The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-12-09

PATRIOTISM ana puDnc splrlleuhcsS anu
eloquence and moral power would not
be pointed out now, for all our put lie
men are thus characterized. Poliiics
has been swept, garnisbed, glorificd,
ennobled, until nothing more is to be
desired. Walk through all aldermanic
councils and sheriifalities and guber-
Material rooms and presidential man-
sions and find the truth of what l, the
spirit of the twenty-first century, tell
you, who were of the nineteenth CEN
| fury and now come down on terrestrial
| visitation"
But we cannot stay long here, for
it is almost time for us to retrace our
way heayenward This voluntary exile
must soon end And, passing out, we
60 through national museum, where
we are shown among the curiosities an
enfield rifle, II howitzer, a hotchkiss
| shell, an ambulance-curiositie OF that
| age, but. alas! no curiosity to us of the
nineteenth century, for some of our
| own kindred went down under their
| stroke or were carried off the field by
! those wheels.
But" ! say to our escort, the spirit
of the twenty first century, and you and
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 Pnulinian and johann
mean prophecies have been fulfilled, and
that the earth, instead of being gbast.
ly failure, is the mightiest success in
the universe. A star redeemed. A
planet rescued! A world saved! II
| started with a garden. and il is going to
close with n gardeh What n happiness
that we could have seen this old world
after it was righted and before il
burned, for its interpal fires have near
ly burned out to the crust, according
to the geologist, making it easy for the
theologian to believe in the conflagra-
ton that the Bible predicts. One ele-
ment taken from the water and that
will burn, and another element taken
from the air and that will burn. and
surrounding planets will watch this old
ship Of n world on fire and wonder If all
its passengers got safely Off. Before
that planetary catastrophe, HE us back
to Heaven. Farewell, spirit of the
twenty-Grst century, Thanks FOR your
guidance! We can stay no longer
away from doXologics that never end,
| in temples never closed, in Il day that
has TO shutdown. We must report to the
mmortals around the throne the
transformations we have seen, the VIC
| tories of truth on land ard sea, the
hemisphercs irradiatcd. and Christ on
| the throne of earth, as lie is on the
| throne of Heaven"
And now you and / have iefr our es-
| cort rs we ascend for the law of grav-
| itation has no power to dctain ascend
| ing spirits. Up through immensitics
and by stellar and lunar and solar
| splendors, which cannot be described
| by mortal tongue, we rise righcr and
| higher, till we reach the shining gate
as it opens for our return, and the
questions greet us from all sides:
What is the news? What did you find
in that earthly tower? What have you
| to report in this city of the SUM"
| Prophetic, apostolic, sanity inquiry.
And, standing on the steps of the
| house of many mansions, we cry aloud
| the news Hear it, all we glorified
| Christian workers of all the past CEN
turtles! We found your work was sue
ccssful, whether on earth you toiled
with knitting needle, or rung trowcl
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or endowed university, or swayed a
sceptcr; whether on earth you gave
| cup of cold water in the name of
disciple, or at some Pentecost preached
5000 souls into the kingdom.
"In that world we have just visited
the deserts are all abloom, and the will
dernesses are bright with fountains.
Sin is cxtirpated. Crime is reformed.
Disease is cured. The race is, enamel
pated. The earth is full of the knowl-
edge of God, as the waters cover the
sea- The redeemed of the Lord have
come to Zion with songs and cverlast-
ing 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 thcstrings
of their harps, and the trumpcters
put them in the mouth of their trum-
pets, and the orchestra roll them into
the grand march of the eternjtics, and
all the cathedral towers of the great
capital of the universe chime them all
over Heaven"
And now look up and see the cast
ing down at the bcjeweled and radiant
crowns at the sacred feet of the en-
throned Jesus. Missionary Carey is
casting down before those feet the
crown of India saved. Missionary judi
son is casting down the crown of Bur
ma saved Missionary Abeel- casting
down the crown of China saved. Lnvd
Livingston casting down at those feet
the crown of Africa saved. Miss on
airy Brainerd casting down the crywn
of this countrys aborigincs saeed.
Souls that went up from all the de-
nominations in America in holy riv-
airy, seeking which could soonest EAST
down the crown of this continent at
the Saviour's feet, and America saved.
But often you and |, who were COM