Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1899-12-13
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forgotten their sorrows?" Our escort re-
spends: "Sorrowsl Why, they had SORROWS
more than you could count, but by a d.
vine illumination that the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries never enjoyed they
understand the uses OF sorrow and are COM
sorted with supernatural coincidence
such as previous centuries never expert
nced."
1 ask again of the Interpreter, "Has
ieath been baDished from the world?"
The answer is, mo. but people die now
only when the physical machinery is worn
,ut. and they realize 1t is time to go and
:hat they are certainly and without doubt
going into world where they will be in
initely better off and are to live In man
sion that awaits their immediate oc-
,upancy." But how was all this efrected?"
[ ask our escort. Answer: by food of
gospel power. You who lived in the nine
:eenth century never saw a revival OF reli-
zion to be compared with what occurred
n rne iarrer part or The twentiein anu Ine
early part Of the twenty-first century.
rhe prophecy has been fulfilled that "a
nation shall be born in day'-that is. ten
u twenty or forty million people converted
n twenty-four hours. In our church his
;ory we read OF the great awakening of
1857, when five hundred thousand souls
we're saved. But that was only drop OF
he coming showers that since then took
nto the Kingdom of God everything be-
'WCCu tuc htldutlC anu TIC Iucluc, Ut-
ween the Pyrenees and the Himalayas."
The evils that good people were in the
nineteenth century trying to destroy have
)een overcome by celestial forces. What
iuman weaponry failed to accomplish has
,een done by omnipotent thunderbolts.
As you and see in this terrestrial visit
.tion OF the coming centuries that the
,hurch has under God accomplished so
much, We ask our escort, the spirit OF the
century, to show US the differ
mt kinds OF churches. So we are taken in
Ind out of the churches OF different denom-
nations, and we find that they are Just as
lif1erent in the twenty first century as they
we're different in the nineteenth when we
vorshiped In them. There is unity in them
ls to the great essentials of salvati on. But
We enter the Baptist Church, and 1T is bap-
ismal day, and we see the candidates for
nembersh tp. immersed. And we go into
Presbyterian Church and see a group OF
parents around the baptismai font holding
Up their children for the christening. Aud
We enter the Episcopal Church and hear
he solemn roll of her lturgies. and her
ministers are gowned and surplicej. And
ve enter the Lutheran Church, and we
hear in the sermon preached the doctrines
u the greatest of German reformers. And
We go into the Methodist Church just in
fme to sit down at love feast and give
.udible "Amen" when the service stirs Us.
1t least fifty kinds of churches In the
wenty-first century, as there were $50 diff
erent kinds of churches in the nineteenth
entury.
80 spirit OF the twenty-first century, will
GU not show US something of the CONNER
ial life OF your timer" He answers, 80
morrow 1 will show you ALL" And on the
morrow he takes US through the great
narts of trade and shows US the bargain
nakers and the shelves on which the goods
ay and the tierces and hogsheads in which
hey are contained. l notice that the
lNr;n Neh ha&f tn ~,
ever saw in our nineteenth century, for
he factories are more skillful, and the
wheels that turn and the looms that clack
nd the engines that rumble are driven by
orce that were not a century ago discov-
red.
The prices OF the fabrics indicate a rea-
enable profit, and the firm In the count
ng room and the clerks at the counter
md the draymen at the doorway and the
rrand boy on his rounds and the mes
snger who brings the mail and thu men
vho open the store in tho morning as
reat-. NO swallowinl
iouses OF merchandise by greal ..ouses,
10 Duinous undersoiling until those I'm
her same line are bankrupt and then
he prices lifted, no unnecessary assign
nent to defraud creditors. no over
lrawing OF accounts, no abscondings, no
harp practice, no snap judgments, but
he manufacturer right in lis dealings
With the wholesaler and the WHOLESALER
vi.h the retailer, and the retailer with
he customer. No purchasing oil goods that
will never be paid for. All right behind
he counter; all right before the counter.
10 repetition of what Solomon describes
when he writes, 1T Is naught, 1t Is naught,
iaith the buyer. but when he is gone his
way then he boasteth.'' 20 spir,t of tue
:wenty-first century, how glad l am that
1ou showed US these stores and factories
md places Of bargain and salcl 1t was not
always 80 in the nineteenth century, when
We we're earthly residents. Many of fthose
merchants who are good at ciphering out
,ther rules In arithmetic never could cipher
>ut that sum In the rule of loss and gain.
What shall it profit a man IL he gain the
whole world and lost his soul?"
But" l say to our escort, the Spirit OF
he twenty-frst century, and YOU and I
'ay to each other, 1--WE must go home now,
back again to heaven. We have staid long
enough on this terrestrial visitation to see
hat all the best things foretold in the
scriptures and which we read during our
earthly residence have come to pass and
Ill the Davidic Solomonic and Paulinian
md Johannean prophecies have been full
illed, and that the earth, instead OF be-
ng CHASTITY failure, is the mightiet sue
less in the universe. star redeemed. A
planet rescued world saved! 1t started
With a garden, and II is going to close
With garden. What happiness that we
,ould have seen this old world after 1t was
-ighted and before it burned, for its In
ernal fires have nearly burned out to the
,rust, according to the geologist, max
Dg it easy for the theologian to be-
ieve in the confagration that the
Bible predicts. One element taken
rom the water and that will burn,
and another element taken from the air
and that will burn, and surrounding plan
,ts will watch this old ship of world on
1re and wonder IL all its passengers got
,afely of. Before that planetary catas-
:rophe, HE US back to heaven. Farewell,
spirit of the twenty-frst century, Thanks
Tor your guidancei We can stay no longer
away from doxologies that never end, In
temples never closed, in IA day that has no
sundown. We must report to the immor-
tails around the throne the transforma-
lions we have seen, the victories of truth
On land and sea, the hemispheres irradi-
ated, and Christ on the throne Of earth, al
He Is on the throne Of heaven"
And now you and have left our escori
rs we ascend, for the law of gravitation has
no power to detain ascending spirits. Up
through immensities and by stellar and
lunar and solar spiendors, which cannot be
described by mortal tongue, We rise higher
and higher, till we reach the shining gate
rs it opens for our return, and the ques-
lions greet us from all sides: "What is the
news? What did you find in that earthly
tower2 What have you TO report in this
,ity Of the sum-" Prophetic, apostolic,
sanity inquiry. And, standing on the steps
Of the house of many mansions, we cry
aloud the news: Hear 1t, all ye glorified
Christian workers of all the past centuries!
We found your work was successful,
whether on earth you toiled with knitting
needle, or rung a trowel on a risiag wall,
or smote shoe last, or endowed a univer-
sity, or swayed scepter; whether on earth
you gave cup of cold water in the name
Of disciple. or at some Pentecost preached
5000 souls into the kingdom.