The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1922-09-29
Business AMI Professional Dhectory
vas trying 10 teach.

was trying 10 teach.
First We must not forget that the
Christ and His .dioolplea were talking
md writing to tho Jews. and they en-
aeavored to present to them . picture
that would give them the highest con-
csption of Heaven.
In the arst place they were poor:
their people and country had been rum
ever and trodAen-- dowE 81 tho nations
around themf, what could have meant
more to poor man ~ they wers than
the thought Of golA3 (And even to-ay
rcld speaks volumes to uo). 20 the book
ID full Of ssniles giving gold - back
ground. Again In Revelations In de-
scribing the eternal city. We are told
Of the tree Of life with it, twelve man
ner Of fruit. bearing its fruit every
month in the year. Don't you think
this meant much to them3 They had
been hungry many times. they were
deprived Ct their daily food. and to
think that the time would come when
they would not feel the pangs Of hum
ger but they could eat until they were
satished.
We are told in the revelations Of the
river Of water Of life clear ~ crystal
proceeding. cut OF tine throne. What
could give more cheer to them than
the thought Of a place where they
would thirst no ,paore? They had been
travelling over the hot scorching sands
fer 30 many years and were subje cts
Of the most cruel treatment. Now they
were to come to q place where they
could battle themselves in the Cleal
sparkling water underneath the tree
Of life, and yet none Of US think 1t II
to be a real river with real water. l,
was Just another picture &C. represent
to them the highest conception Of hap
piness.
But you ask me then, What Is Aeav
en-? Billy Sunday says Heaven IL no
condition but a place. / am not herr
to argue with Sunday but say yer!
frankly I know Heaven IL a condition
and 1t may be a place. I am inclined
to think al i read the book that it i
a place as well as a condition. ant
after all am not sure that it make
a great deal Of difference whcthe
Heaven is a place or not. There
one thing that Is tremendously impert
ant: that ia just what is going to at
feet our relation on the other side.
Now If Heaven was only a place an
not a condition then our lives woul
make little difference with our futur
Happiness. but when we recognise tn
fact of Heaven being a condition a
well as a place. then we must fgur
well to make the condition right.
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will make it pl ain I am not in syE,pa
thy with the death bed repentanc
story. 1 don't believe a man can Civ
his life to the devil and his soul
God. l am convinced that IL peepl
are sOing tc live in Gods Heaven al
tier they are dead they will have
start while here on earth. 1t Is appa
ling how many people live outsid. tn
church, disregard religious tsachini
Then when they come to die the
friends want q christian funeral. as
the choir to sing: Jesus Savior Pils
Me-" when they had refused to let tt
Christ have anything to do with the
lives while here on earth.
II Heaven il only q place 1t mtgl
be possible to be sure for a dear 10y
ing Christ at the last moment to To-
. give. and take them in, bat when v
know that Heaven Is the continuatie
. Of the life ebyond the grave, and tn,
even the secrets of the life viii be
part of the entertainment in that keaN
emily land. then we are convinced thu
Heaven Is the outcome, not Of an hc'
of penitent feeling. hut the result
! life of holiness.
/ am not altogether in sympatf
with the words of the poet when
/ said: II sent my soul the invisib
: some letters of this after life to spe
and by and by my soul returned to !,
/ and answered.: Thou myself art hea'
, en- or hell, but there IL real elemel
| Of truth in 1t, for 1t surely begins
? the soul and the largeness or the small
. ness Of the life beyond the grave d
/ ponds on the use we make Of 1t her
You remember two years ago a gre,
excitement was created In Oklahon
over the Smith Hammond case. Han
mond had ruined a girls life and hi
spent much Of his time in debauc
breaking up homes and 10 forth. Fil
ally the girl took revolver and firl
!: the shot that a few later ended II
life of the man. The Methodist mini
Ter VI Tue pIScc was CalIeO H. n&
prayer with the dying man and lat,
on the witness stand lac testified III,
the man gave his heart to God nj
died aeredeemed soul.
Friends. l repeat again: I do n,
, believe a man can give his life TO ii
devil and his soul to God.
> In conclusion: understand then tn,
] Heaven il something that we sta
! here on earth. and develop In eternit
II we have had kindly thoughts her
, we will continue tc, think kind
things through eternity If we ha,
, been doing kindly deeds here the men
DRY of them win bless US through etc
/ nifty. In fact. memory never dies. "
J say we forget. but we do not. we lla,
, only layed the thought away in II
, mind fer future use. and some circuu
stance whatever it may be will briu
!, that thought to light. and the men