The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1898-04-27

any. Now, it all depends upon the Ill
rectiou in which you travel. ii 4 spirit
from hea"eu should come toward our
wCrld, he is travelling from June toward
December, from radiance toward dark
ness, from banging gardens toward ice
Seros. And one W0uld not bc very much
surprised If spirit Of God sent ioEth
from heaveL toward our world should
be slow to come But how strange it Is
that we dread going out toward that
world when going is from December to-
ward June, from the snow Of earthly
storm to the snow Of Edcnic lloSsoM,
from the arctics of trouble toward the
tropics Of eternal JOY.
Oh, what an ado abcut dying. We
get so attached to the malarial marsh
in which we live that we are afraid to
go up and live Cn the hilltop. We are
alarmed because vacation Is coming.
Eternal sunlight and Jest programme
of celestial minstrels and halleiulGh no
inducement Let Us stay here and Keep
cold and ignorant and weak. Do lot in
troduce US to Elijah and John Milton
and Bourdaloue. Keep our feet Oh the
sharp cObblestones Of earth instead CT
planting them on the bank Of aniaranth
in heaven. Give US this small island OF
a leprous world instead Of the immen.
sites of splendcr and delight. Keep cur
bands full Of nettles, and cur shoulder
under the burden, and our neck III the
yoke, and hopples on our ankles, ana
haudcuffs Oh our wrists. Dear Lord,
we seem to say, keep Us down here
where we have to suffer instead of let
ting us up where we might live and
reign and rejoice. y
Death Il True Life.
am amazed at myself and at ycur-
self for this infatuation under which
we all rest. Men you would suppose
would get frightened at having to stay
in this world instead of getting fright
ened at having to 90 toward heaven. l
congratulate any body who has right
to die. BY that mean through sickness
YOU cannot avert Or through accident
you cannot avoid-your work consum-
mated. "Where did they bury Lily"
said one little child to another. ooh, y
she replied, "they buried her i'll the
ground" "What! In the cold ground:'
ooh, no, no, rot il the cold ground,
but in the VAIN ground, where ugly
seeds become Leau;iful flowers
"But," says some one, "it pains me
so much to think that l must lose the
body with which my soul has SO long
companiuned You do not lose 1T. You
no more lose your body by death than
You lose your watch when you send 1t
to have it repaired or your jewel when
YOU send it to have it reset or the faded
picture when you scLd it to have It
touched up or the photograph OF friend
when you have it put in new locket.
You do not lcse your body. Paul will
90 to Rome to get his, Payson will 50
to Portland to get his, President Ed
wards will 90 to Princeton to get his,
George Goodman will 90 to the bottom
of the A tlantic to get his, and we Will
20 to the village churctyards and the
city cemeteries to get ours, and when
we have our perfect spirit rejoined to
our perfect body, then we will be tie
kind of men and women that the resur-
rection morning will make possible.
So you see you bave not made out aDy
doleful story yet. What have you proved
about death? What is the case you nave
made out: You have made out just this
that death allows us to have perfect
body, free of all aches, united forever
with perfect soul free from all sin.
Correct your theology. What does it all
mean: Why, it means that moving dag
is coming and that you are going to
quit cramped apartments and be man
stoned forever. The horse that stands
at the gate will not be the one lathered
and bespattered, carrying bad news, but
il will be the horse that St John saw
in Apocalyptic vision-the white horse
on which the King comes to the BAN
quet. The ground around the palace
will quake " it'll the tires and hoofs OF
celestial eQuipage, and those Christians
who in this world lost their friends and
lost their property and lost their health
and lost their life will find out that
God was always kind and that all
things worked together for their good
and that those were the wisest people
on earth who made the best of every
thing. See ycu net now the bright light
in the clouds: