between reefs that looked to me to be
about fifty feet apart, and one mis-stioke
Of an oarsman or an unexpected wave has
sometimes been fatal, and hundreds have
persisted slopg those reefs. Besides that,
as we left Port Said the evening before al
old traveller laid: The wind is jus: right
to give you rough landing at Joppa; in
deed, think you will not be able to land
at ALL" The fact was that when our Med
iterraDesn steamer dropped anchor lear
Joppa ard we put out for shore 10 email
boat, the water was as still as though it
had been sound asleep hundred years,
ard We
LANDED AS EASILY
as 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 sess will run high
snd that the breakers will swallow you
up, or that if you reach Canaan at all IL
will be very rough landing. The very
opposite will be true if you have the eter-
nal God for your portion Your disem-
bsrkment for the promised land will be as
smooth as was ours at Palestine last De-
csmbsr. Christ will meet yOu far ont at
sea and pilot you into complete safety, and
you will land with hosabns on ore
side SIDE of you and hallelujah on the
other.
'Iand Aheadr' its fruits are waving
DER the hi Is OF fadeless or cen.
And the living waters LAYING
Shores where heavenly forms are seen.
Rocks and sto-ms I'll fear no more,
When on that eternal shore;
DTOp the anchor! fnrl the sail
am sac within the veil!