Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1904-06-23

Physical InGrmity Hard TO Bear.
How, much this transformation means
to many sufferers none but they can
realize. It is very hard for the. de-
formed and the crippled to maintain
spiritual and mental sweetness and
serenity. 1t is ensy for man with
fine constitution and a perfect physical
form to be cheerful and happy. but
how difficult for one who has TO suffer
continual pain and Ia shut ont by de-
formity from the sports and exercises
of companions to be sweet tempered
ana genial TO all about him. ~What Is
the matter with So-and-so9" I once
asked n dear friend Of mine about n
mutual acquaintance. "He Is SO touchy
and sensitive that the least wind from
the cast will twist him all out Of
shape" YES, answered my friend,
"that is true, but perhaps you have
forgotten that that man was born
lame. If you over stop to think. you
will also find that nearly all mon and
women born with physical infirmities
are cross and grabbed and touchy and
sensitive" II never thought of It,"
answered. II believe-yes. I know you
are right" Physical infrmity is &C.
companied by and, in fact. involves
mental pain and anguish. al this will
be done away with in the celestial city.
There will be 10 defects or deformi-
ties there to sadden the soul and try
the temper of tho redeemed. The with
cred limb. the distorted spine. will be
left behind with the mental and spir-
itlal deformities they have produced.
The cripple will rejoice that the gnaw-
ing agony that made his life on earth
n period of humiliation and suffering
is gone forever without are dogs"
Let me illustrate my thought In an
other way, the thought that healthy
body ia very apt to be the incasement
Of a healthy mind and soul. Here is
little child born into your home, as my
first little girl came into my home. You
look in wonderment upon that child.
For weeks and months you go among
your friends Boosting about that baby.
why" YOU say, that is the most per
feet dispositioned child ever knew.
She never cries. She is always smiling
and cooling. She never awnkens us at
night. She is rs happy as sunbeam
creeping into ur bedroom in the early
morning" But after that little child
has Been In your home eight or ten
months sudd2 .iy her nature seems to
undergo a radical change. The hot
hand of fever touches her forehead.
The red marks blotch her fair skin.
Ralied and twisted with pain, she cries
all the day and most Of the night, and
even in her sleep she continually ut
tcrs a low, moaning whine. What il
the matter? Has the child's DISPOSE
ton changed? Oh, no. The physical
body has become diseased. and now the
mind IS fretting in sympathy. Thus
we find that perfect body IS apt to
have u perfect nlird and an imperfect
body an imperfect mind. So when st.
John says, without are dogs" l be-
licve he means that in heaven we shall
have no physical infrnlities, no club
foot like Lord Byron, no gnarled and
twisted ner vous oreo nization like Alex
ander Pope. no blinded eyes like John
| Milton, no deaf eai :, like Beethoven, no
skin leprous and covered with sores.
1t shall be physically "dogless heav-
en-" Oh, my brother, thank God for
the perfect physical bodies Of the resur-
rection.
The Howl of Warming.
Roaming again through the crowded
streets Of Palestine. I find that the
ri ii
mortal enmitics (which were once rife
among the North American Indians are
prevalent among the dogs of the east.
AS each Indian tribe owned its own
| territory and in time Of war it meant
| death for member Of one tribe to be
! found wandering about in the LAND Of
strangers" so the dogs of the east take
the great cities. Each canine tribe has
its sentinels standing guard at the end
Of the streets. Then II one dog Of an
other tribe enters that street the howl
| of warning is given. At once all the
other dogs Of that tribe leap to their
feet and, as a pack Of hungry wolves,
make a mad rush for that stranger to
tear him limb from limb.
We must study my text in the canine
language of the east. Old hunters tell
MS that no man has truly heard a lion
roar unless he. hns heard the king of
the forest sound his call Of defiance
in the dark junglrs of the African con-
tinent. Then the awe striking power
Of that voice seems to come from ev-
erTwhero and yet from nowhere. The
hills are sounding boards which toss
| the echoes as the battlcdOors throw
the shuttlecocks backward aud for
ward. Then the fawns squat down
with fright, and The mother birds press
lower upon their nests, and the very
leaves OF the trees seem too terror
stricken to move. Like the roaring
lions in the African forests are the
howlines of the dogs in the streets of
Damascus and Jerusalem. When one
canine tribe plunges upon dog OF an
other tribe which wandcrs into their
street or territory it seems as though
all the demoniacal voices OF the infer
nal regions are let loose. First there
comes the sharp, angry bark. as though
the picket line Of a great army had
fred n gun to call the host to arms
then muttercd growls then the fright
cned bark of the pursued dog then a