The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-12-10

than they used TO do when he was 90,
and no more premium at so than when
he was 40. BY the Advancement Of
medical science and the wider ac-
quaintance with the laws of health and
the fact that the people know better
how TO take care of themselves human
life is prolonged. But do you realize
what, after all, is the brevity of our
earthly state? In the times when peo-
pie lived ZOO and 500 years the patriarch
Jacob said that his years were few.
Looking at the life of the youngest per-
son in this assembly and supposing
that he will live to be a nonagenarian,
how short the time and soon gone
while banked up in front of us is an
eternity so vast that arithmetic has not
figures enough to express its length, or
breadth, or depth, or height. For a
happy eternity you were born, unless
you run yourself against the divine in.
tentions. If standing in your presence
my eye should fall upon the feeblest
soul here as that soul will appear when
the world let's it up and heaven en-
frances it, suppose would be so over
powered that should drop down as one
dead.
You have examined the family BibYs
and explored the family records, and
you may have seen daguerreotypes OF
some of the kindred of previous gener-
ations, you have had photographs taken
of what you were in boyhood or girl
hood, and what you were ten year,
later, and it is very interesting to any
one to be able to look back upon pic
lures of what he was ten, or twenty, or
thirty years ago, but have you ever had
a picture taken of what you may be
and what you will be if you seek after
God and feel the spirits regenerating
power? Where shall / plant the cam
era to take the picture? plant it on
this platform. / direct it toward you.
Sit still or stand still while take the
picture. 1t shall be an instantaneous
picture. There! / have it. 1t is done.
You can see the picture in its imper.
feet state and get some idea of what
it will be when thoroughly developed. !
There is your resurrected body, so bril-.
liant that the MONDAY sun is a patch (
of midnight compared with it. There
is your soul, so pure that all the forces
of diabolism could not spot it with an
imperfection. There is your being, so
mighty and so swift that fight from
heaven to Mercury or Mars or Jupiter
and back again to heaven would not
weary you, and a world on each shoul-i
der would not crush you. An eye that
shall never shed tear An enc rgy
that shall never feel q fatigue, A biows
that shall never throb with vain. Yo,r
are young again, though you died of
decrepitude. You are well again.
though you coughed or shivered your.
self into the tomb. Your everyday asj
sociates are the apostles and prophets
and martyrs and most exalted souls,
masculine and feminine, of all the CEN
turtles. The archangel to you no en-
barrassment. God Himself your pres
ent and everlasting Joy. That is an
instantaneous picture of what you may
be and what l am sure some of you
will be.
If you realize that it is an imperfect
picture, my apology is what the apostle
John said: ut doth not yet appear what
we shall be-" $40 this end was born"
Il l did not think so, I would be ever
whelned with melancholy. The world
does very well for little while, so or 100
or $50 years. and think that human
longevity may yet be improved up to
that prolongation, for now there is so
little room between our cradle and our
grave we cannot accomplish much, but
who would want to dwell in this world
for all eternity? Some think this earth
will finally be turned into Heaven. Per-
haps it may, but it would have to under
go radical repairs and thorough elm.
nations and evolutions and revolt
tons and transformations infinite to
make it desirable for eternal residence.
All the east winds would have to be-
come west winds, and all the winters
changed to springtides and all the
/ volcanoes extinguished and all the
oceans chained to their beds, and the
| epideniics forbidden entrance and the
world so fixed up that think it would
take more to repair this old world than
to make an entirely new one. But
must say / do not care where Heaven
is, if we can only get there; whether
gardenized America or an empara-
dised Europe or a world central to the
whole universe. ITO this end was 4
born" If each one of us could say that
we would go with faces shining and
| hopes eXhilarant amid earth's worst
misfortunes and trials.
In the seventeenth century all Eu-
rope was threatened with wave Of
| Asiatic barbarism, and Vienna was es-
pecially besieged. The king and his
court had fed, and nothing could save
the city from being overwhelmed un-
less the king of Poland, John Sobieski,
to whom they had sent for help, should
with his army come down for the re-
lief, and from every roof and tower
| the inhabitants of Vienna watched and
waited and hoped, until on the morn
ing of September II the rising sun
threw an unusual and unparalleled
brilliancy. 1t was the reflection of the
sun on the swords and shields aud he'll
NETS of John Sobieski and his army
coming down over the hills to the res
cue, and that day not only Vienna, but
Europe, was saved. And see you not,
0 We souls, besieged with sin and sor-
row, that light breaks in; the swords