Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-10-05

the disasters which have happened to
your nature to be overcome By the |
blood of the Lamb II you viii heartily |
accept that Christly arrangement. We
are all rejoiced at the increase in hu- |
man longevity. People live, as near
as can observe, about ten years longer
than they used to. The modern doc
tors do not bleed their patients on all
occasions as did the former doctors In
those times, If a man had fever they
bled him, II he had consumption they
bled him, II he had rheumatism they
bled him. and If they could not make
out exactly what was the matter they
bled him Olden time phlebotomy was
deaths coadiutor.
All this has changed. From the way
| see people skipping about at eighty
years of age conclude that life insur
ance companies viii have to change
their table Of risks and charge man
no more premium at seventy than they
used to do whes he was sixty and no
more premium at fifty than when he
was forty BY the advancement OF
medical science and the wider acquaint-
ance with the laws of health, and the
fact that people know better how to
take care of themselves. human life is
prolonged. But do you realize what,
after all, is the brevity of our earthly
state7 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, aud supposing
he lived to be nonGgenarian, how
short the time and soon gone, while
banked up in front of us is an eternity
so vast that arithmetic las not figures
enough to express its leu eth or breadth
or depth or height For happy eter-
nifty you were born unless you run
yourself against the divine intentions.
II, standing in your presence, my eye
should fall upon the fee5lest soul here
as that soul viii appear when 'th'
world lets it up and heaven entrances
it, | suppose would be SO overpowereC
that should drop down as one dead.
You have examined the family Biblt
and explored the family records, anC
you may have daSuereOtypes Of SOM
: of the kindred of previous generations
you have had photographs taken o
= what you. were in boyhood or girlhood
and what you were ten years later, AM
: it is very interesting to any one to b
= able to look back upon pictures of wha
; he was ten or twenty or thirty year
- : ago; bat have you ever had a pictur
. taken Of what you may be and wha
y you will be if you seek after God an
= feel the Spirits regenerating power
- Where shall plant the camera to tax
= the picture9 | plant it on this pla
: ~ form l direct it toward you. Sit sti
T. or stand still while take the picture.
V WONDERFUL PICTURE.
=" 1t shall be an instantaneous picture
There have it. 1t is done. Yo
- can see the picture in its imperfet
y state and get some idea of what it wi
81 be when thoroughly developed. Ther
=, is your resurected body, so brillian
~ that the MONDAY sun is II patch of mic
10 night compared with it. There is you
= soul, so pure that all the forces of d
20 20 abolish could not spot it with an i'll
perfection. There is your being, S
- mighty and so swift that flight froI
- heaven to Mercury or Mars or Jupite
" and back again to heaven would nc
= weary you, and a world on each shou
:, , der would not crush you. An eye tha
- shall never shed a tear An energ
- that shall never feel fatigue. A bro
~ that shall never throb with pain. Yo
are young again, though you died c
decrepitude. You are well agaiI
though you coughed or shivered you
y self into the tomb. Your everyday a
I" sociates are the apostles and prophet
~ and martyrs and most exalted souls
- masculine and feminine, OF all the Gel
20 turies. The archangel 70 you no Ell
- barrassment. God himself your pre-
= - sent and everlasting joy, That is a
: instantaneous picture of what you ma
be, and what | aul sure some of yo
> will be- II you realize that it is an in
~ perfect picture my apology is what tn
W . apostle John said, 1T doth not yet al
!" pear what we shall be. TO this en-
n was born" If | did not think so
* would be overwhelmed with melaI
:" choly.
y The world does very well for litt
40 whie-eighty or a hundred or a hun
u. dred and fifty years | think tn;
"a human longevity may yet be improve
u up TO that prolongation; for now thel
's is so little room between orr cradle an
lu our grave we cannot accomplish mucl
! BUT who would want 10 dwell in th
eu world for all eternityi Some think tn
NC earth will finally be turned into
~ heaven. Perhaps it may, but it wou
>" have To undergo radical repairs, al
I'M through examinations and evoutiOl
ilS and revolutions and Transformation
ny infinite 10 make II desirable for etern
residence.
All tho east winds would have 70 b
% come west winds, and all the winte
'S changed TO springtides, and the vole
"a noes extinguished, and the ooea
'n' chained 20 their beds, ana the epideI
ao- les forbidden entrance, and the wor
10, SO tlsed up that | think il would tai
ilu more to repair this old world than
.o make an entirely new one. But l mu
-'s say do not care where heaven is L '
~ ~ can only get there, whether a garie