The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1903-07-25

hearts, then" you exclaim. And We
reply: Yes and no. II Is In mems
hearts as an inner experience. and II
is all about them in outward. practical
contact with the world and the people
OF the world. One does not need to
take Jacobs ladder or borrow Gabriela
wings to scale the heights and gain
1 the borders of the Land Of Upright
ness. II Is not far away from the
| busy rush OF life. II Is not on the
mountain-top of TRANSPORTATION nor in
the seventh heaven Of Paul's expert
ence. 1t lies within the confines of the
sphere in which you already live and
move and have your being. 1t may be
an undiscovered land to you. Oh, how
many, many, many people In this
world are rushing peli-mell through
life to blackness and despair at the
end, without ever coming to realize
thae just at hand Is the Land OF Up
rightness. in which Is Joy and peace
and satisfaction, and true success!
I ESUS dwelt in the Land of Upright
ness, and that is the reason He
was found where the needy multitude
gathered. That is why His hand was
ever reaching out to help and to save.
That is(why every leaf and flower, the
grass of the field, the waving grain, the
lowly sparrow, spoke their lessons to
His soul, and were left as enduring mes
sages to the heart of man. Those crude,
uncultured fishermen by the Lake OF
Galilee were found In the Land of the
Natural Self. They knew what 1t was
to see the stars at night standing guard
over them, while they thrashed the wa
tiers with their nets after the darting
fish. They were familiar with the grassy
slopes of the lake and the fiower-decked
fields Of Galilee. They felt the throb
Of life all about them. and had to
mingle Herewith. In order to gain a
livelihood. And yet until Jesus met
them and led them into the Land of Up
rightness, they did not know the beau
| ties of Nature; they did not realize the
dignity of life; they did not understand
that fishing on the lake Of Galilee was
the school in which they we're to begin
|
men. 1t was a new world In which they
moved after they met Jesus. and that
world was the Land of Uprightness. The
entrance into that land did not take
them out of the world in which they
already were, but 1t put them into new
relations Herewith. The Land Of Up
4 rightness, then, Is not new place or
sphere. but the present place, ruled by
the will OF God, and where His Spirit is
the unerring guide. On the one hand Its
borders touch the Land Of Darkness
and on the other its delightful fields I'M
fold with never break into the Elysian
fields of the Heavenly land.
THE inhabitants of the Land of Up.
| rightness are faithfully described
in the First Psalm. They are they who
walk not in the counsel of the ungodly
nor stand in the way of sinners, nor sit
In the seat of the scornful. Their de-
light is in the law Of the Lord and In
His law do they mediate day and night
They are like tree planted by the rivers
of water, that bringeth forth his fruit
in his season. his leaf does not wither
and whatsoever he doeth prospereth
Abel dwelt in that land, and when the
jealous hand of his brother struck him
down, he quickly passed over to the joys
and peace of the land where tears are un-
known and sorrow and pain have given
place to Joy of heart and peace of life
Enoch walked with God in the Land OF
Uprlghtness, and one day when enjoy
ing the companionship of the dear Lord
he wandered over the line. and never
came back. Noah lived in the Land OF
Uprightness, but at that time he was
about its only inhabitant. The god
less inhabitants of the world were as
unconscious of the existence of the
Land of Uprightness as the blind fish
of Mammoth Cave are ignorant of the
blessed sunshine and the glad bird bath
ing in It's light. But Notwithstanding
that Noah had pretty lonesome time
of 1t as related TO human associations, he
found in the end that 1t paid to dwell
there. Abraham was content to abide
In the Land OF Uprightness, where
Gods will controlled and His Spirit
led, but Lot. who knew the Land
of Uprightness. and ought to have
remained a resident thereof, lift
ed up his eyes, and, beholding the
glitter and show and surface pleasures
OF the Land of the Natural Self, he wan.
dered of to Its distractions, and Gods
angels had hard work rescuing hin
later from the destruction which over
took portion of that goddess land And
we have not space to tell of all tn,
others who dwelt In the Land OF Up
rightness. as enumerated In the Scrip
lures. Nor have we time to review tn,
grand army which has passed through
this land into the better land sine
Christ first drew His disciples abou
Him and commissioned them to go int,
all the world and tell of this Land O
Uprightness, and draw thereto all VIII,
would listen to the glad message an,
turn from the Land of the Natural Sell
whose borders are adjacent to the QUITE
darkness of eternal death. and to tn
edge of the bottomless pit.
sSL low Is II, Eliza" asked her mis-
/ i tress. that you are always s.
cheerful and contented and happy?
| .1t understand IN Your life ha