The Progress., 1898-09-10

the cool sleep. 70 those who are thil
blCodod and shiNariDg with agnes it viii
be the warm sleep. 70 those who, Lo
cause of physical dtsorlqss, wero terrified
with night visions, it WIN be the dream
less sleep 70 nurses and doctors an,
mothers who We're Weakened almost over,
hour Of the night ny those to whom they
mniStprcd on over whom thoy watched it
Will bo the undisturhcd sleep. To thos,
who could not get 10 bed till late ct night
and must rise early In the morning ana
before getting rested. il will 10 the long
sleep
| Away With Gloomy Talk.
Away with all your gloomy talk nbo,,
departing from this world If wo have
served our generation, it will not DO out
ting out into the breakers. II win not b.
the fight with Che king Of torrors. 1t will
bo going to sloop. A friend, writing me
| from Illinois, says that Row. DR.. Wingato
| president Of Wake Forest college. North
| Carolina, "ftor most useful life, found
his Inst day on oarth his hnppiost day, and
that IN his Inst moments no seemed to he
personally talking with Christ, as friend
with friend. saying; "Oh, how delightful
tt tsf | Knew puu would bo with me whom
tho time came, and knew 1t would ~,
sweet, but did not know it would DO as
sweet rs It is" 1hofact was he had served
his generation In tho gospel ministry, and
by tho will OF God he foil asleep. When
In Africa Majwara, the servant, looked
into tho tent Of David Livingstone and
found him on his knees. He stepped back,
not wishing to di!surb him In prayer,
and some time after went In and found
him In the same posture and stepped buck
again, but after awhile went in and
touched him, and, 10, the great traveller
had finished his last journey, and he had
died ID the grandest and mightiest posture
man ever takes-on his kneesI He bat
served his generation by unrolling the
scroll of q continent, aud by the will O,
God fell on sleep. In the museum of
Greenwich, England, there Is fragment
Of o book that was found In the arotk;
regions amid the relics Of Sir John Frank
lin, who had persisted amid the snow and
tee and the leaf Of that piece of q book
was turned down ut tho words, "When
thou passcst through the waters, will be
with tbec." Having served his genera.
ton In the cause of science and discovery.
by the will Of God no fell on sleep
Glorious Awakening.
Why will you keep US all 80 nervous
talking about that which is only dormi.
tory and pillowed slulnber, canopiel by
angels wingsS Sleep! Transporting |
sheep! And what glorious awakening |
You and have sometimes been thorouah
~ bewildered after long and fatisuinR
journey. We have stopped at friends
house for the night, and after hours of |
complete Inconsistencies we have opened
our eyes, the high risen sun full In o,r
faces, and before we could fully oollect,our
faculties have said where am II Whose
house is this and whose are these galdens?"
And then 1t has flashed upon us in glad
reality.
And / ehould not wonder II, after we
nave served our generation and, by the
Will OF God, have fallen on sleep, the deep
feep, the festful sleep, we should awaken
n blissful bowilderment and for little
While say: Where am II What palace Is
hisP Why, this looks like heaven! 1t il,
Is Why, there is building grander
han all the castles Of earth heaved into q
mountain of splendor-that must be the
'alaoe OF Jesus! And look there at those
walks lined with foliage more beautiful
han anything ever saw before and SEQ
hose who are walking down those aisles
I verdure From what have heard Of
hem those two arm and arm must be
doses and Joshua, him Of Mount Sinai
nd him Of the halting sun over Gideon.
md those two walking arm in arm must
Q John and Paul. the one 80 gentle and
he other 80 mighty.
Never More to Part.
but must not look any loneer at
hose gardens Of beauty, but examine this =
uilding In which have Just awakened.
look out Of the window this way and }
nat and up and down, and l find It is q
,ansion Of Immense size in which I am
coping. All its windows of agate and
8 colonnadcs of porphyry and alabaster.
my, wonder II this is not the house Of o
lany mansions of which used TO readp
Is, 1T Is. There must be many of INV
inbred and friends In this very mansion.
ark Whose are those voicesp Whose 4
70 those bounding feet2 l open the door
I'd see, and, 10, they are coming through :
the corridors and up and down all the 4
airs, our long absent kindred. Why s
zero is father, there is mother, there are 8
10 children All we'll again, oil young 8
yain, all of us together again, and as we I
hbracc each other with the cry: Never
ore to part Never more to partr the !.
ches, the hlcoves, the Railways, echo and !.
echo the words: Never more to partl hi
ever more to partH Then our glori1ed -
lends say, Come out with us and 500
aven.' And, some of them bounding
ead OF us and some Of them skipping
side us, we start down the ivory stair
'y. And we meet, coming up, one of
o kings Of ancient Israel, somewhat
,all OF STATURE but havinga countenance is
uiant with a Thousand yio%,,to, A., pI