Milford chronicle., 1891-10-09

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hundred million different missions to full
All. different styles Of work TO do, different
orbits In which TO revolve, and If you do
not get the divine direction there are at
least fifteen hundred and ninety-nine mill
lion possibilities that you will make mis-
take On your knees before God get the
matter settled so that you can firmly say,
''To this end was born"
INCREASED LONGEVITY.
And now ! come to the climHcteric con-
sideration As near us l eau tell, you were
built for happy eternity, all the disasters
which have happened to your nature to be
overcome by the blood OF the Lamb II you
will heartily accept that Christly arrange
ment We are all rejoiced at the increase
IN human longevity. People live, as near
as / can observe, about ten years longer
than they used TO- The modern doctors do
not bleed their patients on all occasions as
did the former doctors. In those times II
man had fever they bled him, II he had
consumption they bled him, II he had rheu-
matism they bled him, and II they could
not make out exactly what was the matter
they bled him Olden time phlebotomy
was deaths coadjutOr. All this has
changed
From the way l see people skipping
about at eighty years OF age, conclude
that life insurance companies will have to
change their table Of risks, and charge J
man no moro premium at seventy than
they used to do when he was sixty. and no
more premium at fifty than when he was
forty. By the advancement Of medical
science and the wider acquaintance with
the laws Of health, and the fact t lEpt peO-
ple know better how to take care - them
selves, human life is prolonged. But do
YOU realize what, after all. Is the brevity
Of our earthly statei 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 per !
son in this assembly and supposing be
lived to be nonagenariRn, how short the
time and sOon gone, while banked up in
front Of us is an eternity so vast that Rrith- /
metic has not figures enough TO express It's
length or breadth or height. For happy
eternity you were born unless you run
yourself against the divine intentions. II
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 IL, / suppose would be I
so ovsrpowered that l should drop down /
as one dead.
and explored the family records, and you
may have daguerreotypes 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 il is very interest !
ing to any one to be able to look back upon |
pictures Of what he was ten OF twenty or
thirty years ago; but have you ever had
picture taken of what you may be and
what you will be If you seek after God and
feel the Spirits regenerating powerf
Where shall | plant the camera TO take
the picturel plant it on this platform.
direct it toward you. Sit still or stand
still while take the picture. It shall be
an instantaneous picture. Therel l have
It, It is done. You can see the picture in
its imperfect state and get some idea Of
what it will be when thoroughly developed. !
THE REsURRECTED BODY.
There is your resurrected body, so bril- I
liant that the MONDAY sun Is patch OF /
midnight compared with It. There is your /
soul, so pure that all the forces Of diabo- |
lism could not spot 1t with an imperfec- I
tion. There is your being, so mighty and
so swift that flight from heaven to MeT- !
curry or Mars or Jupiter and back again to .
heaven would not weary you, and world /
on each shoulder would not crush you. An .
eve that shall never shed a tear. An en-
ergy 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 /
vou coughed or shivered yourself into the |
tomb. Your everyday associates are the /
apostles and prophets and martyrs, and |
most exalted souls, masculine and femi- |
nine, Of all the centuries. The archangel .
TO YOU no embarrassment. God himself p
vour 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 realize that it is an impeF-
feet picture, my apology is what the apos-
tie John said, "It doth not yet appear
what we shall be- TO this end was l
born" II ! did not think so | would be
overwhelmed with melancholy.
The world does very well for little
while. eighty, or hundred or a hundred /
and fifty years, and think that human
longevity may yet be improved up TO that /
prolougation, for now there is so little F.
room between our cradle and our grave we /
cannot accomplish much, but who would
want to dwell in this world for all eternityl
Some think thisearth will finally be turned
into a heaven. Perhaps It may, but It |
would have to undergo radical repairs, and 4
through Examinations and eyolqtioHs and !
REVOLUTIONS and transformations infinite,
TO make It desirable tor eternal residence.
All the east winds would have TO become
west winds, and all the winters changed to
sDrinQtides. and the volcanoes extin-
eruished. and the oceans chained 70 their |
beds, and the epidemics forbidden entrance,
and the world so fxed up that l think 1t
would take more to repair this old world /
than to make an entirely new one. But
must say do not care where heaven is II
we can only get there, whether garden
lied America, or an emparadised Europe, |
or a world central to the whole universe. /
ITO this end was born" II each one Of
us could say that we would go with faces /
shining and hopes exhilarant amid earth's
worst misfortunes and trials Only lit
tie while and then the rapture. Only (
little while and then the reunion. Only a I
little while and then the transilguratiOn.
A HISTORIC ILLUsTRATIoN.
In the Seventeenth c,fItURy all Europe .
was threatened with II wave OF Asiatic bar
barism. and Vienna was especially besieged. |
The king and his court had fed, and moth /
ing could save the city from being over
whelmed unleis the king Of Poland, John
Sobiesxi, 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 Sept |
II the rising sun threw an unusual ana +
unpareIeled brilliancy. 1t was the reiiec- |
tion on the swords and shields and helmets
OF John Sobieski and his army coming 1
down over the bills to the rescue; and that
day, not only Vienna, but Europe, was
saved. And see you not, oh, ye souls, be-
sieged with sin and sorrow, that light
breaks in, the swords, and the shields, and
the helmets Of divine rescue bathed in the
rising sun Of heavenly deliverance' Let
everything else go rather than let heaven 4
90. 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 mon |
arch Of all the earth shall have gone 70 !
dust
invite you to start now for your own
coronation, to come In and take the title
deeds to your everlasting Inheritance