The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-04-27

| I'LL IOT us W stay '''''N's 1880 -
the stars are inhabited and by beings
like the human race in feelings ana
sentiments. and the differences IN
lung respiration and heart beat ana
physical conformation, their physical
conformation fit for the climate OF
their world and our physical conior-
nation fit for the climate OF our
world. So we shall feel at home in
any of the stellar neighborhoods, our
physical limitations having ceased.
One Of our first realizations in get
ting out of this world, | think, will be
that in this world we were very much
pent up and had cramped apartments
and were kept on the limits. The most
even of our small world, is water, and
the water says to the human race.
Don't come here or you will drown
A few thousand feet up the atmos-
phere is uninhabitable, and the atmos-
phere says to the human race, Don't
come up here or you cannot breathe"
A few miles down the earth is fur
mace of fire, and the fire says, Don't
come here or you will burn" The
caverns of the mountains are full OF
poisonous gases, and the gases say,
Don't come here or you Will be as
phyxiated." And, crossing track, you
must look out or you will be crushed.
And, standing by steam boiler, you
must look out or you will be blown
up. And pneumonias and pleurisies
and consumptions and apopleXies go
across this earth in fiocks. in droves,
in herds, and it is world of equinoxes
and cyclones and graves. Yet we are
under the delusion that ii is the only
place fit to stay in. We want to stick
to the wet plank in midocean while the
great ship, the City of God, of the Ce-
lestia line, goes sailing past and
would gladly take us up in a lifeboat.
Ny Christian friends, let me tear off
your dependencies and rights about
dissolution. My Lord commands me
regarding you, saying, Loose him,
and let him go!"
Getting Into the Light
But" you say, 81 fear to go because
the future is so full of mystery Well,
l will tell you how to treat the mys-
teries. 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, Il will take these papers and give
you my decision next week" So |
have heard all the arguments in regard
to the next world, and some things are
uncertain and full of mystery, and so |
fold up the papers and reserve until
the next world. my decision about
them. | can there study all the mys-
teries to better advantage, for the light
will be better and my faculties strong
err, and | will ask the Christian philos-
ophers, who have had all the advan-
tages of heaven for centuries.
to help me, and | may be per-
mitted myself humbly 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 I made |
years ago to Palestine that | really |
dreaded was the landing at 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 peo
pie from the steamer to the docks |
must run between reefs that looked to |
me to be about so feet apart, and one
mistroke of an oarsman or an unex-
pected wave has sometimes been fatal |
and hundreds have persisted along
those reefs. Besides that. as we left |
Port Said the evening before. an old |
traveller said: "The wind is just right |
to 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
anchor 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 arrival at the end of your
voyage of life, and they say that the
seas will run high and that the break
ers will swallow you up, or that if you
reach Canaan at all, ii will be very
rough landing. The very opposite will
be true if you have the eternal God for
your portion. Your Decentralization
for the promised land will be as
smooth as was ours at Palestine.
Christ will meet you far out at sea and
pilot you into complete safety, and you
will land with a hosanna on one side
Of you and a hallelujah on the other.
.I and ahead" It's frllits are waving