Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-12-05


has been exchanged for power of fight
and velocities infinite and enterprises in.
terstellar, interworld.
1 suspect that the telescope of that OBJ.
servatory brings in sight consultations
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, aa
lovely as the atonement is for our world.
The laziness which has cursed us in this
world will not gain the land of eternal &C.
tivities--so much tonic in the air, so much
ment after we get the shackles of the
flesh forever off. Do not dwell so much
on opportunities past, but put your EN-.
phasis on opportunities to come.
Am l not right in saying that eternity
will we not be able to do when our powers
of locomotion shall be .quickened into. the
immortal spirits speed? Why should
bird have a swiftness of wing when it is
of no Importance how long it shall take
est and we, who have so much more inn
portant errand in the world, get on SO
slowly? The roebuck outruns us, the
hounds are quicker in the chase, but wait
| until God lets us loose from all limitations
and indictments. Then we will fairly be-
stone. Leaving the world will be gradua-
| tion day before the chief work of our men
tai and spiritual career. Hope sees the
| doors opening, the victor's foot in stirrup
for the mounting The day. breaks..,frst
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,
b. 1@4N 1E
| existence, the same thing over and over
| again for endless years? No! More pro-
this. shis' Ill 'AA' "'''0 '-AH We ever '-'"'' III
Hope will stand on the hills of heaven
| and look for ever Frightening landscapes,
| other transformations of color, new glo-
| r1es rolling over the scene, new celebra-
tion of victories in other worlds, heaven
rising into grander heavens, seas of glass
| mingled with fire, becoming a more bril-
liant glass minghng 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
| prodgal in the parable got home and sat
d.wn 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 el.
To another class of persons | 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 well. Can
| cor and tuhnrpulosis will vet give wav he
| fore some new discovery. see every day
| people strong and well who not long ago
| saw pallid and leaning heavily on 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 prolonged anaesthetic
upon your present body, and you will
never again feel an ache or pain, and then
| in His good time you will have resurrec-
tion 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
greater than the foot of deer. your eye
sight clearer than eagle in sky, perfect
| health. in country where all the inhab-
itants are everlastingly well.
You who have in your body an n, 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 deatened
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 jocund and bounding added?.
| Do not have anything to do with the
gloom that Harriet Martineau expressed
| in her dying words: 81 have no reason to
| believe in another world. L 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, Il VII! 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? 1 tell you 1 would like to go in with
all my sails set and colors flying, ;.
Again, let me introduce the element OF
hope to those good people who are in de-
spair about the worlds moral condition.
They have gathered up appalling statis-
tics. They tell of the number of divorces,
| but do not take into consideration that
there are thousand happy homes where
| there is one Of marital discord.
They tell you of the large number in
our land who are living profigate lives,
but forget to mention that there are
many millions of men and women who are
doing the best they can.
They tell you the number of drunkeries .ss
| in this country, but fail to mention the
| thousands of glorious churches with two
doors-one door open for all who will en-
ter for pardon and consolation, and the
other door opening into the heavens for
the ascent OF souls prepared for transla-
| ton.
From this hour cultivate hope. Do SO
bv reading all the Scriptural promises of
the worlds coming Edenzation, and doubt
if you dare the veracity of the Almighty
when He says He will make the desert
roseate, and the leopard and kid will lie
down in the same pasture field, and the
lion, ceasing to be carnivorous, will be-
| come graminivorous eating ''straw like an
OK" and reptilian venom shall change in:e
harmlessness, so that the "weaned child
shall put his hand on the cockatrice's
den, and there shall be nothing TO hurt or
destroy in all Gods holy mountain, for the
earth shall be full of the knowledge of the
| Lord as the waters cover the sea-. SO