The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-12-19

or Godr NO dih1culty In guessing
Metaphysics, glorious metaphysics
everlasting metaphysics.
What are our departed Christian
friends VIII o are explorers doing now
Exploring yet, but with lightning 10
comotion, with vision microscopic an,
telescope at the same time. A CONT
nent at a glance. A world in a second
A planetary system In a day.. Chris
tian John Franklin no more in disabl
Erebus pushing toward the nortf
pole; Christian De Long no more try
ing to free blockadel Jeanette from
the ice; Christian Livingstone no more
amid African malarias, trying to make
revelations of dark continent, but al
of them in the twinkling of an eye
taking in that which was once unap
proachable. Mont Blanc scaled with
the ocean explored without diving
bell. The mountains unbarred and
opened without Sir Humphrey Davy's
safety lamp.
What are the historians doing now?
Studying history yet, but not the his.
tory of IA few centuries of our planet
only, but the history of the eternities
whole millenniums before Xenophon,
or Herodotus, or Moses, or Adam, was
born. History of one world. History
of all worlds. What are our departed
astronomers doing? Studying astron-
omy 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, and Saturn, and
Orion and the Pleiades-overtaking
and passing the swiftest comet in
their flight.
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 10000 questions which
puzzled the earthly laboratory. They
stand on the other side of 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 telephone and tele-
graphic apparatus, broken through
from the other side by strange infiu-
ences which men in their ignorance
call spiritualistic manifestations. All
that matter cleared up. They laugh
ing at us as other brothers will laugh
at inexperienced brothers as they see
us with contracting brow expert
menting, only wishing they could show
us the way to open all the mysteries.
But what are the men of the law
who in this world found their chief
JOY in the legal professionalism are
they doing now? Studying law in
universe where everything is con-
trolled by law from the flight of hum
ming-bird to flight of world-law, not
dry and hard and drudging, but right.
eous, 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 a
place to study law, where all the links
Of the chain are in the hand!
What are our departed Christians
friends who in this world hal their
joy in the healing art doing now?
Busy at their old business. No sick
ness in Heaven, but plenty of sickness
on earth, plenty of wounds in the diff
ferent part of Gods dominion to be
healed and to be medicated.
But what are our friends who found
their chief JOY in conversation and n
'ociality doing now? In brighter con.
yersation there and in grander social,
ty. What place to visit in where
your next door neighbors are kings
lnd queens! You yourselves kingly
and queenly. If they want to know
more particularly about the first para.
iise, they have only TO go over aud ask
Adam. If they want to know how
the sun and the moon halted, they
have only to go over and ask Joshua.
II they want to know how the storm
pelted Sodom, they have only to go over
and ask Lot. II they want to know
more about the arrogance of Hannah,
they have only to go over and ask
Mordecai. If they want to know how
the Red sea boiled VIII en- it was cloven.
they have only to go over and ask
Moses. If they want to know the
particulars about the Bethlehem adj
vent, they have only to go over and ask
the serenading angels who stood
that Christmas night in the bal
comics of crystal. If they want
to know more of the particulars of
the crucifixion, they have only to
go over and ask those who were per-
sonal spectators while the mountains
crouched and the heavens got black in
the face at the spectacle.
But bark! the bell of the cathedral
cathedral bell of Heaven.
What is the matter now? There is go-
ing to be great meeting in the tenn
pie. Worshipers all coming through
the aisles. Make room for the con-
queror. Christ standing in tho
temple. All Heaven gathering around
Him. Those who loved the beautiful
come to look at the Rose of Sharon.
Those who loved music come to liste
to His voice. Those who were mathe-
come to count the years
of His reign. Those who were
explorers come to discover the height
and the depth and the length and