Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1907-12-21
M1N1Neb1 JOURNAL
7. II. ODER, Editor.
FRosTBURG, DECEMBER 81, l9
Somewhat BY Way of Analogy.

somewhat by " ag VI +hh"i'SS'
Two great future events stand out in
New Testament prophecy incidental to
the Divine Incarnation and Human Res
urrection-a new heavens and a new
earth, and a race ransomed from the fall.
We are not prepared to detail the
neurological and crystalizing processes
by which Nature is to achieve its reHdiS-
sduce, but there is assurance of revolu-
ton embryonic in the heart of the earth,
seen in ebullitions of gaseous forces, and
visible elemental distractions on solar
and planetary surfaces tell of sympa-
thetic unrest on high.
Indeed, the fires, already lit, are smol-
dering, patiently, it is true, but smolder-
ing, and just as the primeval floods held
the new born earth in the water and out
of the water, emerging at the climacteric
moment into finished systems of noun
tain, hill, vale, plain, stream, lake, sea
and ocean, so will the renewed globe
come forth from fire attempered to
purify, not to destroy.
For we can believe that the same
Almighty hand which gathered together
the waters in one place will quench the
smokeless flame just at the acme OF com
pletion just at the pitch of perfect
polish of a new heavens and new
earth, tlecked by no speck of evil, by
nothing that defileth, or that maketh a
lie.
To such Il home the Second Man and
His race shall return-a home where
none shall hunger, neither thirst any
more-to the earth, awhile outcast from
Redemption; and in the noontide of that
nightless day-in the home sense of a
recovered world, they will take their
place forever.
1t is to such destiny the Christian
religion, Hospitality interpreted, invites
all
1t is to the substance of things not
hitherto seen, OF which all earthly good
is but hint.
1t is to Il joy, of which all joy here is
a mockery.
1t is to rest. of which all rest below
is but "A glimmer.
1t is to day for which all other days
were made.
1t is to a liberty beside which all
earthly freedom is bondage.
1t is to franchise, before which all
terrestrial license shrinks into dungeon
privilege.
1t is to home from which there is
no child far away.
1t is to State wherein property will
cease, but possession fail not.
1t is to community of matured
Craftsmanship endowed and animated by
a perfected assurance of achieved i'm
mortallty-an endless intuition, imper-
lshable as the instinct of liberty in the
heart of a bird
When will come this future epiphany
How long hence.
1t matters not. \ thousand years are
as one day in the realm of universal
motion, and all things take their meas
ured, regulated turn. The earthquake
signalizes the advent of new era in
some underworld domain, and the
comets cleaning train is but the flourish
of an Almighty pen which signatures
the close of ornamental epoch.
Whosoever among us, therefore, who
honor Christmas in all the name implies
-exemplifying the peace and good will
embodied in charity to the poor and the
Golden Rule to all-these already feel
the glow of the better, brighter life.
For they who treat the poor as if the
millennium We're here, already have "A
foretaste of the millennium which is to
come.