St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-01-06
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Office. The word politics. which in
your century, the nineteenth, often
stood for chicanery and falsehood and
billingsgate and moral turpitude and
filth. now stands for honor and justice
and truth and Righteousness. Such
men as were in your congresses and
parliaments and rcichstags pointed out
as exceptions of craftsmanship and
patriotism and public spiritedness and
eloqhcnce and moral power would not
be pointed out now, for all our public
men are thus characterized. Politics
has been swept, garnissaa, elorified,
epnobled, until nothing NOR. is to be
desired. Walk through all aldermanic
councils and shcriffaiities and guber-
material rooms and presidential man.
sions and find the truth of what i, the
spirit OF. the twenty-first century, tell
you, who were of the nineteenth CEN
fury and now come dowI on terrestrial
visitation &
But we cannot stay long here. for
1t is almost time for us 10 retrace our
way heayenward. This voluntary exile
must scon end. And, passing out, we
go through rational museum. where
we are shown among the curiosities an
enfield rife. howitzer, hotchkiss
shell, an amhulance-curiositie of that
age, but, alas! no curiosity to us of the
ninetcenth century. for some of our
own kindred went down under their
stroke or were carried of the field by
those wheels.
But" say to our escort, the spirit
of the twenty first century, and you and
say 10 each other, ''wc must go home
now. back again to Heaven. We have
staid long enough on this terrestrial
visitation to see that all the best things
foretold in the Scriptures and which
we read during our earthly residence
have come 10 pass, and all the Davidic.
Solomonic and Paulinian and Johan-
mean prophecies have been fulfilled. and
that the earth, instead Of being ghast-
" failure. is the Eiighticst success in
the universe. A star redeemed. a
planet rescued, A world saved! 1t
started with a garden. and it is going TO
close with garden. What happiness
that we could have seen this old world
after it was righted and before it
burned, for its internal fires have near
ly burned out to the crust. according
to the geolosist. making it easy for the
theologian 10 believe in the conflagra-
ton that the Biblc predicts. One ele-
ment taken from the water and that
will burn, and another element taken
from the air and that will burn, and
surrounding planets will watch this old
ship of a world on fire and wonder If all
its passengers got safely off. Before
that planetary catastrophe, HE us back
to Heaven. FAREWELL spirit Of the
twcnty-first century! Thanks for your
guidance! We. e2n stay no longer
away from doXofogies that never end,
in temples never closed. in a day that
has no shutdown. We must report to the
immortals around the throne the
transformations we have seen, the vic
tories of truth On land and sea, the
hemisphercs irradiated, and Christ on
the throne Of Garth, ms He is on the
throne Of Heaven"
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cort as we ascend, for the law of grav-
itaticn has no power to detain ascend
ing spirits. Up through immensities
and by stellar and lunar and solar
splendors, which cannot be described
by mortal tongue, we rise righer and
higher, till we reach the shining gate
as it opens for our return, and the
questions greet ms from all sides:
what is the news? What did you find
in that earthly tower? What have you
to report in this city of the sum-
Prophetic, apostolic, sanity inquiry.
And, standing on the steps of the
house of many mansions, we cry aloud
the news: Hear it, all We glorified
Christian workers of all the past cen
turics! We found your work was sue
cessfal, whether on earth you toilcd
with knitting needle, or rung. Il trowel
on rising wall, or smote shoe last,
or endowed university, or swaycd o
sccpter; whether on earth you gave
a cup Of cold water in the name of 4
disciple, or at some Pcntecost preached
5000. souls into the kingdom.
I'm that world we have just visited
the deserts are all abloom, and the viii
dernesses are bright with fountains.
Sin is extirpated. Crime is reformed.
Disease is cured. The race is emanci-
pated. The earth is full of the knowi-
edge Of GOD, as the waters cover the
sea- The redeemed Of the Lord have
come to Zion with songs and cverlast-
ing joy upon their heads The Lord
God Omnipotent rcigneth, and the
kingdoms Of the world have become
the kingdoms Of our Lord Jesus
Christ Let the harpcrs of Heaven
strike the glad tidings from the strings
of their harps, and the trumpeters
put them in the mouth of their trum-
pets, and the orchestra roll them into
the grand march of the eternities, and
all the cathedral towers of the great
capital of the universe chime them all
over Heaven"
And now l look up and see the cast
ing down at tie bejeweled and radiant
crowns Mt the sacred feet of the en-
throned Jesus. Missionary Carey is
casting down before those feet the.
crown OF India saved. Missionary Jud.
son is casting down the crown Of Bur.
ma saved. Missionary Ateel casting
down The crown of China saved. David
Livingston casting down at those feet
the crown of Africa saved. Mission !
airy Brainerd casting down the crown
of this countiy's aborigfnes saved.
Souls that went up from all the de-
in America in holy riv-
airy. seeking which could soonest cast
down the crown Of this continent at
the Saviour's feet, and America saved.
But often you and I, who were COM /
panicns in that expedition from
Heaven to earth, seated on the green !
bank of the river, that rolls through
the paradise OF God. will talk over !
the scenes, we witnessed in that paren-
thesis of heavenly bliss, in that yaca-
ton from the skies, in our terrestrial ,
who were early resi-
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