The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-10-09

Nv the advancement of medical science
and the wider acquaintance with the
laws of health, and the fact that people
know better how to take care OF them
selves. human life is prolonged But
do YOU realize what after ALL is the
brevity of our earthly state? In the
times when people lived seven hundred
and eight hundred years, the patriarch
Jacob said his years were few Look
ing at the life of the youngest person
in this assembly and suppOsiEg he lived
to be a nonagenariSn. how short the
time and soon gone, while banked up
in front Of US is an eternity so vast
that arithmetic has not figures
enough to express its length. or
breadth, or depth, or height For a
happy eternity you were born unless
you run yourself against the divine In
tentious. If standing in your presence,
my eve should fall upon the feeblest
soul here as that SOU. viii appear when
the world lets It up and Heaven en-
frances 1t, suppose that / should be
so Overpovered that 7 should drop
down as one dead You have examined
the family Bible and explored the
family records and you may have da-
guerrotypes of some of the kindred Of
previous generations, you have had
photographs taken of what you were
in bOyhoOd or girlhOod, and what you
were ten years later, and it is very in
teresting 70 anyone to be able to look
back upon pictures of what he was ten,
or twenty or thirty years ago; but have
you ever had a picture taken of what
you may be and what you will be il
you seek after God and feel tine Spirits
regenerating power?
There is your soul, so pure that ali
the forces of diabolism could not spot
it wi.h an imPerfection- There is your
being, so mighty and so swift that
fight from Heaven to Mercury or Mars
or Jupiter and back again to Heaven
would not weary you, and a world on
each shoulder would not crush you An
eye that shall never shed a tear. An
energy that shall never feel a fatigue.
A brow that shall never thrOb with
pain You are young again, though
you died of decrepitude. You are we'll
again, though you coughed or shivered
yourself into the tomb. Your every
day associates are the apostles and
prophets and martyrs, and most eXalt-
ed souls, masculine and feminine,
of all the centuries. The arch
angel to you no EN- barrassmenE God
Himself your present and everlasting
joy. That is an instantaneous picture
of what you may be. and what am
sure some of you will be. If you re-
alize that IL is an imperfect picture, my
apology is what the apostle John said:
at doth not yet appear what we shall
be-" ITO this end was I born" If 1
did not think so 7 would be over
whelmed with melancholy.
The world does very well for a little
while, eighty, or 100 or $50 years, and 1
think that human longevity may yet be
improved up to that PrOlOngatiOns for
now there is so little room between
our cradle and our grave we cannot ac-
complish much, but who would want
/ to dwell in this world for all eternity
Some think this earth will finally be
| turned into a Heaven, Perhaps it
may, but it would have to undergo
radical repairs and thorough elimiua-
tions and evOlutiOns, and revolutions
and transformations infinite, to make
| it desirabl for eternal residence. All
the east winds would have to become
west winds, and all the winters
changed to springtides, and the vol
canoes extinguished, and the oceans
/ changed to their beds, and the cpl
| denies forbidden entrance, and the
world so fixed up that I think It would
take more to repair the old wOEld than
/ to make an enirely new one. But
must say that I do not care where
| Heaven is if we can only get there,
| whether a gardenized America, or an
| unparalleled Europe, or a world central
to the whole universe.
ITO this end was I born" If each
| one of us could say that we would &c
| with faces shining and hopes exhilar'
ant amid earth's worst misfOTtunes and
trials Only little while and then the
rapture. Only a little while and then
| the reunion. Only a little while and
| then the TRANSPORTATION.
In the seventeenth century all Europe
| was threatened with wave of AsiatiC
/ barbarism and Vienna was especially
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fed and nothing could save the city
from being overwh elmed unless the
| king of Poland, John SObieski, to whom
they had sent for help, should with hi,
| army come down for the relief, ant
| from every roof and tower the inhab
] itants of Vienna watched and waited
and hoped, until on the morning o
| Septem Der IL the rising sun threw al
| unusual aud unparalleled brilliancy
1t was the reelection on the swords ant
shields and helmets of John SObiesk
and his army coming down over the
hills TO the rescue, and that day, no
only Vienna, but Europe was saved
And see you not, o ye souls, besiegeC
with sin and sorrow, that light break
in, the swords and the shields and thi
helmets of divine rescue bRthed in tn,
rising sun of heavenly deiiverance
Let every thing else go rather than lie
Heaven 60. What a strange thing /
must be to feel ones self born to al
earthly crown, but you have been bOrI
to a throne on which you may reigI
after the last monarch of all the earti
shall have gone TO dust / invite yol
to start now for your own corona
ton, to come in and take thu
title deeds to your everlasting In
heritance. Through an impassione'
prayer take Heaven and all its rap
lures What a poor farthiBg IS ali tina
this world can offer you com pared witt
pardon here and life immortal beyon,
the stars. unless this side OF them, Their
be place large enough and beautiful
enough aud grand enough for all tn
ransOmed- Wherever It be, in vvha
world. whether near by or far away
! in this OK some other constellation, hal
home of Light and love and blessedness
Through the atOning mercy Of Chris
we may all get there!
4 Useful Little Creature.
People are not always weii-infOrme
concerning the usefulness OF the toad
# he does not carry a jewel in his hsa
he is quite as valuable as if he did, 70
he does a work no gardener can do il