Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-01-10

'nail become a TRANSPORTATION. and tbe saa
@ mlii ,eeome the walking place of him who
10 ,,I sie wave ciiiis OF stormy Tiberias, and
ne song OF Joy shall rise toward heaven and
,,h, ,,te great ar SKY will beco Ne sounding bol-l
"hlch shall strike hack the shout NJ g,,.-.i-I
% the earth until il rebounds o,,,ir - IN in
.nrone OF the Almighty, AMI the morninc
''"t vi christian hope will become fha fnIi
'unburst ofmillennial glory. 'D''
ASaln' Ch-lst heralds the dawn OF heaven
upon every Christians dying pillow. I sur
pose you have noticed that the cbaractas
7'i's OF people In their healthy days ~.
very apt to be their characteristics in their
iNlhS days. The dying words of ambitious
napoleon were, "Head of the army" The
lying woris OF poetic Lord Byron were, ~
ahectionate Lord Nelson were. sKiss me
Hardy" The dying words OF Yoltaire were
as ne saw one whom he supposed to be
Jesus IN the room, "Crush that wretch "
But nave noticed that the dying words OF
shrlstlans always mean peace. Generally
the pain Is all gone, and there is great
quietude through the room. As one OF
ihese brothers told me of his mother in the
last moment: ''She looked up and said
| pointing TO some supernatural being that
seemed to be in the room, Look at that
bright form. Why, they have come for me
now.'"
The lattice is turned so that the light is
very pleasant. 1t is psace all around You
ask yourself: "Why, can this he n dvin,
room! IL is so different from anythinu /
ever expected" And you walk the fIo5r
ana you look out OF the window, and Won
i Iouto uacS ana iooS at your watch, and you
LOOK al the face OF the patient again. and
there Is no change, except that the face ia
4eoomlnS more radiant, more Illuminated
Inc wave OF death seems coming up biphe-
ana higher, until It has touched the an lIe
Lnen Ii comes on up until it touches the
It reaches the girdle, and then ii cones
on up until il reaches the lin
ana the soul Is about to be floated away into
glory, and you roll back the patients sleeve
and you put your finger on the pulse and it
Is getting weaker and weaker, and the pulss
stops, and you hardly know whether the life
mas gone or not. Indeed, you cannot tell
when she goes away, she goes away so calm.
ly.. Perhaps it is o'clock in the morning.
and you have the bed wheeled around to
the window, and the dying one looks out
INTO the night SKY, and she sees something
that attracts her attention, and YOU wonder
what it Is
Why, it is a star. It is a star that out OF
It's silver rim is pouring Il supernatural light
into that dying experience And YOU saw.
what Is 1t that you are looking at?" She
says, at is a star" You say, What star is
1t that seems so well to please you?' "Oh,"
she says, ''that is the morning star-Jesus -
l would like to have my death bed under
my eye on that star, so could be assured of
the morning. Then the dash of the surf OF
the sea of death would only be the bfllowing
up OF the promise, "When thou passest
through the waters, l will be with thee and
the rivers, they shall not overflow thee "
All other lights will fail-the light that falls
from the scroll of fame. the light that flashes
from the gem in the beautiful apparel the
light that flames from the burning lamps OF
banquet-but this light burns on and burns
81 l.
until he could say: ''I am now ready to be
offered, and the time OF my departure is at
hand. l have fought the good fight. 1 have
finished my course. 1 have kept the faith"
Edward Payson kept his eye on that star
until he could say, ''The breezes of heaven
fan me-" DR.. Goodwin kept his eye on that
svangelistic star until he could say, II am
swallowed up In God" John Tenant kept
his eye on that svangelistic star until he
could say, Welcome, sweet Lord Jesus
welcome, eternity" No other star ever
pointed mariner into so safe a harbor. No
other star ever sunk its silvered anchor into
the waters. No other star ever pierced such
accumulated cloud, or beckoned with such a
holy luster.
