The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1901-02-09
never realized until last summer whss

/ never realized until last summer WneU
water could do in play, or in strange
caprice, or Identification, or when
climbing the ladder of the light, or
| when skillful workmen took hold Of 1t
to toss II, or whirl II. or shape II into
crowns, or hoist II into columns, or
spring II into arches, or lift IL into
stars, or turn il into crescents, or build
II into temples. You forget you ever
saw the less glorious waters at Chats
worth, England, or Versailles France,
as you stand in the balcony Of the PAL
ace overlooking the Finland gulf, be-
wildered and transported as you look
at the one display called the Golden
Stairway fountain. The water rolls
down over "a steps one foot high and
20 feet long. All of these "a steps are
covered with sheets of FURNISHED gold.
Silver step of the water on stairs OF
gold! What a glee of liquids! Rolling,
dashing, foaming, enrapturing splen-
doris! Chorus of floods! Poetry of wa
tiers! Doxology Of torrents! But that
which most impressed me there and
elsewhere is the abundance of water,
the fact that there are so many waters
that the continents can afford to throw
them away into the sea, Hudsons and
Ohios, Oregons and Amazons, Rhines
and Danubes and Volgas, and so abun-
dant that the earth can afford to have
it's oceans eyaporate into the heavens,
Mediterraneans and Atlantics and Pa
cities. How rich the earth is with wa
ters Best beverage ofSn the nations.
for after the richest banquet with the
richest beverages everyone wants at
least a sip of it-water, cool water.
God descended water! Cl
With still more abundance is the air
distributed. An earth full of it. A sky
full of it. Swiftcst and strongest eagle
cannot fly so high as not TO have 1T in
the nostril or under the wing. And
what afiiuence of sunlight! No one but
the infinite God could dispense so much
of it. The golden cand;estick set on
the blue mantel of the heavens! So
great that the Almighty is compared to
it, the psa!mist crying out: "The Lord
God is n sun 1t is high time that we
recognize in our .iturgies and in our
formulas of prayer the three most
abundant blessings of the universe
which come to all.
Some scientists are now discussing
the opening of communication be-
tween our earth and the planet Mars.
Experiments are being made, but they
will not succeed. We cannot build a
fire large enough to attract the at
tention of that world or lift lens
powerful enough to see any response
interstelar. We do not positively
know that that world is occupied by
living beings, or that If IL is occupied
communications with them would be
desirable. 1t might not be so good a
world as this. and thus communica.
ton with il would be debasing. But
rejoice to know that Heaven is in
touch with other worlds, for their
Improvement and depot for glorious
arrivals. 1t is a thoroughfare between
this world and that world and com.
ing and going perpetual. Going out OF
this world is as natural as coming in
to it, but the one is with pang and
the other is with rapture il we are
fitted for the uplifting process. 1t
shall be well with you. Now, do not
get so frightened about that asthma
or that cough or that influenza or
that threatened pneumonia. Tho
worst thing that fatal disease can
do is to usher you into coronation and
enforcement. II shall be well with
you. Take as good care of your health
rs you can, have all the sanitary laws,
keep in this world as long as you
are permitted to stay and then when
the heavenly call comes be glad to go.
/ do not care much about what your
"last words" are going to be. People
put too much emphasis on last
words" / would rather know what
your words are now, in days of health
and with mental faculties in full play
your words of kindness. your words
of sympathy, your words of helpful-
ness, your words Of prayer. So 1.-Two
that If you do not say 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, prophetic, evangelistic, apos-
tolic, cherubic, seraphic, archangelic,
deific presence.
1t shall be well with you. Mother,
you will go right up into the possess
sion of the babe that the scarlet fever
or Group took out Of your arms, q
sorrow that still stings you, and you
often say she would now be so many
years old IL she had lived. You will
go into the presence Of the old folks.
for l hope you are Of Christian an
cestry, and you will find that they
have no dimness of sight or hating
gait that requires staff. for they
have taken n draught from the foun-
tain Of perpetual youth that springs
from under the throne of God. Oh,
the blissful companionship of Heaven
in which you shall enter! II shall be
well with you. / ring this bell Of
emancipation and triumph. like the
way the sexton rings the bell of the
old country meeting house. used to
stand and admire him pulling tho
rope OF that bell He rings IL a good
while. so that every farmhouse within
five miles hears It, He may halt n
moment to take breath and give the
sweet sounds time to stir up all the
echoes of the hills. And when he is
old and not strong enough to pull the
rope any more, then he sits and lis