Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-11-24

those times II a man had fever they bled
him; II he had consumption they bled
him; II he had rheumatism they bled
him. and II 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 see people skipping
about AT so years OF age conclude that
the life insurance companies will have
10 change their table Of risks and
charge u man no more premium at 10
than they used to do when he was 90,
and no more premium at so than when
b. WAS 20, 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 brevi.y Of our
earthly state? In the times whep PEG.
pie lived ZOO and 500 years the patI arch
jacob said that his years were few.
Looking at the life Of the youngest per
son In this assembly and supposing
Tint 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 its length. or
breadth, or depth, or height For 4
happy eternity you were born, unless
YOU run yourself against the divine In
10 81 t,,
my eye should fall upon the feeblest
soul here as that soul will appear when
the world let's II up and heaven en-.
frances It. suppose would be so over,
powered that should drop down ms 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 1t 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
picture taken OF what you may be
and what you will be II you seek after
God and feel the spirits regcnerating
power? Where shall plant the cam
era TO take the picture? plant II on
this platform. direct II toward you.
81, still or stand still while l take the
picture, II shall be nm instantaneous
picture. There! have il. II Is done.
You can see the picture In It's imper.
feet state and get some idea OF what
il will be when thoroughly developed
There is your resurrected body, so bril-
liant that the MONDAY sun Is n patch
Of midnight compared with II, There
is your soul, so pure that all the forces
OF diaboliSm could not spot II with an
imperfection. There r. your being, 20
mighty and so swift that flight from
heaven to Mercury or Mars or Jupiter
and back again to heaven would not
weary you, and n world on each Shout.
der would not crush you. An eye that
shah never shed tear. An energy
that shalt never feel fatigue, A brow
that shall never throh with vain. You
are young again. though you died of
dccrepitude. You are well again,
though YOU coughed or shivered your
self into the tomb. Your everyday as
socintes are the apostles and prophets
and martyrs and most exalted souls.
masculine and feminine, OF all the cen.
turtles. The archanpcl to you no EN-
barrnssmcnt God himself your pres
ent and everlasting Joy. That is an
instantaneous picture of what YOU may
be and what | nm sure some Of you
will be.
II YOU realize that il is un imperfect
picture, my apology is what the apostle
John said: ut doth not yet appear what
we shall be-" "'ro this end was born.
II did not think SO. | would be ever
whelmed with melancholy, The world
docs very well fora little while, so or 100
or 100 years. and think that human
longevity may yet he improved up to
that prolougation. for now there IL 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 il would have to under
go radical repairs and thorough elm.
nations and eyolutions and revolt
tons and transformations infinite to
make it desirable for eternal residence.
All the east winds would have 10 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
epidenics forbidden entrance and the
world so fixed up that think II would
take more to repair this old world than
to make an entirely new one. But
must say do not care where Heaven
Is, II we can only get there; whether
gardenized America or an empara.
6iscd Europe or q world central to the
whole universe. ITO this end was /
born" II each one Of us could say that
we would go with faces shining ana
hopes exhilarant amid earths worst
mi.fortunes and trials.
In the seventeenth century all Eu-