Telegram-herald., 1891-10-05

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ersi engagement for God. bat particular
engagement. and made in answer 60 pray
er II there are sixteen hundred feilllon
people Ia tie world, then there aFe sixteen
hundred million diEisrent missions 10 ful-
iii, different styles OF work 20 DO, different
orbits ia hieh 10 reyolve. and If you do
not ger the divine direction there are at
least ifteen hundred and ninety-nine mil
lion possi Dilisies that you gil make a mis-
take. On ycur knees before God get the
matter settled 50 that you can firmly say
10 tals esd was born"
INCREASED LONGEVITY.
And now / come to the elimacteric con-
sideratioa. As near as can tell. You wers
baist for happy eternity. al the disasters
which have happened 10 your nature 10 DO
overcome by the blood Of the Lamb IL you
VIII heartily accept that Christly arrange
ment. We are all rejoleed at the increass
Ia human longevity. People live. as near
as | can observe. about ten years longer
than they used 10. The modern doctors do
not bleed their patients on all occasions as
did the former doctors. In those times /:
a man had fever they bled him, IL he had
consumption they blcd him. IL he had rheu.
matisn they bled him. and IL 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 I see people skipping
about at eighty years OF age, | copcuis
that life insurance companies will have to
change their table OF risks. and charge a
man no more premium at seventy than
they used TO do when he was sixty. and no
more premium at fifty than when he was
forty. by the advancement Of medical
science aud 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 is prolonged. But do
you realizs what, after all. is the brevity
Of our earthly statei 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 nonagenarian, 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 height. For "a happy
eternity you were born unless you run
yourself against the divine intentions. IL
standing in your presence my eye should
fall upon the feeblest soul here as that soul
will appear WI hen the world let's it up, and
heaven entrances it, suppose l would be
SO overpovered that 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 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 if you seek after God and
feel the Spirits regenerating powers
Where shall 1 plant the camera to take
the picturc' plant it on this platform
direct it toward you. Sit still or syand
! still while take the picture 1t shall be
an instantaneous picture. Therel have
it, 1t is done. You can see the picture in
its imperfect state and get some idea Of
what it will be when thoroughly developed.
THE REsUERECTED BoDY.
There Is your resurrected body, so bril-
liant that the MONDAY sun is patch Of
midnight compared with it. There is your
soul. so pure that all the forces Of diabo-
lism could not spot it with an imperfec-
| tion. 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 n world
on each shoulder would not crush you. An
eye that shall never shed a tear. An en-
ergy that shall never feel fatigue A
brow that shall ncver 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 femi-
nine, OK all the centuries. The archangel
10 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. II you realize that il is an imper-
feet picture. my apology is what the apos-
tie John said. at doth not yet appear
what we shall be-" 40 this end was I
born" If did rot think so l would be
overwhelmed with melancholy.
The world docs very we'll for little
while, eighty, or n hundred or n hundred
and fifty years, and | 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 10 dwell in this world for all eternityl
| Some think this earth viii finally be turned
| into heaven. Perhaps it may, but It
would have to undergo radical repairs, and
| through eliminations and evolntiops ard
revolutions and transformations inhiiite,
| to make it desirable for eternal residence.
| All the east Winds would have TO become
west winds, and all the white - changed to
springtides, and the volcanoes extin-
| guished, and the oceans chained to their
| beds. AID the epidcmics forbidden entrance.
and the world so fixed up that think it
would take more to repair this old world
| than to make an entirely new one. But l
| must say do not care where heaven Is II
we can only get there, whether garden
| lied America, or an emparadised Europe,
| or a world central to the whole universe
| sTo this end was I born" IL each one Of
ms could say that we would SO with faces
| shining and hopes exhilarant amid eaf.ls
worst misfortunes and trials. Only 1T
| tie while and then the rapture. Only
| little while and then the reunion. Only
| little while and then the TRANSPORTATION.
HISTORIC ILLUSTRATION.
| In the Seventeenth century all Europe
| was threatened with wave of Asiatic bar
| barism, and Vienna was especially besieged-
| The king aud his court had fed, and moth
! ing could save the city from being over
| whelmed unless the king Of Poland, John
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