The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1897-11-05

breviated earthly existence In the fact |
that one IS the sooner taken OF tn de-
fensive As soon As one i old /
enough TO take care of himself he /,
Is put on his guard Bolts on tic
doors 10 keep out the robbers. Fire
proof safes TO keep on the flames. Life
insurance aud fire Insurance against
accident Receipts lest you have l.
pay a debt twice I.iieboai against
shipWrecls. Westinghouse air-hraise
against railroad collision, and hun
dreds OF hands ready To cssrrcach you
and take all you have. Defease against
cold. defense againss heal, dcfcnse
agains, sickness, DEF ase sgaiRSt III
world ai,uSr defense all the way
down 10 The grave, aud even the tomb
T, alone Sunrtines y pot a msiicient bar
ricade
II q soldier. who has been oa guard,
shivering and'stung with the cold, pae-
ing up and down the parape: with
shOuldered musSet. is glad when some
one comes TO relieve guard and lac can
90 inside the fortress. ought not that
man to shout for joy who can put Down
his weapon of earthly defense and -
into the kings castle: Who Is the more
fortunate. the soldier who has to stand
guard II hours or the man who has 10
stand gnard six hours W. havs com
mon sense about everything Int re-
ligion. common scnse about every
thing but iransfcrence from This
world.
Again: There is blessing in an -
breviated earthly existence in tn. fact
that one escapes 81 many lcocsve-
ments The longer we live the more
attachments and the more sindre,l. tie
more chords Ia be wounded or -aspet
or snndered n q man live ON to - or
50 years OF age how many graves ere
cleft at his feet, In that long mach uf
time father and mother 60 brothers
and sisters 60, children go, grsndehl-
drcn go, personal friends outside the
family circle whom they had loved
with love like that Of David and
| Jonathan Besides that, some men
have natural trepidation shout
| dissolution. and ever and anon
during 40 or 80 OF GO years this
horror Of their dissolution shoulders
through soul and body Vow. suppose
the lad goes at l6 years Of age? He es-
capes 80 funerals 20 casixets, SC Obse-
quies, 50 awful wrenchings Of The
heart II is hard enough for Us 70 bear
their departure, but is il not easier for
MS to bear their departure than for
them 10 stay and bear 50 departures?
Shall we not by the grace of tod rouse
ourselves into generosity of bcreave-
ment which will practically say: 1T
is hard enough for me to go through
this bereavement. but how glad an.
that he will never have TO 20 through
it,
so 1 reason with myself and 81 you
will find II helpful to reason with your
selves David lost his son. Though
David was king he lay on the earth
mourning and inconsolable for some
time. AT this distance Of time which
do You really think WAS the one 10 be
congratulated, the sbOrt-lived child or
the lOng-lived father? Had David died
as early as that child died he would, in
the first place. have escaped that par
tieular bereavement, then he would
have escaped the worst be-
reayement Of Absalom, his re
ereant son. and the pursuit OF
the Philistines, and the fatigues of his
military campaign. and the jealousy of
Saul. and The perfidy Of Ahithophel
and the curse of Shimel, and the de-
struction of his family at Ziklag, and,
above all. he would have escaped the
two great ealamities OF his life, the
/ great sin of uncleanness and murder
David lived Ia be of vast use to the
church and the world. but 50 far as his
own happiness was concerned, does it
not seem TO you that it would have
bsen better for him to have gone
early?
Now. this. mySfriends. explains some
things that TO YOU have been inexpiie-
able This shows you Why, when God
takes little children from household,
He is very apt to take the brightest,
the most genial. the most sympathetic.
the most talented Why2 1t is bec3ne
that kind of nature suffers the most
when IL does suffer, and is most liable
to temptation God saw the tempest
sweeping up from the Caribbean. and
He put the delicate craft into the first
harbor. Taken away from the evil
70 come
Again, my friends. there IS bless
ing in an abbreviated earthly exist
enee, in the fact that it puts one sooner
in the center of things All astrono-
mers. infdel as well as Christian,
agree in believing that the universe
swings around some great center. ANY
one who has studied the earth acd
studied the heavens know that Gods ia
vOrite figure in geometry is a cir
Gle When God put forth His
hand to create the universe lie
did not strike that hand at
right angles. but He waved il in cir
Gle. and kept on waving in a circle nm
til systems and consultations and
galaxies and all worlds took that mo-
ton Our planet swinging around the
sun. other planets swinging around
other suns. but somewhere a great
hub, around which the great wheel Of
the universe turns Now the center is
Heaven. That is the capital of the
universe. That is the great metropolis
Of immensely
Does not our common sense teach us
that. in matters Of study. it IS better
for us TO move out from the center to-
ward the circumference. rather than TO
be on the circumference, where our
world now is? We are like those who
study the American continent while
standing on the Atlantic beach. The
way to study the continent is TO cross
iLOr 20 to the heartofit- Our standpoint
in this world is detective. We are at
the wrongend Of the telescope. The best
way 10 study a piece Of machinery
is. not TO stand on the doorstep and
try TO look in but to go in with the en-
gineer and take our place right amid
the saws aud the cylinders We wear
our eyes out. and our brain out, from
the fact that VIC are studying under
such great disadvantages Millions OF
dollars for observatories to study
things about the moon, about the sun.
about the rings OF Saturn. about tran
sits and OCCUPATIONS and eelipses, sim
ply because our studio, our obServa-
tory, Is poorly situated. We are down