The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1899-11-02

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ing power. II IL not chloral that you
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the Gospel Of Jesus Christ. with long
life will satisfy him."
Again. practical religion 10 . friend
of longevity in the fact that it removes
oil eorroding care about future exist
ence. Every man wants to know what
is 10 become of him. II you get on
board rail train, you want to know At
what depot it rs going to stop. If you
get on board a ship, you want to know
into what harbor it is going to run.
interest in what is to be your future
destiny would, in as polite way as I
know how, tell you | diI not believe
you. Before l had this matter settled
with reference to my future existence
the question almost worried me into
ruined health. The anxietes men have
upon this subject, put together, would
make n martyrdom. This is state Of
awful unhealthiness. There are people
who fret themselves to death for fear
Of dying. | want to take the strain of
your nerves and the depression off your
soul, and l 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
syou can get converted and prepared for
Heaven. Impossible" you say. "As
the tree falleth, so must 1t lie. and I
cannot postpone TO an intermediate
state reformation which ought to have
been effected in this state" Expert
ment the third: There is no future
world. When a man dies. that is the
last of him. Do not worry about what
you are to do in another state Of being.
You will not do anything. "lmpossi-
BILE" 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 l 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"
We'll, you defeat me in my three ex-
periments. ] have only one more to
make, and II you defeat me in that am
exhausted. A mighty One on knoll
back Of Jerusalem one day, the skies
filled with forked lightnings and the
earth filled with volcanic disturbances,
turned Hiss pale1 and ! agonized y face
toward the heavens and said: II take
the sins and sorrows Of the ages into
my own heart. am the expiation.
Witness, earth and Heaven and hell,
I 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, II shall die!" ~ will by no
means clear the guilty." Then there
was silence for half an hour, and the
ightnings 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 a rainbow
woven out Of the falling tears of Jesus,
and there was red MS Of the bloodshed-
ding, and there was blue as Of the bruis-
ing, and there was green as of the
heavenly foliage. and there was orange
as of the day dawn, and along the line
OF the blue SAW the words: 81 was
bruised for their iniquities." and along
the line Of red saw the words: "The
blood OF Jesus Christ clcanseth from
an SIM" 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
l saw the words: "The day spring
from on high hath visited u.s." and
then l saw the storm was over, and the
rainbow rose higher and higher until it
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, land, behold,
there was 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 10 warmth; that is healthy.
Ask all tie 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 wsat IN the future
vsridf Tell me, and ysu shall have it.
Orchas6of There are trees with 12
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
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