The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-10-08
!acob said that his yeaxz

person in this assembly, and supposing |
Inc lived TO be a no0agenarian, how |
snort the time and soon gone, while |
banked Up In front Of Us b an eternity !
DO vast that arithmetic has not figures |
enough to express its length 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 feeblest soul here
as tina. soul will appear when the
world lets II up, and heaven entrances
n, suppose would be 30 overpowered
that should drop down as che dead.
You have examined the family Bible
and explored the family records, and
you may have da3uerreotypes of some
Of the kindred of previous generations,
you have had photographs taken Of
what you were In boyhood or girihood,
and what you were ten years later, and
1t is very interesting to any one to be
able 70 look back upon pictures of What
be was ten or twenty or thirty years
ago; bat have you ever had q picture
taken of whak you may 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 picturei plant II on this plat
form I direct 1t toward you. Sit still
or stand still while take the picture.
A WONDERFUL PICTURE.
1t shall DO al instantaneous picture
There! / have lt. 1t Is done. You
con see the picture In its imperfect
state and get some idea Of what It will
be when thoroughly developed. There
Is your resurrected body, 50 brilliant
that the monday sun Is a patch Of mid
night compared with it. There Is your
soul, SO pure that oil the forces Of d.
abolish could not spot it with an i'm
perfection. There Is your being, 80
mighty and SO swift that fight from
heaven to Mercury or Mars or Jupiter
and back again to heaven would not
| weary you, and world on each shout
der would not crush you. An eye that
shall never shed a 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 couqhed or shivercd your
self into the tomb. Your everyday as
sociates are the apostles and prophets
and martyrs and most exalted souls,
masculine and feminine, of oil the cen
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barrassment. God himself your pres
sent and everlasting Joy. That Is an
instantaneous picture Of what you may
be, and what am sure some Of you
will be. II you realize that 1t is an i'm
perfect picture my apology Is what the
apostle John said, 1T doth not yet ap
pear what we shall BE-" '"ro this end
was / born" II l did not think 90
would be overwhelmed with melan
choly.
The world does very well for little
while-eighty or q hundred or a hun
dred and fifty years-and I think thai
human longevity may yet be improved
up to that prolongation; for now thers
| is 50 little room between our cradle anc
our grave we cannot accomplish much
But who would want to dwell In thi
world for ell eternltyR Some thiak thi
earth viii finally be turned into 1
heaven. Perhaps 1t may, but 1t woul<
have to undergo radical repairs, ans
through eliInin&tions and evolution
and revolutions and transformation.
infinite to make it desirable for eterna
residence.
All the east winds would have to be
come west winds, and all the winter
changed to springtides, and the volca
noes extinguished, and the ocean
chained to their beds, and the epidem
les forbidden entrance, and the work
so fixed up that I think it would tax
more to repair this old world than t,
make an entirely new one. But mus
say l do not care where heaven Is If "
can only get there, whether a garden
lied America or en- eInparadised Eu
rope, or a world central to the Who'll
universe ITO this end was / born.
II each one Of US could say that, W
would go with faces shining and hope
exhilarant amid earth's worst misfoz
tunes and trials. Only . little Will
and then the rapture. Only q httl
while and then the reunion. Only
little while and then the transf1sura
ton.
LO6R EVERYTHING FOR HRAvEN.
In the Seventeenth century all Eu
rope was threatened with wave o
Asiattc barbarism and Vienna was e.
pecially besiesed. The king and hi
court had fed, and nothing could say
the city from being overwhelmed unles
the king of Poland, John Sobieski, Il
whom they had sent for help, shoul'
with bis army como down for the relief
and from every roof and tower the In
, habitants OF Vienna watched an
waited and hoped until, on tn
, morning of September II, the risln
sun threw an unusual and unparal
lelsd brilliancy. It was the refectio,
on the swords and shields and be
4 NETS Of John Sobieski and his arm
e coming down over the hills to the rex
e cue, and that day not only Vienna, bu
4 Europe, was saved. And see you no,
Z oh, ye souls besieged with SIN and 80,
t row, that light breaks In, the sword.
u and the shields, and the helmets {
o divine rescue bathed in the rising So
r Of heavenly deliverances Let ever,
Il thing else go rather than let heaven x
D. What strange thing It must be to te'
Is ones self born to On earthly crowr
bat you have been born for thror
on which you may reign after the la.
monarch OF ali the earth shall hay
10 gone to dust.
/ invite you to start DOW for yos
II own coronation, to come In and tai
q the title deeds to your everlasting /,
% heritance. Through an impassione
: | PRAYER take heaven and all ~ TIA va,