The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-07
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coming, coming. Did you hear them as
| they swept by?
/ But what are our mathematical friends
/ to do in the next world? They found their
| joy and delight in mathematics. There was
more poetry to them in Euclid than in
John Milton. They were as passionately
| fond of mathematics as Plato, who wrote
| over his door. Let no one enter here who
| is not acquainted with geometry" What
are they doing now? They are busy with
! figures yet. No place in all the universe
like heaven for figures. Numbers infinite,
/ distances infinite, calcula tions infinite. If
they want them, arithmetics, and alge-
bras, and geometries, and trigonometres
| for all eternity. What fields of space to
be surveyed! What magnitudes to meas
\ ure What diameters, what circumfer-
ences, what triangles, what quaternions,
| what epicycloids, what parallelograms,
what comic sections! The didactic DR..
Dick said he really thought that the re-
deemed in heaven spent some of their time
with the higher branches of mathematics.
! So of our transferred and transported met
| aphysicians. What are they doing now?
Studying the human mind. only under bet
ter circumstances than they used to study
it. They used to study the mind sheathed
| in the dull human body. Now the spirit
unsheathed-now they are studying the
sword outside the scabbard Have you
any doubt about what Sir William Hamll-
ton is doing in heaven, or what Jonathan
| Edwards is doing in heaven, or the multi
tudes on earth who had a passion for met
aphysics sanctifed by the grace of God?
No difficulty in guessing. Metaphysics
glorious metaphysics, everlasting meta
physics.
What are our departed Christian friends
who are explorers doing now? Exploring
vet, but with lightning locomotion, with
| nd fnIa
same time. A continent at glance.
world in a second. A planetary system in
a 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 malaries, 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 dlving-bell. The mountains un-
barred and opened. without Sir Humphrey
Davy's safety lamp.
what are our departed friends who
found their chief joy in studying doing
now? Studying yet, but instead OF rev
thousand volumes on a few shelves, all
the volumes of the universe open BEFORE
them-geologic, ornithologic, conchologlc'
botanic, astronomic, philosophic. NO more
need of Leyden jars, or voltaic pies, OF
electric batteries, standing as they 90
face to face with the facts Of the universe.
what are the historians doing now?
STUDYING history yet, but not tne history
of a few centuries of our planet only, put
the history of the eternities-whole NIL
leniums before Xenophon, or Heroootus,
or Moses, or Adam was born. History OF
one world, History of all worlds. what
are our departed astronomers DONG!
STUDYING astronomy yet, but not through
the dull lens of earthly observatory, but
with one stroke of wing going right out
to Jupiter, and Mars, and Mercury, ana
Saturn and Orion, and the Pleiades-oVer-
taking and passing the swiftest comet IN
their flight Herschel died a Christian.
Have YOU any doubt about what Herschei
is doing? Isaac Newton died Christian.
Have YOU any doubt about what isaac
Newton is doing? Joseph Henry dled
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,
! ahd none of them could guess They
know now; they have been out there to
see for themselves.
What are our departed Christian chem
| lists doing? Following out their own sci
ence, following out and following out for
| ever Since they died they have solved
| ten thousand 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 electricity; so thin the wall that
ever and anon it seems to be almost brok-
| en- through-broken through from one side
| by telephone and teiegraphic apparatus,
broken through from the other side by
| strange influences which men in their ig-
| norance call spiritualistic manifestations
| hot MAJ or oil rrD bod
at US as older brothers will laugh at in
| experienced brethren, as they see us with
| contracted brow experimenting and exper-
imenting. only wishing they could show
| us the way to open all the mysteries.
| Agassiz standing amidst his student ex-
| plcrers 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 for ever and for ever
But what are the men of the law, who
in this world found their chief 10y in the
legal PROFESSIONALISM are they doing
| now? Studying law in a 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 infinity. 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 are doing now? Busy at their
old business. No sickness in heaven hut
plenty Of sickness on earth, plenty OF
wounds in the different parts of Gods do.
minion to be healed and to be medicatsd
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.
| ;rombie touched him-AbercrombIe. woo
after many years doctoring the bodies ana
the souls of people in Scotland went IN
| to God I'm 1874. Perhaps Abercromble
touched him. l should not wonder n my
| old friend Or. John Brown. who died in
Edinburgh-John Brown, the author OF
'Rab and His Friends"-John Brown. who
was as humble a Christian as he was a
skillful physician and world-renowned au-