Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-03-06

lcaDulary. Loose her, and let her goI
Again, my teIt has good advice con.
cerniHg any Christian hampered and
bothered and bound by fear OF his own
dissolution. To such the Book refers
when il speaks Of those who through
fear of death were all their lifetime
subject to bondage. The most of us,
even If we have the Christian hope, are
towards about death. If a. plank fall
from scaffolding and Just Craze ouI
hat, how pale We look. If the Atlantic
ocean plays with the steamship, pitching
1t toward the heavens and letting il
drop, how even the Christian passen-
Igers poster the steward or stewardess as
to whether there is any danger. and the
captain who has been all night on the
bridge and chilled through, coming in
for q cup of coffee, is assailed by whole
battery of questions as to what he thinks
of the weather. And many Of the best
people are, as Paul says, throughout
their lifetime, in bondage by fear OF
death. My brothers and sisters, If we
made full use of our religion we would
soon get over this. Backed by the
teachings of your Bible, just look
through the telescope some bright night
and see how many worlds there are and
reflect that all you have seen compared
with the number of worlds in existence
are less than the fingers of your right
hand as compared with all the fingers OF
the human race. How foolish then fol
us to think that ours is the only world
fit for us to stay in. Think that all the
stars are inhabited and by beings like
the human race in feelings and senti-
ments and the difference is in lung lres-
.piration and heart beat and physical
confirmation, their physical conforms-
,,tion fit for the climate of their world and
Jour physical conformation fit for oul
world. So we shall feel at home in any
|of the stellar neighborhoods, our ply
sicial limitations having ceased. One
iof our first realizations in getting out
.of this world, think, will be that in
this world we were very much pent up
and had cramped apartments and were
kept on the limits. The most even OF
our small world is water, and the watei
says to the human race: Don't come
here or you will drown" A few thou.
sand feet up the atmosphere is unin.
habited, and the atmosphere says to ths
human race: Don't come up here OF
you cannot breathe" A few miles dowr
the earth is furnace of fire, and the
fire says: Don't come here or you will
burn" The caverns of the mountains
are full of poisonous gases, and the
gases say: Don't come here oryou will
be asphyxiated. And, crossing raj
track, you must look out or you will bt
crushed. And, standing by steam
boiler, you must look out or you will bt
blown up. And pneumonias and pluri
sizes and consumptions and apoplexiei
Igo across this earth in focks, in droves,
lin herds, and it is world Of equinoxei
and cyclones and graves. Yet we are
under the delusion that it is the onl,
place fit to stay in. We want to stick Il
the wet plank mid ocean while the
great ship, "the City of God" of tn,
Celestial line, goes sailing past, ant
would gladly take US up in life boat
NY Christian friends, let me tear of
your dependencies and frights about
dissolution. My Lord commands m,
regarding you, saying: "Loose him, ant
LET him CO."
Heaven is ninety five per cent. bette
than this world, q thousand per cent
better, million per cent. better. Tax,
the gladdest, brightest, most jubilan
days you ever had on earth, and com
hour would be requiem, fast day,
gloom of horror, as compared with th
poorest hour they have had in HEAVIER
since its first tower was built or its frs
gates swung, or its first song caroled
"Oh," you say, that may be true, but
am so afraid of crossing over from thi
world to the next, and fear the snap
ping of the cord between soul an,
body" Well, all the surgeons and ply
sicians and SCIENTISTS declare that ther
is no pang at the parting of the bod.
and soul, and all the seeming restless
mess at the closing honr of life is invol
,untary and no distress at all. And
agree with the doctors, for what the.
say is confirmed by the fact that person
who were drowned or were submerge,
until all consciousness departed an,
were afterwards resuscitated declar
that the sensation of passing into un
consciousness was pleasurable rathe
than distressful. The case of the bod
has door on easy hinges, and whel
the door of the physical cage open
the soul simply puts out its wings an'
soars. But" you say, Il fear t
go because the future is 8
full of mystery" Well, will tell yo,
how to treat the mysteries. The mys
,teries have ceased bothering me, for
do as the judges of your courts oftei
do. They hear all the arguments in tn
case and then say: Il will take thes
papers and give You my decision mex
week" So have heard all the argu
ments in regard to the next world, an
some things are uncertain and full o
mystery, and SO fold up the papers an,
reserve until the next world my decision
about them. can there study all tn
mysteries to better advantage, for tn
light will be better and my facultie
stronger, and will ask the ChrisSial
philosophers, who have had all the ad
vantages of Heaven for centuries, t
help me, and may be permitted mysel
:humbly to ask the Lord, and thin
there will be only one mystery left, on
that will be how one SO unworthy as my
self got into such an enraptured place
Come up out of the sepulchral shad
ows. If you are not Christians b
faith in Christ. come ul into the light
and If you are already like Lazarus, re
animated, but still have your grav
iclothes on, get rid Of them. The com
mand ISIS Loose him, and let him 60.
The only. part of my recent journey tina
I really dreaded, although / did not SO
much about it beforehand, was the land
ing at Joppa. That is the port of en-
trance for the Holy Land, and there ar
many rocks, and in rough weather peo
pie cannot land at all. The boats tax
ing the people from the steamer to th
docks must run between reefs tha
looked to me to be about fifty feet apari
and one mis- stroke Of the earsman Q