The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1900-03-16
FARMVILLE. VA. FRIDAY. MARCH I6 1900.


people of the world. ir} ,lis almighty /
sedatiye. You Will live .5t,ars longer /
under its soothing power IL is not .
choral that you want or morphine that /
you want 1t 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 corrodng care about future ex-
istence. Every man wants to know
what is to become Of him. II you get on
board a 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 il is going to
run, and if you should tell me you have
no interest in what is TO be your future
destiny / would in as polite way as
know tell you | did not believe you.
Before | had this matter settled with
reference TO 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 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 first; When you 60 out
of this world, it does not make any diff
ference whether you have been good or
bad, or whether you believed truth or
error, YOU will 90 straight to glory.
impossible" you say. MY common
sensea as well as my religion teaches that
the bad and the good cannot live to-
geiher 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 il 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 f6-
ture world. When man dies, that IS
the last of him. Do not worry about
what YOU are to do in future state OF
being: YOU will not do anything. I'm
possible." YOU say. "Therc is some
thing that tells me that death is not the
appendix, but the preface there IS
something that tells me that on this
side of the grave only get started and
that / shall 90 on forever. My power
10 think saws forever, my affections say
forever, my capacity to enjoy or suffer
forever"
Well. YOU defeat me in my three eN-
periments. / have only one more 10
make. and If you defeat me in that am
exhausted 4 mighty one on knoll
back of Jerusalem one day, the skies
filed with forked lightnings and the
earth filled with volcanic disturbances
turned His pale and agonized face TO-
ward the Heavens and said: Il take
the sins and sorrows of the ages into my
own heart. / am the eXpiation. Wit
ness earth and Heaven and hell. } am
the expiation." And the hammer
struck Him and the spears punctured
him. and Heaven thundered, he
wages Of sin is DEATH" "The soul that
sinneth il shall diel" 81 will by no
means clear the guilty. Then there
was silence for half an hour, and the
liphtnings were drawn back into the
scabbard of the sky and the earth
ceased to quiver and all the colors OF the
skv began to shift themselves into a
rainbow woven out Of the falling tears
of Jesus. and there was red as OF the
bloodshedding and there was blue as oil
the bruising and there was green as oi
the Heavenly foliage and there was or
ange as of the day dawn. And along
the line of the blue / saw the words,
81 was bruised for their iniquities.
And along the line OF the red ] saw the
words. "The blood of Jesus Christ
cleanseth from all sim" And along tnC
line of the green I saw the words ! ne
leaves of the tree of life for the healing
Of the nations" And along the line OF
the orange / saw the words, "Ihe day
spring from on high hath visited MS.
And then / saw the storm was over
and the rainbow rose higher and higher
until il seemed retreating to another
Heaven, and planting one column OF iii
, colors on one side the eternal hill anc
, planting the other column of its colori
on the other side the eternal hill II rose
upward and upward, and, behold, there
was a rainbow about the throne.
Accent that sacrifice and quit worry
' ing. Take the tonic. the inspiration
q the longevity, of this truth. Rehg'oI
is sunshine: that is health. Religion u
fresh air and pure water; they arr
healthy. Religion is warmth; that j
healthy. Ask all the doctors, and the'
will tell you that a quiet conscience
= and pleasant anticipations are hygiemc
o l offer you perfect peace now and here
@ after.
What do you want in the futur
!, world? Tell me, and you shall have II
r Orchards? There are the trees with 1
n manner Of fruits, yielding fruit ever
. month. Water scenery? There is th
. river of life. from under the throne o
i God. clear as crystal. and the sea o
. glass mingled with fire. Do You wan
i music? There are the oratorio OF tn
y "Creation." led on by Adam. and tn
= oratorio of the "Red Sea-" led on b
% Moses. and the oratorio of the Messiah
= led on bv ST. Paul. while the archange