Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-01-11
DAYRREAK ON THE MOUNTAINS


/ have seen day break over Mount Blame
and the Matterhorn, over the heights of
Lebanon, over Mount Washington, over
the Sierra NeVadas, and mid-Atlantic, the
morning after q departed storm when the
pillows were liquid Alps and liquid Sierra
Nevadas, but the sunrise of the soul is
more ctlulgent and more transporting 1t
bathes all the heights of the soul, and illu-
minesall the depths of the soul, and whelms
ali the faculties all the aspirations all the
ambitions, all the hopes with light that
sickness cannot eclipse, ordeath eXtiuguish,
or eternity do anything but augment and
magnify | preach the sunrise As /
look Mt that retrograde movement of the
shadow on Ahaz's dial | remember that it
was sign that llezekiah was going to get
well and he got we'll So have to tell
all you who are by the grace of God hav
ing your day turned from decline toward
night to assent toward morning, that you
are going to get well, well of all your sins,
well of all your sorrows, we'll of all your
earthly distresses, Sunrisel
But, says some one, all that you say may
be true but thatdoes not hinder the horrors
o. dissolution. why you who are the
LCrd's are not going to die. All that the
grave gets of you us compared with your
chief your immortal nature, is as the
clippings of your finger nails as compared
with your whole body As you run the
scissors along the edge of your thumb nail
and cut off that which is of 70 use but
rather II hndrance, you do not mourn over
the departure of that fragment which flies
away. Death will be only the scssoring
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 it, This body as it now IS,
what failure it would make of heaven if
our departing soul had to be burdencd
with it in the next world, While others
there go ten thousand miles n minute we
would take about an hour to walk four
miles, and while our neighbor immortalS
could see a hundred miles we could see
only ten miles, and the Aectest>and the
healthiest of our bodies il seen there
would make it necessary to open in heaven
an asylum for cripples.. No, no; one Of the
best possible things that Will happen to us
will be the sloughing of of this body when
we have no more use for it in its present
state. When it shall come up in its resur-
rected form we will be very glad to get il
back again, but not as it is now with its
limitations and bedwarfments inuumer-
able. Sunrise!
There shall battle my weary soul
In seas OF heavenly rest,
And not q wave of trouble roll
Across my pesCeuI breast.
SUNRIsEl
Sunrisel But not like one Of those morn
ings after you had gone 80 bed late or did
not sleep well, and you get up chilled and
yawniug and the morning bath isarupulsiou
and you feel like saying tothe morning sun
shining into your window, y do not sec
what You tiud to smile about; your bright
ness is TO me a mockery." But the inrush
Of the next world viii be a morning after
a sound sleep, "a sleep that nothing c1n dis
turh, and You viii 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 lre
witAa-plendor You never saw on earth, and
the rolling waves are doxoloGies, and tee