The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-11-13
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| universe turns. NOW Inc CONFER Is
Heaven. That is the capital of the
universe. That is the great metropolis
of immepsity.
Does not our common sense teach us
that in matters of study, II is better
for us to move out from the center
toward 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
it, or to go TO the heart of it. Our
standpoint in this world is defective.
We are at the wrong end of the tele-
scope. The best way to study piece
of machinery is, not to stand on
the door step and try to look in, but
to go in. with the engineer
and take our place right amid
the saws and the cylinders. We
wear our eyes out and our
brain out, fro the fact that we are
studying under such great disadvan-
tage. Millions of dollars for OBSERVE
tories to study things about the mooh
about the sun, about the rings of Sat
Viii, uOOuU anu
md eclipses simply because our stu
dio, our observatory is poorly situated
We are down in the cellar trying to
study the palace of the universe, while
our departed Christian friends have
gone upstairs amid the skylights to
study. Now, when one can sooner get
TO the center of things, is he not to be
congratulated? Who wants to be al
ways in the freshman class? Wa
study God in this world by the Bibli.
cal photograph of Him; but we all
know we can, in five minutes of inter
view with II friend get more accurate
idea of him than we can by studying
him so years through pictures or
words. The little child that died last
| night knows more of God than all An
dover and all Princeton, and all New
brunswick, and all Edinburgh, and all
the theological institutes in Christen.
dom. Is it not better TO go up to the
very headquarters of knowledge?
Docs not our common sense teach us
! that it is better to be at the center
than to be clear out on the rim of the
wheel, holding nervously fast to the
tire, lest we be suddenly hurled into
| light and eternal felicity? Through
| all kinds of optical instruments trying
| to peer in through the cracks and the
keyholcs of lIeaven--afraid that boil:
doors of the celestial mansion will be
| swung wide open before our entranced
| vision rushing about among the
| apothecary shops of this world Won
dering if this is good for rheumatism,
and that is good for neuralgia, and
something else is good for n bad cough,
lest we be suddenly uskered into a
land of everlasting health, where the
| lnhabitant never says: Il am Sick"
One Christmas day witnessed some
! thing very thrilling. We had just dis
I tributed the family presents Christmas
morning, when | heard a great cry of
distress in the hallway. A child from
a neighbours house came in to say her
father was dead. 1t was only three
doors off, and l think in two minutes
we were there. There lay the old
Christian sea captain, his face upturned
toward the the window, us though he
| had suddenly seen the headlands, and
with an illuminated countenance, as
| though he were just going into harbor.
The fact was he had already got
through the "Narrows." In the adj
| joining room were the Christmas
presents waiting for his distribu-
| ton. Long ago, one night when he
had narrowly escaped with his ship
from being run down by great ocean
steamer, he had made his peace with
| a. - Ii, ;,.lI l.
man than Capt Pendlcton you would
not find this side of Heaven. Without
u moments warning, the Pilot of the
heavenly harbor had met him Just off
the lightship.
He had often talked to me of the
| goodness of God, and especially of a
| time when he was about TO enter New
York harbor, with his ship from Liv-
| erpool, and he was suddenly impressed
| that he ought to put back to sea. I'm
der tho protest of the crew and under
their very threat he put back to sea,
| fearing at the same time he was losing
his mind, for it did seem SO unreason-
| able that when they could get into har-
Dor that night they should put back to
sea. But they put back TO sea, and Capt.
| Pendleton said to his mate: You call
me at ten o'clock at night" At Ia
o'clock at night the captain was aroused
and said: What does this mean? L
thought told you to call me at ten
o'clock, and here it is H." why"
said the mate, II did call you at ten
o'clock, aud you got up looked around
and told me to keep right on the same
course for two hours, and then to call
you ut IL o'clock" Said the captain:
lis it possible? l have no remem-
brance of that"
At II o'clock the captain went on
deck, and through the rift of cloud
the moonlight fell upon the sea, and
showed him a shipwreck with 100
struggling passengers. He helped
them of. Had he been any earlier or
any later at that point of the sea he
would have been of no service
to those drowning people. On
board the captains vessel they
began to band together as