Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-11-28

him; If he had consumption they bled
him; If he had rheumatism they b1ed
him. and If they could not make out ex-
actly what was the matter they bled
him. Olden time phlebotomy was
deaths coadjutor All this has changed.
From the way I see people skipping
about at so years of age l conclude that
the life insurance companies will have
to change their table of risks and
charge man no more premium at 20
than they used to do when he was 60,
and no more premium at so than when
he was 40. BY the advancement Of
medical science and the wider &C
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 700 and 800 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 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 it's 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 lets it up and heaven en-
frances it. suppose I 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 were in boyhood or girl
hood. and what you were ten years
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
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? I 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! I have it. 1t is done.
You can see the picture in it's imper-
feet state and get some idea of what
it will be when thoroughly developed.
There is your resurrected body, so brill
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 flight from
heaven to Mercury or Mars or Jupiter
and back again to heaven would not
weary you and world on each Shout
der would not crush you. An eye that
shah never shed a tear. An energy
that shall never feel fatigue. a brow
that shall never throb with vain. You
are young again. though you died of
decrepitude. You are we'll again,
though you coughed or shivered your
self into the tomb. Your everyday as
and martyrs and most exalted souls
masculine and feminine. of ell 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 | am sure some of you
will be.
If you realize that it is an imperfect
picture, my apology is what the apostle
John said: ct doth not yet appear what
we shall be-" F'To this end was born.
IF did not think so, I would be ever
whelmed with melancholy. The world
does very we'll for little while, 80 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 revolu-
lions 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
epidemics 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
a garderized America or an empara-
dised Europe or world central to the
whole universe. ''To 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 a wave of
Asiatic barbarism, and Vienna was es-
pecialIy besieCed The LinO and his