Newport weekly independent., 1903-04-24

of an existence beyond the grave. And no real rest or satisfaction can come to the soul until it feels that it's home beyond the grave has been se- cured. 1 might live in the most beautiful palace which ever reared it's stately spires above the verdure of the trees which stood as sturdy sentinels all about the grassy slopes whose velvet carpeting of green un- rolled until the blue of the sparkling water fringed its edge with diamond spray, but what satisfaction would there be to me, what peace of mind, what rest. if I knew that tomorrow I must leave it's luxurious shelter and that 1 had no other place ready in which to find refuge? The elegance and ease of to-day would only inten- sify the anxiety for the uncertainty of the morrow. But if I knew that the home of to-day was to be ex- changed for the mansion on the mor- row, peace and contentment and glad anticipation would fill my soul. Man is not ready to live in this life until the grave. But if with Abraham he looks flor a city which hath founda- tions, whose Builder and Maker is God," he is in an attitude of heart and mind which gives life new aspect and paints the sky of the fu- ture with an enduring hope.
 NO Flats in Heaven.-Man rears his piles of brick and stone into the clouds and families are piled in layers one over the other in congest- ed pandemonium, but in Heaven God builds mansions for the soul. I am not sure but that in these latter days God is permitting man to herd himself in great buildings with airshaft bedrooms and llghtshaft parlors and two-by-four back yards where the children of the great stone prison called home must play together in mingled discomfort. so as to make the picture of Heaven with its mansions the brighter with hope. The little girl who went to the country for the first time after living in the city's barrenness and noise walked with reverent steps through the f1ower-decked fields, she heard the songs of the glad free birds, the breezes from the waving trees kissed her cheeks and cooled her brow. and with joy thrilling in her voice she exclaimed: "This must be Heaven" Thank God, mans disfiguring hand will never have anything to do with the building oper- ations of Heaven. No flats there! Flats, with all their conveniences and their elegances are doing more to de- stroy the true sense of home and fam fly life, and are robbing childhood more surely of it's right to proper en- vironment and healthy conditions than any other one thing. Flat buildings rear their roofs until they seem some times to almost brush the blue of the sky, but they are not an easy stepping stone to the mansions in Heaven. Everyone of these beehives of con- gested population has well-polished shute which is toboganning humanity away from God and Heaven as fast as Satan can lure them on.
 = HILDREN are not wanted in flat - buildings, but thanks be to God
 they are wanted in Heaven! Our presi- dent, whose sentiments in regard to the obligation and blessing of parent hood are so we'll known, has said that "the willfully barren woman, like the willfully idle man, has no place in sane. healthy and vigorous commu- nity!" But sane healthy and vigorous living is stifled in the atmosphere of the fiat building, and a vitiated. super- ficial and emasculated social condition dren, are as essential in the constitu- tion of family and home as are the pris- matic colors necessaryin combina ton to produce the light which cheers and warns and gladdens the earth. The childless home is no home at all. God never intended there should be such. His command was and is increase and multiply. It's a goddess age that dis courages child-bearing. It is one of the cultured lies of the Devil that the child ought to be born with scholarship in college and a bank account, or not born at all. It is hellish heresy, matched out of the infernal-laid egg of devouring selfshness. which decrees that one child shall be reared alone because the parents willfully determine that the are not able to properly provide for others. Children may bar one from the fiat building; earthly landlords may place their seal of disapproval against the parents with the many jew els of child life, but things in Heaven are going to be pretty much reversed and the husband and wife of the child less home may find Heavens gates barred against them. The mansions in Heaven are prepared for such as love and fear God and believe in the only begotten Son of God And who are these? Surely not those who despise childhood and deliberately decree the childless home or limit the children to one or two, for Jesus said: Suffer the litt1a ones, and fOrbid them not to