Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-09-29
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Suppose you had supernatural
neighbor who came in and said: -Sir
1 want you to call ON me in every ex
| igency. am your fast friend | could
fall back on s20.0O0O00. can foreses
a panic ten years I hold the con
trolling stock In 80 of the best none
establishment anu you VIII see. &c
down on the other floor, and see the
carpets. and | ali obliged 10 confess
that, though the wheels in that factory
go in opposite directions. they turn out
a beautiful result. and while | am
standing there looking AT the exquisite
fabric an old Scripture passage comes
into nv mind. "All things work to-
gether for good to them who love God
Is there not 4, tonic in that? Is there
not longevity in that?
Removes Corroding Care
Suppose man is all The time wor-
ried about his reputation?- One man
says he lies. another says he is stupid
another says he is dishonest. and half
II dozen printing establishments at
tack him, and he is in great state of
excitement and worry and fume and
cannot sleep. but religion comes to
him and says: Man, God is on your
side. He will take care of your repu-
tation. II God be for you. who can be
against yOu?' How much should that
man worry about his reputation? Not
fhof l.rpt-ar lo r-S
ago i'll Wall street. after he had lost
money, sat down and wrote fare
well 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 sedative! You
will live % years longer under its
soothing 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 a friend
of longevity in the fact that it removes
all corroding care about future eX-
istence. 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 1t is going to stop.
If you get on board ship. you want
TO know into what harbor it is going
to run. And if you should tell me you
have no interest in what is to be your
r,,@ I ~,
way as know how. tell you | 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 to-
gether would make martyrdom. This
is a state of awful unhealthiness.
There are people who fret themselves
to death for fear Of dying. | want to
take the strain off your nerves and
the depression off your soul, and
make two or three experiments. Ex-
pertinent 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 go straight to glory. "Im-
possible" you say: My common sense
as well as my religion teaches that the
bad and the good cannot live together
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 pre-
pared for heaven. Impossible" you
say. ''As the tree falleth, so must 1t
lie, and l cannot postpone to an inter-
mediate state reformation which ought
TO have been effected in this state"
Experiment the third: There Is no fu-
ture world. When IL 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. 'Tm
possible" you say. "There is some
thing that tells me that death is not
the appendix, but the preface to life.
There is something 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 suffer, forever"
The Healing Balm.
Well. you defeat me in my three ex-
perimepts. | have only one more to
make, and if you defeat me in that !
am exhausted: A mighty One on
knoll back of Jerusalem one day. the
G1Io1 wifi Irhf ~
the earth filed with volcanic disturb
ances. turned his pale and agonized
face toward the heavens and said: 81
take the sins and sorrows of the ages
into my own heart. | am the eXpia-
ton. 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 deathr' 1.-THE soul
that sinneth, it shall die" Il will by
40 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
he sky began to shift into rainbow
woven out of the falling tears of Jesus,
Ind there was red as of the bloodsiied- |
ling, and there was blue as of the
and there was green as of !
he heavenly foliage, and there was
orange as Cf the day dawn. and along |
he line Of the blue | saw the words. |
I was bruised for their iniquities,"
Ind along the line of the red saw the |!
words, "The blood of Jesus Christ |
:leanseth from all sin" and along the |
inc of the green saw the words. THE |
caves of the Tree of Life for the heal |