The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1901-05-24

| asylums or institutions where friend
less children are cared for and select
some little one with an honest eye and
good disposition and take him to your
/ home. Put around him all the elevating
and happy influences you can provide.
| In two years he will become part of
your life, and his company to you will
be indispensable. 1t will make you 20
years younger He will be an illumina-
tion to the evening of your life, and he
will speak your praise long after you
have departed from this world, and in
heavenly places you will have been re-
warded by the great friend Of children,
the Lord Jesus.
My text suggests that Heaven is an
eternal youth. \ cycle Of years will
not leave any mark upon the immortal
nature. Eternity will not work upon
the soul in Heaven any change, unless
it be more radiance and more wisdom
and more rapture. A rolling on from
glory to gloryl In anticipation Of that
some of the happiest people on earth
testimonies have been given by the vet
Grams in the Gospel army. While some
of the aged have allowed themselves to
become morose and cynical and impa-
tient with youth and pessimistic about
the world and have become possessed
with the spirit of scold and fault find
ing, and are fearful Of being crowded
out Of their sphere, many Of the aged
have been glad to step aside that 9th
ers may have a chance and are hopeful
about the world, expecting its redemp-
tion instead of its demolition, and they
are inspiration and comfort and help
fulness to the household and TO the
neighborhood and to the church. The
children hail the good old man as he
comes down the road. His smile, his
words, his manner, his whole life, make
the world think better of religion.
congratulate all good Christians
that the molting season will soon be
over and you will mount higher than
eagle ever ascended. What a good
thing that you are soon to get rid
of winters cold and summers heat
and drenching rain and lowering
clouds and live in superbest climate
of the universe, whether 1t be this
world made over as to atmosphere
and contour or in some star which
mighty telescope halls from the OBJ
servatory or in some center around
which all worlds wheel. 1t is all
ready and has been ready, as near
as | can calculate, since 1871 years
ago, when Christ went up after say
ing: II go to prepare place for
you" What a good thing to get
rid of this worlds vicissitudes and
enter upon glorious certainties, and
TO have no surprises except those
that are exhilarant as when Milton
may ring a new canto or Chrysostum
may speak with a new eloquence or
Handel may render a new symphony,
for | do not suppose that those who
were mighty on earth are going to
be idlers in Heaven.
l congratulate all Christians who
are in the eventide. Good cheer TO
all of you. You are yet TO hear the
best songs, see the grandest sights,
take the most delightful journeys,
form the most elevating friendships,
and after 10000 years of transport
you will be no nearer the last rap
ture than when you were thrilled
with the first.
In Heaven you will have what most
pleases you. Archbishop Leighton's
desire for Heaven was a longing for
Christ and purity and love, and he
has found there what he wanted.
John Foster rejoiced at the thought
of Heaven because there he could
study the secrets of the universe
without restraint, and he has been
regaling himself in that research.
Southey thought of Heaven as a
place where he would meet with the
learned and the great-Chaucer and
Dante and Shakespeare. He no doubt
has found that style of communion.
The great and good DIR. Dick was
fond of mathematics, and he said he
thought much of the time in Heaven
would be given to that study, and |
have no doubt that since ascension
he has made advancement in that
science. The "12 manner of fruits
spoken of in Revelation means all
kinds of enjoyment in Heaven, for
70 manner of fruits includes all the
chief fruits that are grown on trees.
I suppose there will be as many
kinds of enjoyment in Heaven as
there will be inhabitants.
You will have in Heaven just what
you want. Are you tired? Then
Heaven will be rest. Are you pas
sionately fond of sweet sounds?
Then ii will be music. Are you stirred
by pictures? There will be all the
colors on the new heavens and on
the jasper sea and the walls imbed-
ded with what splendorsl Are you
fond Of great architecture? There
you will find the temple of God and
the Lamb and the uplifted thrones.
Are you longing TO get back to
your loved ones who have ascended?
Then IL will be reunion. Are you a
home body? Then it will be home.
Here and there in this world you will
find some one who now lives where
he was born, and three or four gen
erations may have dwelt in the same
house, but most people have had sew
eral homes-the home of childhood,
the home they built or rented for
their early manhood, the home OF
ripper and more prosperous years.
Rut all homes put together, precious