Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-09-21

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land? If we should lose our pathway
will there be castle at whose gate we
may ask the way to the city? Oh, this
mysterious spirit within us 1t has two
wings, but it is in a cage. now. 1t is
locked fast to keep it, but let the door
of this cage open the least, and that
soul is off. Eagles wing could not catch
it. The lightnings are not swift enough
to come up with it. When the soul leaves
the body it takes 80 worlds at a bound.
And have I no anxiety about it? Have
you no anxiety about it?
do not care what you do with my
body when my soul is gone, or whether
you believe i'll cremation or Illumination.
/ shall sleep just as well in a wrapping
of sackcloth as i'll satin lined with
eagles down. But my soul--before I
close this discourse l will find out
where it will land. Thank God for the
intimation of my text that when we die
Jesus takes us. That answers all ques-
lions for me. What though there were
massive bars between here and the City
of Light, Jesus could remove them.
What though there were great Saharas
of darkness, Jesus could illume them.
What though | get weary on the way,
Christ could lift me on his omnipotent
shoulder. What though there were
chasms to cross, his hand could trans
port me- Then let Stephen prayer be
my dying litany, "Lord Jesus, receive
my spirit" 1t may be in that hour we
will be too feeble to say long prayer.
1t may he in that hour we will not be
able to say the Lords Prayer, for it
has seven petitions. Perhaps we may be
too feeble even to say the infant prayer
our mothers taught us, which John
Quincy Adams, 70 years of age, SAID
every night when he put his head upon
his pillow:
Now lay me down to Sleep
pray the Lord my soul to keep
We may be too feeble to employ
either of these familiar forms, but this
prayer of Stephen is SO short, is SO con-
else, is SO earnest, is so comprehensive,
we surely will be able to say that.
Lord Jesus, receive my spirit" Oh,
if that prayer is answered, how sweet
it will be to diel This world is clever
enough to US. Perhaps it has treated us
great deal better than we deserved to
be treated, but if on the dying pillow
there shall break the light of that better
world we shall have no more regret
than about leaving a small, dark, damp
house for one large, beautiful and capa-
cious. That dying minister in Philadel-
phla, some years ago, beautifully de-
picted it when, in the last moment, he
threw up his hands and cried out, ST
move into the light''
A Peaceful Sleep.
Pass on now, and will sho5v you one
more picture, and that is Stephen asleep.
With a pathos and simplicity peculiar
to the Scriptures the text says of Ste
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