The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1909-11-04
THE PULPIT.
A SCHOLARLY SUNDAY SERMON ny
.- DR.. J. NJ. HUBSERT-
Theme: Life Here and Hereafter.

DR.. ]. NJ. Hubert. of Ph:iadelphia
preached in the Central PRESBYTERIAN
| Church. His subject was "Liso Her,
and Hereafter" The text was fror,
thilpp!aEs 1:E2-2A: What I shall
choose l wot not For I an 1, n
strait betwixt two. havirs n des;ra IN
depart, and to be with Christ. which
is fer better; nevertheless. to abide
IN the flesh is more needful for Won. :,
| DR.. Euhbert said:
The words OF the text remind us o.
good Isaac Watts. who said: THANK
God. can lie down at night with no
concern whether l wake in this world
or the next Some people are world
~, Chiefly concerned for things here
oelow: some are other-worldly, hav-
| ing thoughts and affections set ON
things above: and such n man was
! raul This thinking about the future
Is by some callsd "inu-acticable star
gazing. But Dr.. Samuel johnson
correctly remarked. that those who
tnlnN most about the next life are the
psonie wto best perform the duties
OF this life"
First Of all. the text speaks OF our
morality. In saving he has a desire to
ue"srt, Paul is not thinking CT GO
ing rom one place to another on the
earth, but OF going hack to mother
earth-"earth to earth, dust to dust
ashes to ashes" This is the wav we
must all go very soon. King Philip
ot Macedol lad 4 servant whose duty
1t was to wake the King each morning
Dy saying. "Philip, remember thon
are mortal" Surely, we need no such
reminder. We have enough Ali
around us to impress us that "all
nesn Is as grass" Passing through n
street OF very healthful mountain
IoWn: and seeing a man with 4 hose
washing mud from the wheels of
hearse, I said. do you use such
things up here?" "Oh, yes" said he
we carried ont three yesterday.
And that Is inst what is going on
everywhere. The cemeteries are fast
receiving the teeming populations of
cities, towns, villages and country
places. Well may 1t be said:
Death floats upon every passing
breeze,
And turks in every flower:
Each season has it's own disease.
Its peril every hour"
Again. the text speaks of our i'm.
mortality. Paul has desire to de-
part, and to be-" He has no thought
OF ceasing to be. when death comes.
Deatn Goes not end all. When the
earthly tent IS taken down its Or
Il
thinking. alert being. The BODY IS
corruntible, it rerishes, it dissolyes:
put there is that within the BODY
"h,ch Is incoTruptible, imperishable
ana indis;oluble; that which no
hocds can drown, no waters can
Guench, no fires consume; which js
oest!ncd to outlive mountains, frma-
ments' suns and stars. prominent
city social club has for its motto:
while we live, VIC live in clover:
When We die, we die all over"
Oh, no. we shall none of us die "aI,
over. we die in part only. And
even though the body only is to die.
even II Is to be raised again, and by
anu by soul and body shall be re-
joined, and then man in his comnIeta
personality shall live on and forever
f1a'e YOU heard, have you heard Of
that sun-bright cline,
undlmmed by sorrow, unhurt by time
Where age hath no power DER the
fadeleSs frame,
mere the eye is fire and the bo,rt
is fame?
have you heard. have you heard OF
that sun-bright clime?"
furtner, the text speaks OF on
chiet iellclty hereafter. Paul's desire
Is 10 depart, and to be with Christ
me Bible gives different concenticns
81 IieaVen' such as place CT rest
from toll. release from prosecutions
treeaom from sin Gnd reunion with
;tiehHs. ~ But Pa"fs favorits idea of
:. - - riSce % companionship with
Jesus. true. Christ is with His disci-
pies here and now, ny His Spirit. but
in the hereafter they rre to see Him
in His Glorifad humanity, Just as He
was seen after His resurrection and
waen He went up fran the slopes of
Mount Olivet. We say mo home
without mother" and what
mother is to horne, and infinitely
more. Is Christ to His redeemed cnes
in Heaven.
when death these mortal eyes shall
seal,
And still this th-obbins heart.
The rendiag veil shall Thee reveal.
All-glcrious, as Thou art
Next, the text speaks of the i'm
mediateness OF this heavenly felicity.
atter death. Paul's expectation is to
aePart' and then at once to be with
christ. The language will admit of
no other Interpretation. He pives
no lntimation OF n midway station. a
haitway house, between the deathbed
ana heaven. Some people carry very
vague notions OF what is called tbe
intermediate state" AS there Is an
intermediate time, between the body's
death and its resurrection, SO there is
an intermediate degree Of blesssdpess
Ior Christ's saints, who are not to
receive their full and final recompense
or reward until after the general
judgment; but there is no gloomy
ABODE for the righteous, after this
death, where they wait to see Christ.
To-day thou shalt be with Me in
| DaraQlSp.' " Ia-,ic,