The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1899-01-13

down and see u~ and say: Poor thing
away down in thar voridi" And when
some Christian J. hurled into a fatal
accident they cry. Good. lie is com
ing" And when we stand around The
couch OF some loved one whose strength
is going away and we shake our heads
forebodingly they cry: "I'm glad be
Is worse Tie has 5een down there ong
enough There be is dead. Come
homel Come homei" Oh. 81 we could
only get our ideas about that future
world untwisted. our thought Of trans
fer from here 10 there would be AS
pleasant 10 ms as 10 was 20 @ little child
that was dying She said: "papa
when viii 60 home?" And be said:
To-day Florence" "To-day? So soon2
am so glad."
I wish ] could stimulate YOU with
these thoughts. o Christian man. 20 tlie
highest possible evhilaration. The day
Of your deliverance IS cominC-i com
ing. rolling on with the shining wheels
Of the day and The iet wheels of The
night Every fh1mp Of the heart Is
only a hammer stroke striking OF an
other chain Of clay BETTER scour Che
deck and coil the rope. for harbor is
only sin miles away Jesus viii come
down ;he Narrows TO meet YOU "Now
is your salvation nearer than when you
believed"
Man OF the world will you not ~
day make a choice between these two
portions. between the "south land" Of
this world which slopes TO the desert.
and this glorious land which thy Ia
ther offers thee. running with eterra
water courses? Why Jet your tongue
be consumed of thirst When there are
the neither springs and the upper
springs comfort here and glory here.
after?
You and 1 need something better
than this world can give us. he TACT
is that it cannot give us anything after
awhile 1t is changing world Do
you knew that even the mountains on
the back OF a thousand streams are
leaping into the valley? The Ale
ghenies are dying. The dews with
crystalline mallet are hammcring away
the rocks Frosts and showers and
lightnings are seuipturing Mount
Washington and the Catskills. Niagara
every year is digging for itself a
quicker plunge. II be sea an around the
earth on its shifting shores is making
mighty changes I'm bar and bay and
firth and promOnt0ry. Some of the old
seacoasts are midland now. on Mar
tucket. eight feet below loW-water
mark are found now the stumps OF
trees. showing that the waves are con-
qu,riug the land Parts OF Nova Scotia
are sinking. Ships to-day sail over
what. only a little while ago was solid
ground. Near the mouth of the ST.
CroiX river is an island which. IN the
movements Of the earth. is slowly but
certainly rotating An the face of 'he
earth IT, changing changing ln 1881
an island springs up in the McdIiei-
ranean sea. ln 1866 another island
comes up under the observation Of the
American consul as he looks of from
the beach The earth an the time
changing the columns Ola temple near
Bizoli show that the water has risen
nine feet above the place IL was when
these columns were put down Chang
ingl Our Colorado river. once yaster
than the Mississippi, flowing through
the great American desert which wac
then the Eden of Insurance. has now
dwindled 10 a small stream creeping
down through gorge The earth H.
self. that was once vapor aftcrward
watcr-nothing but water afterward
molten rock. cooling on through ths
ages until plants might live and ami
mails might live and men might live.
changing all the while now crumblirg
now breaking on The SUM- burning
down gradually I'm it's socket Chang
ing. changing an intimatiou Of the last
great change 10 come over the world
even infused into the mind Of the
heather who has never seen the Rih'r