With lanterns and torches and a guide. we
went down IN the Mammoth cave of Ken
tucky. You may walk fourteen miles and see
no sunlight. 1t is a stupendous place. Some
places the roof OF the cave a hundred feet
high. The grottoes filled with weird echoes,
cascades falling from lnNlSlDle nelCnt TO In
visible depth. StalGgmtss rising up from
the floor Of the cave-stalactites descending
from the roof of the cave. joining each
other, and making pillars Of the Almighty's
sculpturing. There are rOsettes OF amethyst
in halls Of gypsum. As the guide carries his
lantern ahead of you, the shadows have an
appearance supernatural snd spectral. The
darkness Is fearful Two people, getting
lost from their guide only for few hours,
years ago, were demented, and for years sat
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your breath as you walk across the bridges
that seem to span the bottomless
abyss. The guide throws his calcium light
down into the caverns, and tho light rolls
and tosses from rock to rock and from depth
to depth making at every plunge new rev.
elation of the awful power that could nave
made such a place as that.
sense orsurocation comes upon you as
you think that you Gre $50 feet in straight
line from the sunlit surface OF the earth. The
guide after awhile takes you into what Is
called the "Star Chamber, and then he
saws to YOU, ''Sit here" and then he takes
the lantern and goes down under the rocks,
and il gets darker anl darker, until the night
is so thick that the han an inch from the
| eve Is undesirable. And then, by kindiing
one OF the lanterns and placing 1t Ill cleft
of the rock, there fs n reaaction cast oa m
dome OF the cave, ami there are stars con
ing ONT in constitutions brilliant night
he7vans-and vou invOluntarily eXclalm
.sBaautirul! be eluttful p Then he takes the
lantern down in other depths OF the cavern,
and waniers on, and wanders on, untli ne
| comes I'D from bohind the rocks gradually,
and il seems like the dawn OF the morning,
and ii gets brighter and brighter. The guide
| is a skilled ysntriloquist and he initiates the
| voices OF the morning, and soon the gloom
| is all gone, and you stand conSratuiMIt'aS ~
| Yourself over the wonderful spectacle. Well,
| there are a great nanypeople who look uowD
into the grave as "A great cavern Ihey thlnE
] II is a thousand mil@s subterraneous, ana al
I echoes seem to be the voices OF despair, anc
| the cascades seem to be the ialIlng tedrs th'''
ALWAYS fall and the gloom of earth seems COM
| inc IN in 81 llagmite, and the gloom or the
! eternal world seems descending in the stalac-
tite. making pillars of indescribable horror.
The grave is no such place az that 10 iNe'
thank God.
| o,rsat cayerns. and we have the lamp TO our
feet and the light to our plth, ana eII the
| echoes in the riffs o. the rock are ant uehls,
and all the falling waters are fountains OF
salvation. and after awhile we look up AMI,
behold the cavern of the tomb has become
n kings star chamber. And while we are
| looking at the pomp OF 1t an everlasting
morning begins to rise, and all the tears o.
earth crystallize into stalssIni,e, Hs.i5
| in n niIlar on the one side, and all tDS SIo-
ries Of heaven seem to be descending In
Aartite, making plilar On lne
other side, and you push .s tssai-ss
Ibe gate that swings bee~een
tbe two pillars. and as the gate flashes open
YOU find it is one ofthe twelve gates wnlen
re twelve pearls. Blessed be dod that
,hronob This gospel the ma anmoth cave OF
the se1ulchre has become the illumined Star
Chamber OF the KING! ~ =. H.
would God that if my seFTon to-day
does not lead you TO Gn.i-a' sindoW vHD'f Uot the
nsI rnnony Of the night heavens might lead
| Sou to tho feet OF Jesus
Harkl Harki To God the chorus oreaxs
From every host, from from every SaI se"'
IA the star OF Bethlehem
The distlnce from the farihest point
e f,rIar discovery to the POLE itself Is
IoO tit IT, Oldest flute in the world Is