Milford chronicle., 1901-11-22

Death will put a prolonged anRsthetic /
upon your present body, and you will /
never again feel an ache or pain, and /
then IT. his good time you will have a
resurrection body about which we know
nothing except that it will be painless and
glorious beyond all pre-'nt appreciation.
What must be the hcc i of that land
which never feels cut ot cold or blast Of
heat and where there is no east wind
sowing pneumonia on the air. your fleet
ness greater than the foot of deer, your
eyesigEt clearer than eagle in s1y-per-
feet health in a country where all the in
habitants are everlastingly well! You who
have in your body an encysted bullet ever
since the civil war, you who have kept
alive only by precautions and self denials
and perpetual watching of pulse and
lung, you of the deafened 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 added?
Do not have anything to do with the
gloom that Harriet Martineau expressed
in her dying words: Il have no reason to
believe in another world. / have had
enough of life in one and can see no good
reason why Harriet Martineau should be
perpetuated." Would you not rather have
the Christian enthusiasm Of Robert An
nan, who, when some one said, Il will be
satisfied if manage somehow to get into
heaven" replied, pointing to a sunken
vessel that was being dragged up the riv-
er Tay: "Would you like to be pulled into
heaven with two tugs like that vessel
yonder? tell you l would like to go in
with all my sails set and colors flying"
Again, let me introduce the element OF
| hope to those good people who are in de-
spair about the worlds moral condition.
| They have gathered up appalling Stats
/ tics. They tell Of the number Of divorces,
| but do not take into consideration that
| there are a thousand happy homes where
there is one of marital discord. They tell
you of the large number in our land who
are living profigate lives, but forget to
| mention that there are many millions OF
men and women who are doing the best
they can. They tell you the number Of
| drunkeries in this country, but fail to
mention the thousands of glorious church
es with two doors, one door open for all
who will enter for pardon and consolation
and the other door opening into the heav-
ems for the ascent of souls prepared for
] translation.
Gods Instruments.
Those pessimists do not realize that
two inventions of our times are going to
make it possible under God to bring this
| whole world into salvable and millennial
condition within few weeks after those
| two inventions shall be turned into the
service of God and righteousness, as they
will be. / refer to the telegraph and the
telephone. If you think that God allowed
those two inventions to be made merely
to get rapid information concerning the
price of railroad stocks or to call up a
friend and make with him business en-
/ gagement, you have very abbreviated
idea of what can be done and will be done
with those two instruments. The intelli-
gence of the world is to be expanded, and
civilization will overcome barbarism, and
illiteracy will be extirpated, and the
promise will be literally fulfilled, "a ma
/, ton born in a day"
Let Hope say to the foreboding: Do all
! you can with Bible and spelling book and
philosophic apparatus, but toll with the
| sunlight in your faces or your efforts will
, / he a failure The pallor in the sky is not
, another phase of the night, but the first
sign of approaching day, which is as sure
20 come as tonight will be followed with
? tomorrow. Things are not going to ruin
] The Lords hosts are not going to bt
drowned in the Red sea Of trouble. Mir
, ANS timbrel will play on the high banks
? Israel Delivered" High hope for tn,
] home! High hope for the church! Higl
] hope for the world!
! | introduce the angel of Hope to thost
f who have through decease lost Christian
| friends "How could find them" says {
: hereft soul, "up there in the land of thu
h multitudinousY You may find them by
I inquiry, by heavenly escort and by un
r failing memory Of the guard at the gate
;, "And he carried me away in CD irit t.
e great and high mountain ano awe
e me that great city, the holy Jeruse. IN
= descending out OF heaven from God, haV
k ing the glory Of God, and her light wa
e IKE unto stone most precious, even lik
6 jasper stone, clear as crystal, and had
n wall great and high and had twelve gate
s. and at the gates twelve angels" So, yOl
see, there will be an angel guarding eacl
gate. AS you go in ask the armed guard
-e lie saw your loved one pass through an
le win know the direction to take and b
ID what fountain or in what street Of gold
$. the mansion prepared. The blessed Chris
n knows where your departed loved one j:
70 | Fifty ways Of finding out the WHERE
ii abouts Of your assembled one. But will
n. surely know him when get there, for
re will be so changedE Yes, for you will
@. Just as much changed, and the old afinit
m will assert itself. The soul will be 9
1e easily distinguished by soul there as q
n. earth the body is distinguished by Il
ce body.
"a Angel of Hope Is Near.
d Open that closed instrument Of mus
/ in your parlOr that has not been playC
on since the hand of the departed play
u forgot its cunning. Put up before you {
he ! the music board the notes of the hymn
he Isaac Watts and sing "There Is a Lar
n / of Pure Delight" or James Montgomery
elk hymn, "Wh0 Are These In Bright A
in ray?' or Fillmore Benefits Sweet B,
til and Bye" or Jerusalem the Golden
wv Take some tune in the major key-"A
ID. Ell or "Mount Pisgah." While you pli
ay and sing the angel of Hope will stand
nd I you and turn the leaves and join in t
irs rapturous rendering. Reunion with t
IDS loved and lost! Everlasting reunion!
lly farewell at the door of any mansion!
nd goodby at any Of the twelve gates!
nv / more dark apparel of mourning, :
.ay / white robe Of exaltationi Hope now is
nd, its knees, with face uplifted, but do
MS | there will be on tiptoe or reckoning y
las ! to follow, saying: Come and hear
hat / choirs sing. Come and see the processl
TO / march, Come and see the river OF !
ay. / roll! Come with me over the hills Il
md rise into everlasting heights" Celest
the Alps and Himalayas hoisted INTO OIL
BILE Alps and Himalayas!
nile From this hour cultivate hope. DO
I Ill h, Gawi
and the worlds coming Edenizaton
doubt if you dare the veracity Of the
uca mighty when he says he will make
va desert roseate, and the leopard and
mr. kid will lie down in the same past
ous field. and the lion, ceasing to be carni
q rous. will become grsminivorous, eat
ov,s straw like an OK" and reptillan ven
nth / shall change into harmlessness, so t
, ba the "weaned child shall put his hand
mos the cockatrices den, and there shall
nife nothing to hurt or destroy in all &c
Dr. holy mountain for the earth shall be
GOD Of the knowledge of the Lord, as the
be- ters cover the sea-" So much for
an world at large.
,oI,a Then cultivate hope in regard to y
i, a. own health, your own financial prosl
+be ity. your own longevity, by seeing how
I If other people God mercifully reYei
things and brings to pass the une1pec
dis remembering that Washington lost n
o Of battles than he gained, but triumpheC
are the last, and, further, by making SUR
ledi- your eternal saIety through Onrlsl
lism understand that you are on Tue way
j as palaces and thrones ms me q
,ulO- long, ending IN durauohs Oh Dllss , tnae
new Their human nor archangehe Iaeuluies
rong measure or estimate-reuolence "
. springtime that never ends and fount