The L'Anse sentinel., 1898-11-19


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 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 when peo-
pie lived 700 and 500 years the patriarch
Jacob said that his years were few.
Looking at the life of the youngest per-
son in this assembly and supposng
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 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 rs that soul will appear when
the world lets it up and heaven en-
frances it, suppose would be SO over
powered that I should drop down rs 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
| q 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? | 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! | have it. II is done
You can see the picture in its imper-
| feet state and get some idea of what
it will be when thoroughly developed.
There is your resurrected body. so bril-
liant that the MONDAY sun is n patch
of midnight compared with it. There
is your soul. so pure that all the forces
of diabolism could not spot il 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 n world on each shoul-
der would not crush you. An eye that
| shall never shed tear. An energy
that shall never feel fatigue. A brow
that shall never throb with vain. You
are young again, though you died of
dccrepitudc. You are well again,
though you coughed or shivercd your
self into the tomb. Your everyday as
sociates are the apostles and prophets
and martyrs and most exalted souls,
masculine and feminine, of all the CEN
turies. 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 l am sure some of you
will be.
| IL YOU realize that it is an imperfect
picture, my apology is what the apostle
John said: 1T doth not yet appear what
we shall be-" "'ro this end was ! born y
L. | did not think so, | would be ever
| whelncd with melancholy. The world
does very well for little while so 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 il would have TO under
go radical repairs and thorough elm
nations and evolutions and revolu-
tions 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
epidenics 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 garlenized America or an empara-
Gised Europe OF world central to the
| whole universe. ITO this end was
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 wave Of
| Asatic barbarism, and Vienna was es-
pecially besieged. The king and his
court had fed, and nothing could save
the city from being overwhelmed un-
less the king of Poland, John Sobieski
to whom they had sent for help, should
with his army come down for the re-
lief, and from every roof and tower
| the inhabitants of Vienna watched and
waited and hoped, until on the morn
ing of September IL the rising sun
threw an unusual and unparalleled
brilliancy. II was the reflection of the
sun on the swords and shields and he'll
NETS of John Sobieski and his army
coming down over the hills to the res
cue. and that day not only Vienna, but
| Europe, was saved And see Won not