Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-03-25
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NO SECT IN HEAVEN
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talking of sects till late one eve,
IF the various doctrines the saints believe,
Tha. night / stood in a troubled dream,
By the side of darkly-tlowing stream.
And "Churchman down to the river came
When heard strange voice call his name,
Good Father stops when You cross this toe,
You must leave your robes on the other side"
6lt the aged father did not mind,
and his long gown foated out behind,'
as down to the stream his way he took,
His pale hands clssping gilt. edged book.
" I'm bound for heaven, and when I'm there,
I shall want my book of Common Prayer;
AnAtbough put on Starry Crown,
[ should feel quite lost withou: my gown
Then he fixed his eyes on the shining track
But his gown was heavy, and held him back,
and the poor old father tried in vain,
a single step. in the food to gain.
! saw him again on the other side,
But his silk gown foated on the tide;
and no one asked in that blissful spot,
Whether he belonged to "the Church or not
Then down to the river Quaker strayed,
Y Is dress of q sober hue was made;
" Ny coat and hat must be all Of grey,
] can not go any other way"
Then he buttoned his coat straight up to his chin,
and stRidly, solemnly waded in,
And his broad-brimmed hat Re pulled down
tight
Over his forehead, so cold and white.
As he entered Heaven, his suit of grey
Went quietly sailing away-awsy-
and none of the angels questioned him
About the bredth of his beavers brim.
Next came DR.. Watts with bundle of Psalms
Tied nicely up in his aged arms,
and Hymns as many very nice thing.
That the people in Heaven, all round might
sing.
In: thought he heaved an anxious sigh
IS he saw that the.river ran broad and high,
Ind looked rather surprised as, one by one,
The Psalms and Hymns in the wave went down.
And after him, with his MSS,
Came Wesley, pattern Of godliness;
buthe cried, Dear me. what shill do?
The water has soaked them through and
through"
And there on the river, far and wide,
Away they went. down the swollen tide,
and the saint astonished, passed through alone,
Without his Manuscripts, Up TO the Throne,
Then gravely walking two saints by name,
Down to the stream together came,
5l: as they stopped by the rivers brink,
saw one saint from the other shrink.
Sprinkled or plunged, may ask Of you,
Friend,
low you attained to LIES grea. end 81
Thus. with few drops On my brow
But L have been dipped, as you'll see me
now
And really think it will hardly do
rs close communion to cross with you
You're bound, l know for the realms of bliss,
But you must go that way, and III go this"
The plunging in with all his might,
away 70 the left, his friend 20 the right.
part they went from this world of sin,
Gut st last together they entered in.
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3 Presbyterian Church went down.
Dfwomen there seemed an innumerable throng,
But the men l could count as they passed
along.
and concerning the road they could never agree,
he old or the aeIr way, which could Il be-
Nor ever moment paused to think,
mat both would lead to the rivers brink.
md a song of murmurng long and loud,
.. me ever up from the moving crowd:
y cure in the old way / m in the new,
no. is the false and this is the true -
y IN in the old way and you re in the new,
-.y-t il the false, and this is the true"
g.,. the, rethrep only seemed to speak,
,odest IN, sisters walked, and mee.,
end Il eyer one Of them CHANGED 70 say,
What troubl, me Iret win on ne way,
low she longs d to pass 10 the other side
Sor fasrad re -, oss DER the swelling tide
! voice arose fro. the brethren then,
8. Let no one snenk but the holy men
Tor have We not hea. Il the words Of Paul,
N ct the women eep silence all
watched them long in my, curious dream,
iii they stood by the b, riders Of the stream;
Then, lust as thought, n e two ways met,
z: ali the brethren were a!king yet,
md would talk on till the eaying tide
Carried q over side by size
side by SIDE, for the way was one
The toilsome journey of life was done,
p nd all who in Christ the Savior died,
Came out alike on the other side.
< poems, or crosses, or books I'Et .ley,
~ o gowns of silk, or suits of grey
so Greeds 10 guide them, or MSS,
-g- al had put on Christs righteousness.
An Obstinate Juror.
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