The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-02-01

-. 500 snail exist" All the "lost chords, tha
seek yainly TO strike again on earth shsll hs
sounded In heaven -
800 snaii go on forever In perfection of char
| ar CO... Isre ne progresses from babe to SAGE
s.,,sl n', "nas may not be under perfectly spir-
, n environment? 1t doth not vet annesr vhat
aii DE- What vision of infinite progress.
' reI moving upward. opens before MS The
s1uiess state does not imply stationariuess but
pfpeiuai advance from enc stage of holiness
- snolner. Love and hope and faith shall abide
49, - On forever. Love has no symbol but
Sy. ne loves not at all who does not think
ne snaii love forever. Whatever Ia excellent.
As God lives, Is permanent
~ cannot separate Christs ascension from
AIS resurrection. Man must circle HIGHER Iike
we eagle toward the sun-must sit In heavenly
p.aces with Christ. II the Christian is one with
MIN IN the flesh, in rejection by the world in
crusinction OF the flesh in death in resurraotion
uo must De In ascension. As the babe on TIA
.n"shers breast does not know its future 40
ignorant are we There ia an eternal urocess
moving on. The dead are breathers of an ampler
Jay inere Is To be absolute freedom from sin.
Inere IL 70 be the sight and presence OF Jesus.
rhoni, having not seen. We love. This beautiful
'isln becomes reason and incentive for be.
coming molly az He is. He that hath this hone
IN MIN purifieth himself
q mus there Issues also from the power O. an
enoiess lie great capacity for patience Az
We LOOK from the heights Of enternity how small
s ~ seem olr disputes, controversies, misun.
oefstanoings, troubles. Dwarfed to iufuites.
ilnai proportions, we shall say POO. foo s." to
pe 30 concerned over shadows and dreams In
sne presence OF such great realities.
:. Inc powers OF the world to come buoy us
up IN all trouble. We appeal to tina. future
assinss al the odds of fortune and the incon-
graities OF life. In ali sorrow, disannointment
"nere the wicked cease from troubling and the
weary are at rest. Without this belief life
"ouio De intolerable. But now we whisper to
ourselves, "a little whilev Relief is not far
on: so We can endure feeling that our present
.unerlng is not worthy to be compared with the
s'ofy that shall be revealed in us, and while we
iooA not al the things which are seen and which
are temporary, but at the things which are not
seen Wnicn are eternal, our worst Affections do
indeed seem to be light and to be working out
ior US more and more exceedingly an eternal
weight OF glory. This Is grand philosophy and
very oinerent from philosophic stoicism.
In bereavement particularly does the endless
LIE loom up in view for our comfort. Other
wise men would be crushed under unalleviated
sorrow, and could not labor. The consolation
o. eternity sets them free for their daily tasks and
delivers them from permanent dependency or
meianchoiia or insanity. Tears become lenses
lot faiths telescope to descry the walls of the
heavenly city whereon the redeemed walk in
white
Z. The power of an endless life gives philos-
ophy 10 death. The cemetery becomes what its
name imports-a sleeping chamber Death ia
sleep but not an oblivion. As we rise from
s4eep refreshed, recuperated, 80 we shall rise
renewed in the morning of another life and
pashe our eyes In celestial dew. Being sown
In weakness we shall rise In power, incorrup-
ton take the place of corruption, and cory OF
oishonor. Christ tasted death for every man,
and II Is the fear-the taste OF death-and
not death Itself. that is dreadful. We are deiy-
cred from the dead weight of oppression and
gloom that crushed the ancients The pathos
OF their despair is shown in the testing with
which they spoke of IL. But death for the
Christian In transition. Its sting is dawn. II 10
swallowed up in the victory Of triumphant life
9. The powers Of the world to come afford a
great impulse to self-denial, the denial of tho
flesh for the spirit, of the present for the future
II there be no immortal spirit aud no futnre
the force of this is lost. II we throw away i'm
mortality we may not indeed say, "Iet US eat
and drink for tomorrow we die" 1t will still
remain true that, IL only for this life, il 10 best
to be noble and good, but selfish considerations
would have vast advantage Why reuouncs
pleasures of sense? Why throw life away in
cause soon to be blotted out in oblivion? Why
make any great effort when at last humanity is
all TO be stamped out ike the ants in the ant
hill under the elephants foot7
10. The power OF an endless life gives super
human courage. The worst any tyrant can do
Is 70 inhict death, and Christ has told US not to
fear those who can only kill the body. Luther
said to those who threatened death that 1t was
a. II one should threaten bride and horse
and set him on. So the martyrs with fire, arena,
dungeon before them, spoke boldly, knowing
that death was but entrance into eternal glory.
They had committed their cause to the future.
The world was not worthy OF its prophets, its
a Init hell
made stepping stones OF their PROSTATE slain
bodies These heroes believed that time and
God would vindicate them, and when they
were reviled, reviled not again. When his
truth was secuted Kepler said he could afford to
wait since God had waited 5000 years
for an astronomer. Truth may be INSTRUCTED,
hindered, antagoniEed, but God, with whom a
thousand years are but 40 q day, viii give it
ultimate victory. 60 the heroes of faith threw
themselves confidently on the future and spoke
their prophetic word. They went forth weep
Ing, bearing precious seed with them, but in
eternity they returL rejoicing bearing their
shesves with them.
Let us have confidence in the final victory of
Christ Against Him the world lifts Itself up
raging BE IL so. With this man LEI us choose
to be trampled on, that we may rise with Him
and hear Him say: "Where an. there ye shall
be also" And let us have confidence that the
future shall solve all mysteries. We do not at
now. 1t is enough to know that there is some
snswer-that in due time II shall appear tina. it
was not all chance or fate, but that God was
conducting the destinies of the race and each
of our little lives. SO shall we be delivered
from perplexity aud liberated for joyful activity.
IL The conception of the life beyond 10 neces-
ssry to the understanding OF ourselves. Take
Immortality away from man and he becomes in
explieabie. Add II and his life IL orderly and
reasonable Without light from the other side
We have only the weary weight OF all this unin-
tellig BILE world Life becomes fragmentary, has
no meaning, no conclusion in itself. 1t is
strange mysteriously strange, and sad beyond
expression. Sin, sorrow and suffering that can
not be computed mark IL, and with no outcome
The world 10 q msdhouse, prison-house,
charnel- house. What is man so conceived? A
being without explanation, creature played
upon by the great forces OF hope and despair,
who shall 60 out into the impenetrable darkness
and leave no answer to the enigma OF his exist
ence II our life is a house OF cards which death
trretrieyabiy tnmbles down, we shall not take
that pains with il IL we believe ii an indie
struetible temple TO be inhabited by tie ever
lasting God
Lastly, what light does this doctrine Of sn
endless Lie cast upon our iellowmang Even
the lowest foulest, most savage. m ost heathen-
ish is not TO be locked on rs hopeless. Christ
saw infinite values in the yilest, and died for
them. aud counted the cost cheap He gave
Hirn.elf not for what man il, bat for what he
may be- God is not through with men yet The
scaffolding is not yet torn away from the build
ing-the Infinite Artist has but dashed onto the
canvass Of the flesh the drss outline in broad
sketch So our despair for humanity gives
Mace TO hone Men here are weighed down with
CIV 4, bat there is heart OF good IN things evil
So We can educate aud Christianize for the sake
OF eternity, tai mixing OF man not with contempt