The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-11-12

viii only ohaso us the snnuot Into The
harbOT. ! sm ~ alai 10 believe that
the mOnfOlns hud iyphnnna snu nils
rails nnd sirOafuH ~ lnnd ana HnA are |
not uuchained nnniaos lot loose upon |
the earth, hat under divine snpnTylf- |
iOni ! sm 30 Glad that tue God 81 the
seven SARA ~ also tso God ~ orion
10 was out Of nantn's suffering came
tbe sublime DIVINE cnninenlH, ana oes
OF John Millions hliudnuHs came FsIA.
disc Loaf, aud out ~ miserable inndel
attack came .he BddgaNalnr Treatise
Ia favor OF ChrlE.ianity, ana out OF
DAyid's exile calnB the song. 81 sonno.
istlon, and out OF tho sunsrings or
Christ camo the possibility az the
worlds rudeml ton, and CUT 81 Nuuf
bereavement, yOur persecution, your
pOyartioF, your misiOrtuDtHi msy YET
come an ottFnrl hSAy0n.
o! Wha, = mercy II 10 that ia tho text
anu all up bud down tbs Bible God In
duced us 10 LOOK out toward othef
worlds. I, hle astronomy Ia Genesis,
la Joshua, IN Job, IN The Psalmsi VA
the prophets, major and minor, Ia ~
Johns apocalypse, practleeliy ssy'
ing; "WarldAl worldsI worlds! Get
Ito world here that We stick 20 "a
though losing thEt 40 lose all. We srb
afraid Of falling a this little rait or .
world. We arc afraid that some mo-
teerlc ic0uoclast will some night
SMASH IL, and wo want everything 10
Iovolvo around ~, and are disap
pointed whsn wa aud that II TsvolVes
nrouud the san instead OF the aun re-
vulving around II. What faSs we
make about
THIS LITrLH hit OF A wOrLp,
It's existence only Ehort time be-
tween two spGsms, tho pAroxysm ny
which it was huIled frots chaos into
order and tina prroXysm Gifts domoli
ton! Aud i Am glad that 80 many
texts call us 10 look on 10 other worlds,
MANY OF them larger ana costlier ana
more resplendeUt. "L1ok thsre,
1ssys Job, "aI Mssznoth and Arctu.
rus and his tons" "Look thore,"
says ST. JOIN, at the mool under
Christ's feetp 'Look there" says
Joshua, cat the nun btsndipg still
above Gideon! "Look there" asyg
Nosos, sat the sparkling tirmamenI!
"Look there" says Amos OF Tho herds
man, sat the Bsvon stars snd oriop!"
Don't lot us be 30 sad about thoao WHO
shove OF from this world under
Christiy pilotsge. Dost let US DC 80
asitated about our own going on this
world TO get on some Great Eastern Of
the heavens. DOn's 10. us psrsist In
wanting To stay in this barn, this rhed,
this out house OF q world when all She
sins's palaces already occupied by
many OF our nest friends, are awning
ing wide open tseir gatss To let ua IN.
When L read, "Iu my Fathsr's houss
are M any mansions" 1 do not know
but that eneh world Ia
q room and NJ many rooms rs there Hro
worlds, stellar stairx, stellar galleries,
stellar hsilwnys, stellar Window, stsl-
lar domes. How our Departed frisnda
Nust pity us shut up In these eramped
apartments, tired II we walk fifteen
miles, when they some morning by
one stroke OF tho wiag can mako = cir
cult of tho whole stcllhr system ans
be- back III time for instins! Perhaps
wonder twjnkiiDg constellation IL the
residence OF The martyra; that group
OF twelve luminaries il tho celestial
home'ot the apostles. Perhaps that
steep of light is the dwelling place OF
angels chcrubic, seraphic, archsnsSlic.
A mansion with
AS MANY ROOMS AS A WORLD
and all their windows illuminated for
festivity. 0, how tails widens and lifts
ana stimulates our expectation! How
little 1t makes the present and how
stupendous it makes the futurel How
IL consoles as about our piouo dead
that instead OF bsipg boxed up and
under the ground they have tho range
of as many rooms a. there arc worldl,
and welcome everywhere, for IL il tho
Faith prs house In which there are many
mansions! o, Lord God Of the Seven
Stars and Orion, how can 1 endure the
transport, tho ecstasy OF such 9 vision
L must oboy my text and sssk Him. 1
will sesk Him. I seek Him now, for l
call to mind that 1t il not tho mstsrisl
universe that is most valuable, but the
spiritual, and that zach OF lib ha1 q
soul wsrth mora than all tho woTldn
which the insplrei hsrj3aaa cav
from his booth on tina hiIls Of Tskoa.
I had Xtydied it before, but the o1lhe-
drAl Of Cologne, Germany, never ina
crossed mo Is 1t did thi9 summer. 1t
is admittedly the grandest Gothic
atructure in tho world, its founta-
ton laid in 1913, only two
or three yesra ego completes. More
than 600 yetrs in building. ALI Europe
taxed for iis construction. Its chapel
of the Mag with precious stones
enough to purchase q Kingdom. Its
chapel OF ST. agnes with masterpieces
Of painting. les spire spIiDglng oil feet
into the heavens, Ito stained glass the
chorus OF all rich cOlors. Statue eucir-
cling the pillars and enclrcling all.
STATUS ABOVE sTATUms
until sculpture can do no more, but
faints and falls back against carved
stalls and down on Pavemcnts over
which tho kings and queeng OF the
earth have walked 10 confession.
Nave and aiEles and trannept aud por-
.als SombininG tho splondorz OF ern-
i,,fa folGad mr.
columned grandeur. AZ stood out
eide locking at tho double range OF
Il sing buttrssssa and tho forest OF pin
nacles, higher and higher and higher,
until ri noss reeled from dizziness, !
axclairncd: "Grest doxoiogy in atone!
Frozen prayer Of many nations" But
while standing there J. saw poor
MAN enter and put down his pack and
knesl beside his burden on the hard
floor OF that cathedral. And tears Of
deep emotion came into my eyes as l
said to myself: "There 10 @ soul worth
more than ell the material surround
ings. That man will live after the last
pinnacle has fallen, and not one stone
of all that cathedral glory shall remain
unerunblsa. He Ia now q lazarus in
rags and poverty and wssriness, but
immortal and a son Of tho Lord God
Almighty; and the prayer he now Of
fers, though amid many nuperstitiona,
I believe God will hear, and among tho
Apostles whose Hculptured forms stand
in tho surrounding inches, no will ct
last be ittod, and into tho ereSence of
that Christ whose sgfferingn are repre-
ssntsd by the crucitix before which ha
bows; aao be raised in due time out OF
all hisipoverties iaso the glorious homo
built for him anu built ior US by 'Hin
who msketA tho Seven Stars and
Orion.'"
Capturing the Beoners.