The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1891-08-17
BOROUGH BUDGET
GLEANINGS BY THE LOCAL
CORPS OF REPORTERS.
THE SCRIBES SEE AND HEAR
Rev. William Powick breaches the
Last Of a Series of Interesting
Sermons in the Methodist
Episcopal Church.

The closing sermon of the series on the
Voyage of Life" was delivered last night
in the Methodist Episcopal church. A
brief account was given Of the feeliugs,I
with which passengers view the other shore
and Of the varions landmarks that pass un-
der swift review between "The COW, the
bull and the calf" and Liverpool, and of
the manner in which passengers are landed
AZ Queenstown and Liverpool. One Of the
thoughts suggested by these things is that
death is an arrival as we'll as Il departure.
Having Il desire to depart and to be with
Christ" Nevertheless from the earthly
side it can meyer be anything else than Il
departure. mot that we would be un-
clothed but clothed upon that mortality
might be swallowed up Of life" Our ar
rival puts an end to iife's perils. The most
confident seaman is never quite certain
what the outcome may be till he is actually
in port. So there is just enough room for
uncertainty in the voyage of life to keep
our hope from rising above and beyond
hope" until it ripens into fu ! fruition on
the other shore. The same apostle who
wrote Il AN persuaded that neither death
nor life e g g shall be able TO seperate
me from the love of God" also wrote ~
keep under my body" Arr val on the
other side clears up our ideas concerning it.
All the guide books ever written cannot
give such a clear conception as 8 glance Of
the eye. Yet upon reading the guide book
in the presence of the object described we
find ourselves unable to improve the de-
scription. So with our old guide book, the
Bible, 1t now seems full of obscurioy.
The accounts Of heaven seem very mys-
FERROUS, but when we read them on the
banks of the river in the clearer light Of
5 heaven, We shall be ready to confess that tbs
book could not be improved. The dill.
. Guilty now is not a lack Of light but a lack
5 of sight. The vocabulary of earth cannot
. express the full glories Of heaven. God !.
limited in his efforts TO make them known
! by our finite faculties. In answer to the
I question why do not angels and spirits
silence our doubts by speaking to us in un.
mistakable tones" the question was asked
way do not we speak to the my lads Of
antmulcule in the drop of water so as &c
. make them understand that there is a lar,
g5r and grander sphere Of life above them
, In which we live and move and have oui
l being? The answer is because Of "a want
Of apprehension on their part. The sun
! may shine but they have no eyes. We
may talk but they have no ears. We ar,
limited in u correspondence with then
by the limitations of their nature-so it il
with God and angels and tho disembodieC
. spirits Of just men made perfect in theiI
correspondence with us. As arrival n
Liverpool breaks up the friendships tina.
have been formed during the voyage by
the passengers who separate never to NEE
again so with our arrival on the other sidt
Of Jordan. Families will meet for the Lac
! time at the judgment. Who can paint thu
D anguish of that moment when the JudgI
shall say come ye blessed-depart ye curset
, and parents are turned to the right ant
! ch ldren to the left or vice versa. The las
d tears that will course down the cheeks o
Z the glorihed will be when they clasp hand
over the impossible gulf and part to NEE
! no more forever. These are doubtless III
tears that God shall wipe away from a
< faces.