Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-10-22

take care of themselves, human life is pre-
! longed. But do you realize what, after all
| Is the brevity of our earthly statep In tn
times when people lived seven and eigh
! hundred years, the patriarch Jacob said tina
| his years were few.
| Looking at the life of the youngest person
in this assembly and supposing he lived t.
| be nonagenarian, how short the time ant
soon gone while banked up in front of us j
an eternity SO vast that arithmetic has no
| figures enough to express its length or height
For happy eternity you were born unles
you run yourself against the divine inten
tons. Ii standing in your presence my eye
should fall upon the feeblest soul here as tina
soul will appear when the world let's it up
and heaven entrances it, suppose l would
be 50 overp owered that l should drop dowr
as one dead.
You have examined the family Bible and
explored the family records, and you may
have daguerreotypes OF some of the kindred
of previous generations, you have had pho
tographs taken of what you were in boyhood
or girlhood, and what you were ten years
later, and it is very interesting to any one
to be able to look back upon pictures of what
he was ten or twenty or thirty years ago:
but have you ever had picture taken OF
what you may be and what you will be il
you seek after God and feel the Spirits re.
generating power? Where shall plant the
camera to take the picture? l plant it on
this platform. direct it toward you. Sit
still or stand still while I take the picture.
1t shall be an instantaneous picture. There
have it. 1t is done. You can see the pic
ture in its imperfect state and get some idea
of what it will be when thoroughly de-
veloped
There is your resurrected body, SO bril-.
liant that t be monday sun is patch of mid
SO pure that all the forces Of diabolism could
not spot it with an imperfection. There is
your being so mighty and SO swift that
fight from heaven to Mercury or Mars OF
Jupiter and back again to heaven would no.
weary you, and WORLD on each shoulder
would not crush you. An eye that shall
never shed 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
You are well again, though you coughed OF
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.
turtles. The Archangel to you no EN-
barrassment. God Himself your pre-
sent and everlasting joy. That il
an instantaneous picture of what you may
be- and what am sure some Of you will be. II
you realize that it is an imperfect picture,
my apology is what the apostle John said
1T doth not yet appear what we shall be- =
'sTo this end was I born" If / did moi
think so I would be overwhelmed with
melancholy.
The world does very well for a little while,
eighty, or hundred or hundred and fifty
years, and l think that human longevity
may yet be improved up to that prolonga
ton, for now there is SO little room between
our cradle and our grave we cannot accom-
plish much, but who would want to dwell
in this world for all eternityl Some thinl
this earth will finally be turned into
heaven. Perhaps it may. but it woult
have TO undergo radical repairs, and through
examinations and evolutions and revolution
and transformations infinite, to make it de
sirable for eternal residence.
All the east winds would have to become
west Winds and all the winters changed tx
springtides and the volcanoes extinguished
and the oceans chained to their beds, ant
the epidemics forbidden entrance, and til
world so fixed up that think it would TAX
more to repair this old world than to max
an entirely new one. But I must say d,
not care where heaven is if we can only ge
there, whether gardenizsd America or ar
emparadised Europe, or world central tt
the whole universe. ssTo this end was
born" If each one of us could say that W.
would go with faces shining and hopes ex
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trials. Only a little while and then tn
rapture. Only little while and then th
reunion. Only little while and then tn
TRANSPORTATION.
In the Seventeenth century all Europe wa
threatened with wave of Asiatic barbarisu
and Vienna was especially beseged Th
king and his court had fed, and nothin
could save the city from being overwhelme
unless the king of Poland, John Sobieski,
whom they had sent for help, should, wit
his army, come down for the relief: an
from every roof and tower the inhabitant
of Vienna watched and waited and hoped
until on the morning Of September IL tn
rising sun threw an unusual and un
paralleled brilhancy. 1t was the reflection
Of the swords and shields and helmets o
John Sobieski and his army coming dowr
over the hills to the rescue; and that day
not only Vienna. but Europe, was saved
And see you not, oh, ye souls, besieget
with sin and sorrow, that light break
in, the swords, and the shields an(
the helmets Of divine rescue bathei in thu
rising sun Of heavenly deliveraucsY LIE
everything else go rather than let heaven go
What strange thing it must be to feel one
self born to an earthly crown, but you have
been born for throne on which you maj
reign after the last monarch of all the eartl
shall have gone to dust.
/ invite you to start now for your ow
coronation, to come in and take the It'll
deeds to your everlasting inheritance
Through an impassioned prayer take HEAVIER
and all of its raptures. What poor farthinI
is all that this world can offer you compares
with pardon here and life immortal beyond
the stars, unless this side of them there b
place large enough and beautiful enough
and grand enough for all the ransomed
Wherever it be- in what world, whether nea
by or tar away, in this or some other cor
stellation. hail home of light and love an
blessednessi Through the atoning mercy o
Christ, may we all get there.