Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-02-04
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| lruLnIulnoSS, ana now 40 you suppose
the Lord of heaven and earth feels
when you doubt him as he declares in
| the text, Say We to the righteous that
it shell be well with him?' Such
promise as that ought to calm your
pulses and irradiate your cOuntenance
and halo all the future with rapture,
for, after all, it makes but little differ
ence what becomes of us here if we
come out at the right place, amid the
right surroundings and in the right
companiOnship. What are the 20 or 40
or so years of terrestrial stay compared
with the centuries, the millenniums,
the cons of our chief lifetime which
we are to begin when we quit this in
significant planet, insignificant as COM
pared with the size of other worlds?
This world is only a schOOlhouse for
heaven. We learn here only the A Il G
of a higher literature or the simple adj
dition and. subtraction of an infinite
mathematics and are practicing the
eight notes Of an eternal harmony.
The most important question that
any man ever asks is, what will be
my destiny?" "Whither am 1 bound?"
EWhere shall [ land?' what is the
terminus of this short journey?" Now,
child of God, do not worry about that.
1t shall be we'll with you in your next
state of existence. We know but little
about heaven. There is but little con-
corning it in the Bible, and that is on
the last few pages ana is mostly figu-
rative Do you know the reason why?
l suppose it is because if we knew the
full attractiveness of that place we
JDo fo, haro
We would feel that we were standing
in the vestibule of a great Luxembourg
and would want to go right in and see
the glOries; or standing in the pOrticO
of a temple and would want to get in
side among the worshipers. SO we
are allowed to hear only one bar of the
music and to see one fold of its up
holstery and catch one glimpse of its
towers. l can make only a rough
draft of your celestial residence, but
| can authOritatively state that the
world to which you are destined is a
big world, a brilliant world a sinless
world, joyful world, an endless world,
and a world in touch with other worlds.
1t Shall Be Well.
Some scientists are now discussing
the opening OF communication between
our earth and the planet Mars. Elk
periments are being made, but they
will not succeed. We cannot build q
fire large enough to attract the atten-
ton of that world or lift a lens power
full enough to see any response inter-
stellar. We do not positively know
that that world is occupied by living
beings, or that, if it is occupied, COM
municatiOn with them would be desir-
able. 1t might not be so good n world
as this, and thus communication with
it would be debasing. But l rejoice to
know that heaven is in touch with
other worlds for their Improvement,
and a depot for glorious arrivals. 1t
is q thOroughfare between this world
and that world, and coming and 60
ing perpetual
Going out of this world is as natural
as coming into it, but the one is with
pang, and the other is with rapture, if
we are fitted for the uplifting process.
1t shall be we'll with you. Now, do not
get so frightened about that asthma or
that cough or that influenza or that
threatened pneumonia. The worst
thing that fatal disease can do is to
usher you into coronation and en-
thrOnement. 1t shall be we'll with you.
Take as good care of your health as
you can, have the best doctors you can
employ, observe all sanitary laws, keep
in this world as long as you are per-
mitted to stay, and then when the
heavenly call comes be glad to go. 1
do not care much about what your
''last words are going to be. People
ei 10,
1 would rather know what your words
are now, in days Of health and with
mental faculties in full pIay-your
words of kindness, your words of SYM
pathy, your words of helpfulness, your
words of prayer. SO live that if you
say not a word during the last day of
your life there will be no doubt here
about the place of your destination.
You will go right into sanity, prophet
ic, evangelistic, apostolic, cherubic,
seraphic, archangelic, deific presence.
1t shall be well with you.
Mother, you will go right up into the
possession of the babe that the scarlet
fever or Group took out of your arms,
sorrow that still stings you, and you
often say she would now be so many /
years old if she had lived. You will go |
into the presence of the old folks, for I
hope you are of Christian ancestry, and .
you will find that they have no dim
ness of sight or halting gait that re-
quires a staff, for they have taken a
draft from the fountain of perpetual
youth that springs from under the
throne of God
Oh, the blissful companionship of
heaven in which you shall enter! 1t
shall be well with you. 1 ring this bell
Of emancipation and triumph. L like
the way the sexton rings the bell of
the old country meeting house. I used