LOOK AT THE BEST SIDE. That is Rev. Dr. Talmage's Advice to All Mankind. A Cheery Applieation of a Melancholy BSubject-The Dread of Death a Mis take — Charming Glimpse of the Future Life, The following roseate sermon by Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage will have a tendency to dispel the gloom in the lives of the sick and sorrowing by stirring up a healthful spirit of antici pation. The text is Job 87:21: *‘And now men see not the bright light which is in the clouds.” Wind east. Barometer falling. Storm signals out. Ship reefing main topsail! Awnings taken in. Prophecies of foul weather everywhere. The elouds con- gregate around the sun, proposing to abolish him. But after a while he as- sails the flanks of the clouds with fly- ing artillery of light, and here and there is a sign of clearing weather. Many do not observe it. Many do not realize it. ‘And now men see not the bright light which is in the clouds.” In | other words, there are a hundred men looking for storm where there is one man looking for sunshine. My object will be to get you and myself into the delightful habit of making the best of everything. You may have wondered at the sta- tistics that in India the there were over 19,000 people slain wild beasts, and that in the there were in India over 20,00 destroved by in year 1875, by year ] oie wild animals. is a monster in our ov year by ye dest: that. Itis and with gospel weapons I propose to ar the old bear of melanch« chase it back to its midnight caverns I mean to do two sums—a sum in sub traction and a sum in tion traction from your days of de and an addit addi a sub ion to your days of God will help me I will compel you see the bright light that there is in the clouds, and compel you to make the best of everything. In the first place, y the very best of all y ou ought to nn our financial mi { tune In no the nanie SUR TR fortunes. wring the panic a f Vears ago you all lost money, Son t unaceo “How dollars shall I put aside this lost § in most For the question, many sands of Vear ‘How you substituted the question, and 3 48% ord? shall 1 butcher, and You had the sensatic my baker, and land] mn of v g h clothier, ard with two oars, and yet all time go- i lown stream. You not cause it was not px of say muck itic to speak much financial embarrassment; but your wife knew. Less variety of wardrobe, more economy at the table, self-denial in art and tapestry. Compression; re Who did ne » £ « - nd did + 11 } My friend, did you ma: t feel th ! Are youaware o ae 4 t pidly going? ra u would have been as proud as Lucifer. How few men have succeeded largely in a financial sense and yet maintained their simplicity and religious e tion. Not one man out of a hus here are gle general rious exceptions is that off {¢ rule in proportion yr this world |} next. He I 1 A. man gets well & for poorly off I the wes h on GG He get With sense of dependence a distaste for prayer meetings plenty of bank stocks and plenty of government securities, what does that man know of the prayer, ‘Give me this iay my ly bread?” How few largely successful this are bringing souls to Christ, or showing self-denial for eminent for plety? You upon your thumbs. One of the old he was sick, and sick to have a basin i niieq iaile aay men in world others, or are count them and two can fingers covetous souls, when brought in-—-a basin with gold, and his only amuse ment and the only relief he got for his inflamed hands was running down thre the gold and wmagh t up in the hat in ion and what destroy POWEr money rr many #n Now, you were toward d start them in How ed in all my expectations of id de Upon that pathos I break with a paean of congratulation, that by your finan- cial your prospects for Heaven, and the prospect for the Heav- en of your children is mightily How with 3 mpetence! I have been disappoint what I wo y for them!" of scene ONSEN own im- You may have lost a toy, bat you have won a palace. : “How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!” “It is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of Heaven.” What does that mean? It means that the grandest blessing God ever bestowed upon you was to take your money away from you. Let me here say, in passing, do wot put much stress on the treasures of this world. You ean not take them along with you. At any rate, you cannot take them more than two or three miles; you will have to leave them at the cemetery, Attila had three coffine. So fond was he of this life that he decreed that first he should be buried in a coffin of gold, and that then that should be enclosed in a coffin of silver, and that should be enclosed in a coffin of irom, and then a large amount of treasure should be thrown in over his body. And so he was buried, and the men who buried him were slain, so that no one who might know where he was buried, and no one might there -— proved. IST6 | | you about it be- | all | unto death, used | THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1898 intorfere with his treasu-es. Oh, men of the world, who want to take your money with you, better have three coflins! Agalo, I remark, you ought to make tho very best of your