The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-22
OLYMPUS RElGns IN HUMAN HEART
JUST AS HE'LL IS CREATED BY
MAN IN HIS OWN SOUL so
MAY BLISS BE MADE.


Central Christian church yesterday
evening.
Great was the contrast between the
sermon of last night and that of the
previous evening on He'll but there was
this point of similarity. both sermons
were characterized by the same broad
modern spirit and liberal construction
of things religious.
Scarcely a trace of the narrow con-
structions which were almost universal
before the present 'era of scientific
knowledge could be found in the able
discourse which DR.. Breeder gave yes
terday evening, yet hope breathed
from every sentence
His discourse in part was as fol-
lows:
God is not Knocked. Whatsoever a
man soweth that shall he also reap:
he SOW to the flesh he shall of the
flesh reap corruption. but if he SOW to
the spirit he shall reap life everlasting
"Is heaven a reality? Certainly. 1t
is as much reality as hell, and as
hell is the state Of the perverted,
faithless and abandoned soul, so Is
heaven the place for the righteous
soul, the. soul in harmony with God
A man carries heaven in his soul, in
his life, in his heart, in his expert.
ence. Those splendid Bible pictures
of golden streets and palaces, radiant
precious, stones garnishing the walls
Of the palaces of those who inhabit
the great land, and tell us that it is
the abode of the blessed. are all true
and show that the place is prepared. A
place made ready for those who de-
sire through the grace of God to en-
ter. Heaven is where Christ is, where
God is, where virtue reigns, where
love Yields the sceptre.
Il am. deeply interested in this mat
err, for / expect to go to heaven some
day, and it is the great passion OF
my life to so live that when the deatf
angel calls me I will be ready, ant
when he conducts nae to my place
shall want to see the people who pre-
ceded me many years ago. shall
want to see the people: who belonged
to, he church of which had thu
honor to be pastor for sol many hap
py years. 1t is my firm and abiding
conviction that We shall',now eaci
other. in heaven. for death has M
alchemy that will destroy Or chang'
memory or the power Of recognition
Relationships will be changed. bu
memory will be the same. want ms
mother to meet me at the portals o.
the gateway and conduct me through
the pearly gates, and surely he. wht
has gone to prepare the mansion:
for us, will permit our loved ones
who have preceded us to go on thu
holy mission and take us from the
darkness and gloom of death into thu
green fields beyond.
Heaven, where and what is it?' III
my fathers house are many mansions
| if it were not so l would have tolt
you. 1 go to prepare place for you
that where 1 am We may be Also I'VE
are not to consider the chronological
deriyat ton of the term heaven, MOI
study it's meaning in bible literature
/ but we are to study heart Will
quick succeptibilities to all that l!
nure and beautiful This old name, a!
old as humanity, coexistent with eter
Gel
what. is it and where is it? 1t re
uuires a poet rather than a critic Il
underst and the word. Human speech
is altogether inadequate to express
its beauties, it's pleasures, its joys
its exquisite delights.
Human pictures are incompetent
even to show the beautiful sky. thu
clear landscape, the glorious sun, TIT
star studded vault of heaven. If thi:
be so how much more inadequate
would human speech and human pic
lures be to a description of the glory
land bevond the ephemeral things OF
| this world?'
Gwen inspired writer's could no
nresent the picture in all its beaut!
and perfection. Paul found that the
NAUGHTY of human language halted
him as he tried to tell his people wha
tho glories of the great beyond were
like And if that illustrious exponen
of the truth of the word OF Goo
could not describe it adequately, nov
shall we give a proper description o.
heaven. Two laws are in perpetua
operation; hell and heaven. The ONT
means tribulation and sorrow for tn
wrongdoes, ,.~uhile.-sthe other means
liberty, immortality and glory for th'
Inghteou4 -
"our ibhiydnlity will not be de
stroyed; We fw4il remain the same;
we will have the same faculties onl,
they will be purified and relieved o.
the burden of flesh; they will be ex
ialted and ennobled. If we did MOI
know our, loved ones heaven would DC
robbed Of large portion of its bliss
.nd iov We will not lose our person