Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-03-07

take US up In Hfeboat. My Chriatian
friends, let me tear of your dependencies
and frights about dissolution. My Lord
commands me reg Ardlng you. saying; Loose
him, and let him Con
urAvEYi HEAvrNil
Heaven Is ninety FIVE per cont better than
this world, thousand per cent. better,
million per cent. better Take the gladdest,
brightest, most tubilant days you ever had
Oh earth and compress them all L. one hour,
and that hour would bc a raguicLn, a fast
day, gloom, horror rs compared with the
poorest hour they have had in heaven since
its first tower was built or its first rnt.s
swung or its -irst song carolled. "Oh,' you
say, that may be true, but am SO afraid ct
crossing over from this world 10 the next.
and | fear the swapping Of the cord between
soul and body Well, all the surgeons and
physicians and scientists declare that there is
no pang at the parting of the body and soul,
and all the seening rcstlaaencss at the closing
hour OF lie is involuntary and no distress at
all. And | agree " It'll the doctors, for what
thoy say is confirmed by the fact that persons
WHO were drowned or were submerged until
all consciousness departed and were after
wards resuscitated declare that thesensation Of
passing into uncousciousuess was pcasurable
has a door ON easy hinges, and when that door
OF the physical cage opens the soul simply
puts out its wings and scars. But" you say,
Il fear TO 50 because the future is so full OF
mystery Well, will tell you how to treat
the mysteries The mysteries have ceased
botherlng me, for do as the judges Of your
courts often do. They hear all the arguments
in the case and then say: Il will take these
papers and give you my decision next week "
So have heard all the arguments in regard
to the next world, aud some things are uucer
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 ! will ask the Christian philosophers,
who have had all the advantages of
heaven for centuries, to help me- and
| may DE permitted myself humbly to
ask the Lord, and | think there will
be only one mystery left that will be
how one 50 unworthy Is myself got into such
an enrapulred place. Come up out of the
>epulcAral shadows. If you are not Chris
tiIus by faith III Christ come up into the
Iigh,, and if you are already like Lazarus,
terminated, but still have your grave clothes
on, got rid of them. The command is: Loose
him, aud let him 90, The only part Of my
regent journey that | really dreaded al
though 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 III rough weather people
cannot land at all The boats taking the peo-
pie from the steamer to the docks must run
between reefs that looked to Inc to be about
fifty feet apart, and one misstroke of an
Oarsman or an unexpected wave has some
times been fatal, and hundreds have perished
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
you will not be able to land at all. The fact
was that whom our Mediterranean steamer
dropped anchor near Joppa and we put out
for shore in the small boat. the water was as
still is thounh it had been sound asleep a hun
dred years. and we landed as easily as l 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
viii swallow YOU up, or that if you reach
Canaan ut all it viii be a very rough landing
rue very opposite will be true if you have the
eternal God for your portion. Your disem-
Larkauion for the promised land will be as
smooth as was ours at Palestine last Decem-
Der. Christ Will meet you far out at sea and
pilot you into complete safety, and you viii
land with hoSluna on one side of you and
n Lallelu all on the other
Land ahead its fruits waving
DER the hills of fadeess green,
And the living waters LAYING
shores where heavenly forms are seen.
Rocks and storms I'll fear no more,
When on that eternal shore;
Drop the anchor fur the sail!
AM safe within the veil.