The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-04-06

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in life. There are spirits or there Will be
spirits TO whom the mention OF death
will mean nothing. IL will STIR no recoi-
lection. Death shall be no more.
Triumphant life, life more abounding
that Jesus came to bring, this comes.
There Is no necessity about death. some
people say IL IL essential TO lie. Have
the angels died3 Has God diedY Has
Elijsh died? Has Enoch diedY Have we
died? Who can prove that we mustY
can as soon prove the contrary. How
large place had death in the lie OF
Moses? Did ne appear as corpse
for the lamentat.on of Israeli Did no
not appear able by the exuberance OF
splendid life TO touch the vitality OF
Christ on the Mount OF Trapstigur-
alton? Death is difficult end temporary.
See now the progress that has been
made into life. There is an increasing
animation in nature. Every plant, every
star, so far as we know anything about
ii, has to grow cool before life masters
IL. On it's waste and void surface lie
finally triumphs Life multiplies upon
the earth wondroulsy. There were never
SO many people, SO many homes, SO
much grass, so many trees, and beasts
as now. The cattle upo1 thousand hills
are become In our country alone the cat
tie on Ten thousand hills. The popula-
tion of Europe was much less two nun
QFGu years blnNt tllhil nONs hht ~
meanwhile the Western Hemisphere had
added hundred millions TO its human In
habitants. Who VIII take census OF the
birds? The government counts by many
billions the fGh eggs 1t distributes. The
beginning OF life is silent. Death Is noisy
and often sudden, therefore IL has an un :
duly large place In the world. There Is a
grandeur In the persistence OF life. In the
intelligence and worship OF God, In the
h ,ad of a man whose whole body Is para
lyZed. i stood over man whose living
head had prayed and blessed for ii years,
but whose body had no self motion. 1be
moment in which speak sees multi
tude otnew horn babes come TO take the
place OF the decrepit bodies that have in
is better. 1t is a positive gain. The
world Is filling up. What means its
growth? Life Victorious Is the meaning
OF It'll God means well by the multipli-
cation of life.
Life can be helped on. The principle
of 1t is in the Christ, in the Christian.
Are we much alive? Life has swallowed
as yet but a small part of the death within
us. know a man who perhaps loves no.
body. He.is like stone. Sykes had a
dog. PERHAPS he hated 1t little less than
other things. There are men ii is said
who love- nobody. There are perhaps a
billion and a quarter OF human beings in
the world. Not one OF these does our hero
our misanthropic love. Let life touch
him. Life Is love. They are always to-
gether. Life and love touch him. He
loves wife, children, other peoples
children, his country. its rulers, its bene-
factors, the worlds benefactors, its Ma
ker, it's Redeemer, His angels, ali His ere
ations. He loves tho stars, the tints OF
heaven. the springing grass, the tanning
wind, the forests, the streams-ten thou
sand flowers. the grazing beasts, his
brother, his God. He goes to hill top,
scans nature, peers into the sky, thanks
God for love, fills his eye with Its environ
ment, reaches out his arms to heaven
takes In the significance of fellowship; he
Is man.
Life is in no mans hand, and 1t Is non =
sense to talk OF taking Ii in the hand.
IL is sacrilege to seek even TO touch 1t.
The suicide cannot approach 1t; the mi
croscope cannot explain 1t, il comes and
goes at the beck of a viewiess hand
and an irrestible power. Its puniest de-
velopment rises TO glory; its grandest ex-
hibition sinks toa stencil, and II is be-
yord the category of our thinking.
How much OF what is mortal In you
peared2 IL Is mortal. Has lust forsaken
you? 1t shall die. Has self-will reared
its head within you? IL will have its
Waterloo. i see man named a Christian
anxious for food, for clothes, for comfort,
for being let alone, for freedom from any
cares outside what he calls his interest.
Is he much alive? What Is the weight of
his heart. Is Christ born within him, q
swelling, uncopquerable power of eternal
glory? Then shall these deadly things be
swallowed by life.