Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-02-02
!, there have better apparatus and better op-


, there have better apparatus and better op
portunity.
must study these sciences so far as 4
| help me in my work, but beyond that
must give myself to saving my own son
and saving the souls of others, knowing
that in one fash of eternity we will catch i
all Oh, what an observatory in which K
study astronomy heaven will be, not by
power of telescope, but by supernatural
vision, and If there be something doubtful
l0, COO, 600 miles away by one stroke OF the
wind you are there, by another stroke oil
the wing you are back again, and in less
time than tell you catching it all in one
flash of eternity.
And geologyi What place that viii be
to study geology, when the world is being
picked to pieces as easily as schoolgirl IN
botanical lessons pulls the leaf from the co
rollal What place to study architecture,
amid the thrones, and the palaces, and the
cathedrals-St Mark and st. Pauls rock
cries in comparison.
GODS OWN SCIENCE.
Sometimes you wish you could make the
tour of the whole earth, going around as
others have gone, but you have not the
time: you have not the means. You will
make that tour yet during one musical
pause in the eternal anthem. | say these
things for the comfort of those people who
are abridged in their opportunities-tho
people TO whom life is humdrum, who
toll and work, and toll and work, and as
pire after knowledge, but have no time to
get it, and say, IF had.the opportunities
which other people have, how | would fill
my mind and soul with grand thoughtsl"
Be not discouraged, my friends. You are
going TO the university yet Death will
only matriculate you into the royal college
of the universe.
What a sublime thing it was that DIR.
Thornwell, of South Carolina, uttered in
his last dying momentsl As he looked up
he said, 1T opens; it expands; it expands"
Or as Mr.. Toplady, the author Of Rock Of
Ages" in his last moment, or during his
last hours, looked up and said, as though
he saw something supernatural, "LightP'
and then as he came on nearer the dying
moment, his eountenance more luminous,
he cried, "Lightr and at the very moment
of his departure lifted both hands, some
thing supernatural in his countenance as
he cried, "LightW Only another name for
sunshine.
n Ei-Lf-ti HbN4EAA ANDLi~bs
Besides that we shall have all the pleas
ures of asso, alton. We will go right up
in the front of God without any fright
All our sins gone, there will be nothing to
be frightened about There our old Chris
tian friends will troop around us. Just as
now one of your sick friends goes away to
Florida, the land of flowers, or to the south
of France, and you do not see him for a
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him, and the hollows under the eyes are all
filled, and the appetite has come back, and
the crutch has been thrown away, and he
is so changed you hardly know him. You
say, why, never saw you look so well. "
He says: Il couldn't help but be well.
have been sailing these rivers and climbing |
these mountains, and that's how got this |
elasticity. | never was so we'll"
Oh, my friends, your departed loved ones
are only away for their health in better
and when you meet them they |
will be so changed you will hardly know
hem; they will be so very much changed, 1
md after awhile, when you are assured /
hat they are your friends, your departed |
friends, yon will say; why, where is that
cough? Where is that paralysisY Where
5 that pneumonia Where is that con-
And he will say: "Oh, l am
,ntirely well; there are no sick ones in this
Ihave been ranging these hills, and
hence this elasticity. l have been here now
wenty years, and not one sick one have !
een-we are all well in this climate"
And then stand at the gate Of the celes-
ial city to see the professions come out.
md | see long procession OF little children
With their arms full of flowers, and then /
ee procession of kings and priests NOV
ny in celestial pageantry-a long process
ion, but no black tasseled vehicle, no
Mourning group-and l say: How strange
isl Where is your Greenwood Where is
our Laurel h.lli Where is your Westmin-
ter abbey" And they shall cry, There
re no graves here" And then listen to the
olling of the old belfries of heaven, theold
elfries of eternity. / listen to hear them
oil for the dead. But they toll not
or the dead. They only strike up a sill
cry chime, tower to tower, east gate to
rest gate, as they ring out, ''They shall
unger no more, neither thirst any more,
either shall the sun light on them, nor any
eat, for the Lamb which is in the midst of
he throne shall lead them to living foun-
aims of water, and God shall wipe away all
ears from their eyes"
Oh, unglove your hand and give it to me
/ congratulation on that scene / feel as
would shout. will shout halleluiah
lear Lord, forgive me that l ever com
lained about anything. If all this is be-
IRE us, who cares for anything but God
nd heaven and eternal BROTHERHOOD Take
ne Grape off the doorbell. Your loved ones
re only away for their health in a land
nbrosial. Come, Lowell Mason; come,
aac Watts, ard give US your best hymn
bout joy celestial.
A HEAVEN ON EARTH.
What is the use of postponing our heaven
ny longeri Let it begin now, and whose
'er hath a harp, let her thrum it; and
hosoever hath a trumpet, let him blow it;
I'd whosoever hath an organ, let him give
full diapason. They crowd down the
r, spirits blessed, moving in cavalcade Of
iumph. Their chariot wheels whirl in
e Sabbath sunlight. They comet Halt,
mics of Godl Haiti until we are ready
join the battalion of pleasures that never
e.