The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-12-15
TAIMAGE's SERMON.
THE WORLD AS 1T WILL BE"
SUNDAYS SUBJECT.
Text: III. Peter 8: ia New Earth,
Wherein DweiIeth Righteousness-
story of the New Earth as 1t VIII
lie In Centuries to Come.

Down in the struggle to make the
world better and happier we sometimes
get depressed with the obstacles to be
overcome and the work to be accom-
plshed. Will it not be tonic and IN
inspiration to look at the world as 1t
will be when it has been brought back
10 paradisaical condition? So let us for
few moments transport ourselves
into the future and put ourselves for
ward in the centuries, and see me
world in its rescued and perfected
state, as we will see it if in those times
we are permitted to revisit thls
planet, as | am sure we will. we all
want to see the world after it has been
thoroughly gOspelized and all wrongs
have been righted. We will want to
come back, and we will come back,
to look upon the refulgent consumma-
ton toward which we have been on
larger or smaller scale toiling. HaV-
ing heard the opening of the orchestra,
on whose strings some discords tray
eled, we will WANT to hear the last
triumphant bar of the perfected ora
torio Having seen the picture. as the
painter. drew the. first outlines Oh the
canvas. we will want to see 1t when 1t
If as complete as Reuben's Descent
from the Cross" or Michael Angeles
Last Judgment" Having seen the
world under the CLEAN of the star OF
Bethlehem, we will want to See IL
when, under the full shining of the
Sun of Righteousness, the towers shall
strike twelve at noon.
There will be nothing in that coming
century of the worlds perfection 10
hinder our terrestrial visit. Our power
and velocity of locomotion Will have
improved infinitely. 1t Will not take us
long to come here, however far OH IN
Gods universe heaven may be. Inc
Bible declares that such visitation is
going on now. Are they not all min
istering spirits sent forth to minister
to those who shall be heirs OF saliva
tion?" Surely, the gates of heaven
will not be bolted, after the world is
Edenized, so as to hinder the redeemed
from descending for a tour of inspec-
ton and congratulation and triumph
You know with what interest we
look upon ruins-ruins OF Kenliworth
castle, ruins of Melrose abbey, ruins OF
Rome. ruins of Pompeii So this world
in ruins is an enchantment TO look
at. but we want to see it when rebuilt,
repillared, recovered, realtered, re-
dedicated. The exact date or the
worlds restoration l cannot foreten.
1t may be that through mighty awak-
enings it may take place in the middle
of the nearby twentieth century. 1t
may be at the opening of the twenty
first century but it would not be sur
prising if it took more than 100 years
to correct the ravages of sin which
have ragged for 5000 years. The CHER
missionary and evangelistic enterprises
were started in this century, and be
not dismayed if it takes a couple OF
centuries to overcome evils that have
had full swing for sixty centuries.
take no responsibility in saying on
what page of the earthly calendar it
will roll in, but Gods eternal veracity
is sworn to it that it will roll in; and
as the redeemed in heaven do as they
please. and have all the facilities of
transit from world to world, you and
|. my hearer or reader, will come and
look at what my text calls "a new
OIL
ness"
| imagine that we are descending at
that period of the worlds complete
gospelization. There will be no peril
in such a descent. Great heights and
| depths have no alarm for glorified
spirits. We can come down through
chasms between worlds without
| growing dizzy, and across the
spaces of half a universe without los
| ing our way. Down and farther down
we come. AS we approach this world
we breathe the perfume of illimitable
| gardens. FloraliZation that in the CEN
| turtles past was here and there walled
| in, lest reckless and dishonest pluck
or despoil it, surges it's pillows of color
| across the fields and up the hillsides,
and that which was desert blossoms
as the rose All the foreheads of crag
crowned with flowers; the feet of the
mountains slippered with flowers. Oh!
this perfume of the continents, this
aroma of the hemispheres! AS we ap-
proach nearer we hear songs and
laughter and hosannas, but not one
groan of distress, not one sob of be-
reavement, not one clank of chain.
Alighted on the redeemed earth, we
are first acosted by the spirit of the
twenty-irst century, who proposes to
guide and show us all that we desire
to see. Without his guidance we would
lose our way, for the world is so much
changed from the time when we lived
in It. First of all, he points out to us
a group of abandoned buildings. We
ask this spirit Of the twenty-first CEN
fury, What ATE those structures whose
walls are falling down, and whose
gates are rusted on the hinges?" Our
escort tells us: Those were once
penitentiaries filled with offenders, but