Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-02-04

i down past him.
/ Now, while the world goes away fro n 9
man when he is in financial distress, the re-
| ligion of Christ comes to him and saws:
"Yoa ara sick an your sickness is to be
moral publication; you are bereavei; God
wanted in some way to take your family to
| heaven. and He must bsgin somewhere. an
| so He took the one that was most beautiful
and was most really to 60" L do not say
I that religion explains everything in this life.
! but do say it lays down certain principles
4 which are grau lily ems oiatory. You know
| business men often telegraph in ciphers.
| The merchant in San Francisco telegraphs
| to the merchant in New York certain infor-
! nation in ciphers wnica no other man in
that line OF business can understand. but
| the merchant in San Francisco has the key
to the cipher. and the merchant in New York
has the kew to the cipher, an | on that in
formation trans Mite there are enterprises
Involving hua ireis of thousands of dollars.
Now the providanc,s OF lie sonetimss
seem to be seuseless rig narole, a mystsri-
BUS cipher, but Goi has key to tn 1t cipher,
an the C1ristian key to that cipher, aai,
though he may hardly be able to spslt out tae
meaning, he gets enou yh of the meaning to
understand that it is for ths best. Now IS
there not sunshine in that? Is thsre not
pleasure in that? Far b,yon1 lighter, it
Is nearer the fountain of tears than ooiseer-
GUS denomination. Have you never cried
for ioy? There are tsars which ara eternal
rapture in distillation.
There are hun lreds of psoole in this houss
who are walkin, day by day In the sublime
satisfaction that all is for the best, all things
working together for cool for their soul.
How a man can get along through this HE
without the explanation is to me mystery
Whatl is that child gone foreverf Ara you
never to get it bacxS Is your property gone
forever? Is your soul to be brusei and to
be tried forever? Have you no explanation.
no Christian explanation, AMI yet not
maniaes But when you have the religion OF
Jesus Christ in your soul, it explains every
thing so far as it Is best for you to I'm Ter
stand. You look off in life. and your soul
is full of thanksgiving to Col rat you are
so much better of tnan you might be.
A man passed down the street without
any Shoes and said: II have no shoes. Isn't
it a hardship that have no shoes? Other PEG
pie 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 in this world-the spiritual
weather, the moral weather as we'll as the
natural weather. "What kind of weather
will it be ro-day?' said some one to a farmer.
The farmer replied, sit will be such weather
as like "WhaJ do you mean by that"
asked the other. ''Weil,n said the farmer,
lit will be such weather as pleases the Lord,
and what pleases the Lord pleases me-"
Ga. the sunshine the sunshine OF Chris.
tian explanation Here is some one ling
over the grave of the dead. What is going
to be the consolation The flowers you
strew upon the tom u On, no! The SER
vic.s read at the graves On, no. Tine
chief consolation on tnat grave Is what falls
from the throne OF Goj. Sunshine, glori-
Gus sunshine. Resurrection sunshine.
Again, find great deal OF the sunshine
OF this Bible and OF our religion IN the
climacteric joys that are to come. A man
VINO gets 10 AMI goes out from con-
cert 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 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 have the
10Y of discovery. We will in i've minutes
catch up with the astronomers, the geolo.
gists. the scientists, the philosophers OF all
/ ages woo SO far surpassed Us in this world.
We can afford to adjourn astronomy and
geology and many of the sciencesto the next
world, because we shall there nave better ap'
paratus and better opportunity.
[ must stu iy these sciences 50 Tar as TO
helm me in my work, but beyond that
must give myself to saving my own soul
B and SAVING the souls of others, knowing that
in one fash OF eternity we VIII catcn 1t all.
Oh. what an observatory in which to study
astronomy heaven will be, not by power OF
Telescope, but by supernatural vision: aud
il there be something doubtful l00Jq,O0
miles away, by one stroke OF the wing you
are there, by another stroSe or the wing
Won are back again, and all in less tins than
tell Won, catching it all in one fash OF
eternity.
Aud geologyi What plaza that will be
10 study geology, when the world is being
picked to y eceS as easily as 8 schoolgirl in
botanical lessons pulls the leaf from the
coro!lai What a place to stu iy architecture,
amid the thrones aui the palaces and the
cries in comparison
/ so netimes you wish you could make the
tour OF the whole earth, gong around as
others have gone, but y0u 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 WAC are abridged
in their opportunities those people IS
whom lite is hu'nirun. who toll AMI work,
| and toll and wors, and aspire after know
| edge, but havs no time t. get it, ani say:
tlf / had the opportunities which other peo.
pie have how [ would fill my mind and soul
with grand thou ,htsv Be not discouraged.
my friends. You ara going to the university
yet. Death will only matriculate you into
the royal collie 70 of tho universe.
What a sublime thing it was that DE-.
7ThoruweI, OF South Caroline, uttered in his
last dying m1;nentsl As he looked up he
said, sit opens; il eIpauds; 1t ex )andS.'
Or as MIR. Toplady, the nor OF RICK o
| Ages in his last mo nent, or during his last
hours, looket up AMI sail, "a thou IN he saw
something supernatural. 'Lightr AMI then
he fha ApIt mon ant
his countenance more In ninous. he cried,
Light" and at the very mo nent OF his de-
parture lifted botl han IS something su per-
natural in his counteninca as he erie J,
"Lightp Only another name for sunshine
Besides that we shall have all the pleasures
of association. We viii 60 right up in the
front of God without any fright. All our
sins gone, there will be nothing to bs fright
ened about There our oil Christian friends
will troop arouni US. just as now one OF
your sicS friends goes away to Florida, the
land of howers or to the south OF Franc,
and you do not see him for a lolg while. an I
after while you meet him, ami the hollows
under the eyes are all filiei, and the apostle
has come bac anu the crntcl has been
throwa away, and he is 80 changed you hard
ly know aim. You say. why, | never saw
YOU LOOK 50 we'll" He says: Il couldn't
help but be well have been sailing these
rivers an climbing these mountains, an
that's how got this elasticity. never was
so WELL
Oh, my friends. your departed loved ones
ara only away for their health IN better
climate and when YOU meet them they will
he so changed you will hardly know them
they will be so very mucn change', and
aft awhile when you are assured that
they are your friends, your de.arte 4 friends.
you viii say; why, where is that coagn.
Where is that paralysis Whsrs Is that
pneumopiat Where is that consumption
And be will say: oh an entirely we'll
There are no sick ones in this country. l
have been ranging these hills ami hence
this elasticity I have been here now twenty
years, aud not one sick one nave l seen-ws
are all well in this climate.
AMI then stand at the gate o. the celes-
tial city to see the procession come out, AMI
| see a long procession o. little children
with their arms full OF flowers, and then
see procession OF kings AMI priests moving
in eeie ssial pageant-y-a long procession,
but no black tssse.ef vehicle, no mourning
group. AMI | say: How strange it isl
Where ia your Greenwoods where Is YOUR
Laurel Hill, where is your Westminster
Abbey" And they shall crv, There are
no graves here
And thea listen for the toIiing of the old
balfries of heaven. the old beifries OF
eternity. listen 20 hear them toll for the
dead, but they toll moi for tbs dead They
only strike up silvery chime, towsr 70
tower, east gate to west gate, as they ring
out, They shall huugs- ~ more. neiths-
thirst any more, nth y SHALL the sna hZnt
on them. nor any heat. for the Lamb whica
is in the midst OF the throne shall lead them
To living fountains OF water. ami ted shall
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