The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-06-20

nature-seated as he was amidst uictured
marbles OF Egypt, under roof adorned
"ltn motherotpearl, in dining room
| "hlch oy machinery was kept whirlluR day
and night with most be witching maguif-
| cence; his horses sta ding in stalls of solid
gold, aud the grounds around his palace
lghted at night by its victims, who had
oeeh oedaubad with tar aud pitch and
sneu set on IRE to illuminate the darkness
mat was PauPs king. But the next mo-
ment he goes into the realm OF him whose
reign is love, aud whose courts are paved
with love, and whose throne is set on Dill
lars or love. and whose scepter is adorned
with jewels ot love, and whose palace is
lighted with love, and whose lifetime is an
eternity OF love. When Paul was leaving
80 much on this side the pillar of martyr
dom To gain 81 much on the other side, do
you wonder at the cheerful valedictory of
the text, THE time Of my departure is at
hand"l
Now, why cannot all the old people have
| the same holy glee as that aged man hadl
| Charles l., when he was combing his head,
found a gray hair, and he sent it to the
| queen as a great joke; but old age is really
no joke at all. For the last forty years you
have been dreadiug that which ought to
have been an exhilaratiou. You say you
most fear the struggle at the moment the
soul and body part But millions have Gu
| oAA " Oh1u AlOlllOhbt u III may uOL We As
| Wellg lhey got through with it, and so can
we. Besides this all medical men agree in
saying that there is probably no struggle at
The laSt moment-not so much pain as the
prick OF pin, the seeming signs Of distress
being altogether involuntary. But you say,
1t Is the uncertainty OF the future.n Now,
child of God, do not play the infidel. After
God has filed the Bible till 1T can hold no
| more with stories of the good things ahead,
! better not talk about unNartaintias
But you ga Il caunot bear 10 think Of
parting from friends here" If you are old,
you have more friends in heaven than here.
Just take the ce sus. Take some la ge sheet
OF paper and begin to record the names IT
those who have emigrated to the other
shore; the companions OF your school days,
| your early business ass ciates, the friends Of
ld-life, and those who have more recently
went away. Can 1t be that they have been
gone so long you do not care any more
| about them, and you do not want their
societya Q no. There have been days when
you have felt that you could not endure
another moment away from their blessed
mpanionship. They have gone. You
say you would not like to bring them
back TO this world OF trouble, even IL
you had the power. It would not
do to trust you. God would not give
| you resurrection power. Before tomorrow
morning you would bs rattling at the gates
OF the cemetery, crying, to the departed,
| Come back to the cradle where you slept
Come back to the hall where you used to
| play! Come back to the table where YOU
used to sitr' and there would be a great
burglary in heaven. No, no. God will not
trust you with resurrection power; you
can not bring them where YOU are, but you
can 60 where they are" They are more
| lovely now than ever. Were they beautiful
here, they are more beautiful there.
Besides that, 1t is more healthy there for
you than here, aged man; better climate
there than these hot summers and cold
winters and late springs; better hearing
better eyesight; more tonic In the air
more perfume in the bloom; more sweet
ness in the song. Do you not feel, aged
man, sometimes as though you you would
like to get your ar II aud foot free2 Do you
not feel as though you would like to throw
away spectacles and canes and crutches9
Would you not like to feel the spring aud
elias lefty and mirth of an eternal boyhood2
When the point at which you start from
this world is old age, and the point to which
you go is eternal juVenescence, aged man,
clap your hands at the anticipation and
say, In perfect rapture OF soul, THE time
Of my departure is at hand"
l remark again, all those ought to feel
this joy Of the text who have a holy curl
| osity to kaow what is beyond this earthly
terminus. And who has not any curiosity
about it9 Paul, l suppose. had the most
satisfactory view OF heaven, and he says,
| ut doth not yet appear what we shall be "
| 1t is like looking through broken tele-
| scope: "Now we see through @ glas
darkly.n Can you tell me anything sbou
that heavenly place? You ask me a thou
| sand questions ABOUT it that | cannot an
swer. ask you thousand questions about
1t that you cannot a swer. And do you
wonder that Paul was so glad when martyr
dom gave him chance to go over and make
discoveries in that blessed countryl
hope s1me day, by the grace of God, to
go over and see for myself but not now
| No we'll man, no prospered man, l think,
wants to go now. But the time will come
think, when | shall 60 over. l want TO
see what they do there, and I want TO see
how they do it. do not want to be look
| ing through the gates O. jar forever. wan t
| them to swing wide open. There are ten
Thousand things | want explained about
you, about myself, about the government of
this world, about God. about every thing.
We start in plain path of what we know
and i'll minute come up against a high
wal OF what we do not know. l wonder
how'it looks over there. Somebody tells me
1t is like paved clty-paved with gold
aud another man tells me it is like a fouut-
ain, and it is like tree, and it is like a
triumphal procession; and the next man
tells me IL Is all nRuratlve. L really want
TO know, after the body is resurrected,
what they wear and what they eat; and |
have al immeasurable curiosity to know
what it is and how it 10. and where it is.
Columbus rlsked his life to find this con-
fluent, and shall we shudder to go out
ON voyage of discovery which shall re
veal a yaster and more brilliant country
John Franklin risked mis- life to find pas
sage between. icebsrgs, and shall we dread
to dnd p 4ssage to eternal summerf Men
in Switzerland travel up the nights Of the
Matterhorn with alpenstuok, aud guides,
and ropes, and rockets and, geteing half
way up, stumble and fall down In a horri-
bic massacre. They just W Inted to say they
mad been on the tops OF those high PEAKS.
And shall we fear to go out for the as ,ent
of the eternal hills which start thousand
miles beyond where sop the highest peaks
of the Alps, when in that ascent there is no
perill A man doomed to die ste Jped on the
scaffold, and said Ia joy, NOV in ten min
utes l will know the great secret One
minute after the vita functions ceased the
little child that died last night knew more
than Jonathan Edwards, or 50. Paul
himself, before he died. Friends, the
exit from this world, or death
il you please to call it, to the
Christian is glorious explanation. 1t is
demonstration. IL is illumination. 1t is
sunburst. 1t is the opening of all the WIN
dows. 1t Is shutting up the catechism of
| doubt ann the unrOllinR OF all the scrolls OF