The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1891-11-06

From tho nay 4 see people slipplnS
about ut 80 years OF ago conclude that
life insurance companies will have TO
change their table of risks and charge
man no more premium nt 70 than they
used to do nt 60. and no more premium
at so than when he was 40 by the adj
vancemcnt of medical science and the
wider acquaintance with the laws of
health, and the fact that people know
better how To take care of themselves,
human life Is prolonged But do you
realize what after all, is tho brevity OF
our earthly state? In The times when
people lived seven and eight hundred
years. the patriarch Jacob said that his
years were few. Looking at the life OF
the youngest person in this assembly
and surprising he lived tn be mona
genarian, how short the time and soon
gone, while banked up in front OF
us Is an eternity so vast that arith-
metic has not figures enough to express
its length, or BREADTH or depth or
height. For n happy eternity you
were born unless you run yourself
against the divine intcn lions II stand
ing in your presence, my eye should
fall upon the fceblest soul here rs that
soul will appear when the world let's IL
up, and Heaven entrances IL, !, suppose
would be so ovcrpowered that /
should drop down rs one deal You
have examined the family Bible and
explored the family records. and you
have dagucrrcotypes of some of
the kindred of previous genera.
tons, you have had photographs
taken OF what you were in boy.
hood or girlhood, and what you were
ten years later, and IL Is very interest
ing to anyone to be able to look back
upon pictures of what he was ten, o.
twenty, or thirty years ago; but hav.
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 picturep
/ plant il on this platform. direct it
toward you. Sit still or stand still
while l take the picture. 1t shall be
an instantaneous picture There! have
IL. 1t is done, You can see the picture in
its imperfect state. and get some idea OF
what it will be when thoroughly devcl-
oped. 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 all the
forces of diabolism could not spot il with
an impcrfection. 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 yoc:, and world on each shout.
der would not crush you An eye that
shall never shed tear. An energy
that shall never feel fatigue, II brow
that shall never throb with pain. You are
young again, though you died of decrep-
itude. 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 thes centuries. The
archangel TO you no embarrassment
God Himself your present and cvcrlast-
ing Joy. That is 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: ut doth not yet appear what we
shall be-" ITO this end was ! born,
II did not think so ! would be over
whclmcd with melancholy.