The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1912-12-21

| 1uey Sdlu, l KNOW ne snail rise again
at the last day. Oh, that is so far
away, so indefnite-leaves such an
| aching void in the heart to tell you
| about the Judgment, that is far re
moved, and the resurrection that has
yet to wait for the coming of the cen
turtles and decades; but Jesus brings
! 1t to you now, and says, 4 am the res
direction and the Life; he that be-
lieveth in Me, though he were dead,
yet shall he live again, and whosoever
llveth and believeth, shall never die
Brother, sister, it is here with you.
1t is not far removed; it is present
and personal, and then these clouds
mat hang so heavily over our path
way are breaking. May l get you to
see that this afternoon? Let US stop
moment and while we weep, sing, if
we cannot smile. This life here is in
every part a token Of love; eighteen
years in the hollow of the Hand of
tne Majesty on High; a gift from God,
IN the beginning. The Lord gave. It
is hopeful message to begin with.
why, my friends, have come to
prlng you a congratulation, sincere
ana heartfelt. Here was a divine
providence that enabled you, father
ana mother, to present to st. Paul a
life that might so sweetly blow and
bloom and blossom until the radiance
until all its perfume touched a thou.
sand men and women, and that is the
import of the gathering here. They
are not come so much for any other
purpose than to show you that though
the vase is broken, the sweetness. like
0f hn
ment, Spikenard, very costly, is filing
all the house.
On, the influence, brother, sister,
young man, young woman, of a life.
Someone says Is years, so short, so
brief. All, but brother, you are mis-
taken. There was time when mems
lives were measured in years, in dec
AIDES, in centuries, but not now. We
nave learned sWeeter and a better
lesson. The greatest life that was
ever lived among men was only thirty
and three years. The sweetest life
that ever influenced humanity was
less than a third of a century, We
nave learned now not to measure life
by the movement of the hands upon
the dial. Men do not live in years
any more. No! No! We live in
thoughts, in breaths, in actions, not in
leellng, not In pulsatiOns of the heart. !
A rich life was this, when YOU con-
slider that in Is years, just a measured
portion OF duration of eternity, called
time. God works little in time. God
begins from the eternities, whatever
that may be. You and I do not
fathom eternity. Finite cannot COM
prehend infinite. Who can stand back
beyond in the light Of the earth's early j.,
dawn and realize what He meant
when He says: I am that | am? /
COD is talking more in the things of !
spirit than He is in the things of
sense, and time, and space, and this
life must be interpreted, not in IS
years. No, No! am going to meas
ure it by the eternal love of God, for
after all, these things are the eternal
essence that lives and grows and
abldes through the ages. If Margaret
lived ever, she lived always. Why,
you say her life was only eighteen
years. You are mistaken. Man never
had beginning of life. God has no be-
ginning and has no ending. The soul
hat rises with us, our life's star, has
lad elsewhere it's setting and COM
eth from afar, not in utter nakedness,
not in entire forgetfulness. We came
rom God, where is our home over be-
'ond! You set portal and YOU call
t birth down here. You set a portal
Ind you call it death. These are
mems terms; these mark the two
pounds of eternity; measuring time in
space, measured in the opportunity for
action, but back there, somewhere in
he eternity, God had life and that
life was breathed into the nostrils of
nan, and man became a living soul.
t was in the beginning. It is God, if
here is any end; God forever.
Someone says we deposit all that is
Mortal in the cemetery this afternoon,
md that is the end of that which is
Mortal. Not so, not so! I take issue
With you this afternoon all along the
inc. The seed is not quickened ex-
'ept it die. How shall you get har-
'est if you never SOW your grain?
How shall this mortal break itself
rom all that is mortal, earthly, base
md gross unless it is sown? It is
oWn in mortality; it is raised in i'm
mortality. 1t is sown in weakness,
ust to get the limitations of time and
pace off of it, but it is raised in
lower. 1t is soWn natural body, of
he EARTH earthly, bound by the linn
tatlons OF earth; as soon as it is
aised, spiritual body, like unto His
'wn body, over which death shall have
10 more dominion. oh, death, where
S thy sting? Oh, grave, where is thy
'ictory?' And the answer rolls back
rom behind the throne. Thanks be
o God, who giveth us the victory
through Our Lord Jesus Christ
Sometime, some day, when some
ne here is prone to do a thing that is
wrong, your guardian angel will come
o you and say, Don't do that" Rrc-
member Margaret, and that God who
as so wonderfully kept others, He
'ill keep you.
Again, congratulate you. l would
congratulate Margaret upon the fact
hat she was so wonderfully blessed
1ell born in a good home
brother Strong has referred to it a
ago and Bro. Harding has told
he about it, how Sister Elizabeth
'annister, when this church was much
mailer and situated at Ninth and c.
ar, this child's grandmother used to
aul on a sled tables, chairs, etc., that
'ere necessary for feasts down there.
nd | think of Pauls instructions or
lessage to Timothy away back be-
ond, that he called to remembrance
ne unfeigned faith that is in them,
hitch dWelt in thy grandmother Lois
nd thy mother Eunice. and I am per-
uaded that is in thee also. How can
be otherwise that the offspring will
blow fit? l do mean to say that en- t
ironment and heredity have very
luch to do with the kind of life men