Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-02-03

dead. What Is going to be the con-
ISOLATION? The flowers you strew upon
the tomb? Oh mol The services read
at the grave? Oh mol The chief con-
ISOLATION on that grave is what falls
from the throne Of God. Sunshine,
glorious sunshine Resurrection sun
shine.
Again: find a great deal of the
sunshine of this Bible and of our re-
ligion in the climacteric joys that are
to come. A man who gets up and
goes out from a concert right after the
opening voluntary has been played,
and before the prima donna sings. or
before the orchestra begins, has bet
ter 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 eter-
nal orchestra. We shall in that
world have the Joy of discovery. We
will in five minutes catch up with the
astronomers, the biologists, the
scientists, the philosophers of all 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 l must study these
sciences so far as to help me in my
work; but beyond that must give my
self to saving my own soul and saving
the souls of others, knowing that in
one fash of eternity we will catch it
all Oh! what an observatory in which
to study astronomy heaven will be-
not by power of telescope, but by
supernatural vision; and if there be
something doubtful ten million 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 / tell you, catching it
all in one flash of eternity.
and geology! What a place that
will be to study geology, when the
world is being picked to pieces as
easily as a schoolgirl in botanical les
sons pulls the leaf from the corolla!
What place to study architecture,
amid the thrones and the palaces and
the cathedrals-St. Marks and St
Pauls roolxeries in comparison.
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 i. the eternal
anthem. ] say these things for the
comfort of those people who are
abridged in their opportunities-thos
people to whom life is hum-drum,
who toll and work, and toll and work,
and aspire after knowledge but have
no time to get ii, and say, IF L had
the opportunities which other people
have, how would fill my mind and
soul with grand thoughtsw 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 sublime thing it was that
DIR. Thornwell of South Carolina ut
tered in his last dying moments! AS
he looked up he said, at opens; it ex-
pands, it expands" Or as Mr.. Top
lady, 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,
"Lightr' and then as he came on
nearer the dying moment, his counte-
nance more luminous, he cried,
Light and at the very moment of
his departure lifted both hands, some
thing supernatural in his countenance
as he cried, Light" Only another
name for sunshine.
Besides that we shall have all the
pleasures of association. 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 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 long while, and after awhile
you meet 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, l never saw you look so
we'll" He says 81 couldn't help
but be well. 1 have been sailing
these rivers and climbing these
mountains, and that's how l got
this elasticity. / never was so well. "
o, my friendsl your departed loved
ones are only away for their health in
a better climate, and when you meet
them they will be so changed you will
hardly know them; they will be so
very much changed, and after a while,
when You are assured that they are
your friends, your departed friends,
you will say 'sVhy, where is that
cough? Where is that paralysis?
Where is that pneumonia? Where is
that consumption9" And he will say,
80! am entirely well; there are no
sick ones in this country; 1 have been
ranging these hills, and hence this elias
ITCHY. have been here now twenty
years, and not one sick one have seen,
we are all well in this climate"
And then / stand at the gate OF the
celestial city to see the professions
come out, and / see n long procession
of little children with their arms full
of flowers, and then see procession
of kings and priests moving in celestial
pageantry-a long procession, but no
black-tasselled vehicle, no mourning
group; and ! say, show strange it isl
where is your green wood? where is
your Laurel Hill? WHARF is your West
minister aobey?" And they shall cry,
there are no graves here" And then
listen for the tolling of the old belfries
of heaven, the old belfrfes of eternity.
listen to hear them toll for the dead,
but they toll not for the dead; they
only strike up silverv chime, tower
to tower, east gate to west gate, as
they ring out, ''they shall hunger no