Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-03-02

w AK EEN Ii Y. AN .
icographers, departing this life at 81
years Of age, exclaimed: "I know
whom 7 have believed and am per-
suaded that he Is able to keep that
which I have committed to him
against that day" The venerable
Daniel Webster, the greatest of Amer
lean lawyers and statesmen, in his last
hours said: Il had intended to pre-
pare a work for the press to bear my
testimony to Christianity, but it is now
too late. Still I would like to bear
witness to the gospel before die. %
Being too weak to hold a pen, he die
tated to a scribe his words of triumph
ant faith.
Good Cheer Awaits Christians.
Gibbons in his history says that No
hammed had dream in which he
thought that, mounted on the horse
Borak, he ascended the seven heavens
and approached within two bow shots
of the throne and felt a cold that
pierced him to the heart when his
shoulder was touched by the hand of
God. That might do for Mohammed's g
heaven, but not for a Christians heav-
en-. No cold hand put upon your shoul-
der there; no cold hand of repulse or
doubt, but the warm hand of welcome,
the warm hand of sanity communion,
the warm hand of God.
1 congratulate all Christians who are
in the eventide. Good cheer to all OF
you. Your best days are yet to come.
You are yet to hear the best songs, see
the grandest sights, take the most de-
lightful journeys, form the most elevat-
ing friendships, and after ten thou
sand years Of transport you will be NO
nearer the last rapture than when you
were thrilled with the first.
Pleasures of Heaven.
In heaven you will have what most
pleases you. Archbishop Leighton's
| desire for heaven was a longing fol
Christ and purity and love, and he has
found there what he wanted. John
| Foster rejoiced at the thought of heav-
en- because there he could study the
secrets of the universe without re-
straint, and he has been regaling him
self in that research. Southey thought
of heaven as a place where he would
meet with the learned and the great
| Chaucer and Dante and Shakespeare
| He no doubt has found that style OF
| communion. The great and good DIR
Dick was fond of mathematics, and he
said he thought much of the time il
heaven would be given to that study
and 1 have no doubt that since ascen-
sion he has made advancement in thai
science. The twelve manner of fruits
spoken of in Revelation means al
kinds of enjoyment in heaven, fol
twelve manner of fruits includes al
the chief fruits that are grown OF
trees. 1 suppose there will be as many
kinds of enjoyment in heaven as there
will be Inhabitants.
You will have in heaven just what
you want Are you tired? Their
heaven will be rest Are you passion
ately fond of sweet sounds? Then il
will be music. Are you stirred by pic
lures? There will be all the colors o
the new heavens and on the jasper sea
and the walls imbedded with what
splendors. Are you fond of great
architecture? There you will find the
temple of God and the Lamb and the
uplifted thrones. Are you longing tc
get back to your loved ones who have
ascended? Then it will be reunion
Are you a homebody? Then it will bt
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| you will find some one who now lives
where he was born, and three or foul
generations have dwelt in the same
house, but most people have hal
several homes-the home of childhood
the home they built or rented for thei1
early manhood, the home of ripper ant
more prosperous years. But all homes
put together, precious as they are il
remembrance or from present occu
pancy, cannot equal the heavenly hom
in the house of many mansions. NJ
sickness will ever come there, for it il
promised "there shall Se no NOR
pain" No parting at the front door
no last look at faces never to be see1
again, but home with God, home will
each other, home forever. And tina
right after the molting season, whel
thy youth is renewed like the "a
gle's-''
| Wings to hover free
| Ger dawn empurpled sea;
| Wings 'bove life to soar
And beyond death forevermore.