The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-10-05


end was born
And now come to the climacteric con-
sideration. As near as | can tell, you were
built for a happy eternity, all the disasters
which have happened 20 your nature 10 De
overcome by the blood of the Lamo, II you
will heartily accept that Chrlstly arrange
ment. We are all rejoiced at the increase
in human longevity. People live, as near
as | can observe. about ten years longer
tban thew used TO. The modern doctors 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. If he had
rheumatism they bled him, and if they
could not make out exactly what was the
matter they bled him. Olden-tlme phle-
botomy was deaths ccadjutor. All this
has changed From the way | see people
skipping about su eighty years of age, l
conclude that life insurance companies will
have to change their table of risks and
charge a man no more premium at seventy
than they used to do when he was sixty,
and no more premium at fifty than whe /
he was forty. By the advancement of
medical science and the wider
acquaintance with the laws of health. and
the fact tnes people know better how to
take care of themselves. human life is pro
longed. Bat do you realize what. after all,
is the brevity of our earthly state! In the
times when the people lived seven and eight
hundred years, the patriarch JACOB said that
his years we're few. Looking at the life of
the youngest person in this assembly and
supposiug he lived to be a nonagenarian,
how short the time and soon gone, while
banked up in front OF us is an eternity so
vast that the arithmetic has not figures
enough to express its length, or breadth, or
depth, or hight. For happy eternity you
hOrn IDlasS UnnrSalf against
the divine intentions. Ii standing in your
presence, my eye should fall upon the
feeblest soul hero as that soul will appear
when the world lets it up, and heaven en-
frances it, | suppose | would be so overpow-
cred that | should drop down as one dead.
You have examined the family Bible aud
explored the family records, ami you may
have daguerrotypes OF some OF the kindred
of previous generations, you have had pho
tographs taken OF what you were in boy
hood or girlhood, and what you were ten
years later, and 1t is very interesting to any
one to De able to lock 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 0u VIII be II
you seek after God aud feel the spirits re-
generating power, Where shall ] plant
the camera TO take the picture! | plant 1t
on this platform. | direct il toward you.
Sit still or stand stall while | take the pict-
ure II shall be an instantaneous picture.
There! | have it. It is done. You can
see the picture in its imperfect state, and
got some idea Of what IL will be when thor
oughly DEVELOPED. There is your resur-
recbed body, so brilliant that the MONDAY
sun is patch of midnight compared with
it, There is your soul, SO pure that all the
forces Of diabolism could not spot it with an
imuerfection. There is your being, so
mighty and so swift hat flight from heaven
to Mercury or Mars or Jupiter and back
again 10 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 q 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 shivered yourself into the
tomb. Your everyday associates are
the apostles and prophets and martyrs.
and most exalted souls, masculine and
feminine, of all the centuries. The archangel
to you no embarrassment. 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 realize that it is an
imperfect picture, my apology is what
appear what we shall be-" ITO this end
was l born" Ii l 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 l think that human longevity
may yet be improved up to that prolon-
CATION, for now there is so little room be-
tween our cradle and our grave we cannot
accomplish 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
through EXAMINATIONS and evolutions and
revolutions and transformations infinite, to
make it desirable for eternal residence. All
the east winds would have to become west
winds, and all the winters changed to spring
tides, and the volcanoes extinguished,
aud the oceans chained to their beds,
and the epidemics 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 must say
| do not care where heaven is If we can
only get there; whether a gardenized
America, or an emparadised Europe, or a
world central to the whole universe. ITO
this end was | born" If each one of us
could say that, we would go with faces
. Inning and hopes exhilarent amid earth's
worst misfortunes and trials. Only lit le
while and then the rapture. Oaly little
while and then the reunion. Only little
while and then the TRANSPORTATION.
In the seventeenth century all Europe
was threatened with a wave of Asiatic bar
barism, and Vienna was especially hesieged.
The king and his court had fled, and moth
ing 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 re-
lief. and from every roof and tower the in
habitants Of Vienna watched and waited
and hoped until, on the morning of sept.
IL, the rising sun threw an unusual and un.
paralleled brilliancy. 1t was the reflection
on the swords and shields and helmets OF
John Sobieski and his army coming
down over the hills to the rescue
aud that day, not only Vienna, but Europe
was saved. And see you not, o ye souls
besieged 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 deliveraucea Let
! everything else go rather than let heaven
go. What a strange thing it must be to feel
| oneself born to an earthly crown, but you
! have been born for a throne on which you
may reign after the last monarch Of all the
earth snail have gone TO dust. l invite you
to start row for your own coro'
nation, to come in and take
the title deeds to your everlast.
/ ing inheritance. Through an impassioned
| prayer take heaven and all of it's raptures.
| What a pJor farthing is all that this world
can offer you compared with pardon here
and life immortal beyond the starS unless
| this side Of them, there be a place large
! enough and beautiful enough and g-and
enough for ali the ransomed. Wherever il
| be, in what world, whether near by or far
/ away, in this or some other constellation