Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1900-04-26

lion per cent better. Take the gladdest,
brightest, most jubilant days you ever
had on earth and compress them all into
one hour, and that hour would be a re-
QUEEN, fast day, a gloom, a horror, as
compared with the poorest hour they
have had in heaven since its first tower
was built or its first gates swung or it's
first song caroled. oh" you say, that
may be true, but | am so afraid OF cross
ing over from this world to the next, and
! fear the swapping OF the cord between
soul and body" Well. all the surgeons
and physicians and scientists declare
that there is no pang at the parting of
the body and soul, and all the restIessness
at the closing hour of life is involuntary
and no distress at all. And / agree with
the doctors, for what they say is con-
frmed by the fact that persons who were
drowned or were submerged until all
consciousness departed and were after
ward resuscitated declare that the SEN
sation of passing into Inconsistencies
was pleasurable rather than distressful.
The cage Of the body has door on easy
hinges, and when that door of the phys
ical cage opens the soul simply puts out
its wings and so0rs.
Getting Into the Light.
"But," you say, II fear to go because
the future is so full of mystery" Well,
[ will tell you how to treat the mysteries.
The mysteries have ceased bothering me.
for | do as the judges of your courts often
do. They hear all the arguments in the
case and they say, 81 will take these pa
pers and give you my decision next
week" So | have heard all the argu-
ments in regard to the next world, and
nrp
mystery, and so | fold up the papers and
reserve until the next world my decision
about them. | can there study all the
mysteries to better advantage, for the
light will be better and my faculties
stronger, and | will ask the Christian
philosophers, who have had all the ad-
vantages OF heaven for centuries, to help
me, and | may be permitted myself hum
bly, to ask the Lord, and | think there
will be only one mystery left: that Will be
how one so unworthy as myself got into
such an enraptured place. Come up out
of the sepulchral shadows. If you are
not Christians by faith in Christ, come
up into the light; and if you are already
like Lazarus, terminated, but still have
your grave clothes on, get rid of them.
The command is, Loose him, and let
him 60"
The only part OF the journey | made
years ago to Palestine that | really
dreaded was the landing Mt Joppa. That
is the port of entrance for the Holy
Land, and there are many rocks, and in
rough weather people cannot land at all.
The boats taking the people from the
steamer to the docks must run between
reefs that looked to me to be about 5O
feet apart, and one misstroke OF an oars
man or an unexpected wave has some
times been fatal and hundreds have per-
ished along those reefs. Besides that, as
we left Port Said the evening before, an
old traveller said: The wind is just right
10 give you rough landing at Joppa'
indeed | think you will not be able to
land at all" The fact was that when
our Mediterranean steamer dropped an
Choir near Joppa and we put out for shore
in the small boat, the water was as still
as though it had been sound asleep a
hundred years, and we landed as easily
as l entered this pulpit. Well, your fears
have pictured for you an appalling ar
rival at the end of your voyage of life
and they say that the seas will run high
and that the breakers will swallow you
up, or that if you reach Canaan at all
it will be very rough landing. The very
opposite will be true il you have tho
eternal God for your portion. Your dis
embarkation for the promised land will
be as smooth as was ours at Palestine
Christ will meet you far out at sea anC
pilot you into complete safety, and yor
will land with Il hosanna on one side OF
you and a halleluiah on the other.
"Land ahead" Its fruits waving
Ger the hill Of fadeess
And the living waters having
Shores where heavenly forms SEEN
Rocks and storms I'll fear no
When that eternal shore.
Drop the anchor, furl the sail!
| am safe within the veil
Copyright 1900, by Louis klopsch.l