Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1901-02-28

to do this | advise you to DanlSn as lar a3
POSSIBLE all fretfulnezs out OF your life.
The doing OF that will make you ten years
younger. | know many good. Christian
people who are worrying them1elces out
in managing the affairs OF tie universe.
They have undertaken too big job. They
are trying to drive too long and fiery
team. They have all the affairs Of church
and state on hand, and they fret about
this and fret about that and fcet about
the other thing They fear that China
will be divided up among the nations and
there will be an enlargement causing
wars such we have cever heard OF.
They fear that Edward VII. "ill not be
as wise a king as his mother was a queen.
They are appalled, at the accumulated ma
tional debt They fear society Is going to
pieces bv reason of immoralites. They
apprehend that America will be over
crowded with foreigners. They say tn"
newspapers are getting so ba@ that this
country is going to be utterly demorallZed.
They are ali the tine apprehensI"e OF So
cial and religious and political ca'amlt'es.
and it is tel'in- on their mental health,
depressing their physical health, and, IN
stead OF renewing their youth Ike the
eagles, they arc initiating the eagle VITO
would sit in his nest OF sticks lined With
grass on the rock. mourning about the
woes of the pathological world. the lone
illness of the pelican. the filthiness of the
vuture. the croal of the raven, the reck
less of the albatross Would hat improve
things? No. 1t would he molting pro-
cess for that eagle which would never
close. and it would only get thinner AID
more gloomy and less able to gain food for
it's young and less abe to enjoy a land
scape as it appears under a twenty-mile
flight Il summer morning under the
blue heavens.
[ do not advise you to be Indifferent to
these great questions that pertain to
church and state and nations. but not 20
fret about them. Realize that it is not an
anarchy that has charge of affairs In this
world but a divine government. At the
head of this universe is a hing Whc:e eye
is omnlscience and whose heart is Infinite
love. His government is not going TO be
d failure. He cannot be defeated. Better
trust Him in the management of this
world and of all worlds. All you and |
have to do is to accomplish the work that
is put in our hands. That is ali we have
to be responsible for. In a we'll managed
orchestra the players upon strnged and
wind Instruments do not watch each other.
The cOrnctist does not look to see how
the viollnlst IS drawing the bow over the
strings, nor does the flute player scrutln'
ize the drum. They all watch the baton
of the leader And VIC are all CARRYING
our part, however insignificant 1t may be,
III the great harmony.
What d good thing it Is, all We aged
Christians, that you can soon get rid OF
dulIed ear and sight that requires strong
eyeglasses and intrmities which make you
hold on to the banister leaving You pant
ing at the head OF the stairs, and enter
land of eternal health, where the most ru-
bcund cheek Of robust life on earth
would be emaclatlon compared with tie
vigor of the immortals. What good
and blamed for what you could not help,
and picked at by hard world and then
pass into a heavenly society where all
think well Of each other, and friendships
are eternal, depreciation and SANDER and
back biting unknown, for the gate of hcav-
ment, without are dogs" What a good
thing to have satisfying and glorious cx-
PLANTATION of things that puzzled you
twenty or forty or eighty years, to have
the interrogation point abolished and all
mystery solved and Gods government vim
dictated; and you will see why He allowed
sin and sorrow to come into the world,
and why the bad were permitted to live
so long" and the good were cut off in the
time of their greatest usefulness, and why
so many of the consecratcd find life
struggle, while many Of the infamous ride
prosperousiy, princes afoot and beggars
a-horseback, and the last honest question
snail have been answered.
Gibbon in his history SAYS that Moham-
med had a dream in which he thought
that, mounted on the horse Borak, he as
cended the seven heavens and approached
within two bow shots of the throne and
felt cold that pierced him to the heart
when his shoulder was touched by the
hand of God. That might do for Moham-
med's heaven, but not for a Christian
heaven. No cold hand put upon your
shoulder there. no cold hand of repulse or
doubt, but the warm hand of welcome, the
warm hand of sanity communion, the
warm hand of God.
[ congrat ulate all Christians who are in
the eventide. Good cheer to all of you.
Your best days are yet to come. You are
yet to hear the best songs, see the grand
est sights, take the most delightful jour
neys, form the most eievating friendships,
and after 10000 years OF transport you
will be no nearer the last rapture than
when you were thrilled with the first.
In heaven you will have what most
pleases you. Archbishop Leighton's de-
sire for heaven was desire 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 regal
ing himself in that search. Southey
thought of heaven as a place where he
would meet with the learned and the
great-Chaucer and Dante and Shakes
peare. He no doubt has found that style
OF community. That great and good DR..
Dick was fond of mathematics, and he said
lie 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 twelve
manner of fruits spoken of in Revela-
ton means all kinds Of enjoyment in heav-
en-, for twelve manner OF fruits includes
all the chief fruits that are grown on
trees. l suppose there will be as many
kinds Of endowment as there will be in
habltants.
You will have in heaven just what You
want. Are you tired? Then heaven will
lie rest Ave NAm nassin,lat civ fond Of