Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1898-11-23

world is only the play of holiday
hey never sin there. IL is as easy foI
them TO be holy as il is for us 10 sin
They never die there. You might 20
through all the outskirts of the grea,
city and find not one place where the
ground was broken for a grave. The
eyesigh; of the redeemed is never
blurred with tears. There is health in
every cheek. There is spring in every
foot. There is majesty on every brow
There is JOY in every heart. There is
hosanna on every lip. How they must
pity us ms they look over and look
down and see MS and say: Poor things
away down in that worldi" And when
some Christian is hurled into n fatal
accident they cry: Good, lis is com.
ing! And when we stand around The
couch OF some loved one whose strength
is going away and we shake our heads
forebodingly they cry: I'm glad he
is worse He has been down there ioug
enough. There, he is dead. Come
home! Come home!" Oh. If we could
only get our ideas about that future
world UNFINISHED. our thought Of trans
fer from here 10 there would be Us
pleasant TO us as IL was 10 little child
that was dying. She said: Papa,
when will 60 home?" And ne said /:
To-day. Florence" To-day? So soon .
| am so glad,"
/ wish | could stimulate Won with
these thoughts. o Christian man. to tie
highest possible eNhilaration! The day
OF your deliverance is coming-is com
ing. rolling on with the shining wheels
of the day, and the jet wheels of the
night Every thump of the heart is
only hammer stroke striking off an
other chain of clay. Better scour The
deck and coil the rope. for harbor is
only sin miles away Jesus will come
down the Narrows to meet YOU. Now
is your salvation nearer than when YOU
believed"
Man of the world. will you not ~
day make choice between these two
portions. between the south land" OF
this world, which slopes to the desert,
and this glorious land which thy Fa-
Their offers thee. running with eternal
water courses? Why let your tongue
be consumed of thirst when there are
the neither springs and the upper
springs-comfort here and glory here
after?
You and need something better
than this world can give us. The iGct
Is that IL cannot give us anything after
awhile 1t is changing world. DO
you knew that even the mountains on
the back of thousand streams are
leaping into the valley? The Allie.
ghenies are dying. The dews with
crystalline mallet are hammerinp nvny
the rocks. Frosts and showers and
hghtnings are sculpturing Mount
Washington and the Catskills. Niagar,,
every year is digging for itself a
quicker plunge. The sea all around the
earth on its shifting shores is making
mighty changes in bar and bay and
firth and promontory. Some of the old
seacoasts are midland now. or Na1.-
tucket, eight feet below low-water
mark, are found now the stumps of
trees, showing that the waves are con-
quering the land. Parts of Nova Scotia
are sinking. Ships to-day sail over
what only little while ago, was solid
ground. Near the mouth of the 81
CroiX river is an island which. in tba
movements OF the earth. is slowly but
certainly rotating. All the face of Tho
earth Is changing-changing. In 1891
an island springs up in the Mediter-
ranean sea. In 1866 another island
comes up under the observation of the
american consul as he looks off from
the beach. The earth all the time
changing. the columns of n temple near
Bizoh show that the water has rise n
nine feet above the place il was when
these columns were put down. Chang
ing! Our Colorado river, once vastsr
than the Mississippi. flowing through
the great American desert. which wn :
then the Eden of luXuriance, has now.
dwindled to a small stream creeping
down through a gorge The earth IL
self, that was once vapor afterward
nothing but water-afterward
molten rock. cooling off through the
ages until plants might live and ami
mails might live and men might live.
changing all the while. now crumblinr.
now breaking off. The sun. burning
down gradually in it's socket. Chang
ing changing. an intimation Of the last
great change TO come over the world
even infused into the mind OF the
heather who has never seen the Bible.
The Hindoos believe that Brabma.
she creator. once made all things. He
created the water. then moved over the
water. out Of il lifted the land. grew
the plants and animals and men on IL
Out Of mis- eye went the sun. Outof his
lips went tie fire Out Of his ear went
The air Then Brahma laid down 10
sleep 4.320.00O.C0O years. After that
they say. he will wake UP. and then the
world will be DESTROYED. and he will
make IL over again bringing up land.
bringing up creatures upon II. then ".
ing Gown again TO sleep 1920. 600 600
years. then waking up and DESTROYING
the world aCain-Crcation and dcmoli.
ton following each other. until after
500 sleeps. each one of these slurnbers
4.a20.cJO.0oo years long. Ernhmn will
wake mp and die and the universe will
die with him-an iutimation. though
very faint. Of the great change 10 come
upon this physical earth spoken Of In
the Bible. but while Euhmn may sleep
our God never slutnbcrs nor sIeeps. AMI
The Heavens shall ross away with
great noise. and.thc elements shall melt
with ferveut heat and the earth and
aIl things chat arc therein shall b..
burned up
we'll. says some one. III that is so.
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