bereavements The whole tendency is to brood over these separations, and to give much time to the handling of mementoes of | the departed, and to make long visita. tions to the cemetery, and to say, “Oh, I can never look up again; my hope is gone; my cournge is gone; my religion is gone; my faith in God is gone! Oh, the wear and tear and exhaustion of this loneliness!” The most frequent bereavement is the loss of children. If your departed child hed lived as long as you have lived, do you not suppose that he would have had about the amount of trouble and trial that you have had? If you could make a cholee for your child be- tween 40 vears of annoyance, loss, vex- same ation, exasperation, and bereavements, and 40 years in Heaven, would you take the responsibility of choosing the | Would you snatch away the | cup of eternal bliss and put into that | former? child's hands the cup of many bereave- ments? Instead of the complete safety into which that child has been lifted, would you like to hold it down to the risks of this mortal state? Would you like to keep it out on a sea in which there have been more shipwrecks than Is it not a comfort that that ehild, in- besolled and is swung clear Are not those mgratulated that the voyages? to know of belong the the ldren to of ) reach by safe to you stead into mire of sin, skies? be o celestial | hh you ex ge of point bliss whic pect U 50 or a flash? n piligrima 60 or reached at If the tered average of human life 70 vears, they ldren who had en through the earth, last 10.000 ehi Heaven had gone on ),000 children would » all those 10, red blissful ter ally react Besides that, my friends, you | are to look at this matter as a self-de- r their benefit. your children want to go off in a May day party: if your children on a and musical excursion, Youn might prefer to ua, but their jubilant Well, your de nial on your part f« flowery consent. have them with y« absence satisfies you. parted children have only gone out in a May day party, amid flowery and musical entertainment, amid ies forever. That ought to quell hilarit some of your grief, the thought of joys and their glee. So it ought to be that you could make the best of all bereavements. The fact that you have so friends in Heav make your own departure very When you are going on a voyage everything depends upon where your friends are-—if they v you toward which you are going to sail. In many en will cheerful. are on the vharf that leave or on whar! wm have get LOE more other words, the more friends 3 casier it will be to The ie more bitter; his world Dyes there the m nue of you have s thers, sisters, children, friends that I do not known hardly are going to crowd through. the came from f lands and brought a prince to « 1] wereda in Heaven WwW you vessel ur har th bunt bor, the ships were e« wi ing, and you remembe of-war was no joy there compared with ] whi sll be demonstrated when you sail up the broad bay of The more friends you have your transit. What is death to a mother whose chil dren are in Heaven? Why, is ne more grief in It than there is in her go ing into a nursery amid the romp and laughter of her household. Though all around may be dark, see you not she bright light in the irradiated kindred? Frome my cbservasion, 1 judge that invalids have a more rapturous view of the next world than well people, and will have higher renown in Heaven. The best view of the delectable mountains ov sh J Heavenly salutation there the easier own there the clouds faces of your glorified | is through the lattice of the sick room . | There are trains running every hour them | thre ween n, bet between pillow and me, bet tal and ween IDAnSi« be hospi 8, between cruteh Oh lw ages and r paim an Mm branch ple who are « my head anvhow be Heaven isan old city but ver | ease of sic i RIG N y nen NO roneum ism fs r inhabitants shall ne Ihe Again, you ought to make the best of life's finality. Now, think I have a very tough subject. You do not see I am to strike a spark of light out of the flint of the tombstone. There are many people who have an idea that death is the submergence of everything pleasant by everything doleful. If my subject could close in the upsetting of all such preconceived notions, it would Who can judge best of the features of a man-—those who are close him, those who are afar off? “Oh,” you say, “those can judge best of the features of a man who are close by him!" re shall be no more pair Yon how close well, by or Now, my friends, who shall judge of the features of death -whether they are lovely or whether they are repuls- ive? You?’ Yonare too far off. If 1 want to get a judgment as to what really the features of death are I will not ask you: I will ask those who have been within a month of death, or a week of death, or an hour of death, or a minute of death. They stand so near the future they can tell. They give unanimous testimony, if they are Christian people, that death, instead of being demoniae, is cheruble. Of all the thousands of Christians who have been carried through the gates of the cemetery, gather up their dying ex riences, and you will find they nearly all bordered on jubilate. How often you have seen a dying man join in the psalm being sung sroung his bedside, the middle of the verse opening to let flung | are It want to go | the | EIEN | that light | \ | his ransomed aplirit freo—long after | the lips could not speek, looking and pointing upward. Some of you talk as though God had exhausted himself in building this world, and that all the rich ourtains he ever made he hung around this planet, nnd all the flowers he ever grew he has woven into the carpet of our dai- sied meadows. No. This world is not the best thing God ean do; this world is not the best thing that God has done, One week of the yéar is called blos- | som week—called so all through the | land because there are more blossoms in that week than in sny other week of the year. Blossom week! And that is what the future world is to which | the Christian is invited-—-blossom week | forever. It is as far ahead of this world as Paradise is ahead of Dry Tor- tugas, and yot we stand shivering and | fearing to go out, and we want to stay | on the dry sand, and amid the stormy petrels, when we are invited to arbors of jessamine and birds of paradise. One season I had two springtimes. I went to New Orleans in April, and I | marked the difference between going | toward New Orleans and then coming | | back. As I went down toward New | Orleans, the verdure, the foliage, be- | eame thicker and more beautiful. When I came back, the | toward home the less the foliage, and less and less it became until there was Now, it all depends upon travel, If should come to- | hardly any the direction in which you Heaven £7} world, he | & spirit from | ward our is traveling from June toward December, from radiance toward darkne from gar dens toward icebergs. not be very much surpris | of God sent forth fr our world should be slow t one w mild if a spirit Heaven toward Bat it is that we dread going goin yin the of of m y OQIne how strange { out toward that world when toward June—{r from December snow of Edenie trouble toward the tropics of eternal earthly storm t he sno blossom-from the arctic JOY. Oh, 3 an ado abo We get so attached to the malarial marsh sre afraid to We are what ve that we the h vacation in which we li go up and live on Htop. alarmed because Eternal sunlight, and best programine of celestial minstrels and hallelujah, Let ignorant and weak Liijah, and no inducement. 1s stay and keep Do not Mil- Keep our feet on th instead of planting them on the ban f ama ranth in Heaven island of a leprous world instead « ies of splendc L the sharp cobblestones of ear (+ is this small {the fmmensit r and deli full of nettles, and cur the our in the yoke, and ankles, and “Dear Lord.” we seem to down here where we have ’ burden, and neck 1 handcuffs on our wrists RAY, “keap us » suffer, in- We might stead of letting us up where live and reign and rejoice.” I am amazed 6t myself and at your self for this we rest infatuation under + Men ightened at having to stay 1 instead of getting fright go Heaven. 1 congratulate anybody who to die. By that I mean through you cannot avert, all you woald suppose would get fr in this worl ened at having wo ward right sickness or through i cannot avoid consummated “Where di Lily? id one little chil hh" she replied, the gre ground?” “Oh, ground, accident y your work no, nd but in the warm ground, where ugly seeds become beautiful flowers.” “But,” says someone, “it pains me so much to think that I must the body with which my soul has so long You not it lose your body by lose companioned.’ do lose You no than send mare it to have it repaired, or your when you t jewel send it to set, send {4 have the photograph of a friend you have it put in a new You do not lose your body. will to Rome to get his go to Portland to get his, Pros to it touched when locket. go son will ident Edwards will go to Princeton to his, George Cook Atl go to the vil man will go to the tom of the ant to get his, and we wil the when Ag cemeteries we have ou Ned 3 perf ¢ be the kind of men the ana resurrection morning make possible, So vou see he s not ma any doleful st What hav proved about deat! What you \ is have made ont? You have that de body, free of all aches, united forever with a perfect soul free from | What does it means that | and that out just this ath all have a perfect all sin. Correct your theology. all mean? Why, it moving day is coming, you are going to quit | erninped apartments and be mane sioned forever. The horse that stands at the gate will not be the one lathered and bespattered, carrying bad news, but it will be the horse that St. John saw in Apocalyptic vision-the white horse on which the king comes to the banquet. The ground around the palace will quake with the tires and hoofs of celestial equipage, and those Christians who in this world loss their friends, and lost their property, and lost their health, and lost thelr life, will find out that God was always | kind, and that all things worked to- gether for their good, and that those were the wisest people on earth who made the best of everything. See you not now the bright light in the clouds? 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