Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1893-02-08

0ot from concert right after
the opening voluntary has been
played. and before the prima
donna sings. or before The orchestra
begins has a better idea OF that concert
than the man who supposes that the
chief joys Of religion are in this world
We here have only the first note of the
eternal orchestra We shall in that
world have the JOY of dis
coTery. We will in i've minutes
catch up with the astronomers. the
biologists, the scientists, the philoso-
pliers OF all ages who so far surpassed
US in this world We can afford TO adj
iourn astronomy and geology and many
OF the sciences TO the next world be-
cause we shall there have better appa-
ratus and better opportunity. must
study these sciences so far as to help
me in my work; but beyond that /
must give myself 10 saving my own
soul and saving the souls OF others
knowing that in one flash of eternity
we viii catch it all. Oh, what an OBJ
servatory in which 70 study astronomy
Heaven will be-not by power of tele-
scope, but by supernatural vision; and
II there be something doubtful ten mill
ion miles away, by one stroke of the
wing you are there, by another stroke
of the wing you are back again. and all
in less time than 1 can tell you, catch
ing it all in one fash of eternity.
And geology, What a place that win
be TO study geology when the world is
being picked 10 pieces rs easily as a
school girl in botanical lessons pulls
the leaf from the carollai What a place
to study architecture, amid the thrones
and the palaces and the cathedrals-St
Marks and ST Paul's rookeries in COM
parison-
Sometimes you wish You could make
the tour of the whole earth, going
around as others have done, Dut you
have not the TIME, you have not the
means You viii make mat tour yet,
during the musical pause in the eternal
anthem ! say these things for the
comfort Of these people who are
abridged in tAeir opportunities-those
people TO waom life is hum-drum, who
toll and work toll and work, and
who aspire after knowledge. but have
no time to get it, and say: If had the
opportunities which other people have,
how J would fill my mind and soul with
grand thoughts" BE not discouraged.
my friends You are going TO the uni
versity yet. Death viii only matricu-
late YOU into the royal college of the
universe.
What n sublime thing IL was that DR.
Thornwell, of South Carolina, uttered
in his last dying moments. AS he
looked up he said: 1T opens; it ex-
pands; it expands" Or. as Mr. Top
lady, the author of Rock OF Ages in
his last moments, or during his last
hours, looked up and said, as though he
saw something supernatural, Light"
and then as he came on near the dying
moment, his countenance more lumi-
nous, he cried Light" and at the very
moment of his departure lifted both
hands, something supernatural in his
countenance as he cried, "Lightr' Only
another name for sunshine.
Besides that, we shall have all the
pleasures of association. We will 90
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 Christian 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
him, and the hollows under the eyes
are all filed, 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 we'll"
He says; 81 couldn't help but be we'll.
have been sailing these rivers and
climbing these mountains, and that's
hfagN / frraff M oil sseA Il
so we'll" o, my friehdsl your departed
loved ones are only away for their
health in n better climate, and when
you meet them they will be so changed
you will hardly know them; they viii.
be so very much changed, and. after
awhile, when you are assured that they
are your friends, your departed friends,
you will say: why, where Il that
cough? Where is that paralysis? Where
is that pneumonia? Where is that con-
SUMPTION And he will say; "Oh!
am entirely well; there are no sick ones
IN this country; l have been ranging
these hills and hence this elasticity.
have been here now twenty years, and
not one sick one have seen-vye are all
we'll in this climate
And then / stand at the gate Of the
NeltStldi Nlty 10 see the professions
come out, and see a long procession OF
little children, with their arms full o.
flowers, and then l see procession OF
kings and priests moving in celestia
pageantry-a long procession, but nc
black tasseled vehicle, no mourning
group; and l say; How strange it is
Where is your Greenwood? Where IL
your Laurel Hill? Where is your West
minister Abbey?' Aad they shall cry
There are no graves here"
And then listen for the tollinR Of ths
old belfries OF Heaven, the old belfrie.
of eternity listen TO hear them toll
for the dead, but they toll not for the
dead; they only strike up a silvery
chime, tower to tower, east gate e
west gate, as they ring out: They
shall hunger no more, neither thirst
any more; neither shall the sun light or
them, nor any heat, for the Lamb which
Is in the midst OF the throne shall lead
them 20 living fountains of water. ane
God shall wipe away all tears from
their eyes"
Obi unglove yDdr hand and give u 70
me in eongratulation on that scene.
I feel as II II would shouh 7 will shou
hallelujahl Dear Lord, forgive me thai
/ ! ever complained about anything. fall
I this iq before ms W no raror fr,r -e,.ytI,fr.~