Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-06-24

left behind with the mental and spir-
itual deformities they have produced.
The cripple will rejoice that the gnaw-
ing agony that made his life on earth
a period OF humiliation and suffering
il gone forever. without are dogs"
Let me illustrate my thought I'm an
other way, the thought that n healthy
body Is very apt 10 be the incasement
OF a healthy mind ana soul. Here Is a
little child born into your home. as my
first little girl came into my home. You
look I'm wonderment upon that child.
For weeks and months you go among
your friends boaSting about that baby.
why" you say, that is the most per
feet diSpoSitiOned child 1 ever knew.
She never cries. She is always smiling
and cooling. She never awakens us at
night. She is as happy as a sunbeam
creeping into our bedroom in the early
morning" But after that little child
has been in your home eight or ten
months suddenly her nature seems to
undergo a radical change. The hot
hand OF fever touches her forehead
The red marks blotch 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
tiers low, moaning whine. What is
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 perfect mind and an imperfect
John says. Without are dogs" be-
lieve he means that in heaven we shall
have no physical infirmities, no club
foot like Lord Byron, no gnarled and
twisted nervous organization like Alex
ander Pope no blinded eyes like John
Milton, no deaf ears 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 resuF-
rection!
The 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 North American Indians are
prevalent among the dogs OF the east
AS each Indian tribe owned it's own
territory and in time OF war Ii meant
death for a member OF one tribe to be
found wandering about in the Gland 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 IL 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 pack of hungry wolves,
make mad rush for that stranger to
tear him limb from limb.
We must study my text I'm the canine
language Of 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 OF defiance
In the dark iunCles OF the African con-
tinent. Then the awe striking power
OF that voice seems 10 come from ev-
erywhcre and yet from nowhere The
hills, are sounding boards which toss
the echoes rs the battledoors throw
the shuttlccocks backward and 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
howlinCs OF the dogs I'm the streets Of
Damascus and Jerusalem. When one
canine tribe plunges upon n dog OF an
other tribe which wanders into their
street or territory IL 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 great army had
fired gun 10 call the host TO arms,
then muttered growls. then the fright.
cned bark OF the pursued dog. then a
very pandemOnium OF barkIngs and
growlings and angry. snarling canine
voices. They awake the sleeping tour.
list so suddenly that ut first he will
start up from his bed with fright.
Then follows the suggestive silence as
the battle evidently ends by the death
OF the victim or by the escape of the
pursued.
-No Heaven.
What Is the Johnnnian meaning of
this mortal combat between the tribal
dogs OF the east? Why, il means that
in heaven there are TO be no family
meannesses, no contemplate, merciless
ways such as are often found Mt the
earthly nrcside. IL means that instead
OF one father and one mother gather
Ing their own children about them I'm
one mansion OF light" and saving
to one OF themselves. "Shut the door
ana Keep every one else out; We have
enough and more than enough now:
let all others take care or themselves
as best they can" all men will he
brothers, and all women sisters. There
we shall all be sons and daughters OF
one God, who is the Father, and have
kinship 10 one Christ, who is the Elder
brother. Ii means that in heaven
there will be no envious plcbeian blood. |
ana no distinctive. supercilious, aristo- |
cratic blood, because there we shall all |
nave been washed in the royal blood OF |
Jesus. 1t means that in heaven no
wealthy mans wife will be able to
suck out the life OF a poor sewing girl |
merely because she is poor, and no en-
pioyer Will be able to grind his en- |
ployees down until it means physical |
ana mental and often spiritual death. |
IL means no vendetta or blood feud: II |
also means no financial vendetta or |
money feud.
Roaming again through the dark, mar.
row, crowded streets OF eastern Palesr
tine, surmise, from the words OF nv
text, that heaven is to be n place of |
honored and jubilant occupations. 1t Is
TO be a place where the words me
mar and "servile," ''scavenger" aad
"scullion," "hireling" and dependent"
lackey" and 'underling' will be un-
known. All words sigAifying a degrad-
ed work will 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 place OF hamilton and