Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1899-09-30

or good 60 them who love God" Is
here not a tonic In that? Is there not
longevity In that7
Suppose a man Is all the time wor-
ried about his reputation? One man
saws he lies. another says he Is stupid. =
another saws he is dishonest and half
a dozen printing establishments attach
him. aud he Is in a great state of ex
citen,ent and worry and fume and can
not sleep. but religion comes 20 hirs
and saws: Man. God Is on your side.
lie will take care Of your reputation.
t. God be for YOU. who can be against
you?~ How much should that man wor-
~ about his reputation7 Not much.
~ that broker who some wears ago In
Wall street after he had lost money,
sat down and wrote n farewell letter 20
his wife before he blew his brains out
IL. instead cf taking out OF his pocket :
= pistol. no had taken ont well-rea0'l
New Testame nj. there would have been
one less suicide.
o nervous and feverish people OF the
world. try this almighty sedativel You
will live 25 years longer under It's socfh-
ing power. II is not chloral that you /
want or morphine that you want. IL Is |
the Gospel OF Jesus Christ With long
life will satisfy him"
Again. practical religion il a friend
OF longevity in the fact that II removes
all rorrodinQ care about future exist
once. Every man wants 90 know What
is 10 become OF him. II You get on
board a rail train. you want 20 know AZ
what depot 1t II going TO stop. II you
get on boa ri a ship. YOU want 20 know
into what harbOr IL is going To run.
AMI II YOU should-tell me YOU have no
interest in what ~ TO be your future
destiny ! would. in A. polite n way as
know how. tell YOU ] did not believe
YOU. Before I had this matter settled
with reference 20 my future existence
the question almost worried me into
ruined health. The anxieties men have
upon this subject, put together. would
make a martyrdom- This - state OF
awful unhealtkiness. There are people
who fret themselves 20 death for fear
OF diving. l want 10 take the strain on
your nerves and the depression of your
soul. and / make two or three expert
ments. Experiment first: When you
70 out OF this world II does not maks
any difference whether You have beer
good or bad. whether you believed truth
. or error. you will 90 straiyht 70 glory
"Impossible." you say. MY commoi
sense as we'll as my religion teaches tha
. the bad and the good cannot live togeth
er forever. You give me no comfort Il
q that experiment." Experiment the sec
= ond: When you leave this world yo
l. will 20 into an intermediate state. .wher
= YOU can get converted and prepared 70
n Heaven. Impossible" YOU say. "A
n the tree falleth. so must IL lie. and
s cannot postpone 10 an intermedia'
II state reformation which ought 10 haV
'r been effected In this state" Fxper
'e ment the third: There is no futuI
ie world. When a man dies. that is n
a last OF him. DO not worry abont wh'
n YOU are 10 do i'm another state of bein
a.. You will not do anything. "imposs
n BILE" YOU say. There is something tn
a tells me .hat death is not the apPendi
81. but the preface, TO life There Is som
he thing that tells me that on this si'
Ii Of the grave 1 only get started al
OF that shall go on forever. Ny power
us think says forever my affections :
ife forever my capacity to enjoy or 81
fer. forever.
raj Well, YOU defeat me in my three Z
ir. periments. l have only one more
XII make. and il yon defeat me- in that 1
aid exhausted. A mighty One on kn
see back OF Jerusalem one day, the SIX
Dll~ filled with forked lightnings and
in earth filled with volcanic disturbanc
-ou turned His pale and agonized q
vill toward the heavens and said; Il "a
ey, the sins and sorrows OF the ages Il
ere my own heart. ! am the expiati
ow Witness. earth and Heaven aud h
$50 I am the expistion." And the hsmr
'est struck Him, and the spears punctu
my him, and Heaven thundered; -
wages of sin Is death!" "The soul :
10 sinneth. II shall die!" II viii by
God means clear the guiltyi" Then N
and was silence for half an hour, and
inc. lightnings were drawn back into
inc. scabbard OF the sky. and the ca
ar.. ceased to culver. and all the color
.rss the sky began 20 shift into raiul
v,.n woven out Of the falling tears OF Je
thsr and there was red as of the blOodsl
win ding, and there was blue as OF the bT
8 of ing, and there was green as of
,uch heavenly foliage. and there was orr
n,.h as OF the day dawn. and along the
:, ., Of the blue I saw the words: Il
,his9 bruised for their iniquities." and a
.hfs9 the line OF red ! saw the words:
uho blood OF Jesus Christ cieanseth
-taip an SIM" and along the line OF the 2
Fx- l saw the words: The leaves OF