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OF what It VIII be when thoroughly de-

veloped.
There Is your resurrected body, so bril-.
liant that the MONDAY sun Is patch Of mid
| night compared with 1t. There is your soul,
so pure that all the forces Of diabolism could
not spot 1t with an imperfection. There ia
your being, so mighty and 30 swift that
flight from heaven to Mercury or Mars or
Jupiter and back again to heaven would not
weary you, and world on each shoulder
would not crush you. An eye that shall
never shed q tear. An energy that shall
never feel fatigue. A brow that shall
never throb with pain. You are young
again. though you died of decrepitude.
shivered yourself into the tomb. Your
every day associates are the apostles and
prophets, and martyrs. and most exalted
souls, masculine or feminine. Of all the CEN
turles. The ArchangeI to you no em-
barrassment. God Himself your pre-
sent and everlasting joy. That Is
an instantaneous picture Of what you may
be, and what am sure some Of you win be. II
you realize that it is an imperfect picture,
my apology is what the apostle John said,
ut doth not yet appear what we shall be-"
ITO this end was born" IF I did not
think so I would be overwhelmed with
melancholy.
The world does very well for little while,
eighty, or hundred or hundred and fifty
years, and think that human longevity
may yet be improved up to that profonga-
ton, for now there is 80 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 q
heaven. Perhaps it may, but it would
have to undergo radical repairs, and through
eliminations and evolutions and revolutions
and transformations infinite, to make it de.
sirable for eternal residence.
All the east winds would have to become
west winds, and oil the winters changed to
springtides, and the volcanoes extinguished,
and the oceans chained to their beds, and
the epidemics forbidden entrance, and the
world 50 fixed up that think it would take
more to repair this old world than to make
an entirely new one. But must say do
not care where heaven is if we can only get
there, whether gardenizsd America, or an
emparadised 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 60 with faces shining and hopss ex-
hilarant amid earth's worst mistortunes and
trials Only a little while and then the
rapture Only little while and then the
reunion. Only little while and then the
TRANSPORTATION.
In the Seventeenth century all Europe was
threatened with wave Of Asiatic barbarism,
and Vienna was especially besieged. The
king and his court had fed, and nothing
could save the city from being over whelmed
unless the king Of Poland, John Sobieski, to
whom they had sent for help, should, with
his army, come down for the relief; and
from every roof and tower the inhabitants
of Vienna watched and waited and hoped,
until on the morning Of September IL the
rising sun threw an unusual and un-
paralleled brilliancy. 1t was the reflection
Of the swords and shields AMI helmets Of
John Sobieski and his army coming down
over the hills to the rescue; and that day,
not only Vienna. but Europe, was saved
And see you not, oh, ye souls, besieged
with sin and sorrow, that light breaks
in, the swords, and the shields, and
the helmets OF divine rescue bathe1 in the
rising sun Of heavenly deliverauc,? Lat
everything else 60 rather than let heaven go.
What a strange thing it must be to feel ones
self born to an earthly crown, but you have
been born for throne on which you may
reign after the last monarch Of all the earth
shall have gons to dust.
: invite you to start now for your own
coronation, to come in and take the title
deeds to your everlasting inheritance.
Through an impassione1 prayer take heaven
and all Of it's rap ptures. What poor farthiug
Is all that this world can offer you compared
vita pardon here and life immortal beyond
the stars, unless this side of them thera os
place large enough aud beautiful enough
and grand enough for all the ransomsi.
Wherever it be, in what world, whether near
by or far away, in this or some other con.
stsllation hail home Of light and love and
blessednessl Through the atoning mercy Of
Christ, may we all get there.