The Monitor-register., 1896-12-11
Actual Potash.

qualnUed with geometry" What are
they doing now? They are busy with
figures yet. No place in all the universe
like heaven for figures. Numbers inf
mite, distances infinite, calculations in
finite; if they want them, arithmetics
and algebras and geometries and trig-
onometries for all eternity. What fields
OF space to be surveyed What magni
tudes to measured What diameters, what
clrcumferences, what triangles, what
quaternlons, what epicycloids, what
parallelograms, what comic sections!
The didactic DR.. Dick said he really
thought that the redeemed in heaven
spent some of their time with the high
er branches of mathematics So of our
transferred and transported metaphysi-
clans. What are they doing now? Study
ing the human mind, only under better
circumstances than they used to study
it. They used to study the mind sheath
ed in the dull human body. Now, the
spirit unsheathed-now they are study
ing the swc-a 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. Metaphysics, glorious meta
physics, everlasting metaphysics.
What are our departed Christian
friends who are explorers doing now?
Exploring yet, but with lightning To-
go ,.,l
telescope at the same time. A oonti-
nent at glance, a world in second,
planetary system in day. Christian
John Franklin, no more in disabled Ere
bus 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 reve-
ation of dark continent, but all of
chem in the twinkling of an eye taking
n that which was once unapproachable.
Mont Blanc scaled without alpenstock,
he coral depths of the ocean explored
without diving bell, the mountains
inbarred and opened without. Sir Hum
yJhrey Davy's safety lamp.
The Library OF the Universe.
What are our departed friends who
ound their chief joy III study doing
low? Studying yet, but, inste al of a
'ew Thousand volumes Oh few shelves,
III the volumes of the universe open
before them geologic, ornithologic,
,onehologic, botanic, astronomic, phi
osopI1ic.. Nomore need Of Leyden jars or
loltaie piles or electric batteries, stand'
ng as they do face to face with the facts
IF the universe.
What are the historians doing now?
Studying history yet, but not the his
5Cry of a few centuries of our planet only,
but the history Of The efernities-wh
millenniums before Xeelophon or He.
rodotus or Moses or Adam was born.
History of one world, history of all
worlds What are oul departed astrono-
mers doing? Studying astronomy yet,
but not through the dui lens OF earth
ly observatory, but with one stroke OF
wing going sright ont-eo Jupiter and
Mars and Mercury and Saturn and
Orion and the Pleiades, oyerfaklng
md passing the swiftest eemes ill 1Aeirs:
dight Herschel died Christian. Have
you any doubt about what Herschel Ia
doing? Isaac Newton died a christian.
Gave you any doubt about what Isaac,
Newton is doing? Joseph Henry died q
Christian. Have you any doubt about
what Joseph Henry is doing? They were
in discussion, all these astronomers of
earth, about what the aurora boreaIis
was, aud none of them could guess.
They know now; they have been out
there to see for themselves
What are our departed Christian
chemists doing? Following out their
own science, following out and follow.
ing out forever. Since they died they
have solved, 10, 600 questions which puz-
zled 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 electricity, so
thin the. wall that ever and anon it
seems to be almost broken through:
broken through from one side by teie-
phonic end telegraphic apparatus, bro.
ken through from the other side by
strange Influences which men in their
ignorance call spiritualistic manifesto
tions All that matter cleared np They
laughilg at us as older brothers will
lapgH at inexperienced brothers, as they
see Us with contracted brow experiment.
ing and experimenting, only wishing
they could show us the way to open all
the mysteries. Agassiz, 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. Wemust 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 forever.
The Men of the Law.
But what are the men of the law
who in this world found their. chief Joy
in the legal profession, what are they
doing nowa Studying law in universe
where every thing sis controlled by law
from the flight Of humming bird to.
flight of world law not dry and hard
and drudging. but fighteous and mag
nificent law, before which man and
cherub and seraph and archangel aud
God himself bow Thechain of law
long enough to wind around the i'm
mensities and infnity and eternity
Chain of law. What place to study
law, where all the links of the chain
are iii the hand.
What are cur departed Christian
friends who i'll this world had their Joy
in the healing art doing now? Busy at
their old business. No sickness in heav-
en-, but plenty of sickness on earth,
plenty of wounds in the different parts
of Gods dominion to be healed and to
be medicated. Those glorifed souls
coming down, not in lazy DOCTORS gig,
but with lightning locomotion. You
cannot understand why that patient got
well after all the skillful doctors had
said he must die. Perhaps Aberorombie
touched him-Abercrombie, 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 q
Christian as he was q skillful physician,
and wrld renowned author-~I should
not wolder If he had been back again
and again to see some of his old pa
tients. Those who had their joy in
healing the sickness and the woes of
earth. gone up 10 heaven, are come forth
again for rbenignant medicament.
aasaaeF soeiality.
But what, ale cur friends WHO found
their chief joy IL conyersat and in
N1u q From U.sJo,ynat Of aedicias
Prof. w r. Feeke, who