The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1863-04-09
THE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
No Sect in Heaven.

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No Sect in Heaven.
Talking Of sects till late eve,
Of the various doctrines the saints believe,
That night stood IN a troubled dream,
BY the side Of a darkIy flowing stream.
And a CnurCInIlan-- down - lur river came:
nnen heard a strange voice call his name,
- Good father, stop when you cross this tide,
ToG must leave your robes ON the other side"
But the aged father did not mind
And his long robe fioated out behind
As down to the stream his way he took,
His pale hands elasping gilt edged book
'.I'm bound for heaven and when I'm there
shall want my book o: Common Prayer;
And though put a starry crown.
+ should feel quite lost without my gown.
Then he fixed his eye on the shining track,
But his gown heavy:and held him back,
AMI the poor oil father tried in VAN
4 single step in the food 10 gain
him again the other side,
But his silk gown fioated on the tide
And one asked in that blissfuI spot,
Whether he belonged to " the Church" or not.
Then down t. the river a Quaker strayed,
Ills dress Of a sober hue made;
:. Ny AMI hat must be all Of gray,
/ cannot go any other way"
Then Ee buttonei his coat straight up his chin,
And stabIIy, soIemnIy, waded in,
And his broad -brimmed hat he pulled down tight
Over his ETehead, 50 cold and white
But a strong wind carried away his hat;
moment he silently sighed that,
And then as he gazed TO the farther shore,
The coat slipped or and was seen no more.
As he entered heaven, his sait Of gray
Went quietly saIling-away-away,
And none u the angels questioned him
About the width Of his beavers brim-
Next came DIR. Watts with a bundle OF Psalms
Tied nicely up in his aged arms,
And hymns many, a very wise thing,
That the people in heaven, all round, might sing.
But thought that he heaved anxious Sigh,
As he that the river ran broad and high,
AMI looked rather surprised as by one.
The Psalms and Hymns in the wave went down.
And after him with his MSS,
Came Wesley, the pattern Of gOdIiness,
But he cried, - Dear me, what shall dO'
The water has soaked them through and through"
And there the river, far and wide,
Away they down the swollen tide,
And the saint astonished, passed through alone,
iLhOut his manuscripts, up To the throne
Then, graveIy walking, saints by name
Down to the stream together came,
But a. they stopped at the rivers brink,
s1w saint from the other shrink
. Sprinked pIunged-may L ask you friend,
How you attained life's great end ?"
- Thus, with a few drops my brow,,7
- But have been dipped, you'll
-And 1 really think it will hardly do,
As I'm close communion, 20 cross with you,
You're bound. know, TO the realms Of bliss,
But you must go that way and I'll 80 this
Then straighlway pIunging with all his might,
Away 20 the Ieft-his friend a ths right
A part they from this world Of sin,
But at last together they entered in.
And aow when the river rolling on,
Presbyterian church went down
OF there seemed an innumerable throng,
But the men could they passed along.
And concerning, the road, they could never agree,
The oLd or the Ietg way, which it could lie,
Nor a moment paused to think
That both would lead to the rivers brink.
AMI sOund Of murmuring, long AMI loud,
Came UP from the moving crowd,
:. You're in the old way, and I'm in the new,
That IS the false, and this the true,'-
Or, =. I'm in the old way, and you're in the new,
IrIat is the false, and this is the true.
watched them long in my curious dream,
Till they stood by the borders Of the stream,
Then just thought the two ways met.
But all the brethren talking yet,
AMI wouII talk on, till the heaying tide
Carried them over, side by side
side by side, for the way one,
The toiISople journey of life done,
AMI priest aud Quaker, and all who died,
Came out alike on the other side
No forms. or crosses, or books had they,
No gowns Of silk, or suits of gray,
No creeIs 20 guide them, or MSS,
For all had put Christ's righteousness.