Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-05

er. IT there are sixteen hundred million
people in the world, then there are sixteen
hundred million different missions to full
fill, different styles Of work to do, different
orbits in which to revolve, and If you do
not get the divine direction there are at
least fifteen hundred and ninety-nine mil
lion possibilities that you will make u mis-
take. On your knees before God get the
matter settled so that you can firmly say,
'To this end WAS born"
INCREASED LONGEVITY.
And now come to the climacteric 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 rejoiced 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 il
man had fever they bled him, if he had
consumption they bled him, if he had rheu-
matism they bled him, and If they could
not make out exactly what was the matter
they bled him. Olden time phlebotomy
was deaths coadiutor. All this has
changed. sgF tU
From the way see people skipping
about at eighty years Of age, | conclude
that life insurance companies will have to
change their table of risks, and charge a
man no more premium at seventy than
they used TODD when he was sixty. and no
more premium at fifty than when he was
forty. By the advancement of medical
science and the wider acquaintance with
the laws of health, and the fact that peo-
pie know better how to take care of them
selves, human life ID prolonged. But do
you realize what, after all, is the brevity
of our earthly stateS 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 per-
son in this assembly and supposing he
lived to be a nonagenarian how short the
time and soon gone, while banked up in
front of us is an eternity so vast that arith-
motic has not figures enough to express its
length or breadth or height. For a happy
eternity you were born unless You run
yourself against the divine Intentions. II
standing in y0Nr presence my eye should
will appear when the world let's it up, and
heaven entrances it, | suppose l would be
80 overpowered that l should drop down
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 photographs taken of what you were
in boyhood or girlhood, and what you
were ten years later, and it is very interest
ing to any one to be ableto 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 if you seek after God and
feel the Spirits regenerating powerS
Where shall plant the camera to take
the pictureS plant it on this platform.
| direct 1t toward you. Sit still or stand
still while take the picture. 1t shall be
an instantaneous picture. There | have
1t. 1t Is done. You can see the picture in
its imperfect state and get some idea Of
what 1t will be when thoroughly developed.
THE REsURREcTED BODY.
There is your resurrected body, so brill
liant that the MONDAY sun is a patch of
midnight compared with it. There is your
soul, so pure that all the forces of diabo
ism could not spot it with an imperfec,
ton. There is your being, so mighty and
SO swift that flight from heaven to Mer-
curry or Mars or Jupiter and back again to
heaven would not weary you, and world
on each shoulder would not crush you. An
eye that shall never shed tear. An en-.
ergy that shall never feel fatigue.
brow that shall never throb with pain.
You are young again, though you died of
decreptude. You are we'll 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 femi
nine, of all the centuries. The archangel
to you no embarrassment. God himself
your present and everlasting joy. That
is an instantaneous picture of what you
may be, and what am sure some of you
will be. If you realize that it is an imper-
feet picture, my apology is what the apos
tie John said ct doth not yet appear
what we shall be-" '"ro this end was /
born" If did not think so / would be
overwhelmed with melancholy.
The world does very well for a little
while, eighty, or hundred or hundred
and fifty years, and i think that human
longevity may yet be improved up to that
prolongation, for now there is so little
room between our cradle and our grave we
cannot accomplish much, but who would
want to dwell in this world for all eternity
Some think this earth will finally be turned
into heaven. Perhaps it may, but it
would have to undergo radical repairs, and
through examinations and evolutions and
revolutions and transformations infinite,
to make it desirable for eternal residence.
All the east winds would have to become
west winds, and all the winters changed to
springtides, and the volcanoes extin-
gushed, and the oceans chained to their
beds, and the epidemics forbidden entrance,
and the world so fixed up that l think it
would take more to repair this old world
than to make an entirely new one. But
must say do not care where heaven is If
we can only get there, whether a garden
lied America, or an unparalleled Europe,
or a world central to the whole universe.
"To this end was born" If each one Of
us could say that we would go with faces
shining and hopes exhilarant amid earth's
worst misfortunes and trials Only lit
tie while and then the rapture. Only
little while and then the reunion. Only a
little while and then the TRANSPORTATION.
HISTORIC ILLUSTRATION. -
In the Seventeenth century all Europe
was threatened with a wave of Asatic bar
barism, and Vienna was especially besieged
The King and his court had fed, and moth
ing could save the city from being over
whelmed unless the king Of Poland, John
Sobeski, to whom they had sent for help,
should, with his army, come down for the
relief; and from every roof and tower the
inhabitants of Vienna watched and waited