The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-06-26

cries. She Is always smiling and cooling.
| sne never aWakens MS at night She is
as happy as sunbeam creeping into our
bedroom In the early morning ant
after that little child has been in vour
home eight or ten months suddenly her
nature seems to undergo a radical change
| The hot hand of fever touches her fore
| head. The red marks bloteh her fair
skin. Raked and twisted with pain. she
cries all the day and most Of the night,
and even In her sleep she continually ut
ters low moaning whine What is the
matter? Has the childs djsposition
changed? Oh, no. The physical body
has become diseased, and now the mind
is fretting in sympathy. Thus we find
| that a perfect body is apt to have per-
| feet mind and an imperfect body an
| imperfect mind. So when II. John SAYS
without are dogs" I believe he means
| that in heaven we shall have no physical
iniirmities no c!ubfoot like Lord Byron
no gnarled and twisted nervous organ
ization like Alexander Pope, no blinded
eyes like John Milton, no deaf ears like
| Beethoven, no skin leprous and covered
with sores. 1t shall be physically dog
| less heaven" Oh my brother. thank
God for the perfect physical bodies of the
resurrection
Howl of Warning.
! Roaming again through the crowded
streets of Palestine, l find that the same
merciless tribal bitterness and mortal
! enmities which were once rife among the
7 North American Indians are prevalent
| among the dogs of the east As each
| Indian tribe owned its own territory and
in time of war 1t meant death for men,
Der of one tribe to be found wandering
about in the land Of strangers so the
| dogs of the east take possession of the
different streets of the great cities. Each
canine tribe has its sentinels standing
guard at the end of the streets Then If
one dog of another tribe enters that
street the howl of warning Is given, At
once all the other dogs of that tribe lean
TO their feet and, as a pack of hungry
wolves, make mad rush for that strang-
er TO tear him limb from limb.
we must study my text in the canine
| language or the east Old hunters tell
us that no man has truly heard lion
roar unless he has heard the king of The
Forest sound his call or defiance In The
oark Jungles of the African continent
lneh the awe striking power of that
voice seems to come from everywhere
ana yet from nowhere. The hills are
souiuing boards which toss the echoes
Dttieuoors throw the shuttle
s e backward and forward Then the
tawn squat down with fright. and the
inother birds press lower upon their nests
and the very leaves of the trees seem Zoo
terror striker to move. Like tho roar-
ing hons In the African forests are the
moving or the dogs in the streets of
damascus ana Jerusalem. When one can
ine trloe plunges upon a dog of another
tribe winch wanders into their street or
territory IL seems as though all the de-
iioNiacai voices of the internal regions
are let loose. First. there comes the
sharp, angry bark, as though the niclxet
me or great army had fired e1,n IN
can the host to arms, then muttered
Slows 'Een the frightened bark of the
S"eu Jog, then a very pandemonium
" parkings and growlings and angry,
sharilng canine voices. They awake ne
sleeping tourist 50 suddenly that AZ erst
ne VIII start up from his bed with FRIGHT
lhen Follows the suggestive silence &c
the battle evidently ends by the death Of
lhe victim or by the escape of the mr.
sued. nc pui
NO Selfishness In Heaven.
what Is the Johannian meaning az
.iiis mortal combat between the tribal
uoss Oh the east? Why, it means that in
ne"Neh there are to be no family mean
Hesses' no contemplate, merciless wavs
sDch as are often found at the earthly,
iireslde' 1t means that instead of one "a
ther ana one mother gathering their own
ei,14i en ABOUT them in one mansion of
hght ana saying to one of Themselves
SHUT the door and keep every one elsa
OUT We have enough, and more than
enough now; let all others take care of
themselves as best they can" all men win
he proehefs, anu all women sisters There
we shall all be sons and daughters of one
God who is the Father, and have kinshin
70 one Christ who is the Elder Rrofh
er' IL means that in heaven there will
pe no ehVlous' plebian blood, and no dis
tinctive, supercilious, aristocratis blood
because there we shall all have been
washed In the royal blood of Jesus. IT
means that In heaven no wealthy mans
Wlle VIII be able to suck out The life
OF poor sewing girl merely because she
is poor, and no employer will be able TO
grind his employees down until II means
physical and mental and often spiritual
death. 1t means no vendetta or blood
feud; 1t also means no financial ven
detta or money feud.
Roaming again through the dark mar
row. crowded streets OF eastern Pales-
tine, sufmise, from the words of my
text that heaven is to be Il place Of
honored and Jubilant occupations II is
TO be place where the words "menial''
and ''servile," "scavengern and scul-
non, 'hireling' and dependent" lack
ey' and "underlln" Will be unknown.
All words signifying degraded work
WI. forever disappear when the lexicons
OF earth shall be forever consumed upon
the funeral pyre of a burning world. 1t
does not mean that heaven is to be a place
OF inanition and stagnation and stupidi-
". But 1t does mean that heaven is to
be place where all workmen shall be
honored alike and where the duties Of one
immortal shall be respected as much
as are the occupations of other immor-
tails.
Why do ] mako these two astounding
statements? First, because l find re-
corded in the eighth chapter of Revea-
ton the startling fact that there was
silence in heaven about the space of half
| an hour. L heaven was always a still
rlace would st John have written that
sentence In reference to the day of iudg-
ment. If you would interpret that pas
sage In a common sense way would you
rot practically say, why heaven is such
busy place that all the angles and arch
angles and redeemed immortals are work
ing. AMI WORKING all the time? But when
ST. John saw the books of the judgment
open then there was an awful stiffness.
Every winged messenger kept still every
work ceased, every occupation was sus-
pended" As Albert Barnes interpreted
this passage. ~ hen there was an awful
stiffness, as If all heaven was reverently
waiting for the development" Oh. yes,
heaven is to be busy place. 1t has been
very busy during all the years and the
milleniums that are past. 1t will be very
fusy during all the eternities that are to