The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1898-05-12

expect 10 reach by pilgrimage OF MY
or sixty or seventy years. they reached
az a nashl II the last ten thousand
children who had entered heaven had
gone through the average OF human
life on earth. are you sure all those ten
thousand children would have finally
reached the blissful terminus? Besides
that. my friends. you are to look al
this matter as a self-denial on your
part for their benefit II your children
want to 90 OF in a May-day party u
your children want 10 90 on no"ery
and musical excursion. you consent
You might prefer TO have them with
you. but their iubilant absence salts
fies you. Wen. your departed children
have only gone out In May-day par
~. amid fowery and musical entertain
ment. amid Joys and hllarliles forever.
That ought 20 quell some Of your grief.
the thought OF their giee.
Some Of you talk as though God had
exhausted himfeif In building this
world. and that all the rich curtains
he ever made he hung around this plan
ct. and all the flowers be ever grew he
has woven into the carpet Of our dais'
led meadows. No. This world Is not
the best thing God can do; this world
is not the best thing that God has done.
One week OF the year Is called bios
som week-called so all through the
land because there are more blossoms
in that week than In any other week OF
the year. Blossom weekl And that
is what the future world Ia to which
the Christian is invlted-blossom week
forever II IS ~ far ahead Of this
world as Paradise Is ahead Of Dry Tor
tugas. and yet here We stand SILVER ng
and fearing 10 80 out. and We want to
stay on the dry sand. and amid the
stormy pelrels. when we ase invited TO
arbors Of jessamlre and birds Of par
adlse.
One season | had two springtimcs,
went to New Orleans in April. and
marked the difference between going
toward New Orleans and then coming
back. As | went on down toward New
Orleans the yerdure. the foliage. be-
came thicker and mere beautiful. When
| came back, the further came toward
home the less the foliage. and less and
less Il became until there was hardly
any. Now. II all depends upoa the d.
rectlon In which you travel. II a
spirit from heaven should come toward
our world. he Is travelling from Jun'
toward December. from radiance TO-
ward darkness. from hanging gardens
toward lcebergs. And one would MOI
be very much surprised II a spirit OF
God sent forth from heaven toward oui
world should be slow TO come. But
how strange II Is that we dread goinl
out toward that world when going Il
from December toward Juno-from th'
snow OF earthly storm to the snow Of
Edenic blOssom-from the arctlcs o.
trouble toward the tropics OF eteTna
Joy.
Oh. what an ado about dying W,
get 10 attached TO the malar.al marsi
In which We live that We are afraid {,
20 I'd and live on the hilltop. We arr
alarmed because vacation Is coming
Eternal sunlight. and best programme
Of celestial MINISTRIES and hallelujah
no lnducement Let Ms stay here ant
keep cold and ignorant and weak ID
not Introduce us TO Elijah. and Johr
.illton and Bourdaloue. Keep cur fle
on the sharp cooble-stones ~ earth In
stead OF planting them on the bank o
J amaranth In heaven. Give a. hi
small Island Of leprous world Instead
! Of the immensltlos Of splendor and dc
. light. Keep our hands fuil OF nettles
! aud our shoulder under ths burden
, and our neck In the yoke. aud hopple
! on our ankles. and handouts on ou
/ wrists. Dear Lord" We seem to Say
r keep rs down here where We have I
Z suffer. instead Of letting us up wher
g we might live and reign and rejoice"
J am amazed at myself and at your
6 self for this infatuat.on under while
r we all rest. Men you would suppo
,. would get frightened at having TO sta
/ in this world lnItrad Of getting ffigh
y eaed at having TO 80 toward heaven.
. congratulate anybody who has a rigt
20 die by that | mean through slci
z ness you cannot avert. or through ace
j. dent you cannot ayoid-your work cor
b summated. where did they bur
+. Lily7" said one little child to anoihe
IS oh" she replied. they buried her
IL the ground" what! IN the col
u ground?" "Oh. no. no; not In the col
y ground. but In the warm ground. whel
Il ugly seeds become beautiful flowers"
o But" rsys ssmc one. 1T pains n
y so much TO think that ! must lose N
= body with which my soul has so Ion
n companloned You DO not lose
J. You no more lose your body by deaf
70 than you lose your watch when 90
y send II 10 have II repaired. or yot
u jewel when you send u 10 have Il refe
J.. or the faded picture when you send
"a 10 have II touched up or the pho,t
. Eraph Of friend when you have II pl
Is In a new locket You do not lose yol
~ body. Paul will go to Rome to sc, nj
'' Payson will 20 TO Portland 10 get h
: President Edwards will go 10 Prncct,
~ 20 get his. George Goodman will go
y the bottom Of the Atlantic to get hi
!. and We will 20 10 the village churc
:, yards and the city cemeteries to x
:, ours; and when We have our perie
" spirit reiolned 10 our perfect body. tn
w. we will be the kind Of men and wom
= that the resurrection morning "
!. make possible.
N So you see YOU have not made o
of any doleful story yet What have "
n. proved about death? What IL the ca
h YOU have made out? You have ma
ia out Just this-ihat death allows ~
On have a perfect body. free Of alI ach
m united forever with perfect foul n
Of from all sin. Correct your thcolOl
. . Vhuf drnn IL utt fuauu9 kNhW ~ man