Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-05

own experience in this regard. 1 started
for the law without asking any divine direc
tlon. consulted nv own tastes. l liked
lawyers and court rooms and judges and
lurles, and reveled in hearing the Frel1ng-
huysens and the Bradleys OF the New Jersey
bar, and as assistant of the county clerk, at
l6 years of age, searched titles, naturalized
Foreigners recorded deeds, received the
| confession of judgments, swore witnesses
| and juries and grand turies. But after
awhile 1 felt call to the gospel ministry
| and entered it. and felt some satisfaction
| in the work. But one summer, when l was
| resting ut Sharon Springs, and while seated
| in the park Of that village. said to myself:
"lf have an especial work to do in the
world ought to find it out now" and with
| that determination prayed as / had never
before prayed, and got the divine
| memorandum book, and 1 saw my life
work then as plainly as see it now.
THE LENGTH OF LIFE INCREASING.
And now / come to the characteristic con-
sideration. As near as l can 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 If you
will heartily accept that Christly arrange
ment. We are all reioiced at the increase in
human longevity. People live, as near as l
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 If a man
had fever they bled him, if he had consump-
tion 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 time phlebotomy was deaths
coadjutor. All this has changed.
From the way see people skipping about
at 50 years of age, l conclude that life in
surance companies will have to change their
table of risks and charge man no more
premium at 20 than they used TO do when he
when he was 40. By the advancement of
medical science and the wider acquaintance
with the laws of health, and thefact 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 state? In the times when peo-
pie 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 supposing he
lived to be q nonagenar1an, how short the
tfmn and soon gone, while banked up in
front of MS is an eternity SO vast that arith-
metic has not figures enough TO express its
length or breadth, or depth, or height.
You have examined the family Bible and
explored the family records, and 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 it is very interesting to
anyone to be able tolook back upon pictures
of what he 10, or 20 or 30 years ago; but have
you ever had a picture taken of what You
NAV be and what you will be if YOU seek
after God and feel the Spirits regenerating
power? Where shall plant the camera to
take the picture? l plant it on this plat
form. / direct it toward you. Sit still or
stand still while take the picture. 1t shall
be an instantaneous picture. There! 1 have
it. 1t is done.
a PERFECT PICTURE PRODUCED.
You can see the picture in its imperfect
state, and get some idea of what it will be
rhap lNr Dc
resurrected body, so brilliant that the noon
day sun is a patch OF midnight compared |
with it. There is your soul, so pure that all |
the forces of abolish 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 again to 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 a
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 pres
ent and everlasting joy. This is an lnstan-
taneous picture of what you may be, and
what am sure some of you will be. Ii YOU
realize that it is an imperfect picture, nv
apology IS what the Apostle John said: cit |
doth not yet appear what we shall be-"
ITO this end was 1 born" If did not
think so 1 would be overwhelmed with
Let everything else go rather than to let |
heaven go. What strange thing it must be |
TO feel ones SELF born to an earthly crown,
but Won have been born for throne on
which you may reign at the last mononarch
Of all the earth shall have gone to dust 1
invite you to start now for your own coron- |
ltion, to come in and take the tile deeds to |,
your everlasting inheritance. Through an
PRAYER take heaven and all of
its raptures. What poor 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
place large enough and beautiful enough
and grand enough for all the ransomed.
Whatever it be, in what world, whether near
by or far away, in this or in some other con-
stellation, hail home of light and love and
Through the atoning mercy of
Christ, may we all get there!