The Grenada sentinel., 1898-11-19
the life insurance companies will have

the life insurance companies will have
to change their table of risks and
charge man no more premium al 10
than tney used to do when he was GO.
and 10 more premium at 50 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 Xt0p peo-
pie lived 100 and 500 years the lfiarch
Jacob said that his years we ie few
Looking at the life of the Youngest per-
son in this assembly and supposing
that he will live to be a nonagenarian,
low 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. I suppose would be so over
powered that should drop down as one
dead.
You have examined the family Bible
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 We're in boyhooG or girl
hood. and what YOU were ten years
later, and it is very interesting TO any
one to he 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 rcgcnerating
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
pict It shall be an Instantaneous
picture. There! 7 have it, 1t is done.
You can see the picture in its impcr-
feet state and get some idea of what
it will be when thoroughly Developed.
There is Your rcs'!rrected body. so bril-
liant that the -ocndny sun is a patch
of midnight compared with it. There
is your soul so pure that all the forces
of tlia aholam could not spot it with all
! im1erfec1ion. There is your being. so
mighty and so swift thn: fight from
| heaven to Mercury or Mars or Jupiter
and back again to heaven would not
weary YOU. and world on each shonl-
| der would not crush you. An eye that
! shall never shed tear. An energy
| that shall never feel fatigue \ brow
! that shall never thrnb with vain, Nou
are young again. though you died Of
decropitnde. You are well again,
though you conghrd or shivered Your.
, self into the tomb. Your everyday as
socatcs are the apostles and prophets
| and martyrs and most exalted souls,
masculine and feminine, Of all the cen
| turies. The nr"langel TO you no en-
Earrass1nent God Himself Your pres
ent and everlasting joy, That is an
instantaneous picture of what you may
be and what | am sure some of yoll
will be.
If YOU realize that it is an imperfect
picture. my apology is what the apostle
| John said: 1T doth not yet appear Wha'
we shall be" TO this end was born
T. Gid not think 50, would be 'ver-
whelmed with melancholy. The world
| does very wei for Il lit lie while, 50 or lc0
or $50 wears. and | think that human
| longevity may vet he improved up to
| that prolongation. for now there is so
| little room between our cradle and our
| grave we cannot accomplish much. hut
who would want to dwell in this world
| for al! eternity? Some think this earth
will finally be turned into Heaven. Per-
| haps it may, but it would have to under
| 20 radical repairs and thorough elm
! nations and evolutiors and rrvon-
tions and transformations infinite t,
| make it desiru bic Tor eternal residence.
| All the east winds would have to be-
| come west winds. and all the winters
changed to sprinntides and all the
/ volcanoes eNtingui>hed and all the
| oceans chained to their beds, and the
epiGenics forbidden entrance and he
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
gardehzed america or an enpara-
Giscd Europe or n world central 10 the
| whole universe "To this end was
born" If each one Of us could say that
we would 20 with faces shining ana
hopes e>hIarunt amid earth's worst
misfortunes and trials.
In the seventeenth century all Eu-
rope was threatened with wave Of
| tsiatc barharism. and Vienna was es-
pccially besi-ged. The king and his
court had fed, and nothing could save
the city from being overwhelmed UNI
less the king of Poland. John s,obieShi.
to whom they he'd sent for help, shoNld
with his army come down for the re-
lief, and from every roof and tower
the inha abitants of Vienna watched and
waited and hoped, until on the morn