The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-11-24


 ago I saw paliid and leaning heavily
 Take the Hand of Hope.
 But if you will not take the hand of Hope for earthly convalescence let me point you to the perfect body you are yet to have if you love and serve the Lord, Death will put a prolonged anaesthetic upon your present body, and you twill never again feel an ache or pain. and resurrection r @ lon body about which we know nothing except that 1t will be painless and glorious beyond all present appre- ciation. What must be the health ot that land which never feels cut of cold or blast of heat and where there is no east wind sowing pneumonia on the air, your fieetness greater than the foot of deer, your eyesight clearer than eagle m SKY perfect health in a country where. all the Inhabitants are everlastingly well! You who have in your body an encysted bull let ever since the civil war, you who have kept alive only py precauuIhs a.ap,ns anS nS pulse and lung. you of the deatenea ear and dim vision and the severe backache, you who have. not been free from pain for ten years. how do you like this story of physical reconstruction, with all weak ness and suffering subtracted and every thing jocund and bounding addedg
 Do not haye anything to do with ne the In her dying words: T have no reason to believe in another world. l have had enough of life in one and can see no good reason why Harpaes wo,,a msr yoa9 not rather have, the Christian. enthusiasm Of Robert Amman, whos when some one said. ..I will be satisfied t I manase Esn,,sc sonDS ts to get sunRsn Sssss that
 being dragged up the river Tay: Would you like to be pulled into heaven with two tugs like that vessel yondery | I tell you I would like to go in with all my sails set and colors flying"
 xgain, let me introduce the element of hope to those good people who are in de- spair about the worlds moEai conatu1,n. ,s.,s. ties. They tell of the number of divorces. but do not take into oonsideration that there are thousand happy homes where. there Is one of marital discordt They ten you of the large number in our land who are living profiigate lives. but forget to mention that there are many millions or men and women who are doing the best they can. They tell you the number ot | drunkeries in this country, but tail 10 mention the thousands of glorious church. es with two doorss one door open Tor all who will enter for pardon ana consoiauon .p haao ems for the ascent of souls prepared Tor 1,l Gods Instruments.
 Those pessimists do not realize that | two inventions of our times are going to make it possible under God 10 prlnE ,tl | lennial condition within a few weeks aI, ter those two inventions shall De turned into the service of God and righteous ness as they will be. l refer to the | telegraph and the telephone. If you | think that God allowed those two in. ventions to be, made merely to gel. rapld information coaeerning the pIiScSs0fd pIS.d Ian.5i Isr5 make with him a business engagement, 1 you have a very abbreviated idea or what ] can be done and will be done with those | two instruments, The intelligence or the
 world is to be expanded, and civilization | will overcome barbarism, and illiteracy will be extirpated, and the promise VIII be literally fulfilled, "A nation born Tn | day"
 Let Hope say to the foreboding: Do all | you can with Bible and spelling book ana | philisophic apparatus. but toll win the the sunlight in your faces or your enorts VIII
 be failure. The pallor in the sky IS not | another phase of the night but the nrst sign of approaching day, which is as sure | to come as tonight will be followed with | The Lords hosts are not going to De drowned in the Red Sea of trouble. Mirl- | am's timbrel will play on the high banks
 "Israel Delivered" High hope for the home High hope fof the church. Hish | hope for the world!
 l I introduce the angel of Hope to those | who have through deoease lost Chris5 tan friends. How could md them. l of the multltudinous?" You may find l them by inquiry, by heavenly escort and ! by unfailing memory of the guard at the 1 gate And he carried me away m tns l spirit to a great and high mountain and showed me that great city, the holy Je- | rusalem, descending out of heaven rom God, having the glory of God, and her | light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a Jasper stone, clear as crystal. | and had a wall great and high and hao
 twelve gates and at the gates tWeive an
 gels" So, you see. there VIII & pc eo In s,
 ask the armed guard, He saw your | loved one pass through and will know the direction to take and by what foun-
 tain or in what street TSs or bsssa go.a sbrss ne
 knows where your departed loved one IS, and he will tell you if no one else Will Fifty ways of finding out the where, | abouts of your ascended one. But VIII
 I surely know him when get there for Tor 1 he will be so changed? Yes, Tor you
 will be- just as much changed, and the l old affinity will assert 1tseI. Inc sou, , will he as easily distinguished by soul there as on earth the body Is distinguish
 ed by the body.
 Angel of Hope Is Near
 Open that closed instrument or music in yoIIr Darlor that has not been played
 on since the hand of the departed player
 tSee music board the notes of the hymn | of Isaac Watts and sing There Is Land | of Pure Delight or James Montgomery's
 hymn. Who Are These In Bright AT
 ray?" or Fillmore Bennetts sweet bye and Eve" or "Jerusalem the Golden,
 Take some tune in the major Key" Ari- 1 el" or Mount Pisgah." While you play l and sing the angel of Hope Will stand py ivou and turn the leaves and join Tn the
 rapturous rendering. Reunion Wltn tne loved and lostl Everlasting reunion! NO
 fsrsSxeIi At the door of any mansion! No
 1ooihy at any of the twelve gates! No
 snork dark apparel of mourning, but
 wbite robe of exaltation! Hope now IS on
 its knees with face upIifted, but Hope
 thsre will be on tiptoe or beckkoing you
 to follow. saving: Come and hear the
 choirs sing! Come and see the procession
 marchi Come and see the river of life
 roll Come with me over the hills that
 rise into everlasting heights" Celestial
 Alps and Himalayag hoisted into other Alps and Himalayas!
 From this hour cultivate hope, Do so
 by reading all the Scriptural promises of
 the worlds coming EdeniSauon aud
 doubt if you dare the veracity of the All mighty when he says he will make the l desert roseate and the leopard and the
 kid will lie down in the same pasture field, and the lion, ceasing to be caFnlVo-
 rous, will become graminivorous, eating
 straw like an OK, and repulian venom | shall change into harmlessness, so that | the "weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice's den. and there shall be nothing to hurt or destroy in all God $ holy mountain, for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the wa
 ters cover the sea-" So much for the
 world at large.