Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-02-16


be well with him. Such promise as
that ought to calm your pulses and ir-
radiate your countenance and halo all
the future with rapture; for, after all.
it makes but little difference what be-
comes of us here, il we come out at the
right place amid the right surround
1ngs and in the right companionship-
What are the twenty or eighty years
OF terrestrial stay compared with the
centuries, the milleniums, the aeons OF
our chief lifetime, which we are to be-
gin when we quit this Insignificant
planet, Insignificant as compared with
the size of other worlds? This world
is only school house for heaven. We
learn here only the A B G of higher
literature, or the simple addition and
subtraction of an infinite mathematics
and are practicing the eight notes of
an eternal harmony. The most i'm
portant question any man ever asks is,
What will be my destiny?" whittier
am 1 bound?'' Where shall 1 land?'
What is the terminus of this short
Journey" Now, child of God, do not
worry about that 1t shall be well
with you in your next state of exist
ence.
The World Beyond This.
Some scientists are now discussing
the opening of communication between
our earth and the planet Mars. Expert
ments are being made, but they will
not succeed. We cannot build a fire
large enough to attract the attention
of that world or lift lens powerful
enough to see any response interstel-
lar. We do not positively know that
that world is occupied by living be-
i inc hot - t.
cation with them would be desirable.
1t might not be so good a world as this,
and thus communication with it would
| be debasing. But 1 rejoice to know
that heaven is in touch with other
worlds for their improvement and a
depot for glorious arrivals. 1t is thor
| oughfare between this world and that
world and coming and going perpetu-
al Going out of this world is
natural as coming into it, but the one
| is with pang and the other is with rap
ture if 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 in
f1uenza or that threatened pneumonia.
The worst thing that fatal disease can
do is to usher you into coronation and
enthronement. 1t shall be well with
| you. Take as good care of your health
as you can, have all 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. 1
do not care much about what your last
words" are going to be. People put
too much emphasis on last words" I
would rather know what your words
are now, in days of health, and with
fo1
words of kindness, your words of SYM
| pathy, your words of helpfulness, your
words of prayer. So live that if you
say not 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, pro-
| phetic, evangelistic, apostolic, cherub-
| ic, seraphic, archangelic, deific pres
ence.
In Heaven.
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,
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 1 hope you are of Christian ances-
try and you will find that they have
| no dimness of sight, or halting gait that
requires staff, for they have taken
draft from the fountain of perpetual
youth that springs from under the
throne of God. Oh, the blissful COM
panionship of heaven in which you
shall enter. 1t shall be well with you.
ring this bell of emancipation and
| triumph. I like the way the sexton
rings the bell of the old country meet
| ing house. 1 used to stand and admire
| him pulling the rope of that bell. He
rings 1t a good while, SO that every
farmhouse within five miles hears it.
He may halt a moment to take breath
and give the swet 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 listens while his SON rings the
church bell. So my text seems
bell of invitation and vic
| tory. began to ring it in
| the opening of this discourse
hope to ring it as long as live, and
may those who come after us keep on
| ringing it till those farthest on from
God shall come into the great temple
of gospel comfort and all the weary
put down their burdens at its altar and
find that peace which the world can
neither give nor take away. Three
times more I ring it 1t shall be welli
1t shall be welli 1t shall be welli
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