The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-04-25

I Heaven is an old city, but has never yet
reported one case of sickness or one bill
/ Of mariGilty. No ophthalmia for the eye.
No pneumonia for the lungs. No pleu-
rsy for the side. No neuralgia for the
nerves. No rheumatism for the muscles
| The inhabitants shall never say, am
sick" There shall be no more pain"
Again, you ought 20 make the best of
| lifes finality. Now, you think have a
/ very tough subject. You do not see how
! / am TO strike spark of light out OF the
flint of the tombstone. There are many
people who have an idea that death is the
| submergence, Of everything pleasant by
| everything doleful If my subject could
| close in the upsetting of all such precon-
| eeived notions, it would close we'll Who
can-judge best Of the features of a man
those who are close by him, or those who
are afar off? oh" you say, those can
judge best Of the features of a man who
are close by him. =
Now, my friends, who shall Judge of the
features of death--whether they are lovely
/ OF whether they are repulsive? You?
You are too far off If l want to get a
| Judgment as to what really the features of
death are, will not ask you will ask
| those who have been within a month of
death, or a week of death, or an hour of
death, or minute of death. They stand
so near the features, they can tell They
give unanimous testimony, if they are
! christian people, that death, instead of
being demonacg is cherubic. OF all the
thousands of Christians who have been
carried through the gates of the cemetery,
gather up their dying experiences, and you
| viii find they nearly all bordered on a ju-
| plate. How often you have seen a dying
man join in the psalm being sung around
his bedside, the middle of the verse open
! ing to let his ransomed spirit free,--long
| AFTER the lips could not speak, looking and
pointing upward. a.
SomeSof you talk as though God had ex
| hausted himself in building this world
and that all the rich curtains he ever
| made he hung around this planet, and all
the howers he ever grew he has woven in
10 the carpet of our daisied meadows No
4 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 blossom
week-called so all through the land be-
cause there are more blossoms in that
week than in any other week of the year.
Blossom week. And that is what the flu
ture world is 10 which the Christian is
| invited-biossom week forever. II is as
far ahead of this world as Paradise is
ahead of Dry Tortugas, and yet here we
stand shivering and fearing to go out.
ana we want to stay on the dry
| sand, and amid the stormy ne
trels. when we are invited to ar
oors of jessamine and birds of paradise.
| one season I had two springtimes. /
went 10 New Orleans In April and /
marked the difference between going to-
ward New Orleans and then coming back.
AS went on down toward New Orleans.
/ the Verdure. the foliage, became thicker
and more beautiful. When I came back.
the further / came toward home the less
the 1oiiage' and less and less it became
unth there was hardly any. Now, it all
depends upon the direction in which Won
travel. If spirit from heaven should
come toward our world he is travelling
from June toward December from radi-
ance toward darkness from hanging gar
oens toward icebergs. And one would not
be very much surprised if spirit OF
God sent forth from heaven toward cur
world should be slow 10 come. But how
strange IL is that we dread going out
December, toward June-from the snow OF
earthly storm to the snow of Edenic olos-
som-from the aretics of trouble toward
the tropics of eternal joy
Oh what an ado about dying! We gel
so attached to the malarial marsh in
which we live that we are afraid TO &c
/ up and live on the hilltop. We are alarm.
ed because vacation is coming. Eternal
sunlight, and best programme of celas.
|
: ment. Let us stay here and keep cold al,c
, ignorant and weak Do not introduce L!
TO Elijah, and John Milton and Bourla,
: loue. Keep our feet on the sharp cobble
t stones of earth instead of planting then
= on the bank of amaranth in heaven Civ,
: Jus this small island of leprous worlC
: instead of the immensites of splendor ant
? delight. Keep our hands full of nettles
and our shoulder under the burden, anC
j our neck in the yoke, and hopples on ou
: ankles and handouts on our wrists
I Dear Lord" we seem to say keep u
: down here, where we have to suffer, in
v stead of letting us up where we might liv
t and reign and rejoice"
/ am amazed at myself and at yoursel
for this infatuation under which we al
: rest Men you would suppose would ge
{ frightened at having to stay in this worl,
Q instead of getting frightened at having t
go toward heaven / congratulate any
Il body who has right TO die. BY that
d mean through sickness you cannot avert
l. or through accident your cannot avoid
u your work consummated.- ''Where db
! they bury Lily?" said one little child L
d another. "Oh," she replied, They burie
her in the ground 'What! in the col
u ground?" "Oh, no. no; not in the coll
n ground, but in the warm ground, wher
d ugly seeds become beautiful flowers"
= But" says some one. ''it pains me $
n much TO THINK that must lose the Dou
d with which my soul has so long compan
\ ioned." You do not lose it. You no NOR
a lose your body by death than you los
u your watch when you send it to have
ID repaired, or your jewel when You send
h. to have il reset, or the faded picture whe
81 you send it to have 1t touched up, or tn
Sc photograph of a friend when you have
re put in a new locket You do not los
a your body. Paul will go to Rome to- &c
g. his, Payson will go to Portland to get hi:
IL President Edwards will go to Princeton t
* get his, George Goodman will go 10 tn
bottom of the Atlantic to get his, and W
1t will go to the village churchyards and tn
\ city cemeteries to get ours; and when W
,e have our perfect spirit rejoined to on
Sc perfect body, then we will be the kind c
IS men and women that the resurrectio
lie morning viii make possible.
Is So you see you have not made out an
$ doleful story yet. What have you prove
4 about death? What is the case you hav
he made out? You have made out just this
Id that death allows us to have a perfeC
n body, free of all aches, united forever wit
10 a perfect soul free from all sin. Corret