Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-01-30

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s.rlaess,on. no tisls'ian espihhhilrfi,
aud tef MOI = fnaniacf iiut when ttu
have ilo religion N Jtsns CHRIST W your
s6nI, n espisibs evcfything.so fnf ns y
lls best for you 10 understand You look
IN Il, life. ana youf soul isfull n thanks
eieine 10 flod that you are - much bet-
iar M than ron might be
A man paescd down The street without
s.v sboes and said. n have no shoes
Jstl't " hardship that have no shoe"
Other people have shoes; no shoes no
sioea until he saw y man who bad no
foet. Then he learned n lesson. You
ought 10 thank God for what ne does,
instead ~ grtmbling for what he does
not. tod arfanges aii the weather IN
tbia world the spiritual weather, the
moral weather ne well ae the natural
weather. what kind of weather VIII
n be todayY' said some one 20 n farmer.
The farmer replied, ut win be such
weather ~ like" "What do you mean
by lhaty" aslsed the other. "Well,' said
the farmer, eft win be such weather az
pleases the Lord, and what pleases the
Lord pleases me. 4,
on. the sunshinei the sunshine Of
Christian explanation Here Is some
one bending over the grave Of the dead.
What n going 20 be the consolatiOnt
The flowers you strew upon the tofnbf
Oh. mol The services read at the grayef
Oh, no. The chief consolation ON that
grave ia what falls from the throne OF
God. Supshine, glorious sunshine Res
direction sunshine
Again. find great deal Of the sun
shine Of this Bible and Of our religion In
the climacteric joys that are to come. a
man who gets mp and goes out from q
concert right after the opening volun-
tary has been played, and before the
prima donna sings, or before the orches-
ira begins, has better idea OF that con-
cert than that man has 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 havo the Joy of discovery.
We will in five minutes catch up with
the astronomers, the geologigts, the sci
entists, the philosophers of oil ages, who
SO far surpassed us In this world. We
can afford to adjourn astronomy and
geology and many Of the sciences to the
next world, because we shall there have
better apparatus and better opportunity.
must study these sciences 30 far as
to help me In my work. but beyond that
must give myself to saving my own
soul and saving the souls of others,
knowing that In one flash of eternity we
will catch 1t all. Oh, what an observa-
tory in which to study astronomy heaven
will be, not by power Of telescope, but
by supernatural vision and IL there be
something doubtful 100000 miles
away, by one stroke Of the wing you are
there, by another stroke of the wing you
are back again, and oil in less time than
tell you, catching it all in one fash of
eternity.
THE SCIENCE OF HEAVEN.
And geology! What place that will
be TO study geology, when the world is
being picked to pieces as easily as a
, schoolgirl in botanical lessons pulls the
leaf from the corolla What 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 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 opportu-
nities--those people to whom life is a
humdrum, who toll and work, and toll
and work, and aspire 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 thoughtsr BE not discour-
aged, my friends. You are going to the
university yet. Death will only inatricu'
late you into the royal college of the uni
verse.
What sublime thing II was that DR..
Thornwell, Of South Carolina, uttered in
, his last dying moments! AS he looked
up he said, ut opens; it expands; it OK
! pands" Or Ms Mr.. Toplady, the author
of Rock of Ages" in his last moment
or during his last hours, looked VI
and said. rs though he saw something
supernatural, "Lightr and then as h,
came on nearer the dying moment, hii
countenance more luminous, he cried
"Lightw 4nd at tho very moment ol
his departure lifted both hands, some
thing supernatural in his countenance al
he cried, "Lightr Only another name
for sunshine.
Besides that we shall have all tbs
pleasures of association. We will x
right up in the front of God without any
fright. All our sins gone, there will b
nothing TO bo frightened about, Their,
our old Christian friends will trool
. around us. just AS now one of YOU
sick friends goes away 90 Florida, tn,
land Of flowers, or to the south of France
. and You do not see him for a long while
and after awhile you meet him, and th,
ho,lows under the eyes are all filled, an,
! the appetite has come back, and tn
crutch has been thrown away, and he 1
SO changed you hardly know him. YoV
say, why, never saw you look s.
we'll" He says; II couldn't help but b
well. have been sailing these river
: and climbing these mountains, and that
how got this elasticity. | never Wa
: ~ WELL
. Oh, my friends, your departed love,