Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1898-11-12


adequate impression upon Us. We need
the old story told in the new style in order
tosarooSe our appreciation. do not sup I
pose that we are compelled TO the old
phrsseolc$y. King JameS's translators
did not exhaust all TIE good and graphic
words q the English dictionary. j suppose
a we should take the idea Of heaven. and
translate 81 into modern phrase. We would
md thar SIS atmosphere l. a combination OF
early June ard 81 the Indian summer fn /
October place combining the advantages /
Of city and country. the STREETS standing 1
Tor the one, and the twelve mSnrc< 81 i
fruits Tor the other; a place of musical en- /
tert2lnrncnt-harQcrs. pipers. trumQeters. I
dCxolociess place Cf wonderful arCh.tec- /
turc-tchold the temple place whore
there nav BE- the higher forms % animal
hie-the beasts which were On earth beaten.
lash-whipQed. and sailed and unbianketed.
and worked 20 death. turned out amOng
the white horses which the Book Of EeveiR-
ticn describes a. being in heaven; place
% stuVrndous literature-the books open;
place % aristocratic and democratic at
tractiveress-the kings standing Tor the
ore. al nations Tor the other, I'll botanical.
4 genealogical. archaeological. arboresccnt.
worShipiul beauty and grandeur.
But nv idea now Is 20 speak chiefly o. the
improved heaven. People sometimes talk
4 81 heaven as though x were an old city.
finished centuries ago. when hsve 20 tell
yoD that no city on earth. during the last
L .tty years. has had such changes as heaven.
* l. not the same place Es when job. and
David. and Paul wrote 60 e. Fc- hundreds
f and hundreds 81 wears q has been going
through peaceful revolution. and year az
YEAR. and month ~ month. and hour by
. hour. anE moment ry moment % IS chang
Ing. and changing fCr something better.
a Away back tltre was only one re-l1 clce IL
the univer-e--he residence 90 the Al
. mighty. Heaven bad not Tet been started.
lmmcnsity wastl park au around about
this GREAT resi lerce. bat God : sympat hctic
hcGrt after a while oVrrlowei In ether
creations. and there cane. az through this
vast country % i---eEsitV. Inhabited Wiz
l1rcs. whi-h grew and enlarged until they
Joined each ctecr. and became one great
. central metropolis q the universe. streetcd.
gated. tempted. waterc1. inhabited one
angel went forth with q reed we are told.
and be measured heaven on one side. and
| then he went forth and measured heaven
Cd the ether side. and then 81. John tried
20 take the census 20 that city. and be be-
cane GO hewiliercd that be gave 10 up.
That brings ue 20 the frst thought Of
ny tbc-e-tbat heaven g. vastly Improved
In uum hers. Noting little under this head
about t1e multitude o. adults who have
gone intc glory during the last hundred.
b or Eve hundred. or thousand year,. I re-
member there are sixteen hundred millions
O. people in the world. and that the vast
majority % people die a. infancy. How
many children must have gone into heaven
% during the last I've hundred or thousand
r years. II New York should gather IN one
generation million population. if London
should gather IN enc generation four MIL
llu1 population. what a. vast increased b.;
What q Uere nothing as compared with ths
Eve hundred million. the Two thousand
! million. TIRE multitude that no UaD car
i number. that have gone irto that city
o. course al this takes f0r granted tha
e every child thar dies goes az straight int
2 heaven a. ever t1c AGtt sped from a star
( and tlHt e. one rc1sc1 WY heaven Wi
aluays le ire.h and bclutiicl-tuc Crea
i-uliltuie q children tn e. Put Ave nun
). drcG million CHILDREN III gentry. az VII
r. - = hiczs~c ana lively country.
Eut aid - thls. a. you wll. tic crca
multitude q 11ults wDo have gone int
;, Eiory, and how the census % heaven mus
2 run ~, Many years ago clcrgT-aa al
stood s. New England p-lT.r. and sal
% that he leiieTed thai the vast uai 1rity o
r the race would finally r. destroyed. a.
r. thrt not more than che person cot 90 -
49, Thousand persons would De finally saved
. IEere LarreueI 90 Pc about tive rlou~lE
q people ~ the village where De preached
r. Aexr sabbath tuo persons were heard dis
- Guessing tie subject and wondering wLic
+ che % the two tLuusZr1 people in a.
village would 1-aliy reach heaven. az
"a one thought t would be the minister AZ
"a tne other thought g. would be the @.
y, deacon Nov. have not uucL admirable
fcr Ifc-bclr which VII 90 out 70 e shi
r sinking WIKI Two thousand passenger
g aid go CEe O. in safety. and le. lin
teen hundred ant Eioety -llne g 20 q
tnfrcrn Why. heaven must have beel
- village when Abel the lrst soul fro
ls sarfh. entered b.. IS compared With q
- present population % that great cityi
Again. reuark that heaven has vast
y improved % kucvle1ce. Give q III
* 1orty or 1fty years 90 study one science,
- al sciences. with al the advantage
- Laboratories AID observat0rle- and phi
e sophie apparatus, De viii be q marvel
he i1tOr1atio1. Now. into WHAT intelligcn
~ mast heaven uCult. angelEOo1 and sGt-
hood. not after studying for forty o. O,
wears. bot Tor thousands q years-stud
lng God ard the soul and Immortality al
- tie universe, How the intelligence
that world mUEr sweep Cd AID on VI
@gezight farther reaching than felescol
with power @ calculation uightier u
Al human UztLe-latics, with powers
C3 araiyFis eurr1eslng al chemical lab
a1cry with speed swiftcr than telegraf p
WA. must heaven learn wiki ali III
Advantages. in q month, IN . year. 10
century IN q rniilenniuns The ci1eres
IA tefween the highest university on ca
and TIE smallest class n primary sch
cannot Be greater cinerencs than hea'
49, as X nov IL and heaven as u once "
1b, DO you not sCYPose that when Doe
lex Jarres Simpson Tent up from the hos
- tals q E6loburgb into heaven be X
'1'4 mere th2n ever tie science Of health Z
c1s that Joseph Henry, gracEstinE iro-i
ing Smithsonian Instifpiion Into he@s
,-r- axoke into higher realms 81 philosop
and that Slr william EauBton. lifted
MY Ioftter sphere. un6erstoOd better the r
raj stsuctlon 81 The buman intellect; and :
ne John Eliton took up higher poetry "a
"a !, actual presence % thiDgs that on earth
q had tired 20 describe, Wnen the
81, fairts entered heaven. they must i
stacisd onlv The = 81 the fell jit'
- tGrs q vision vita wlicb they are
acQuainted.
lad. Again. beaTsn IL vastly lmpr0ve1 10
JHn soelety. Daring your memory now o.
and exQ1lsits spirits have gone into ~ II
eoozid Try 10 uaks list % ali the gel
- loving gracious. blessed souls thai
also lave frorc. Il would BE- very iosg li
lsrSs- ersuis that have zone into glory. Now