The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1902-01-21


of locomotion shall be quickened into the
immortal spirits speed? Why should n
bird have swiitness of wing when il is
of no Importance how long it shall take
TO make its aerial way from forest TO for
est and we, who have so much more I'M
portant errand i'm the world GET on so
slowly? The rocbuck 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-
GIN. The starting post will be the tomb-r
stone. Leaving the world will he gradua-
ton day before the chief work of our men
tai and spiritual career. Hope sees the
doors opening. the victor's foot in strrup
flush OF the horizon. The mission OF hope
VIII be an everlasting mission, as much Of
Ne 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 nthems TO raise. monotony of
existence, the same thing over and over
again for endless years? Mo- More pro-
gress in that world than we ever made in
this.
Hone 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 grander heavens seas of glass
mingled with FIRE becoming a more bril-
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 / 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
lcation and surgery that your invalidsm
may yet be mastered.
Persons as i'll as YOU have got well. Cam
Ger and tuberculosis viii yet give way be-
fore some new discovery. | see every day
people strong and well who not long ago
i saw palhd 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 ii YOU love and serve the Lord
Death will put a prolonged anaesthe;ic
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 al, 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
pneumonlas on the air. your tleetness
greater than the foot of deer. your eye
health, in country where all the inhab-
itants are everlastingly well.
You who have in your body an en-
cysted bullet ever since the Civil War;
rho ho.v 81. H.
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 fer ten years, how do YOU like this
story OF physical reconstruction, with ell
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. I have had
enough of life in one and can see no good
reason why Harriet Martineau should he
perpetuated." Would you not rather have
the Christian enthusiasm of Robert An
nan, who when some one said, 81 will be
satisfied II / 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? I tell you would like to go in with
all my sails set and coiors 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 Stats
tics. They tell of the number OF divorces,
but do not take into consideration that
there are a thousand happy homes where
there is one Of marital discord.
They tell you Of the large number in
our land who are living prohigate 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
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
by reading all the Scriptural promises OF
the worlds coming Edenization, and doubt
II 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 into
harmlessness, so that the "weaned child
shall put his hand on the cockAtrce's
den, and there shall be nothing 20 hurt or
destroy in all God 3 holy mountain, for the
earth shall be full of the knowledge Of the
LORD as the waters cover Lne sea. %
much for the world at large.
Then cultivate hope in regard TO your
own health, your own financial prosperity,
your own longevity, by seeing how in
other people God mercifully reverses things
and brings 90 pass the unexpected re-
member;ng that Washington lost more
battles than he gained. but triumphed at
the last. and, further. by making sure of
your eternal safety through Christ Jesus,
understand that you are on the way to
palaces and thrones. This life a span
long ending IN duratious Of bliss that
neither human nor archangchc faculties
can measure or estimate of a
springtime that never ends and fountains
tossing in the light of a sun that never
SETS May God thrill us with anticipation
of this immortal glce, (Which hope"
7 said In the opening of this subject
that my text was only the wave on the
beach. while the whole verse from which
10 is taken is an ocean. But the ocean
tides are coming in, and the sea be- getting
so deep / must f1ll back. wading out as /
waded in for what mortal can stand be-
fore the mighty surges Of the full tide Of
eternal gladuess2 Eve hath not seen nor
ear heard neither hath entered into the