The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-11-21

of no Importance how long il shall take
to make its aerial way from forest to for.
est and we, who have so much more inn
portant errand in the world, get on 30
slowly? The roebuck outruns us. the
hounds are quicker in the chase. but wait
until God lets us loose from all limitations
and indictments. Then we will fairly be-
gin. The starting post will he the tomb.
stone. Leaving the world will be gradua.
tion dav before the chief work Of our men.
tai and spiritual career. Hope sees the
doors opening. the victor's foot in stirrup
for the mounting The day hrealSs--frst
flush of the horizon. The mission of hope
will be an everlasting mission. as much Of
it in. the heavenly hereafter as in the
earthly now. Shall we have gained all as
soon as we enter realms celestial-nothinQ
more to learn, no other heights to climb.
no new anthems to raise. monotony of
existence. the same thing over and over
again for endless wears? Mo- More pro-
gress in that world than we ever made in
this.
Hone will stand on the hills of heaven
and look for ever Frightening landscapes.
other TRANSFORMATIONS of color, new glo.
ries rolling over the scene, new celehra-
ton Of victories in other worlds, heaven
rising into grander heavens. seas of glass
mingled with fire, becoming more brill
liant glass mingling with more flaming
fire. (Which hope"
Hope on. and. though YOU NAV never
hear of your sons reformation and others
may think he has left this life hopeless,
who knows but that in the last moment.
after he has ceased to speak and before
his soul launches away. your prayer may
have been answered and he be one of the
first TO meet YOU at the shining gate. The
prodigal in the parable got home and sat
down at the feast, while the elder brother,
who never left the old place. stood pouting
at the back door and did not 60 in at all.
To another class of persons / introduce
the angel of hope. and they are the inva.
lids. ] cannot take the diagnosis of your
disorder, but let hone cheer you with one
of two thoughts. Such marvellous cures
are being wrought in our day through med
ication and surgery that your invalidism
NAV yet be mastered.
Persons as i'll as you have got we'll Cam
Ger and tuberculosis will yet give way be-
fore some new discovery | see every day
people strong and well who not long ago
/ saw pallid and leaning heavily on staff
and hardly able to climb stairs.
But if YOU will not take the hand Of hope
for earthly corvalescence let me point
YOU to the perfect body you are vet to
have if YOU love and serve the Lord.
Death viii put a prolonged anaesthetic
upon your present body. and you will
never again feel an ache or pain, and then
in His good time you will have a resurrec-
tion body, about which we know nothing
expect that it will be painless and glorious
beyond all present appreciation. What
must be the health of that land which
never feels cut OF cold or blast of heat,
and where there is no cast wind sowing
pneumonias on the air. your heetncss
greater than the foot of deer. your eye
sight. clearer than eagle in .sSy, perfect
health, in a country where all the inhab-
itants are everlastngly WE'LL
You who have in your body an en-
cysted bullet ever since the Civil War;
you who have kept alive only by precau-
tions and self denials and perpetual watch.
ing of pulse and lung; you of the deafened
ear and dim vision and the severe back
ache; you who have not been free from
pain for ten years, how do YOU like. this
story of physical reconstruction, with all
weakness and suffering suhtracted and
everything iocund and bounding added?
Do not have anything to do with the
gloom that Harriet Martineau expressed
in her diving words: ~ have no reason to
believe in another world. 1 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, 81 will be
satisfied if manage somehow to get into
heaven replied. pointing to a sunkeD ves-
sci that was being dragged up the River
Tay: "Would you like to be pulled into
heaven with two tugs like that vessel yon-
der? I tell you / would like to 60 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 thousand happy homes where
there is one of marital discord.
They tell you of the large number in
our land who are living prohigate 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 hut fail to mention the
thousands of glorious churches witt, two
doors-one door open for all who will en-
ter for pardon and consolation. and the
other door opening into the heavens for
the ascent of souls prepared for transla-
ton.
From this hour cultivate hope. Do so
by reading all the Scriptural promises OF
the worlds coming Edenization, and doubt
if you dare the yeracity of the Almighty
when He says He will make the desert
roseate, and the leopard and kid will lie
down in the same pasture field, and the
lion, ceasng to be carnivorous, will be-
come graminivorous, eating STRAW like an
OK" and reptilian venom shall change into
harmlessness. so that the "weaned child
shall put his hand on the cockatrice's
den, and there shall he nothing to hurt or
destroy in all Gods holy mountain. for the
earth shall he full of the knowledge of the
Lord as the waters cover the sea-" SO
much for the world at large.
Then cultivate hope in regard to your
own health, your own financial prosperity,
YOUR own longevity, by seeing how in
other people God mercifully reverses things
and brings to pass the unexpected, re-
membering that Washington lost more
battles than he gained, but triumphed at
the last, and, further, by making sure of
your eternal safety through Christ Jesus,
understand that you are on the way to
palaces and thrones. This life, span
long, ending in durations of bliss that
neither human nor archangelic faculties
can measure or estimate-redolence OF
springtime that never ends and fountains
tossing in the light of a sun that never
sets. May God thrill us with anticipation
of this immortal glee (Which hope"
] said in the opening OF this subject
that my text was only the wave on the
beach, while the whole verse from which
it is taken is an ocean, But the ocean
tides are coming in, and the sea is getting
so deep must fall back, wading out as l
waded in, for what mortal can stand be.
fore the mighty surges of the full tide OF
eternal gladness? Eye hath not seen nor
ear heard neither hath entered into the
heart of man the things which God hath
prepared for them chat love him."