Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-01-03


has keptsth human race from putreIae
tion insufferable either to human or angelic
olfactories.
You lying and hypocritical world, shut
up those ISLANDERS about the church OF
Christ an institution which, far from being
what 1t ought to be and never pretending
to be perfect, is 500 times better than any
other institution that the world ever saw
or ever dreamed of. The highest honor L
ever had and the highest honor I shall
ever receive and the highest honor l ever
want is to have my name on her records
as member. At her affairs l repented.
At her sacraments 1 believed. In her SER
vice let me die. From her doors let me be
buried. o church OF Godl Thou home OF
the righteous Thou harbor from tempeslI
Thou refuge for the weary! Thou light
house of many nationsl Thou tyre of
heavenl could kiss thy very dust With
ecstasy of affection.
For her my tears shall fall,
For her my prayers ascend,
To her my tolls and cares be given
Till tolls and cares shall end.
Oh, come into the church through Christ
the door, a door more glorious than that
Of the temple of Hercules, which had two
pillars, and one was gold and the other
emerald Come in to-day! The world
you leave behind is poor world, and 1t
will burn and pass off like pillars of
smoke. Whether the final confagration
vania, which in some places have for many
years been burning and eating into the
heart of the IN cunt aims, or whether 1t shall
begin near the California geysers, or
whether from out the furnaces of CotopaM
and Vesuvius and Stromboli it shall
burst forth upon the astonished nations
make no prophecy, but all geoIogsts
tell us that we stand on the lid OF world, +,
the heart OF which is a raging, roaring, aw-
full a ame, and some day God will let the
a I.,.-
centuries, and New York on fire in 1885,
and Charleston on fire in 1865, and Chicago
on fire in 1872, and Boston on fire in 1873
were only like one spark from n black
smit his forge rs compared with that
last universal blaze which will be seen
in other worlds. But gradually the
flames will lessen, and the world will
become great living coal, and that
will take on ashen hue, and then our ruined
planet will begin to smoke and the mount
aims will smoke, and the valleys will smoke
and the islands will smoke, and the seas
will smoke, and the cities will smoke, and
the five continents will be five pillars of
smoke. But the black vapors will begin to
lessen in height and density, and then will
become hardly visible to those who look
upon it from the sky galleries, and after
awhile from Just one point there will curl
up n thin, solitary vapor, and then even
that will vanish, and there will be nothing
left except the charred ruins OF burned
out world, the corpse OF dead star, the
ashes of an extinguished planet, u fallen
pillar of smoke.
But that will not interfere with your in
vestments il you have taken Christ rs your
Saviour. Secure heaven as your eternal
home. and you can look down upon dis
mantled, disrupted and demolished earth
without any perturbation.
When wrapped in fire the realms of ethe
glow,
And heavens last thunders shake The eartB
below,
Thou, undismayed, shalt DER the ruins
smile
And light thy torch at Natures funeral
pile.