St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-10-28

him, and he is in a-great state OF ex-
citement and worry and fume and can
not sleep, but religion comes to him
and says: Man, God il on your side
He will take care of your reputation
II God be for you, who can be against
you?" How much should that man wor-
ry about his reputation? Not much.
II that broker who some years ago in
Wall street, after he had lost money,
sat down and wrote a farewell letter to
his wife before he blew his brains out
If, instead of taking out of his pocket
a pistol, he had taken out well-read
New Testament, there would have been
one less suicide.
o nervous and feverish people Of the
world, try this almighty sedatiye! You
will live 25 years longer under its sooth-
ing power. 1t is not choral that you
want or morphine that you want. 1t is
the Gospel of Jesus Christ. with long
life will satisfy him."
Again, practical religion is friend
Of longevity in the fact that it removes
all corroding care about future exist
ence. Every man wants to know what
is to become of him. If you get ON
board a rail train, you want TO know at
what depot it is going to stop. If You
get on board ship, You want to know
into what harbor it is going to run.
And il you should tell me you have no
interest in what is to be your future
destiny would, in as polite way az
know how, tell you I did not believe
you. Before had this matter settled
with reference to my future existence
the question almost worried me into
ruined health. The anxieties men have
upon this subject, put together. would
make q martyrdom. This is d state OF
awful unhealthiness. There are people
who fret themselves to death for fear
Of dying. want to take the strain on
your nerves and the depression on youf
soul, and make two or three exPeri.
ments. Experiment first: When you
go out of this world it does not make
any difference whether you have been
good or bad, whether you believed truth
or error, you will 60 straight to glory.
Impossible" you say. MY common
sense as well as my religion teaches that
the bad and the good cannot live togeth-
er forever. You give me NO comfort in
that experiment. Experiment the Sec
ond: When you leave this world you
will go into an intermediate state. where
you can get converted and prepared for
Heaven. "Impossible," you say. "As
the tree falleth, SO must it lie, and I
cannot postpone to an intermediate
state reformation which ought to havs
been effected In this state" Expert
ment the third: There is no future
world. When q man dies, that il the
last of him. Do not worry about what
you are 10 do in another state of being.
You will not do anything. "Impossi-
biz" you say. "There is something that
tells me that death is not the appendix.
but the preface, to life. There is some
thing that tells me that on this side
of the grave only get started and
that shall go on forever. My power to
think says forever my affections say
forever my capacity to enjoy or suf-
fer, forever"
Well, you defeat me in my three ex-
| periments. I have only one more to
make, and If you defeat me in that I am
exhausted. A mighty One on knoll
back of Jerusalem one day, the. skies
filed with forked lightnings and tho
earth filled with volcanic disturbances,
turned His pale and agonized face
toward the heavens and said: Il take
the sins and sorrows of the ages into
my own heart. am the expiationJ !
Witness, earth and Heaven and hell,
/ am the expiation." And the hammer
struck Him. and the spears punctured
him. and Heaven thundered: The
wages of sin is death!" 1.-THE soul that
sinneth, it shall diet" II win by no
means clear the guilty!" Then there
was silence for half an hour, and tho
lightnings were drawn back into the
scabbard of the sky, and the earth
ceased to quiver, and all the colors of
the sky began to shift into q rainbow
woven out of the falling tears of Jesus,
and there was red as of the bloodshed-
ding, and there was blue AZ of the bruis-
ing, and there was green az of the
heavenly foliage, and there was orange
AZ of the day dawn, and along the line
of the blue I saw the words: II was
bruised for their iniquities," and along
the line of red / saw the words: "The
blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from
all sin" and along the line of the green
I saw the words: THE leaves of the
Tree Of Life for the healing of the ma
| tions," and along the line of the orange
saw the words: The day spring
from on high hath visited u.s.. and
than I eoxv thu e<orvv, ~.yac <,vor ~v.1 xbn
rainbow rose higher and higher until 1t
seemed retreating to another heaven.
and, planting one column of its colors
on one side of the eternal hill, and plant
ing the other column of its colors ON
the other side the eternal hill, it rose
upward and upward. "and, behold.
there was a rainbow about the throne" !"
Accept that sacrifice and quit worrying.
Take the tonic, the inspiration. the lon
gevity, of this truth. Religion is sun
shine; that is health. Religion is fresh
air and pure water; they are healthy.
Religion is warmth; that is healthy.
Ask all the doctors, and they will tell
You that . quiet conscience and pleas
ant anticipations are hygienic. offer
you perfect peace now and hereafter.
What do you want in the future
world? Tell me, and yon shall have it.
Orchards? There are trees with IL
manner Of fruits, yielding fruit every
month. Water scenery? There is the
river of Life from under the throne Of
God, clear as crystal. and the sea OF
glass mingled with fire. Do you want
music? There is the oratorio OF the
Creation led on by Adam, and the ora-
torio Of the Red sea led on by Moses,
and the oratorio Of the Messiah led on
by st. Paul, while the archangel with
swinging baton controls the IA. 900 who
make up the orchestra. Do you want
reunion? There are your children wait
ing to kiss you, waiting to embrace you,
waiting to twist garlands in your hair.
You hav, been accustomed to open the
door on this side the sepulcher. open
the door on the other side the sernl-
cher. You have been accustomed to
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