Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-11-21

any delcacy speak of. Perhaps it may be |
d rheumatism that distorts and inilames |
or neuralgia which runs its sharp knife |
along the temples Of your forehead. Per |
haps it IL an indigestion causing food |
which ig reccperation to others to be- |
come n torture to you. Perhaps it is an
insomnia which keeps you MS wide awake
at T. o'clock at night as at II o'clock ut
noon, and hour after hour, like one in the
Bible times, you cry, Would God it
were morning.
! cannot take the diagnosis Of your dis
orCpr. but let hope cheer you with one of
two thoughts Such marvellous cures are
being wrought in our day through mcdi-
cation and surgery that your invalidism
may yet be mastered. Persons as i'll as
you have got WELL Cancer and tuberculo-
sis will yet give way before some new
discovery. | see every day people strong
and we'll who not long ago | saw paIlid
and leaning heavily on Il staff and hardly
able to climb Il stairs.
Take the Hand of Hope.
But if you viii not take the hand Of
Hope for earthly convalesccncc let me
point you to the perfect body you are yet
to have if you love and serve the Lord.
Death will put prolonged anmsthetc
upon your present body, and you will
never again feel an ache or pain, and
then in his good time you will have
resurrection body about which we know
nothing except 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 east wind
sowing pneumonia on the air, your feet
ness greater than the foot of deer, your
.,,-i,,It r1,urpr tlou plp in
feet health in a country where all the in
habitants are cvCrlastingly well. You who
have in your body an cncysted bullet ever
since the civil war; you who have kept
alive only by precautions and self denials
and perpetual watching of pulse and
lung, you Of the deafened ear and dim
vision and the severe backache, you who
have not been free from pain for ten
years, how do you like this story Of
physical reconstruction, with all weak
ness and suffering subtracted and every
thing jocund and bounding added?
Do not have anything to do with the
gloom that Harriet Martincau expressed
in her dying words: 81 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
pcrpetuated." Would you not rather have
nan. who, when some one said, Il will be
satisfied if ! manage somehow to get into
heaven" replied, pointing to n sunkcn
vessel that was being dragged mp the riv-
er Tay: wv ould you like to be pulled into
heaven with two tugs like that vessel
yonder? | tell you | 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 de-
SPAR 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 a thousand happy homes where
there is one of marital discord. They tell
you Of the large number in our land who
are living profgate 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
drunkeres in this country, but fail to
mention the thousands Of glorious church
es with two doors, one door open for all
who will enter for pardon and consolation
and the other door opening into the heav-
ems for the ascent of souls prepared for
translation.
} Gods Instruments.
Those pessimists do not realize that
make it possible under God to bring this
whole world into savablc and mllennial
condition within few weeks after those
I two inventions shall be turned into the
service Of God and righteousness, as they
! will be | 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 II
friend and make with him n business en-
gagement. you have a very abbreviated
: idea of what can be done and will be done
with those two instruments. The intelli-
gence of the world is to be expanded, and
. civilization will overcome barbarsm and
iliterecy will be eXtrpated. and the
promise will be literally fulfilled, "A ma
ton born in day"
Let Hop, say to the forebodng: Do all
! you can with Bible and spelling book and
f. philosophic apparatus, but toll with the
i sunlight in your faces or your efforts will
70 be n failure The pallor in the sky is not
4 another phase Of the night, but the first
. sign Of approaching day, which is as sure
u TO come as tonight will be followed with
u tomorrow. Things are not going to ruin.
u The Lords hosts are not going to be
! drowned in the Red sea Of trouble. Miri-
ans timbrcl will play on the high banks
!; Israel Delivered" High hope for the
Il home. High hope for the church! High
hope for the world.
IT introduce the angel Of Hope to those
> who have through dccease lost Christian
e friends. "How could find them" says q
e hcrcft soul. "up there in the land of the
!, multitudinous You may find them by
inquiry, by heavenly escort and by un
' failing memory of the guard at the gate
< "And he carried me away in the spirit Il
II great and high mountain and showed
> me that great city, the holy Jerusalem
descending out of heaven from God hav
ing the glory OF God, aud her light wa
- like unto a stone most precious, even liE'
=, q jasper stone. clear as crystal, and had I
W wall great and high and had twelve gate
- and at the gates twelve angels So, yol
SEQ, thee will be an angel guarding eacl
'' gate. As you 20 in ask the armed guard
- lie saw your loved one pass through an'
will know the direction to take and b.
T. what fountain or in what street of gold j
the mansion prepared. The blessed Chris
- knows whore your dcpartc@ loved one Is
~ and he will tell you if no one else will
~ Fifty ways of finding out the where
-, abouts Of your assembled one. But will
surely know him when | get there, for h
~ will be so changcdF Yes, for Won will b
lust as much changed, and the old allinit