The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1899-02-10
FARMVILLE VA FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 10, 1899.

AIINM AllIN NHNA ~ NN f'ANh AAN VIZ" "Hf
and no more premium az 80 than when
he was 40 ljy the Advancement of
medical science and the wider ac-
quaintance with the laws of health and
the fact that the people know better
how 10 take care of themselves human
life IS prolonged But do you realize
what. after an is the brevity of our
earthly state? In the times when peo-
pie lived zoo and 500 years the patriarch
Jacob said that his years were few.
Looking at the life of the youngest per-
son in this assembly and supposing
that he will live 10 be nonagenarian,
how short the time and soon gone,
while banked mp In front of us IS an
eternity so vast that arithmetic has not
figures enough 10 express its length. or
breadth. or depth or height For a
happy eternity You were born. unless
you run yourself against the divine in
tentions. If standing i'm your presence
my eye should fall upon the feeblest
soul here as that soul viii appear when
the world lets II mp and heaven en-
frances il. 7 suppose ! would be so over
powered that should drop down as one
dead.
You have examined the family Bible
and explored the family records. and
You may have seen daguerreotypes of
some of the kindred of previous gener-
ations you have had photographs taken
Of what YOU were IN boyhood or girl
hood and what you were ten years
later. and IL is very interesting 70 any
one TO be able TO look back upon pic
lures Of what he was ten. or twenty. or
thirty years ago, but have you ever had
n picture taken Of what you may be
md what you will be If You seek after
Sod and feel the spirits regenerating
power? Where shall plant the cam
era 70 take the picture? plant II on
this platform. direct IT toward you.
Sit still or stand still while ! take the
picture. II shall be an instantaneous
picture. There ! have il. II is done.
You can see the picture in its imper-
feet state and get some idea Of what
IL will be when thoroughly developed.
u mere is NWWA ANNNA NNNNN N'Af ~ ~ ~
liant that the MONDAY sun is n patch
of midnight compared with IT, There
Is your soul. so pure that all the forces
Of diabol'sm could not spot II with nm
imperfection. There is your being. so
mighty and so swift that flight from
heaven 10 Mercury or Mars or Jupiter
and back again TO heaven would not
weary you. and a world on each shoul-
der would not crush YOU. An eye that
shah never shed a tear. An energy
that shall never feel fatigue. a brow
that shall never throb with vain. You
are young again though you died Of
decrepitude. You are well again.
though you coughed or shivered your
self into the tomb. Your everyday as
sociates are the apostles and prophets
and martyrs and most exalted souls,
masculine and feminine, OF 81 the cen
turies. The archanpel TO you 10 en-
barrassment. God Himself your pres
ent and everlasting joy. That Is an
instantaneous picture OF what you may
be and what l am sure some Of you
will be.
If YOU realize that il is IN imperfect
picture, my apology is what the apostle
John said: at doth not yet appear what
we shall be-" "ro this end was born
III did not think so, would be ever
whelmed with melancholy. The world
does very well for a little while, so or 100
or $50 years. and / think that human
longevity may yet be improved up TO
that prolongation. for now there is so
little room between our cradle and our
grave we cannot accomplish much, but
who would want TO dwell in this world
for all eternity? Some think this earth
will finally be turned into Heaven. Per
hans IL may. but il would have TO under
20 radical repairs and thorough elm
nations and evolutions and revolu-
tions and transformations Infinite 70
make il desirable for eternal residence.
All the east winds would have TO be-
come west winds, and all the winters
changed TO springtides and ell the
volcanoes extinguished and all the
oceans chained TO their beds, and the
epidenics forbidden entrance and the
world so fixed up that think IT would
take more TO repair this old world than
10 make an entirely new one. But /
must say l do not care where Heaven
is, If we can only get there; whether
a gardcnized America or an empara-
dsed Europe or a world central to the
whole universe. ITO this end was
born" II each one Of MS could say that
we would go with faces shining and
hopes exhiarant amid earth's worst
misfortunes and trials.
In the seventeenth century all Eu-
rope was threatened with a wave Of
Asiatic barbarism. and Vienna was es-
pecially besieged. The king and his
court had fed, and nothing could save
the city from being overwhelmed un-
less the king of Poland, John Sobiesli,
10 whom they had sent for help, should
with his army come down for the re-
lief, and from every roof and tower
the inhabitants of Vienna watched and
waited and hoped, until on the morn
ing of September IL the rising sun
threw an unusual and unparalleled
brilliancy It was the reflection Of the
sun on the swords and shields aud he'll
NETS Of John Sobiesli and his army
coming down over the hills TO the res
cue. and that day not only Vienna, but
Europe. was saved. And see you not,
o We souls, besieged with sin and sor-
row. that light breaks in; the swords
and the shields and the helmets Of di
vine rescue bathed in the rising SUI
Of heavenly deliyerance? Let every