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

kinds Of optical Instruments trying
70 peer in through the cracks and
the lxcyholes al lIcaven-afraid
that both doors Of the celestial mansion
will beswung wide open before our en-
traneed vision rushing about among
the aPothecary shops Of the world.
wondering II this is good for rheuma-
tism, and that IS good FOR neuralgia.
and something else Is good for lad
cough, lestwe b. suddenly ushered into
a land OF everlasting health, where the
inhabitant never says, Il am sick
What fools we all are to prefer the
circumference 10 the center What a
dreadful thing il would be il we shonld
be suddenly ushered from this wintry
world into the May-time orchards OF
Heaven, and il our pauPcrism of sin
and sorrow shoali be sudtenly broken
up b, presentation OF an emperor's
castle surrounded by parks, with spring
! ing fountains and paths up and down
which angels OF God walk two and
two. We are all like persons standing
on the cold steps Of the national picture
gallery in London, under umbrella in
I rain, afraid 10 go in amid the Tur-
ners and the Titians and the Raphels.
| como to them and say, why don't
you go inside the gallery "oh, they
say, we don't know whether we can
get in say. ''don't you see the door
is opcn2n ''Yes, they say, but we
have been so long on these cold steps.
- -. fhar..
like To leave. But | say, ''it is so
much brighter md more beautiful in
the gallery, You had better go in"
No. they say, I'VE know exactly how
it is ont here, but we don't know exact
IL how it is inside
So we stick to this world as though
NC preferred cold drizzle to warm habi-
tatiOn, diseord TO cantata, sack cloth to
royal Pdrple-so though we preferred
piano with four or five OF the keys
out OF tune to an instrument fully at
tuned-as though earth and heaven
had exchanged apparel. and earth had
taken on bridal array and heaven
had gone into deep mourning,
all its waters stagnant. all
its harps broken, all chalices
cracked at the dry wells, all the lawns
sloping to the river plowed with
graves, with dead angels under the
furrow Oh, want TO break up my
own infatuation, and want TO break
up your infatuation with this world.
/ tell yon. il we are ready. and il our
work is done, the sooner we go the bet
/ ter, and IL there are blessings in
longevity ! want you to know RICH
we'll there are also blessings in an alb
brcyiated earthly existence.
If the spirit OF this sermon IS true,
how consoled you ought TO feel about
members of your family that went
early. Taken from the evil 10 come, >
his book saws. What a fortunate
escape they bad, How glad we ought
To feel that they will never have 20 go
through the struggles which we have
had TO go through. They had just
time enough to get out Of the cradle
and run up on the springtime hills of
this world and see how il looked, and
then they started for better stopping
i place. utN NtIt Alht sllpo llaN put
in at ST Helena, staying there long
enough to let passengers go up and SEQ
the barracks Of Napoleon's captivity
and then hoist sail for the port OF their
own native land They only took this
world in transit II is hard for Us. but
IL IS blessed for them
And if the spirit Of this sermon is
true, then we ought not TO go around
signing and groaning when another
] year Is going; but we ought to go
down on one knee by the milestone
and see the letters and thank God that
we are SO miles near home. We ought
not to go around with morbid feelings
about orr health or about anticipated
demise lie ought to be living not ae-
eording to that old maxim which used
to hear in my boyhoOd, that you must
live as though every day were the last;
you must live as though you were to
live forever, for you will Do not be
nervous lest you have to move out OF 4
shanty into an Alhambra