St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-12-24

city and find not one place where thu
ground was broken for . grave. III,
eyesight Of the redeemed II never
blurred With tears. There Is health IL
every cheek. There Il spring in ever,
foot. There is majesty Oh every brow
There II joy in every heart. There il
hosanna on every lip. How they mus
pity M as they look over and loot
down an4see rs and say: '.Poor thing.
away down in that world!" And wher
some Christian Is hurled into q fata
accident they cry: Good! He is com
ing!" And when we stand around thu
couch Of some loved one whose strength
is going away and we shake our heads
forebodingly they cry: I'm glad he
II worse. He has been down there long
enough. There. he II 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 TO there would be ~
pleasan. to us as It was to little child
that was dying. She said: Papa.
when will 60 homer" And he said:
To-day. Florence" To-day? So soon
am 20 glad!"
wish I could stimulate you with
these thoughts. o Christian man, to The
highest possible exhilaration! 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 10
only . hammer stroke striking Oh an
other chain Of clay. Better scour the
deck and coil the rope. for harbor 10
only six 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-
ther 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 l need something better
than this world can give us. The fact
ID that 1t cannot give US anything after
awhile. 1t is . changing world. DO
you know that even the mountains on
the back of a thousand streams are
leaping into the valley? The ALLIE.
ghenies are dying. The dews with
crystalline mallet are hammering away
the rocks. Frosts and showers and
lightnings are sculpturing Mount
Washington and the Catskills. Niagara
every year il digging for itself q
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. OF Mali
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 solo
ground. Near the mouth of the ST.
CrOix river Is an island which, in the
movements OF the earth, is slowly bur
certainly rotating. All the face Of the
earth is misunderstanding. In 1891
an island springs up in the Meditcr-
ranean sea. In 1866 another island
comes up under the observation of the
American consul as he looks OF from
hn Ill
changing. the columns of temple near
Bizoli show that the water has risca
nine feet above the place II WINS when
these columns were put down. Chang
ing! Our Colorado river, once raster
than the Mississippi. flowing through
the great American desert, which was
then the Eden Of luxuriance. has now
to a small stream creeping
down through = gorge. The earth It.
self, that was once vapor, afterward
but water-afterwarc
molten rock, cooling on through tn
ages until plants might live and ani
mails might live and men might live
all the while. now crumbling
now breaking on. The sun. burning
down gradually in its 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 Brahma.
he creator, once made all things. He
created the water, then moved over the |
water. out Of it lifted the land. grew |
the plants and animals and men on it. |
Out of his eye went the sun. Out Of his |
lips went the Are. Out Of his ear went |
the air. Then Brahma laid down to
sleep 1890, 100000 years. After that
they say. he will wake up. and then the
world will be destroyed. and he will
make it over again, bringing up land
up creatures upon it, then ~
ng down again to sleep 1920, 000, 900
1ears. then waking up and destroying
he world again-creation and demoli-
ion following each other, until after
go sleeps. each one of these slumbers
:, 500. 0O0.0c years long. Brahma will
wake up and die and the universe will
lie with him-an intimation, though
cry faint, Of the great change to come
Ipon this physical earth spoken OF in
he Bible, hut while Bruhma may sleep
,ur God never slumbers nor sleeps, AMI
he Heavens shall pass away with a
yreat noise, andthe elements shall melt
With fervent heat, and the earth and
III things that are therein shall be
burned up.
"Well," says some one. IF that is SO.
the world is going from one change
o another, then what II the use of my
oiling for its betterment?" That is the
'oint Oh which want to guard you.
% not want you to become nissan
hropic. 1t Is great and glorious
rorld. II Christ could afford to spend
3 years on Il for it's redemption, then
on can afford to toll and pray for the
of the nations and for the
on Of the glorious time when
II people shall see the salvation of
iod. While therefore want TO guard
on against misanthropic notions in re-
pect to this subject l have presented.
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