Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1898-11-24

neuralgia Tho inhabitant never says, 1T
am sick" They are never tired there.
Flight to farthest world is only the play
Of "A holiday. They never sin there. 1t Is
rs easy for them to be holy as 1t Is for us
to sin. They never die there. You might
go through all the outskirts of the great
city and find not ono place where the
ground was broken for grave. Tho eye
sight Of the redeemed is never blurred
with tears. There Is health in every
check. 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 as they
look over and look down and SEQ us, and
say, Poor things, away down in that
worldW And when some Christian Is
hurled into fatal accident, they cry,
GOOD, ho is comingV" And when we
stand around tAc couch of some loved ono
whose strength is going away and we
shake our heads forebodingly, they cry:
"I'm glad he is worse He has been down
there long enough. There, he is dead
Come home, como homo!" Oh, If wo
could only get our ideas about that future
world UNFINISHED, our thought of transfer
from here to there would be as pleasant
to us as it was to n little child that was
dying. She said, "Papa, when will go
homer" And he said, To-day, Florence"
"Today? SO soon? am SO glad"
Choose Your Portion.
wish l could stimulate you with these
thoughts, q Christian man, to the highest
possible cxhilarntion. The day of your
dclivcrance IL coming, is coming rolling
OH with the shining wheels of the day.
and the jet wheels of the night. Every
thump Of tho heart Is only hammer
stroke striking Off another chain of clay.
Better scour tho deck and coil the rope
for hnrbor is only six miles away. Jesus
will come down in tho Narrows to meet
you. "Now is your salvation nearer than
when you believed"
Man of the world, will you not today
make choice between these two PORTIONS
between the south land" of this world
which slopes to the desert and this glori.
Gus land which thy Father offers thoc
running with eternal water courses? Why
let your tongue be consumed of thirt
when there nro the neither springs and the
upper springs, comfort hero and glory
hereafter?
You and need something better than
this world can give us, The fact is that
it cannot give us anything after awhile
1t is n changing world. Doyo know that
even the mountains on the back of thou.
sand streams are lcaping into the valley?
Tho Alleghanios are dying. The dcws
with crystalline mallct arc hammering
away tho rocks Frosts and showers and
lightnings are sculpturing Mount Wash.
ington and tho Catskills. Niagara every
year is digging for itself a quicker plunge.
The sen all around the earth on its shift
ing shores is making mighty changes in
bar and bay and firth and prUmontory.
Some of the old scacoasts are midland
now. of Nantucket, eight feet below low
water mark, are found now the stumps of
trees, showing that the waves are conq lcr-
ing tho laud Parts of Nova Scotia arc
sinking. Ships today sail over what only
little while ago was solid ground. Near
the mouth of the st. Croix river is an is
land which in the movements OF the earth
Is slowly but certainly rotating. All tho
face of the earth changing-changing In
1881 an island springs up in the Mcditor-
ranean sea. In 1866 another island comes
up under the observation of the American
consul as no looks of from the beach. Tho
earth all the time changing, the columns
of n temple near Bizol show that the wa
ter has risen nine feet above the place it
was when these columns were put down
Changingl Our Coloratp river, once vast
or than the Mississippi, flowing through
the great American desert, which was then
an Eden OF luxuriance, has now dwindlcd
to small stream creeping down through
u gorge. The earth itself, that was once
vapor, aitcrward water-nothing but wa
ter-afterward molten rock, cooling off
through the ages until plants might live,
and animals might live, and mon might
live, changing all the WHILE now crum-
bling, now breaking off. Tho sum- burning
down gradually in its socket Changing,
changing, intimation of tho last great
change to come over the world even in
fused into the mind Of the heather who
has never seen the Bible.
SlccpIcss God.
Tho Hindoos believe that Brahma, tho
creator, once made all things. He created
the water, then moved over tho water out
of it lifted the land, grew the plants and
animals and men on it. Out of his eye
went tho sun. Out Of his lips went tho
fire Ont of his ear Went the air. Then
Brahma laid down to sleep 4, 32O, 00O, 900
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, bringing up creatures upon It;
thcn lying down again to sleep 1920, 00O,
900 years, then waking up and destroying
following each other, until after $50
sleeps, each ono of these slumbcrs 4, $780,
600, 600 years long, Brahma will wake up
and die, and the universe will die with
him, an intimation, though very faint, of
the great change to como upon this phys
ical earth spoken of in the Bible. But
while Brahma may sleep, our God never
slumbers nor sleeps, and the heavens shall
pass away with great noise, and the ole-
ments shall melt with fervent heat, and
the earth and all things that are therein
shall be burned up.
WELL" says some one ''if that is so,
If the world is going from one change to
another, then what is the use of my toll
ing for its bettermenty" That is the point
on which want to guard you. / do not
want you TO become misanthropic. 1t is
"a great and glorious world. If Christ
could afford to spend 33 years on 1t for its
redemption, then you can afford to toll
and pray for the betternent of the ma
tions, and for the bringing on of that
glorious time when all PEOPLE shall see the
salvation of God. While therefore / want
to guard you against misanthropic notions
In respect to this subject have presented,
want you to take this thought home
with you: This world is poor foundation
to build on. 1t is a changing world, and
1t Is dying world. The shifting scenes
and the changing sands are only embloms
Of all earthly expectation. Life Is very
much like this day through which We
have passed To many of us it is storm
and darkness, then sunshine, storm and
dark moss. then afterwnTd n little sun.