Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1891-10-16

take care OF themselves, human life Ii pro-
longed. But do you realiZs what after all.
is the brevity of our earthly statet In the
times when people lived seven and eight
hundred years, the patriarch Jacob said that
his years were few.
Looking at the life OF the youngest person
in this assembly and supposing he lived to
be a nonagenarian, how short the time and
soon gone, while banked up in front OF us Ia
an eternity so vast that arithmetic has not
figures enough to express its length or height.
For happy eternity you were born unless
you run yourself against the divine inten-
tions IL standing in your presence my eye
should fall upon the feeblest soul here as that
soul will appear when the world lets It up.
and heaven entrances it l suppose | would
be 50 overp )wered that should drop down
as one dead.
You have examined the family Bible and
explored the family records, and you may
have daguerreotypes OF some Of the kindred
of previous generations you have had pho
tographs taken Of what you were in boyhood
or girlhood, and what you were ten years
later, and IL is very interesting to any one
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 AMI feel the Spirits re-
generating powert Where shall plant the
camera to take the picture2 l plant 1t on
this platform. direct 1t toward you. Bic
still or stand still while | take the picture.
1t shall be an instantaneous picture. There!
have it. 1t is done. You can see the pic
ture in its imperfect state and get some idea
OF what it will be when thoroughly de-
veopei.
There is your resurrected body 30 bril-
liant that be monday sun is patch OF mid
..-l.A "a L.,
50 pure that all the forces Of diabolism could
not spot 1t with an imperfection. There Is
your being, 50 mighty and so swift that
flight 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 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 well again, though you coughed or
shiversd yourself into thu tomb. Your
every day associates are the apostles and
prophets, AMI martyrs. and most exalted
souls, masculine or feminine, Of all the CEN
turies. The Archangel to you no EN-.
barrassment God Himself your pre-
sent and everlasting Joy. That ID
an instantaneous. picture OF what you may
be, and what am sure some Of you will be. II
you realize that 1t is an imperfect picture,
| nv apology is what the apostle John said.
| at doth not yet appear what We shall be"
''To this end was I born" II l did not
think 30 l would bs overwhelmed with
melancholy.
The world does very well for little while,
| eighty, or a hundred or a hundred and fifty
years and / think that human longevity
may yet be improved up to that prolonga-
ton, for now there is so little room between
| our cradle and our grave we cannot accom-
plish much, but who would want to dwell
| In this world for all eternity Some think
this earth will finally be turned into 8
heaven Perhaps it may, but it would
have to undergo radical repairs, aud through
| eliminations and evolutions and revolutions
and transformations infinite, to mako it de-
| sirable for eternal residence.
All the east winds would have to become
west winds and all the winters changed to
| soringtides and the volcanoes extingulshed,
and the oceans chained to their beds and
the ep!demlcs forbidden entrance, and the
world so fixed up that think it would take
more to repair this old world than to make
an entirely new one. But l must say | do
not care where heaven is If we can only got
there, whether gardenizsd America, or an
emparadissd Europe, or worlt central TO
the whole universe. ITO this end was
born" II each one of us could say that we
would 60 with faces shining and hopss ex-
hilarant amid earths worst misfortunes and
trials ONLY little while and then the
rapture. Only little while and then tht
reunion. Only little while and then the
| transhguration.
In the Seventeenth century all Europa wa
threatened with a wave of Asiatic barparism
and Vienna was especially besieged. III
king and his court had fled, and nothini
could save the city from being overwhelmes
unless the king of Poland, John Sobiessi, 3
| ha1 fpr haln Shnuld wit
his army, come down for the relief; an
from every roof and tower the inhabtant
Of Vienna watched and waited and hoped
, until on the morning of September IL th'
rising sun threw an unusual AMI un
para[lelei brilliancy. 1t was the reflection
! OF the swords and shields AMI helmets o
/ John Sobieski and his army coming .dowr
,, over the hills to the rescue; aud that day
, not only Vienna. but Europa was saved
And see you not, oh, ye souls besege;
with sin and sorrow, that light break
In. the swords, and the Shields AM
: the helmets of divine rescue bathed In tn
: rising sun of heavenly deliverances LIE
everything else go rather than let heaven q
What strange thing it must be to feel one
!. self born to an earthly crown, but you nav
been born for throne on which you ma
reign after the last monarch Of all the cart
: shall have gone to dust.
= | invite YOU to start now for your ow
: coronation, to come in and take the ut
> deeds TO your everlasting inheritance
a Through an impassionei prayer take heave
= and ali OF its raptures. What poor farthir
!, is all that this world can offer you compare
7 with pardon here and life immortal 6eyon
= the stars, unless this side Of them there
d place large enough and beautiful enous
:. and grand enough for all the ransome
~ Wherever it be- in what world, whether ne'
n by or far away, In this or some other co
,e ISOLATION. hail home of light and love al
l' blessedness Through the atoning mercy
a. y Christ, may we all get there