The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-12-03

mingled with FIRE. becoming a NOR
brilliant glass mingling with a morl
flaming are. Which hope.
Return Of Lost sheep.
! On the following evening he came
He said that he was the black sheen Of
the family flock He had wandered
the world over and been IN att kinds
Of wickedness. but few nights before
after reading letter from his mother
In Scotland, he had retired for sleep
but In the adjoining room he heard
some young men IN such horrible con-
yersation he could not sleep He was
shocked as he had never before been
BY the talk OF bad men. He arose.
struck a light. took out the letter from
his mother and knelt down BY the bed
side and said. 20 Lord God Of my
mother, have mercy on mel" He said
that since that prayer he was entirely
changed and loved what he before
hated and hated what he before loved
and asked what / thought II an meant.
! replied. You have become a Christ
ian" He said he might be called at
any time to leave the city. never
saw him again. but It seemed to me
that he had turned his back upon his
wicked past and had started in the
right direction. And Il may be SO with
your boy. Write him often. Tell him
how you are thinking Of him at home.
and, Il may be, your letter in hand.
he may call upon his mothers God to
help and save him. Hope. you Of the
gray hairs and wrinklesl Heaven has
its thousands Of souls who were once
as thoroughly wrong as your boy is.
They repented. and they are with the
old folks In the healthy air Of the
eternal hills. where they may become
young again. Hope on. and, though
you may never hear OF your sons
reformation and others may think he
has left this life hopeless. who knows
but IN the last moment. after he has
ceased 70 Sd, Ak. and before his soul
launches away your prayer may have
been answered and he be one Of the
first TO meet you et the shining gate.
The prodigaI 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 90 in at all.
Take the Hand Of Hope.
But II you win not take the hand
Of Hope for earthly convalescence let
me point you 70 the perfect body you
are yet to have n 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
viii have a resurrection body about
which we know nothing except that
Il win 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 east wind sowing
pneumonia on the air. your deetness
greater than the foot OF deer. your
eyeslght clearer than eagle in sky
perfect health in a country where ali
the inhabitants are everlastingly
welll 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 per
petual watching OF pulse and lung. you
pity can do more for as than can
timer What viii we not be able to
10 when the powers Of locomotion
shall be quickened into the immortal
Ipirit's speed? Why should a bird
laye a swiftness OF wing when It IS OF
70 importance how long II shall take
o make its aerial way from forest to
crest and we. who have so much
more important errand in the world.
'et on 30 slowly? The roebuck out
nns as. the hounds are quicker in the
hase, but wait until God lets US loose
rom all limitations and indictments.
hen we viii fairly begin The start
ng post viii be the tombstone Leay-
ng the world will be graduation aay
eiore the chief work Of our mental
nd spiritual career. Hope sees the
oors opening. the victor's foot in the
tirrup for the mounting The day
reaks-frst flush OF the horizon. The
iission Of hope viii be an everlasting
lission. as much Of i in the heavenly
GREATER as IN the earthly now. Shall
'e have gained all as soon as we
lter realms celestal-nothing more
learn. no other heights to climb. no
eW anthems to raise. a monotony Of Z
the same thing over and 4
yer again for endless yearsg Mo- 2
.ore progress IN that world than we =
Ter made In this. Hope win stand on !.
le hills OF heaven and look for ever =
the deafened ear and dim vision .
ID the severe backache. you who
ave not been free from pain FOR ten
ears. how do you like this story Of
lysical construction. with All weak &
sss and suffering subtracted and Il
-erything iocund and bounding Il
ided? s,
Do not have anything to do with the p
Dom that Harriet Martineau ex- o.
essed In her dying words II have "a
reason TO believe IN another world. '''
have had enough OF life In one and pi
n see no good reason why Harriet b
artineau should be perpetuated. . 81