Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-12-10

time with the higher branches Of mathe-
matics So of our transferred and trans
ported lnetaphysicians. What are they do
ing now? Studying the human mind, only
under better circumstances than they used
to study 1t. They used to study the mind
sheathed in the dull human body. Now
the spirit unsheathed-now they are study
ing the sword outside the scabbard. Have
you any doubt about what Sir William
Hamilton is doing in heaven, or what
Jonathan Edwards is doing in heaven or
the multitudes on earth who had passion
for metaphysics sanctified by the grace of
God? No difficulty in guessing. Metaphys-
les, glorious metaphysics, everlasting
metaphysics.
What are our departed Christian friends
who are explorers doing nows Exploring
yet, but with lightning locomotion, with
vision microscopic and telescopic at the
same time. A continent at glance,
world in second, planetary system in
day. Christian John Franklin, no more
in disabled Erebus pushing toward the
north pole; Christian De Long, no more
trying to free blockaded Jeanette from
the ice; Christian Livingstone, no more
amid African malarias, trying to make
revelation of a dark continent, but all of
them in the twinkling of an eye taking in
that which was once unapproachable.
Mont Blanc scaled without alpenstock,
the coral depths of the ocean explored
without diving hell, the mountains
unbarred and opened without Sir Hum
phrey Davy's safety lamp.
What are our departed friends who
found their chief joy in study doing now?
Studying yet, but, instead of few thou.
sand volumes on few shelves, all the
volumes of the universe open before them
geologic, ornithologic conchologic, bo-
tanic, astronomic, philosophic No more
need of Leyden jars or voltaic piles or
electric batteries, standing as they do face
to face with the facts of the universe.
What are the historians doing nowP
Studying history yet, but not the history
of a few centuries of our planet only, but
the history of the eternities-whole millen-
NUNS, before Xenophon or Herodotus or
Moses or Adam was born. History of one
world, history of all worlds. What are
our departed astronomers doingP Study
ing astronomy yet, but not through the
dull lens of earthly observatory, but with
one stroke of wing going right out to Jupi-
ter and Mars and Mercury and Saturn
and Orion and the Pleiades, overtaking
and passing the swiftest comet in their
flight Herschel died Christian. Have
you any doubt about what Hersohel is do
ing? Isaac Newton died Christian. Have
you any doubt about what Isaac Newton
is doingp Joseph Henry died Christian.
Have you any doubt about what Joseph
Henry is doing? They were in discussion,
all these astronomers of earth, about what
the aurora borealis was, and none of them
could guess. They know now; they have
been out there to see for themselves.
Divine Chemistry.
What are our departed Christian chem
lists doing? Following out their own
science, following out and following out
for ever. Since they died they have solved
10000 questions which puzzled the earthly
laboratory. They stand on the other side
of the thin wall of electricity-the thin
wall that seems to divide the physical from
the spiritual world; the thin wall of cleo
tricity, SO thin the wall that ever and anon
it seems to be almost broken through
broken through from one side by telephone
and telegraphic apparatus, broken through
from the other side by strange influences
which men in their ignorance call spirit
ualistic manifestations. All that matter
cleared up. They laughing at us as older
brothers will laugh at inexperienced BROTH
ers, as they see us with contracted brow
experimenting and experimenting, only
wishing they could show us the way to
open all the mysteries. Agassz standing
amid his student explorers down in Brazil,
coming across some great novelty in the
rocks, taking off his hat and saying:
Gentlemen, let us pray We must have
divine illumination. We want wisdom
from the Creator to study these rocks. He
made them. Let us pray" Agassiz going
right on with his studies forever and for
ever.
But what are the men of the law, who
in this world found their chief joy in the
legal profession-what are they doing
now? Studying law in universe where
everything is controlled by law from the
flight of humming bird to flight of world
law not dry and hard and drudging,
but righteous and magnificent law, before
which man and cherub and seraph and
archangel and God himself bow; the
chain of law long enough to wind around
the immensities and in1nity and eternity.
Chain of law. What place to study law,
where all the links Of the chain are in the
hand!
What are our departed Christian friends
who In this world had their Joy in the
healing art doing nowp Busy at their old
business. No sickness In heaven, but
plenty OF sickness on earth, plenty Of
wounds in the different parts of Gods do
minion to be healed and to be medicated;
those glorifed souls coming down not in
lazy Doctors gig, but with lightning loco
motion. You cannot understand why that
patient got well after all the skillful doc
tors had said he must die Perhaps Aber.
crombie touched him-Abercrombi who
after many years doctoring the bodies and
the souls Of people in Scotland, went up
to God in 1874. Perhaps Abercrombie
touched him. I should not wonder If my
old friend Dr. John Brown, who died in
Edinburgh-John Brown, the author of
"Rab and His Friends" John Brown,
who was as humble Christian as he was
skillful physician and world renowned
author-I should not wonder If he had
been back again and again TO see some of
his old patients. Those who had their joy
in healing the sickness and the woes of |
earth, gone up to heaven, are come forth |
again for benignant medicament
But what are our friends who found |
their chief joy in conversation and in So !
ciality doing now2 In brighter conversation
there and in grander sooiality. What |
place to visit in where your next door
neighbors are kings and queens, you
yourselves kingly and queenly! If they
want to know more particularly about the |
first paradise, they have only to go over
and ask Adam. If they want to know how
the sun and the moon halted, they have |
only to go over and ask Joshua If they |
want to know how the storm pelted Sod |
ON, they have only to, go over and ask |
Lot If thew want tn Ena4v .Saso aha.aA |
The wife of Mr.. D. Robinson, a |
prominent lumberman of Hartwick. |
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