The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1899-12-06

lists laboratory ana explorers journey
have joined in a confirmation of the truth
of the Holy Scriptures until there is not
all unbeliever in all the earth. The as
tronomer through his telescope has seen
the morning star Of the Redeemer, and
the geologist has found the Rock of Ages,
and the geometrician has demonstrated
that heaven is the city which Sieth four
square, and the length and the breadth
and the height of it are equal.
What" 1 say to our escort, mo sker-
tics, no infidels, no agnostics? His
reply is: absolutely none. The last fool
who said in his heart there is no God
was buried a half century ago without
any liturgical service, although perhaps
quartet of unbelievers may have stood
around the casket and sung verse or
two out of the gloom of Poe's Raven
'Perched above his chamber door
Only this, and nothing more"
Turned to Ashes.
'Well," | say to our escort, where
are Tom Paine's Age of Reason and In
gersolls Mistakes of Moses and David
Hume's and Voltaire's celebrated TRADES
against the Bible?" 81 never heard of
them,' says our escort. What are you
talking about? A bigger bonfire of books
than that which in apostolic time was
kindled in the streets of Ephesus was
lighted in all our cities and the corrupt
literature of the world turned into ashes
many, many years ago. l saw the last
leaf curl up in the flame and scatter"
In response to my question as to what
had wrought all this change-obliterate
all the evil and fully inaugurated all the
goOd-Our escort. the spirit of the twenty
first century, tells me that gospeliZation
had directly or indirectly done it. 1t was
practical gospel that not only changed
the heart, but made the man honest A
practical religion which did not expend
all it's energy in singing. ely abroad,
thou mighty gospel" but gave something
to make it fly.
But / say to our escort, the spirit of
the twenty-frst century, you have
shown us much, but what about interna-
tional conditions? When we lived on
earth, it was century that bled with
Marengo and Chalons and Lodi Bridge
and Lucknow and Solferino and Leipsic
and Waterloo and San Juan" Our es-
sort replies, "Come with me to this build
ing of white marble and glittering dome"
AS we pass up and on we are taken into
a room where the mightiest and best rep
resentatives of all nations are assembled
to settle international controversies. AS
we enter I hear the presiding officer open
ing the council Of arbitration, reading the
second chapter of Isaiah: '.They shall
beat their swords into plowshares and
their spears into pruning hooks. Nation
shall not lift up sword against nation,
neither shall they learn war any more"
Questions which in our long past nine
teenth century caused quarrel and blood
She'd as when Germany and France were
deciding about Alsace and Lorraine, as
when the United States and Spain were
deciding about Cuba-such questions in
this twenty-frst century settled in five
minutes, one drop of ink doing more than
once could have been accomplished by a
river of blood.
The Hall of Arbitration.
But we cannot stay long in this hall of
arbitration, for it is almost time for us
to retrace our way heavenward. but"
l say to our escort, the spirit of the
twenty-frst century, and you and l say
to each other, 1--WE must go home now,
back again to heaven. We have staid
long enough on this terrestrial visitation
to see that all the best things foretold in
the Scriptures and which we read during
our earthly residence have come to pass,
and all the Davidic, Solomonic and Paul
inian and Johannean prophecies have
been fulfilled, and that the earth, instead
of being a CHASTITY failure, is the might
est success in the universe. A star re-
deemed. A planet rescued! world
saved! IT started with a garden, and it
is going to close with a garden. What a
happiness that we could have seen this
old world after it was righted and before
it burned, for its internal fires have near
ly burned out to the crust, according to
the geologist, making it easy for the the
ologian to believe in the confagration
that the Bible predicts. One element
taken from the water and that will burn,
and another element taken from the air
and that will burn, and surrounding plan
cts will watch this old ship of a world on
fire and wonder if all it's passengers got
safely off. Before that planetary catas-
trophe, HE us back to heaven. Farewell,
spirit Of the twenty-hrst century! Thanks
for your guidance! We can stay no Ion
ger away from doXOlOgies that never end,
in temples never closed, in day that has
no shutdown. We must report to the i'm
mortals around the throne the transfer
nations we have seen, the victories of
truth on land and sea, the hemispheres
irradiated and Christ on the throne of
earth, as he is on the throne Of heaven"
And now you and have left our escort
as we ascend, for the law of gravitation
has no power to detain ascending spirits.
Extirpation of Sin.
''In that world we have just visited the
deserts are all abloom, and the Wilder
nesses are bright with fountains Sin is
extirpated. Crime is reformed. Disease
is cured. The race is emancipated. The
earth is full of the knowledge of God, as
the waters cover the sea- The redeemed
of the Lord have come to Zion with songs
and everlasting joy upon their heads
The Lord God Omnipotent reigneth, and
the kingdoms Of the world have become
the kingdoms of our Lord Jesus Christ
Let the harpers Of heaven strike the glad
tidings from the strings of their harps,
and the trumpeters put them in the
mouth of their trumpets, and the orches-
tras roll them into the grand march of