Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1901-02-09

We would feel tnat we were etdhuSl
in the yestibule Of a great Luxembourg
and would want to go right In ana see
the glories; or standing In the portlco
of a temple and would want to get In
side among the worshipers. 30 we
are allowed 10 hear only one bar or the
music and to see one fold OF It's up |
holstery and catch one glimpse or lts
towers. can make only a rough |
draft of your celestial residence, but
I can authoritatively state that the
world to which you are destined Is
big world. a brilliant world, sinless |
world, a joyful world, an endless world |
md world In touch with other worlds
II Shall BE Well.
Some scientists are now discussing
the opening Of communication between
our earth and the planet Mars. Ex'
nerlments are being made. but they
will not succeed. We cannot build o
fire large enough to attract the atten-
ton of that world. or lift lens power
i full enough to see any response inter
stellar. We do not positively know
that that world is occupied by living
beings. or that, II II is occupied, COM
munication with them would be desir-
able. 1t might not be so good a world
as this. and thus communication with
II would be debaslng. But | rejoice TO
| know that heaven is In touch with
other worlds for their improvement
and a depot for glorious arrivals. Ii
is a thoroughfare between this world
and that world, and coming and go
ing perpetual.
Going out Of this world is as natural
as coming into It, but the one Is Win
nane. and the other Is with rapture, II
we are fitted for the uplifting process.
It shall be well with you. Now. do not
get so frightened about that asthma or
that cough or that influenza or that
threatened pneumonia. The worst
thing that fatal disease can 90 Is 10
usher you into coronation ana en-
thronement. It shall be we'll with you
Take as good care of your health as
You can. have the best doctors you can
employ. observe all sanitary laws, Keep
in this world as long as you are per-
mitted to stay, and then when the
heavenly call comes be glad to go. !
do not care much about what your
"last words" are going to be. People
mt too much emphasis on last words.
| would rather know what your words
are now. In days of health and with
mental faculties In full play-yOur
words of kindness, your words of sym
pathy, your words Of helpfulness, your
words of prayer. So live that II you
say not a word during the last day oi
: YOUR life there will be no doubt here
about the place Of your destination
: You will 90 right into sanity, prophet
ic. evangelistic, apostolic, cherubic
l seraphic. archangelic. deific presence
1t shall be we'll with you.
Mother, you will go right up Into the
D possession of the babe that the scarle
fever or Group took out Of your arms, I
' sorrow that still stings you, and yo'
! often say she would now be so manl
T wears old IL she had lived. You Will g
into the presence Of the old folks, for
e hone YOU are of Christian ancestry, ant
+ YOU will find that they have no dim
y ness of sight or halting gait that re
nuires a stan, for they have taken
draft from the fountain Of perpetua
e youth that springs from under tn
u throne Of God.
Oh. the blissful companionship Q
il heaven In which you shall enter!
!, shall be we'll with you. | ring this be
s. of emancipation and triumph. l lik
the way the sexton rings the Dell 9
u the old country meeting house. use
j. 70 stand and admire him pulling tn
e rome Of that bell. He rings 1t goo
IL while. so that every farmhouse With
le five miles hears It. He may halt m'
~ ment TO take breath and give the swe'
~ sounds time to stir up all the echoes
u the hills. And when he is old and M
'e strong enough to pull the rope an
10 more then be sits and listens while b
le son rings the church bell. SO my te'
OF seems a bell of invitation and victor
u I began to ring 1t In the opening or ID
~ discourse. | hope to ring 1t as long
IT, I live. and may those who come art
US keep on ringing it till those farthe
off from God shall come into the gre
'ir temple of gospel comfort and all Il
~ weary put down their burdens al its
'le tar and find that peace which the wor
In can neither give nor take away. Thr
no times more | ring it: 1t shall be we
ut II shall be well! 1t shall be well!
ch rConvdght. 1901, by Louis Klopsch. N. ~