The age-herald., 1901-11-24

1 gloom that Harriet Maruneau eApLessec
 in her dying words: 'I 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 Rob
 ert Amman, who when some one said. ''I
 will be satisfied If l manage somehow to | get into heaven" replied. pointing to a
 sunken vessel that was being dragged up
 the river Fay; Would you like to be pulled into heaven with two tugs like
 that vessel wonder? I tell you I 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 | despair about the worlds moral condi-
 tion. They have gathered up appalling
 statistics They tell of the number of divorces, but do not take into considera- | tion that there are a thousand happy
 homes where there Is one of marital dis- cord. They tell you of the large number
 In our land who are living proliflgate | lives. but forget to mention that there
 are many millions of men and women
 who are doing the best they can. They 1 tell you the number of drunkeries in this country, but fail to mention the
 thousands of glorious churches with two
 doors-one door open for all who will en-
 
 l other door opening into the heaven for
 the ascent of souls prepared for transla-
 tion.
 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 con ditton within a few weeks after those two inventions shall be turned into the service of God and righteousness, as they VIII be. l 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- agreement. you have very abbreviated l ldea of what can be done and will be done with those two instruments. The l@intelligence of the world Is to be ex- banded and civilization will overcome barborism, and illiteracy will be extir- pated, and the promise will be literally | 1uinlled-"a nation born in a day" I Let Hope say to the foreboding: Do all you can with Bible and spelling book and l philosophic apparatus. but toll with the sunlight in your faces or your efforts
 will be failure. The pallor .n the sky
 IS no. another phase of the night but | the first sign of approaching day which Is as sure to come as tonight will be fol- | lowed by tomorrow. Things are not ro- ing to ruin The Lords hosts are not yo- l ing to be drowned in the Red sea of trouble Miriams timbrel will play on the nigh banks Israel Delivered High hope for the home High hope for the church! High hope for the worIdr' introduce the angel of hope to those 1 who have through disease lost Christian
 friends. How could | find them,' says
 a bereft soul 'up there in the land of the muitituoinous? You may find them by inquiry by heavenly escort and by un l failing memory of the guard at the gate. Ana he carried me away in the spirit | to great and high mountain and showed | me that great city, the holy Jerusalem. I descending out of heaven from God, hay
 ing the glory of God, and her light was | like unto a stone most precious, even
 like jasper stone clear as crystal and l had wall great and high, and had l twelve gates and at the gates twelve | angels So you see there will be an an-
 gel guarding each gate. As you go in
 ask the armed guard. He saw your | loved one pass through and will know l the direction to take and by what foun- l tain or in what street of gold is tho mansion prepared. The blessed Christ
 knows where your departed loved one
 is. and he will tell you if no one else | will. Fifty ways of finding out the whereabouts of your ascended one. But
 Wal surely know him when get there, for he will be changed?' Yes for you will be just as much changed, and the I old aninity will assert Itself. The soul
 will be as easily distinguished by soul | there as on earth the body is distinguish
 ed by the body.
 Cultivate Hope.
 Open that closed instrument of music
 in your parlor that has not been played on since the hand of the departed player
 forgot it's cunning. Put up before you
 on the music board the notes of the hymn | of Isaac Watts and sing There Is a | Land of Pure Delight" or James Mont l gomerys hymn, Who Are These In the
 Bright Array?" or Fillmore Bennetts
 Sweet Bye and Bye." or Jerusalem the 1 Golden" Take some tune in the major | key-"Arier' or Mount Pisgah." While
 you play and sing the angel of Hope will
 stand by you and turn the leaves and 1 join in the rapturous rendering. Reunion
 with the loved and lost! Everlasting re-
 union! No farewell at the door of any
 mansion. No goodby at any of the twelve
 gates! No more dark apparel of mourn l ing but white robe of evultation! Hope | now Is on its knees with face uplifted.
 but Hope there will be on tiptoe or back
 oning you to follow. saying Come and | hear the choirs sing! Come and see the
 procession march! Come and see the l river of life roll! Come with me over the | hills that rise into everlasting heights"
 Celestial Alps and Himalayas hoisted in-
 to other Alps and Himalayas!
 L. From this hour cuitlNdIe nope. O so | by reading all the Scriptural promises | of the worlds coming Edenization, and | doubt If you dare the veracity of the | Almighty when he says ne will make the | desert roseate, and the leopard and kid will lie down in the same pasture field, | and the lion, ceasing to be carnivorous, | will become graminivorous. eating straw | like an ox;'' and reptilian venom shall | change into harmlessness. so that the 1 ..weaned child shall put his hand on the | cockatrices den, and there shall be noth ing to hurt or destroy in all Gods holy |. mountain. for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea-" So much for the world at large.
 l. 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 l things and brings to pass the unexpected l remembering 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 | IonR. ending in durations of bliss that | neither human nor aIchangelic faculties | can measure. or administrations of a | springtime that never ends and foun- | tains tossing in the light of sur that | never sets. May God thrill us with an- | ticipation of this immortal glee! Which