Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-02-19

anime the carpets we are turning out
In this establishment and you will see"
/ go down on the other floor, and l see
the carpets, and am obliged to con.
fess that though the wheels In that
factory go in opposite directions they
turn out a beautiful result, and while /
quislte fabric an old Scripture passage
comes into my mind--"All things work
together for good to them who love
God" Is there not rest In that? Is
there not tonic In that? Is there not
longevity in 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 a dozen
printing establishments attack him,
and he is in great state Of excite
ment 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. If
God be for you, who can be against
your" How much should that man
worry about his reputation? Not
much. If that broker who some years
ago in Wall street, after he had lost
money, sat down and wrote farewell
letter to his wife before he blew his
brains out: II instead Of taking out Of
his pocket pistol he had taken out
well read New Testament, there would
have been one less suicide. Oh, nervous
and feverish people of the world, try
fhtc n atryI, xr-fII live
25 years longer under Its soothing
pov 1t 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 a friend
of longevity In the fact that II re-
moves all corrodlng care about fu-
ture existence. 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 n ship. you
want to know into what harbor 1t is
going to run, and II you should tell me
you have no interest in what is to be
your future destiny l would in as pc
lite way as l know how 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 martyr
dom. This Is a state of awful un-
healthiness. There are people who fret
themselves to death for fear Of dying.
Death the Preface.
I want to take the strain off your
nerves and tho depression off your
soul, and make two OF three expert
ments Experiment the first: When
you go out of this world. 1t does not
make any difference whether ycu have
been good or bad or whether you be-
lieved truth or error. You will go
straight to glory. impossible" yon
say. "My common sense us well as my
religion teaches that the bad and the
good cannot live together forever. You
give me no comfort in that expert
ment." Experiment the second; When
You leave this world. you will go into
an intermediate state. where you can
get converted and prepared for heaven.
Impossible" you say. 'As the tree
falleth SO IT. must lie. and cannot
postpone to an intermediate state that
reformation which ought to have been
effected In this state" Experiment
the third: There Is no future world.
When man dies, that Is the last of
him. Do not worry about what you
are to do In another state of being, you
will not do anything. impossible"
you say. "There Is something 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 go on forever. My power to
think says forever my affections cay
forever my capacity to enjoy or suf-
fer forever
Well, you defeat me In my three ex-
periments. have only one more to
make, and II you defeat me in that |
am exhausted. mighty one on n
knoll back OF Jerusalem one day, the
skies filed with forked llghtnings and
the earth filed with volcanic disturb
ances, turned his pale and agonized
face toward the heavens and said: II
take the sins and sorrows of the ages
into my own heart. ! am the expia-
tlon. Witness earth and heaven and
hell, am the expiation." And the
hammer struck him and the spears
/ punctured him. and heaven thundered,
"The wages Of sin is DEATH" "The
soul that sinneth It shall die!' II will
by no means clear the guilty" Then
there was silence for half an hour. and
the lightnings were drawn back into
the scabbard Of the sky and the earth
ceased to CULVER and all the colors OF
the sky 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 of the bruising and there was
green as Of the heavenly foliage and
there was orange as of the day dawn
And along the line of the blue saw
the words, II was bruised for their In
iqulties." And along the line OF the
red ! saw the words, "The blood OF
Jesus Christ cleanseth from all SIM
And along the line Of the green l saw
the words, "Thc leaves of the tree OF
life for the healing Of the nations
And along the line Of the ornnge saw
the words, "The day spring from or
high hath visited U.S."
Quit Worrying.
And then saw the storm was over