Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-12-16

Nov. vnen those Who had the military spirit
on earth sancti1ed entered glory, suppose
they right away enlisted on some heavenly
campaign; they volunteered right away.
There must needs be- in heaven soldiers with
a soldieriy spirit There are grant parade
days. when the King reviews the troops. There
must be an armed escort sent out to bring up
from earth to heaven those who were more
than couquerors. There must be crusades
ever being fitted out for some part Of Col .
paiuless-angeIs Of evil TO be fought down
ami fought out, other rebelitous worlds TO
be conquered, worlds TO bs put to the torch,
worlds to be saved, worlds to bs demolished,
worlds to be sunk, worlds to b. hoiste1. Be-
sides that, In our own world there are bat
ties for the right and against the wrong
where we must have tbs heavenly military.
That ID what keeps us Christian reformers so
buoyaut. So few good men against so many
bad man; so few churches against SO many
grogshops; so many pure printing presses
against 30 many pollutei printing presses,
aud yet va are buoyant and courageous.
because, while We know thar the armies of
evil in the world are larger In numbers
than the army OF truth. there are celestial CO.
horts In the air fighting on our eide. have
not so much faith in the army on the ground
as have in the army IN the air. o God,
open our eyes that We may see them-the
military spirits that went up from earth to
Join the military spirits before the throne
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Samson and the hundreds OF Christian war
riors vho on earth fought with deshly arm,
aud now, having gone up on high. are COM
ing down the hills OF heaven ready to fight
smong the invisibles.
But what are our mathematical frients to
do in the next woridf They found their joy
a,i delight In mathematics. There WAS
more poetry to them in Euclid than in john
Milton. They wers pass!onaeiy fond OF
mathema.i as Plato, who wrote over his
door, 'FLet no one enter here wao Is not ac-
auaintei with geometry" What are they
doing now? They ara busy with figures yet.
No place in all the universe like heaven for
figures Numbers inil ite. distances infoite,
calculations infinite. II they want them.
arithmstics and algsbras AMI geomesr'es and
triaonometries for all eternity. Whist fields
of SPACE to be surveyed! What magnttude5
TO MEASURE! Wnat diameters, what circum-
ferences. what triangles, what quatern ons,
what epicvclOids, what paraiieloyrems. what
conic sections!
What are our departed Christian frienis
yet, but with lightning locomotion, with
vision microscopic and telescope at the same
time. continent at a glance, q world In u
second, u planetary system In day. Chris
tfan John Franklin. no more in disabled
Erebus pushing toward the North Pole;
Christian De Long, no more trying to Tree
blockaded Jeanette from the ice; Christian
Livingstone, no more amid African malarias,
irving to make revelation Of a dark con-
tlnent, but all OF them in the twinkling OF an
eye taking in that which was once unap-
proachable. Mont Blanc scaled without
alpenstock, the coral depths OF the ocean ex-
plored with out q diving bell, the mountains
unbarred and opened without Sir Humphrey
Davy's safety lamp.
What are our departed friends who founl
their chief Joy in study doing now? Study
ing yet, but, instead OF a few THOUSAND vol
70 hall, ali Of fb.a
universe open before them-geoloyic, orn,-
tho ogic. conchologic. botanic. astronomic,
pniiosophic. No more need OF Leyden jars
or voltsic piles or electric batteries, standing
as they do face to face with the facts OF the
universe.
What are the historians doing now?
Studying history yet, but not the history of
few centuries of our planet only. but the
history of the eternittes-whols miilen-
NUNS, before Xenophen or Herodotus or
Moses or Adam was born. History of one
world, history OF all worlds: What are our
astronomy vet, but not through the dull
lens Of earthly observatory. but with one
stroke OF wing going right out to Jup-
Ter and Mars AMI Mercury and Saturn
and Orion and the Pieiades. overtaking
and passing the swiftsst comet 10 their
flight Herschel died a Christian. Have
you any doubt about what Herschei is doing?
Isaac Newton died a Christian. Have you
any doubt about what Isaac Newton is doing?
Joseph Henry died q Christian. Have you
any doubt about what Joseph Henry is do
ing? They were in discussion, all these as
tronomers OF earth, about what the aurora
borealis was. and none OF them could guess.
They know now: they have been out there
to ses for themselves.
What are our departed Christian chemists
doing? Following out their own science, fol-
lowing out and following out forever. Since
they died they have solved 900 questions
which puzzled the earthly laboratory. They
stand on the other side of the thin wall of
thin wall that seems to di-
vide the physical from the spiritual world:
the thin wall of ele.tricity, so thin the wall
that ever and anon it seems to be almost
broken through-broken through Fl ON one
side by telephone AMI teiegraphic ap
paratus. broken through from the other
side by strange influences which
men in their ignorance call spirit
uallstic manifestations. AL that matter
cleared up. They laughing at us as ol!er
brothers will laugh at inexperienced broth
ers. as they see US with contracted brows ex-
perimenting and experimenting, only wish
Ing they could show US the way to open al
the mysteries. Agas5iz standing amid his
student explorers down in Brazil, coming
across some great novelty In the rocks. tax
ing Of 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 forever.
But what are the men Of the law, who in
this world found their chief Joy in the legal
profession-wha are they doing now! Study
Ing law in o universe where everything is
controlled by law from the flight OF hum
ming birds to flight of world-,aw not dry
and hard and drudginR. but righteous and
magnificent law. before which man and
cherpb and seraph and archangel and Got
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 sill the links of the chain
are in the hand.
What are our departed Christian friends
VINO In THIS world had their Joy IN the neai-
ing art doing now? Busy at their old busi-
nesA. No sickness in heaven, but plenty OF
sickness on earth, plenty of wounds in the
different parts Of Gods dominion to be
healed and to be medical ed; those glorifled
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 Abercrombie, who, after many years
dootorng the bodies and the souls OF
God in 1s44 Perhaps Absrcrombie
touched him. I should not wonder II my
old friend, DR.. John Brown. who died in Ed
inburgh-John Brown, the author Of "Rah
and His Friends" John Brown, who was as
humble Christian as he was a skillful ply.
sician aud world renowned author-I should
not wonder II 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 medi'
cament.
But what are our friends who found theif
chief Joy In conversation and In sociality do
ing now? In brighter conversation there and
IN grander sooiality. What pla"e to visit
in when your next door neighbors are kings
and:queens, you yourselves kingly and queen
lYi IL they want to know mora particularlv