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Show Philip S. Thacher The Present Heaven 12 "AWAY go 1902 January to WITH THIS TALK about heaven, but heaven 'going comes to to heaven.' We do not us." In these words Rev. argument for Lake Theatre Philip S. Thacher summed up his "Present Heaven" in his sermon at the Salt a yesterday morning. He denounced the people who think it necessary to wear solemn and gloomy faces Sunday, and insisted that smiles and cheerfulness were much in place sympathy, he said, church anywhere else. on as and Help brought heaven to earth and made life cheerful and worth living. "The world we live in is beautiful and throbs with happy life," said Mr. Thacher in part. "The ugly things are only the unfinished things, like statues half hewn. Pain is a sign to warn us from danger. Unhappiness is only the discord we make in learning to play creation's music. Yes, heaven is right here, where the children are laughing and romping, at were as the conditions that and where young mothers teach them the talk about but heaven solemn smile very the way unhappy, to arrest heaven.' to Away We do not go to with heaven, Yet how many wear gloomy and on Sundays, and think they must not as to church, but walk bolt upright and look if God were an them, if he caught no pray. comes to us. faces, especially on There is 'going to almighty policeman ready them in the possession of a smile. greater libel than that conventional religion which represents the way downward as a flowery way. 'The 205 |
