Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1901-11-25


your capacity to do good is fenced in
by this life? Are you going to be a
lounger and do nothing after you have
quit this world? II is my business to
tell you that your faculties are to be
enlarged and intensified and your
qualifications for usefulness multiplied
tenfold, hundredfold, a thousandfold
Freed From Limitations.
Am ! not right In saying that eter-
nifty can do more for us than can
time? What will we not be able to
do when the powers of locomotion
shall be quickened into the immortal
spirits speed? Why should a bird
have swlftness of wing when il is OF
no Importance how long 1t shall take
to make its aerial way from forest To
forest and we, who have so much
more important errand in the world.
get Oh so slowly? The roebuck out
runs us, the hounds are quicker in the
chase. but wait until God lets us loose
from all limitations and indictments.
Then we will fairly begin. The start
ing post will be the tombstone Leav-
ing the world will be graduation day
before the chief work of our mental
and spiritual career. Hope sees the
doors opening, the victors foot In the
stirrup for the mounting. The day
breaks-first flush OF the horizon. The
mission of hope will be an everlasting
mission, as much of IL in the heavenly
hereafter as in the earthly now. Shall
we have gained all as soon es we
enter realms celestial-nothing more
to learn, no other heights to climb. no
new anthems to raise, a monotony OF
existence, the same thing over and
over again for endless years? No,
More progress in that world than we
ever made in this. Hope will stand on
the hills of heaven and look for ever
Frightening landscapes. other trans
fgurations of color, new glories rolling
over the scene. new celebrations of
ing into grander heavens. seas of glass
mingled with fire, becoming a more
brilliant glass mingling with a more
flaming fire. Which hope"
Return of Lost sheep.
On the following evening he came.
He said that he was the black sheep OF
the family flock. He had wandered
the world over and been in all kinds
OF wickedness, but few nights before
after reading letter from his mother
in Scotland, he had retired for sleep.
but in the adjoining room he heard
some young men in such horrible con-
versation he could not sleep. He was
shocked as he had never before been
by the talk OF bad men. He arose.
struck light, took out the letter from
his mother and knelt down by the bed
side and said 20 Lord, God of my
mother. have mercy on mel" He said
that since that prayer he was entirely
changed and loved what he before
hated and hated what he before loved
and asked what thought 1t all meant.
| replied you have become a Christ
IAN" He said he might be called at
any time to leave the city. never
saw him again, but 1t seemed to me
that he had turned his back upon his
wicked past and had started in the
right direction. And II may be so with
your boy Write him often. Tell him
how you are thinking OF him at home,
and. 1t may be. your letter in hand,
he may call upon his mothers God to
help and save him. Hope. you of the
gray hairs and wrinkles! Heaven has
its thousands OF souls who were once
as thoroughly wrong as your boy is
They repented. and they are with the
old folks in the healthy air of the
eternal hills. where they may become
young again. 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 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.
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.
Take the Hand OF Hope
But II you will not take the hand
of Hope for earthly convalescence let
me point you to the perfect body YOU
are yet to have II you love and serve
the Lord. Death will put a prolo nged
anaesthetic upon your present oody.
and you will never again feel an ache
or pain, and then in his good tim you
will have a resurrection body about