Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-10-10

ten, or twenty or thirty years ago; but
have you ever had picture taken o.
what you may be and what you Will 30
n YOU seek after God and feel the Spir.
it's regenerating power? Where shall
plant the camera to take the picture!
plant Il on this platform. ! direct II
toward YOU. Sit still or stand still
while / take the picture. 1t shall be IN
instantaneous picture. There! have
IT, Il Is done. You can see the pict-
ure In its imperfect state, and get some
idea OF what Il will be when thoroughly
developed. There Is your resurrected
BODY, so brilliant that the MONDAY sun
Is patch Of midnight compared with
It.
There Is your soul, so pure that oil
the forces OF diabolism could not
spot It with an imperfection. There Is
your being, so mighty and so swift that
flight from heaven TO Mercury or Mars
or Jupiter and back to heaven az ain
would not worry you. and q world on
each shoulder would not crush you.
An eye that shall never shed 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 mar
tyrs and most exaulted souls, mascu-
line and feminine, OF all the centuries.
The archangei 70 you no embarrass.
ment. God Himself your present and
everlasting joy. This is ar instanta-
neous picture Of what you may be, and
what am sure some OF you will be. IL
YOU realize that it is an imperfect pio-
ture, my apology Is what the rRstle
John said: ut doth not yet 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 we'll for little while.
eighty or 100 or lao years, and think
that human longevity may yet be i'm
proved up to that prolongation, for now
there Is so little room between our era
die aud our grave we cannot accomplish
much, but who would want to dwell III
this world for oil eternity! Some think
this world will finally be turned into q
heaven. Perhaps II may, but 1t would
have to undergo radical repairs,
and through Examinations and evo-
buttons and revolutions and transforma-
tions infinite. to make it desirable Cor
eternal residence. All the east winds
would have to become west winds, and
all the winters changed to springtides.
and the volcanoes Cy.inguished, and
the oceans chained to heir beds, and
the epidemics forbid al entrance, and
the world 50 fixed W. that l think 1t
would take more IL repair this old
world than to make ~ entire new one.
But must say that - not care where
heaven is IL we can only get there,
whether O gardenized America, or an
emparadised Europe, or VIC I'D central
to the whole universe.
And seest you moi, o We souls, besieged
with sin and sorrow, that light breaks
in, the swords and the shields and the
helmets o. divine rescue bathed In the
rising sun OF heavenly deliverance?
Let everything else 60 rather
than let heaYen go. Whit o
strange thing 1t must be to feel ones
self born TO an earthly crown, but you
have been born to athrone on which y0u
NAV reign after the last monarch OF all
the earth shall have gone TO dust. l
invite YOU to start now for your own
coronation, to come in and take the
title deeds TO your everlasting inherf-
lance. Through IN impassioned prayer
take heaven and all Of its raptures.
What poor iarthing is all that this
world can offer you compared with par
don here and life immortal beyond the
stars, unless this side Of them. there
be u place large enough and beautiful
enough and grand enough for all the
Transformed. Wherever 1t be, In what
world, whether near by or far away, in
this or some other constellation, hail
home OF light and love and blessedness!
Through the astoning mercy OF Christ
may we all get there!