The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1899-09-27


well read New Testament, there would
have been one less suicide.
0 nervous and feverish people of the
world, try this almighty sedative! You
will live twenty-five years longer under
its soothing power. 1t is not choral chat
you want or morphine that. YOU want. 1t
is the gospel of Jesus Christ with
long life will l satisfy him.
Again, practical religion is a friend Of
longevity in the fact that it removes ali
corroding care about future existence.
There are people who fret themselves to
death for fear of dying. I want to take
the strain off your nerves and the depres-
sion off your soul, and make two or
three experiments. Experiment first:
When you go out of this world, it does
not make any difference whether you
have been good or bad, whether you be-
lieved truth Or error, you will go straight
to glory. Impossible" you say. MY
common sense as we'll as my religion
teaches that the bad and the good cannot
live together forever. You give me NO
comfort in that experiment. Experiment
the second: When you leave this world,
you will go into an intermediate state,
where you can get converted and prepar-
ed for heaven. Impossible" you say.
las the tree falleth, so must it lie, and
cannot postpone to an intermediate
state reformation which ought to have
been effected in this state.' Experiment
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. impossible" you say. 'There
is something 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"
Peace Now and Hereafter.
Well, you defeat me in my three expert
ments. | have only one more to make,
and if you defeat me in that l am ex-
hausted. A mighty One on knoll back
of Jerusalem one day, the skies filled
with forked lightnings and the earth filled
with volcanic disturbances, turned his
pale and agonized face toward the heav-
ems and said: II take the sins and sor-
lOWS VI tAC dScS luIO lly Wv IL hCult.
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 thun-
dered: 1.-THE wages of sin is death!' ''The
soul that sinneth, it shall die!' II will by
no means clear the guilty!' Then there
was silence for half an hour, and the
lightnings were drawn back into the scab-
bard of the sky, and the earth ceased to
culver, and all the colors of the sky be-
gan to shift into rainbow woven out Of
the falling tears Of Jesus, and there was
red as of the bloodshedding, and there
was blue as Of the bruising, 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, II was bruised for their iniqui-
ties and along the line Of red saw the
words, 1.-THE blood of Jesus Christ cleans
eth from all SIM and along the line Of
the green / saw the words, 1.-THE leaves
Of the Tree of Life for the healing of the
nations" and along the line of the or
ange / saw the words, ''The day spring
from on high hath visited u.s. and then
saw the storm was over, and the rainbow
rose higher and higher until it seemed
retreating to another heaven, and, plant
ing one column Of its colors on one side
the eternal hill, and planting the other
column OF its colors on the other side the
eternal hill, it rose upward and upward,
land, behold, there was a rainbow about
the throne" Accept that sacrifice and
quit worrying. Take the tonic, the inspi-
ration, the longevity, of this truth. Re
ligion is sunshine; that is health Re
ligion is fresh air and pure water; they
are healthy. Religion is warmth; that is
healthy. Ask all the doctors; and they
will tell you that quiet conscience and
pleasant anticipations are hygienic. l
offer you perfect peace now and here
after.
What do you want in the future world !?
Tel NE, and you shall have it. Orchards?
There are the trees with twelve 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 oratorio of the Red sea
led on by Moses and the oratorio Of the
Messiah led on by ST.. Paul, while the
archangel with swinging baton controls
the IA GOO who make up the orchestra.
Do you want reunion? There are your
children waiting to kiss you, waiting to
embrace you, swaiting to twist garlands
in your hair. You have been accustomed
to open the door on this side the sepul-
cher. I open the door on the other side
the sepulcher You have been accustom-
ed to walk in the wet grass on the top of
the grave. l show you the under side of
the grave. The bottom has fallen out,
and the long ropes with which the pail
bearers let down your dead let them clear
through into heaven.
Glory be to God for this robust, healthy
religion! 1t will have tendency to make
you live long in this world, and in the
world to come you will have eternal life.
with long life will l satisfy him.
Copyright, Louis Klopsch. 1899
The New Testament is idle to
suppose that we are to restrict our
selves to what is found in the New Tes-
lament. The disciples who laid the
foundation of the church had no New
Testament; and when years afterWard