The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-02-24

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under it's soothing power. 1t Is not
choral that you want or morphine that
you want. II is the Gospel of Jesus
Christ. with long life will satisfy
him."
Again, practical religion is friend
of longevity in the fact that it removes
all corroding care about future ex-
istence. Every man wants to know
what is to become of him. II you get on
board rail train, you want to know
at what depot it is going to stop. If
you get on board a ship, you want to
know into what harbor ii is going to
run, and if you should tell me YOU have
no interest in what is to be your future
destiny l would in as polite way as 1
know tell you l did not believe you.
Before | had this matter settled with
reference to my future existence the
question almost worried me int ruined
health. The anXieties men have upon
this subject put together would make
a martyrdom. This is a state of awful
unhealthiness. There are people who
fret themselves to death for fear of
dying
] want to take the strain off your
nerves and the depression off your soul,
and ! make two or three experiments.
Experiment the firstE When you go out
of this world, II does not make any diff
ference whether you have been good or
bad, or whether you believed truth or
error, you will go straight to glory.
impossible" you say. MY common
sense as well as my religion teaches that
the bad and the good cannot live TO-
gether forever. You give me no com
fort in that experiment" Experiment
the second: When you leave this world
you will go into an intermediate state
where, you can get converted and pre-
pared for Heaven. impossible" you
say; "as the tree falleth, so it must lie,
and ] cannot postpone to an intermedi-
ate state that reformation which ought
to have been effected in this state"
Experiment the third: There is no fur
ture world. When a man dies, that is
the last of him. Do not worry about
what you are to do in a future state Of
being; you will not do anything. Elm
possible" you say. There is some
thing that tells me that death is not the
but the preface; there is
that tells me that on this
side of the grave / only get started and
that l shall go on forever. My power
to think says forever, my affections say
forever, my capacity to enjoy or suffer
forever"
Well, you defeat me in my three ex-
periments. / have only one more to
make, and if you defeat me in that am
exhausted. A mighty one on knoll
back Of Jerusalem one day, the skies
filed with forked lightnings and the
earth filed with volcanic disturbances,
turned His pale and agonized face to-
ward the Heavens and said: II take
the sins and sorrows of the ages into my
own heart. / am the expiration. Wit
ness earth and Heaven and hell, l am
the eXpiation." And the hammer
struck Him and the spears punctured
him, and Heaven Numbered, 1.-The
wages of sin is death!" "The soul that
sinneth it shall diet" 81 will by no
means clear :he guilty!" Then there
was silence for half All hour and the
ightnings were drawn back into the
Scabbard of the sky and the earth
ceased to CULVER and all the colors of the
ky began 10 shift themselves into
IF Jesus. and there was red as of the
and there was blue as Of
he bruising and there was green as of
he Heavenly foliage and there was or
,nge as of the day dawn. And along
he line of the blue / saw the words,
L was bruised for their iniquities."
And along the line of the red / saw the
words, "Ihe blood of Jesus Christ
leanseth from all sim, And along the
inc of the green l saw the words, 1.-The |
caves of the tree of life for the healing
# the nations" And along the line Of /
he orange / saw the words, The day
pring from on high hath visited u.s."
And then 1 saw the storm was over,
nd the rainbow rose higher and higher |
Until it seemed retreating to another
1eaven, and planting one column of its
olors on one side the eternal hill and |
,lanting the other column of its colors
IN the other side the eternal hill ii rose
Upward and upward, and, behold, there |
vas rainbow about the throne.
Accept that sacrifice and quit worry.
ng. Take the tonic, the inspiration,
he longevity, of this truth. Religion
5 sunshine; that is health. Religionis
resh air and pure water; they are
ealthy. Religion is warmth; that is
ealthS. Ask all the doctors, and they
will tell you that n quiet conscience
nd pleasant anticipations are hygienic.
offer you perfect peace now and here
fter.
What do you want in the future
'orld? Tell me, and you shall have it.
There are the trees with IL
manner of fruits. yielding fruit every
month. Water scenery? There is the
liver of life, from under the throne of
iod, clear as crystal, and the sea of
lass mingled with fire. Do you want
music? There are the oratorio of the
Creation" led on by Adam, and the
ratorio of the RED Sea-" led on by
loses, and the oratorio Of the Messiah"
I'd on by ST. Paul, while the archangel,
With swinging baton, controls the 144,-
90 who make up the orchestra.
Do you want reunion? There are
our dead children waiting to kiss you,
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