The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-02-24

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not rest in that? Is there not tonic
In that? Is there not longevity ~
that?
Suppose man is all the time worried
about his reputation One man says he
lies, another says he is stupid, another
says he is dishonest, and half q dozen
printing establishments attack him,
and he is in a great state OF excitement
and worry and fume and cannot sleep
But religion comes to him and says:
Man, God is on your side. He will take
care of your reputation. II God be
with you, who can be against your
How much should that man worry
about his reputation? Not much. II
| that broker who some years ago IN
WELL street after he had lost money,
sat down and wrote farewell letter 10
his wife before he blew his brains out
if. instead of taking out of his pocket
n pistol. he had taken out well-read
New Testament, there would have been
one less suicide. o nervous and feverish |
people of the world, try this Almighty |
sedative. You will live 25 years longer
under it's soothing power. 1t is not
choral that you want or morphine that
YOU want. 1t is the Gospel of Jesus
Christ. "With long life will l satisfy
him."
Again, practical religion is friend
of longevity in the fact that 1T removes
all corroding care about future eX-
istence. Every man wants to Know
what is to become of him. fyou get on
board a rail train, you want to know
at what depot it is going 20 stop. IL
Won get on board a ship, you want to
, know into what harbor it is going to
run, and if you should tell me you have
no interest in what is to be your future
I destiny 1 would in as polite way as
know tell YOU / did not believe you.
+ Before l had this matter settled with
reference to- my future existence the
p question almost worried me into ruined
health. The anxieties men have upon
3 this subject put together would make
I a martyrdom. This is state OF awful
j. unhealthiness. There are people who
fret themselves to death for fear OF
dying.
4 want to take the strain off your
/. nerves and the depression off your SOU,
d and 1 make two or three experiments.
= Experiment the first: When you go out
= of this world, it does not make any dlf-
IS ference whether you have been good or
X bad. or whether you believed truth or
, error. YOU will go straight to glory.
o "Impossible," you say. my common
IS sense az well as my religion teaches that
l. the bad and the good cannot 1--we to-
is gether forever You give me no com
V fort in that experiment. Experiment
y the second: When you leave this world,
o. YOU will go into an intermediate state
e. where you can get converted and pre-
# pared for Heaven. Impossible you
e. saw: .'as the tree falleth so it must lie,
h. and cannot postpone to an intermedl'
W ate state that reformation which ought
IT. to have been effected in this state.
ar Experiment the third: There is no fu-
in ture world. When man dies, that is
is the last of him. Do not worry about
no what YOU are to do in future state OF
he being; you will not do anything. I'm
IN possible." you say. "There is some
H. thing that tells me that death is not the
is appendix, but the preface; there Il
at something that tells me that on TIL:
he side of the grave only get started ano
co that I shall go on forever. My power
,is to think says forever, my affections say
he forever, my capacity to enjoy or su1he'
IL forever"
en- Well, you defeat me in my three ex
periments. I have only one more Il
Id make, and if you defeat me in that an
or exhausted. A mighty one on knoll
re- filled with forked Ightnings and tn
no earth filled with volcanic disturbances
nv turned His pale and agonized face to
de ward the Heavens and said: Il tax
as the sins and sorrows of the ages into M
es- own heart. I am the expiration. VIII
Sc ness earth and Heaven and hell, al
,at the expiation." And the hamme
he struck Him and the spears puncture
ed him, and Heaven Numbered, 9TH
MI wages of sin is DEATH" "The soul tina
no sinneth it shall die!" FL will by n
me means clear the guilty!" Then Their
AN was silence for half an hour, and IN
mt Iightnings were drawn back into In
ice scabbard of the sky and the earl
is ceased to culver and all the colors OF IN
ma skv began to shift themselves into
of rainbow woven out of the falling teal
at of Jesus, and there was red as OF IN
bloodshedding and there was blue as
raj .he bruising and there was green as
Sir the Heavenly foliage and there was O
wi ange as of the day dawn. And aron
Md the line of the blue I saw the word
re- 81 was bruised for their iniquities
on And along the line of the red saw IL
me- words, 1.-THE blood of Jesus Chrl
nv. cleanseth from all sim" And along II
ali line of the green saw the words,
con leaves of the tree of life for the heallI
INV of the nations" And along the line
doe the orange 1 saw the words, 1.-THE da
rpv spring from on high hath visited u.s.
ov. And then l saw the storm was owe
TN and the rainbow rose higher and hlgh
for until it seemed retreating to anoth
Heaven, and planting one column OF
IN colors on one side the eternal hill al
Tod planting the other column OF its colo
md on the other side the eternal hill it no
and upward and upward, and, behold, the
mia was ralnDo" aooul INC ~
a Accept that sacrifice and quit worr
re- ing. Take the tonic, the inspiratio
am the longevity, of this truth. Religl'
In is sunshine; that is health. Religion
Bile. fresh air ana pure water; they a
,ere healthy. Religion is warmth; that
+ent healthy. Ask all the doctors, and tn
hat will tell you that quiet conscien
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