The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-02-01

and yet not man1acr bub Wnoh ""
have the religion Of Jesus Christ IN your
soul, 1t explains everything SO far as ~
is best for you to understand. You look
off In life, and your soul Is full OF
thanksgiving to God that You are 80
much better off than you might be. q
man passed down the street witnous
any shoes and said: II have no SHOES,
isn't 1t q hardship that ! have no snoess L
Other people have shoes; no shoes, no
shoes" until he saw man who had no
feet Then he learned a lesson You
ought to thank God for what He does
instead of grumbling for what He does
not God arranges all the weather " (
this world-the spiritual weather, tne
moral weather, as we'll as the natural
weather. what kind of weather Will
it be to-dayp' said some one to farmer
The farmer replied: ut will be such
weather as like" "What doyou mean
by thatqn asked the other. well"
said the farmer, "it will be such weather
as pleases the Lord, and what pieases
the Lord pleases me-"
oh! the sunshinel the sunshine. OF
Christian explanation. Here Is some
one bending over the grave OF the dead.
What is going to be the consolation?
The flowers you strew upon the tompY
Oh, mol The services read at the gravel
Oh, mol The chief consolation on that
grave is what falls from the. throne OF
God. Sunshine, glorious sunshine
Resurrection sunshine.
Again: l find a great deal OF the
sunshine OF this Bible and Of our re-
ligiou in the climacteric joys that are
TO come A man who gets up and goes
out from concert right after the OPEN
ing voluntary has been played, and be-
fore the prima donna sings, or before
the orchestra begins has better IDEA
of that concert than the man has VINO
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
discovery We will in five min
utes catch up with the astrono-
. mers, the geologists, the scientists
Q the philosophers OF all ages
who SO far surpassed us in this world.
We can afford to adjourn astronomy
I and geology and many of the sciences
4 TO the next world, because we shall
r there have better apparatus and better
|. opportunity. / must study these
o sciences so far as to help me in my
!. work; but beyond that must give my
l. self to saving my own soul and saving
X the souls Of others, knowing that In on'
,e flash of eternity we will catch itall. Oh
,e what an observatory in which to stud.
In astronomy Heaven will be- by powe
re- of telescope, but by supernatural vison
and II there be something doubtful tel
as million miles away, by one stroke OF tn
A. wing you are there, by another strok
is Of the wing you are back again, and al
rn in less time than can tell you, catch
D. ing It all in one flash of eternity.
in And geology What place that wi
us be to study geology, when the world
n being picked TO pieces as easily as
ad schoolgirl in botanical lessons pull
IN the leaf from the corallai What plac
hit To study architecture, amid the throne
is and the palaces and the cathedrals--S
res Marks and St Paurs rookeries 4
10 comparison.
IA. Sometimes you wish you could mal
OF the tour Of the whole earth, goin
by around rs others have gone; but yo
lin have not the time, you have not Il
sn- means You will make that tour ye
~ during one musical pause in the etc
nal anthem. / say these things for u
Mt comfort Of those people who a
lie abridged in their opportunities-tho
ian people TO whom life is humdrum, wi
NE toll and work, and toll and work. al
ere aspire after knowledge, bnt have
at time TO get II, and say: '9f l had Z
af. opportunities which other people has
res how I would all my mind and soul wi
Tbe grand thoughts!" Be not discourage
ran nv friendA You are going to the III
as yersity yet Death will only matriC
eek late you into the royal college OF t
dis universe.
.ats What sublime thing II was that
the 'Thornwen, Of South Carolina, utter
mt, in his last dying m omentsl As
as looked up he said, 'rIt opens, it expan
,ats II expandsr' Or, as Mr.. Toplady,
,old author Of Rock OF Ages, )" in his Il
|. In moment, or during his last hours. lool
,wn nm and said, as though he saw son
thing supernatural, Light" and th
rav as he came on nearer the dying nome
as. his countenance more luminous,
! to cried, "Lightw and at the "
,onI moment of his departure lifting b
vou hands, something supernatural In
yav countenance as he cried "Lightp o.
he another name for Sunshine.
took Besides that, we shall have all
and Measures Of association. We shall
saw right up in front of God without !
r In fright All our sins gone, there will
Ger. nothing to be frightened about? TIL
con. our old Christian friends will tr
men around US Just as now one OF our {
mer friends goes away TO Florida, the Il
3 to of flowers. or TO the south Of Frai
in. and you do not see him for long w
,ther and after awhile you meet him, and
,der. hollows under the ayes are all fl
ran. and the appetite has come back, \
/ the the crutch has been thrown away,
ey 70 he Is SO changed you hardly know }
,tiop Won say, "Why, ! never saw
s In look so we'll" He says; II coul
dol. help but be well have
ome. sailing these rivers and climl
role. these mountains, and that's how /
. kew this elasticity. never was 80 w
, kew o. nv friendsl your departed loved I
= ~. th.tw Io.iAh.