The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-12-13

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member, you are 30 be- kings and queens
unto God And how much more wealth
you viii have when you reign forever and
/ everl / want 20 see you when YOU get
| your heavenly work dress on. This little
bic Of a speck Of a world we cali the earth
Is only the place whore we get ready to
work. We are only iourneymen here, but
will be master workmen there. Heaven
will have no loaiers hanging around. The
book says Of the inhabitants, "They rest
not day nor night" Why rest when they
work without fatigue? Why seek a pillow
when there Is no night there? / want to
see you after the pedestrianism OF earth
has been exchanged for power q flight
and veocitles infinite and enterprises in-
| terstellar, interworld.
| ] suspect that the telescope Of that OBJ
/ servotory brings in sight considerations
that may comprise ruined worlds which
need looking after and need help sanity
| and missionary. There may be worlds
/ that, like ours, have sinned and need TO
/ be rescued, perhaps saved by our Christ
or by some plan that God has thought out
/ for other worlds as WISE as potent. as
lovely as the atonement is for our world.
! The laziness which has cursed ms in this
/ world will not gain the land Of eternal ac-
/ tivities-so much tonic in the air 80 much
! inspiration in the society, SO much achieve
ment after we get the shackes of the
flesh forever of. Do not dwell so much
on opportunities past but put your en-.
/ phasis on opportunities TO come.
! Am ] not right in saying that eternity
can do more for us than can time? What
/ will we not be able to do when our DO Rers
! Of loconotion shall be qnckened into the
| immortal spirits speed2 Why should a
| bird have a swiftness of wing when 1t is
Of no Importance how long il shall take
/ to make its aerial way from forest TO for
! est and we, who have so much more inn
! Dortant erraQd in the world, get on so
/ SLOWLY The roebuck Outruns us the
/ hounds are quicker in the chase but wait
! until God let's us loose from all limitations
and indictments. Then we will fairly he
/ gin. The starting post viii be the tomb
stone. Leaving the world will be gradua.
/ ton day before the chief work of our men
/ tai and spiritual career. Hope secs the
I doors opening, the victor's foot in stirrup
! for the mounting. The day breaks-drst
/ flush Of the horizon. The mission of hope
| will be an everlasting mission as much of
/ it in the heavenly hereafter as in the
earthly now. Shall we have gained all as
soon as we enter realms celestial-nothing
more to learn, no other heights to climb
! no new anthems to raise, monotony of
| existence, the same thing over and over
| again for endless wears? No! More pro-
gress in that world than we ever made in
| this.
Hope will stand on the hills of heaven
and look for ever Frightening landscapes,
| other transformations of color, new glo-
ries rolling over the scene, new celebra-
ton of victories in other worlds, heaven
/ rising into grapder heavens seas of glass
mingled with Are, becoming a more brill
| liant glass mingling with a more flaming
fire. (Which hope"
Hope on, and, though You may never
hear Of your sons reformation and Others
may think he has left this life hopeless,
who knows but that in the last moment,
after he has ceased to speak and before
his soul launches away. your prayer may
have been answered and he be one of the
first to meet you at the shining gate. The
prodigal in the parable got home and sat
! down at the feast, while the elder brother,
who never left the old place, stood pouting
at the back door and did not go in at all.
To another class of persons l introduce
the angel of hope, and they are the inva-
lids. cannot take the diagnosis of your
disorder, but let hope cheer you with one
of two thoughts. Such marvellous cures
are being wrought in our day through med
ication and surgery that your invalidism
may yet be mastered.
] Persons as i'll as you have got we'll Cam
Ger ana tuoercGiosls VIII yet give way pc
fore some new discovery. | see every day
people strong and we'll who not long ago
| saw pallid and leaning heavily on a staff
and hardly able to climb stairs
But if YOU will not take the hand of hope
for earthly convalescence let me point
you to the perfect body you are yet to
have if you love and serve the Lord.
Death will put a prolonged SnacsthetlG
upon your present body, and you will
never again feel an ache or pain, and then
in His good time you will have a resurrec-
ton body, about which we know nothing
expect 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
pneumonias on the air your feetness
greater than the foot of deer. your eye
sight clearer than eagle in sky, perfect
health, in a country where all the inhab-
itents are everlastingly well!
You who have in your body an en-
cysted bullet ever since the Civil War;
you who have kept alive only by precau-
tions and self denials and perpetual watch
ing of pulse and lung; you of the deafened
ear and dim vision and the severe back
ache; you who have not been free from
pain for ten years, how do you like this
story of physical reconstruction, with all
weakness and suffering subtracted and
everything iocund and bounding added?
Do not have anything to do with the
gloom that Harriet Martineau expressed
in her dying words: II 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
perpetuated" Would you not rather have
the Christian enthusiasm of Robert An.
nan, who when some one said, II will be
| satisfied If / manage somehow to get. into
heaven" replied, pointing to a sunken yes
sci that was being dragged up the River
Tay: "Would you like to be pulled into
heaven with two tugs like that vessel yon-
der? tell you would like to go in with
all my sails set and eolors hving."