The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1874-11-21
IDAHO WORLD.
No SECT IN HEAVEN.

NO SECT IN HEAVEN.
T.,rine 81 eec4s tin late one eve.
~ "a ysrfous doctrines the Saints believe,
INT Mont stood in q troubled dream.
Rv the side of . d2rkly flowing stream.
And .sChurchman'' down to the river came
when heard strange voice call his name:
ssf3ood father stop! when you cross THIS uoe'
Won must laaye your robes on the other 0de.
I3ut the aged father did not mind:
And his long gown foated out behind.
And dovn the stream his way he took.
His pale hands clasping gilt-edged book
"I.m bound for Heaven and when I'm there
ahall want my book OF common prayer
And though put on starry crown.
I shall feel quite lost without my gown
Then fixed his eye on the shining guide.
But his silk gown foated down the tide;
And the poor old father tried in vain
single step in the flood to gain.
I saw him again on the other side.
But his silk gown hoated down the tide;
And no one asked in that blisstul spot,
Whether he belonged to ''the Church" or not.
Then down to the river Quaker strayed;
His dress of sober hue WAS made:
INV coat and hat must all be gray.
l cannot goany other way.
Then he buttoned his cost straight up to his chin.
And steadily. solemnly. waded IN.
And his broad brimmed hat he pulled down uens
Over his forehead SO cold and white.
fsut q strong Wind carried away his hat;
a moment he silently sighed over that:
And then as he gazed at the farther shore.
His coat slipped Oh and vas seen more
As he entered heaven his suit Of gray
Went quietly sailing away-away;
And none of the anel questioned him
About the width Of his beavers brim.
Next came DR.. Watts with bundle Of psalms
Tied nicely up in his aged arms.
And hymns rs many, . very nice thing,
That the people in heaven ''Au round might sing.
But saw that he heaved an anxious sigh.
As he saw that the river ran broad and high,
And looked rather surprised as. one by one.
The psalms and hymns in the wave went down.
After him, with hts MSS,
Came Wesley the pattern OF godliness.
But he cried, "Dear me, what shall 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 eravely walking. two saints by name.
Down to the stream together came;
But as they stopped at the rivers brink
saw one saint from the other shrink.
ssSprinkled or plunge? may ask you my friend.
How you attained to hfe's great eadg
Thus with few drops on my brow
'But I've been dipped. as you'll see me now;
..And really think it viii hardly do.
As I'm close communion TO cross with you:
You're bound, / know, to the realms OF bliss,
But you must go that way and III go this
Then straightway plunged with all his might
Away 10 the left-his friend to he rignt:
Apart they went from this world OF sin,
But q. lasi together they entered in.
And now when the river rolling on,
Presbyterian Church went down;
OF women there seemed an innumerable throng
But the men could count as the passed along
And concerning the road they ne'er could agree.
The old or the new way, which could il be.
Nor eyer for moment pausing 70 think
That both would lead TO the rivers brink.
And sound at murmuring. long and loud.
Came ever up from the moving crowd.
You're in the old way. and I'm in the new.
That is the false, and this is the true
Or, "I'm in the old way. and you re IN the new,
That 10 the false, and this is the true"
But the brethren only seemed to speak
Modest tie sisters walked and meek.
And il ever one Of them chanced to say
What troubles she met with on the way,
How she longed 10 pass on the other side.
Nor feared to cross over the swelling tide
A voice arose from the brethren then,
"Let no one speak but the holy menu
For have ye not heard the words Of Paul.
0, let the women keep silence all!''
I watched them long in my curious dream.
Till they stood by the borders Of the stream;
Then, tust 90 thought. the two ways met
But all the brethren were talking yet,
And would talk on, till the heaying tide
Carried them over side by side;
Side by side for the way was one;
The toilsome journey Of life was done.
And priest and Quaker, all who died,
Came out alike on the other side:
No forms, or crosses, or books, had they;
No gowns Of silk. no gowns of gray:
No creeds to guide them, or MSS,
For Ill had put on Christ's righteousness.