Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1892-03-30

vegetation and ice TO bind the river.
I. and snow to- enrich our fields and then
you will have TO enlarge your hospitals
and your cemeteries. "A green Christ
mas makes u fat graveyard" was the
old proverbs. Storms To purify the air.
Thermometer Mt ten degrees above zero
to tone up the system. December and
january just as important rs May and
June. j tell you we need the storms
of life as much rs we do the sunshine
There are more men ruined by pros
pcrity than by adversely. II we had
our own way in life before this wo
would have been approximations OF
selfshncss and worldliness and disgust
ing sin. and pulled up until we would
have been like Julius Cesar. who was
made by sycophants TO believe that he
was divine, and the frecllles on his fac,
were as the stars of the armament.
One of the swiftest transatlantic vow
ages made last summer by our swiftest
steamer was because she had a stormy
wind abaft chasing her from New York
TO Liverpool But to those going in
the opposite direction the storm was "A
bufTcting and hinderancc II is "A
bad thing TO have n storm ahead, push
ing us back; but if we bc Gods chill
drcn and aiming toward Heaven, the
storms OF life will only chase MS the
sooner into the harbor. am so glad to
believe that the monSoons and typhoons
and mistrals and siroccos OF the land
and sea are not unclaimed maniacs
let loose upon the earth. but are under
divine supervision | am so glad that
the God of the Seven Stars is also the
God of Orion, IL was out of Dante's
suffering came the sublime "Divana
Commcdia," and out of John Millions
blindness came Paradise Lost" and
ont of miserable infidei attack came
the ',Sridgcwnter Treatise in favor OF
Christianity, and out of David's exile
came the songs OF consolation. and out
OF the sufrcrings OF Christ came the
possibility of the worlds redemption,
and out of your bereavement, your per-
secution, your povcrties Your misfor-
tunes may yet come an eternal Heaven.
On what n mercy IL is that, in the
text and all up and down the Bible.
God induces us to look out toward other
worlds! Bible astronomy. in Genesis.
IN Joshua, in the Psalms, in the proph-
cts, major and minor, in ST. Johns Apo
calypso, practically saying: Worlds!
worlds. worlds Get ready for them!"
We have nice little world here that
we stick 10, though losing that we
lose all We are afraid OF falling off
this little raft of world. We are
afraid that some metecric iconoclast
Will some night smash IL. and we want
everything to revolve around it, and are
disappointed when we lind that ii re-
wolves around the sun. instead of the
sun revolving around it
What a fuss we make about this little
Ia Of a =. -
time between two spasms, the parox-
ysm by which it was hurled from chaos
into order and the paroxysm of its
demolition.
And / am glad that so many texts
call US TO look off to other worlds.
many of them larger and grander and
more rcsplendent "Lool there. " says
/ Job, lat Nazareth and Arcturus and
his sons" Look there" says St John.
lat the moon uudcr Christ's feetr' Look
there" says Joshua, at the sun stand.
ing still above Gideon!' Look there"
| says Moses lat the sparkling firma.
mentw Look there" says Amos tho
herdsman, Mt the seven stars and
Orion!' Don't let MS be so sad abotE
those who shove off from this world
under Christian pilotagc. Don't let MS
be so agitated about our owr going off
this little barge or sloop or canal boat
of world to get on some Great East
crn' of the heavens. Don't let MS per.
sist in waning to stay il. this barn,
this shed, this clubhouse of n world,
! when all the Kings palaces already oc-
cupicd by many of our best friends are
swinging wide open their gates 10 let
US in.
When l read. I'm my Fathers house
are many mansions" ! do not know but
that each world is n room, and as many
/ rooms as there are worlds. stellar
stairs, stellar galleries, stellar hall.
/ ways, stellar windows, stellar domes.
! How our departed friends must pity us
| shut mp in these crampcd apartments.
/ tired il we walk fifteen miles, when
/ they some morning by one stroke OF
\ wing, can make circuit OF the whole
/ stellar system and be back in time for
mathis
/ Perhaps yonder twiEkling constella.
/ ton is the residence of the martyrs; that
/ group of twelve lumnarics the celestial
\ home OF the Apostles Perhaps that
steep OF light is the dwelling place of
\ angels cherubic, seraphic. archangelic
| \ mansion with us many rooms as
/ worlds, and al their windows illumi.
! mated for festivity
! oh, how this widens and lifts and
! stimulates our expectation, How little
! IL makes the present and how stupen-
dous 1t makes the future! How it con.
soles MS about our pious dead. who in
stead OF icing boxed up and under the
ground have the range OF as many
rooms as there are worlds. and well
/ come everywhere. because IL is
the Fathers house in which
there are many mausionsl oh,
/ lord God Of the Seven stars and Orion.
how can / endure the transport the
I ecstasy, OF such visionl ! must obey
my text, and seek Him. / will seek
4 Him. seek Him now. for call 20
mind that it is not the material uni
verse that is most valuable. but the
| spiritual and that each OF US has o soul
worth more than all the worlds which
the inspired hcrdsman saw from his
booth ON the hills Of Tclsoa
"a merry heart malscth q cheerful
couuteuancc." saith the wise man.
/ When Won 20 60 visit the sick and az