Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-01-11

Washington. over the Sierra Ne
vadas and mid-Atlantic, the morn
ing after a departed storm wnen Ins
biilows were liquid Alps and hquna
Sierra Nevadas, but ne sunIlse VI
tbe soul is more effulgent and more
transporting. 1t bathes all the
heights of the soul and illumines all
the depths Of the soul and whelIns
all the faculties. all the aspirations,
all the ambitions, all the hopes Wltn
a light that sickness cannot eclipse
or death exting1ish or eternity DO
anything but augment and magnify
/ preach the sunrise.
ASH look at that retrograde move
ment of the shadow on Ahazs dlal,
remember that it was sign that
Hezekiah was going to get wen, anu
he got well. 50 have to tell all you
who are by the grace of God having
your day turned from decline toward
night to ascent toward morning, that
YOU are going to get well-weu OF all
your sins. well of all your sorrows,
well of all your earthly distresses.
Sunrisei
But. saws some one, all that you
say may be true, but that does not
hinder the horrors of dissolution.
WHY, you who are the Lords are
not going to die. All that the grave
gets of you as compared with your
chief your immortal nature, is as the
clippings of your finger nails as com
pared with your whole body. Asyou
run the scissors along the edge Of
your thumbnail and you cut off that
which is of no use but rather hin
drance, you do not mourn over the
departure Of that fragment which
flies away.
Death will be only the scissoring
off of that which could be of no use,
and the soul has no funeral over that
which would be an awful nuisance If
we could not get rid of 1t. This body
as it now is what a failure it would
make of heaven if our departing soul
had to be burdened with it in the
next world While others there go
ten thousand miles a minute we
would take about an hour to walk
four miles, and while our neighbor
immortals could see hundred miles
we could see only ten miles, and the
fleetest and the healthiest of our
bodies if seen there would make it
necessary to open in heaven an asy-
lum for cripples.
No, no; one of the best possible
things that will happen to us will be
the sloughing off of this body when
we have no more use for it in its pres
ent state. When it shall come up in
its resu1Tected form we will be very
glad to get it back again, but not as
it is now with its limitations and be-
dwarfments innumerable. Sunrise
There shall bathe my weary soul
In seas of heavenly rest,
And not a wave Of trouble roll
Across my peaceful breast.
! SUNSHINE IN YOUR FACES.
Sunrise But not like one of those
mornings after you had gone to bed
late or did not sleep well, and you
get up chilled and yawning, and
the morning bath is a repulsion, and
you feel like saying to the morning
sun shining into your window, II dc
not see what you find to smile about;
your brightness is to me mockery.
But the inrush of the next world will
be a morning after a sound sleep, q
sleep that nothing can disturb, and
you will rise, the sunshine in your
faces, and in your first morning in
heaven you will wade down into the
sea of glass mingled with fire, the
foam on fire with a splendor you
never saw ON earth, and the roll
ing waves are doxologies, and the
rocks of that shore are golden and
| the pebbles of that beach are pearl,
and the skies that arch the scene are
a commingling of all the colors that
st. John saw ON the wall of heaven
the crimson, and the blue, and the
saffron, and the orange and the pur
pie, and the gold, and the green
wrought ON those skies in shape OF
garlands, of banners, Of ladders, OF
chariots, of crowns, of thrones. What
asunrisel Do you not feel its warmth
ON your facesl Scoville McCollum
the dying boy of our Sunday school,
uttered what shall be the peroration
of this Throw back the
shutters and let the sun in" And sc
the shadow of Ahazs sundial turns
from sunset TO sunrise.