The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-09

der Christs feet" "Look there says Joshua,
at the sun standing still above Gibeon"
Look there" says Moses, tat the sparkling
armament" Look there" says Amos tho
herds s~en. cat the Seven Stars and Orion
Don piet us be so sad about those who shove off
from this world under Chrsty pilotage. Don't
let us be scagitated about our own going off
this little barge, or soop. or canal boat of q
world to get some Great Eastern of the
heavens. Don't let US persist in wanting to
stay in this barn, this She'd this clubhouse of a
world when all the Kings palaces already occu-
pied by many of our best friends. are swinging
wide open their gates TO Jet US In. when read,
''In my fathers house are many mansions.
/ do not know but that each world IS
a room, and as many rooms as there are worlds,
stellar stairs, stellar galleries, stellar Railways,
stellar windows, stellar domes. How our de-
parted friends must pity us shut up In these
cramped apartments, tired IL we Walk fifteen
miles, when they some morning by one stroke or
wing make circuit of the whole stellar
system and be back In time for mathis. Fer
haps yonder twinkling constellation is the resi-
dence of the martyrs. that group of twelve
luminaries is the celestial home Of the apostles
Perhaps that steep of light is the dwelling place
of angels cherubic, seraphic, archangelic. A
mansion with as many rooms as worlds, and all
their windows Illuminated for festivity. ., how
this widens and lifts, and stimulates our ex-
pectation! How little it makes the present, and
how stupendous it makes the future! How 1t
COuSOloS US dUOut our plOQS Qedu, luab lHStSdO
of being boxed up and under the ground they
have the range of as many rooms as there are
worlds, and welcome everywhere. for it is the
Fathers house, in which there are many
mansions! 0, Lord God of the Seven Stars and
Orion, how can | endure the transport, the
ecstasy of such a vision! must obey my text
and seek Him. l will seek Him. / seek Him
now for call TO mind that it is not the material
universe that is most valuable, but the spiritual,
and that each of us has soul worth more than
from his booth on the hills of Tekoa l had
studied it before, but the Cathedral of Cologne,
Germany, never impressed me as it did this
summer. 1t is admittedly the grand
est Gothic structure in the world;
its foundations laid. in 1248; only two
or three years ago completed More than six
hundred years in building All Europe taxed
for its construction. Its chapel of the Magi,
with precious stones enough to purchase king
dom Its chapel of ST Agnes with masterpieces
heavens Its stained glass the chorus of all rich
colors. Statue encircling the pillars and encir-
cling ALL Statues above statues until sculpture
can do no more but faints and falls back against
the KINGS and queens Of the earth have walked
to confession Nave. and asles, and transept,
and portals com bning the splendors of sunrise.
1nter-laced, inter-foiated inter-columned grand
eur. AS | stood outside looking at the double
range of flying buttresses and the forest of pin
nacles, higher, ard higher, and higher, until 1
almost reeled from dizziness, l exclaimed:
Great doxology In stone! Frozen prayer of
many natons!" But while standing there I saw
a poor man enter and put down his pack and
kneel beside his burden on the hard door of that
cathedral. And tears of deep emotion came
into my eyes as | said to myself: There is a
soul worth more than all the material surround
ings That man will live after the last pinnacle
has fallen and pot one stone of all that cathe-
dral glory shall remain uncrumbled. He is now
a Lazarus in and nOvartV and wAariCeSS
but immortal. and a son of the Lord God AL
mighty; and the prayer he now offers, though
amid many superstitions, believe God will hear,
and among the apostles whose sculptured forms
stand in the surrounding inches he will at last
be lifted, and into the presence of that Christ
whose sufferings are represented by the crucifx
before which he bows. and be raised in due time
out of all his poverties into the glorious home
built for Him and built for us by Him who
maketh the Seven Stars and Oron.'n