Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-12-12

mers doing? Studying astronomy yet,
but not through the dull lens of earth
ly 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. Herschel died q Christian Have
you any doubt about what Herschel is
doing? Isaac Newton died Christian.
Have you any doubt about what Isaac
Newton Is doing? Joseph Henry died a
Christian. Have you any doubt about
what Joseph Henry is doing? They were
in discussion, all these astronomers Of
earth, shout what the aurora borealis
was, and 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, 900 questions which puz-
zled the earthly laboratory. They stand
Oh the other side OF the thin wall of
eectricity-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 tele-
phonic and telegraphio apparatus, bro
ken through from the other side by
strange influences which men in their
ignorance call spiritualistic manifesto
tions All that matter cleared up. They
laughing at US as older brothers will
laugh 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 tho 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 now? Studying law i'll a universe
where everything is controlled by law
from the fight of humming bird to
fight of world-law, not dry and hard
and drudging, but righteous and mag
nifcent law, before which man and
cherub and seraph and archangel and
God himself bow. The chain 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 in the hand
What are our departed Christian
friends who in this world had their JOY
in tho healing art doing now? Busy at
their old business. No sickness i'll heav-
en-, bat 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
we'll after all the skillful doctors had
said he must die. Perhaps Abercrombie
touched him-Abercrombie, who, after
many years dootoring the bodies and
the souls of people in Scotland, went up
to God in 1874 Perhaps Abercrombi
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 o
Christian rs 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 pa
tents. Thcso 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
sociality doing now? In brighter con-
versation there and in grander social
ty. What place to visitin, where your
next door neighbors are kings and
queens, you yourselves kingly and
queenlyl If they want to know more
particularly about the first paradise,
they have only to 90 over and ask Ad-
am. 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 Sodom,
they have only to 60 over and ask Lot.
If they want to know more about the
arrogance of Hannah, they have only to
90 over and ask Mordecai. If they want
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