Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-03-14

wars such as we have never heard OF.
They fear that Edward VII. will not be
They are appalled, at the accumulated ma.
tional debt. They fear society is going to
pieces by. reason of immoralities. They
apprehend that America will be over.
crowded with foreigners. They say tbs
country is going to be utterly demoralized.
They are all the time apprehensive of so.
cial and religious and political calamities,
and it is telling on their. mental health,
depressing their physical health, and, in.
eagles, they are initiating the eagle who
would sit in his nest of sticks lined with
grass on the rock. mourning about the
woes Of the ornithological world, the lone.
illness of the pelican. the filthiness of the
yulture, the croak of the raven, the reck.
things? No. 1t would be molting pro.
cess for that eagle which would never
close, and it would only get thinner and
more gloomy and less able to gain food for
its young and less able to enjoy land.
scape as it appears under a twenty-milo
flight on a 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 to
fret about them. Realize that it is not an
anarchy that has charge of affairs in this
u.
head of this universe is King whose eve
Is omniscience and whose heart is infinite
love. His government is not going to be
failure: He cannot be defeated Better
trust Him in the management of this
world and OF all worlds: Al You and !
is put in our hands. That is all we have
to be responsible for. In well managed
orchestra the players upon stringed and
wind instruments do not watch each other
The cornetist does not look to see how
the violinist is drawing the bow over tho
strings, nor does the flute player scrutin.
ize the drum. They all watch the baton
of the leader. And we are all CARRYING
our part, however Insignificant it may be.
in the great harmony.
My text suggests that heaven is an eter.
nal youth. A 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 IA,
dance and more wisdom and more rap
ture. A rolling on from glory to glory!
In anticipation of that some of the hap
piest people on earth are aged Christians
by the veterans in the gospel army. Whils
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 finding, and
sphere many of the aged have been glad
to step aside that others NAV have
chance and are hopeful about the world
expecting its redemption instead of its
demolition. and they are inspiration anc
comfort and helpfulness 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 reli-
gion.
What a good thing it is, all We aged
Christians, that you can soon get rid of
!, dulled ear and sight that requires strong
eyeglasses and infirmities which make you
hold on to the banister, leaving YOU pant
ing at the head of the stairs, and enter a
land Of eternal health, where the most ru.
bicund cheek of robust lie. on earth
would be .emaciation. compared with the
thing to get beyond being misunderstood
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
backbiting unknown, for the gate. of heav-
en- was shut against them in the state.
ment Without are dogs" What good
thing to have satisfying and glorious ex-
planation of things that puzzled you
twenty OF forty or eighty years, to have
the interrogation poInC aDoHSheQ anu all
mystery solved and Gods government win:
dieated, 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
struggle, while many of the infamous ride
prosperously, princes afoot and beggars
a-horseback, and the last honest question
shall have been answered
Gibbon in his history says that Moham.
med had dream in which he thought
that, mounted on the horse Borak, he as
cended the seven heavens and approached
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 Christian
heaven. No cold hand put upon your
shoulder there, no col d hand OF repulse or
doubt, but the warm hand of welcome, the
warm hand of sanity communion, the
warm hand of God.
| congratulate 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 elevating friendships,
and after 10000 years or 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 Leightons de.
sire for heaven was desire for Christ and
purity and love. and he has found there
what he wanted John Foster rejoced at
the thought of heaven, because there he
could study the secrets of the universe
without restraint, aud 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 communion. That 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 twelve |
manner of fruits" spoken of in Revela, |
tion means all kinds of enjoyment in heav- |
en-, for twelve manner of fruits includes |
all the chief fruits that are grown on |
trees. / suppose there will be as many |
kinds of enjoyment as there will be in |
habitants.
You will have in heaven just what you
want Are you tiredg Then heaven will |