The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-07
INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY SEPTEMBER !,

great day will give significant reverberation
Old and WORKOUT and exhausted Time having
marched across decades, and centuries, and
ages, will halt, and the sun ard moon and the
stars will halt with it. The trumpet, the trum-
petl
THE SOUNDING OF THE TRUMPET.
Peal the first Under it's power the sea will
stretch itself out dead the white foam on the lip,
in its crystal sarcophagus; and the mountains
will stagger, and reel, and tumble and fall into
the valleys never to rise Under one puff of
that last cyclone all the candles of the sky will
be blown out The trumpet, the trumpet!
Peal the second: The alabaster halls of the
air will BIO filled with those who will throng up
from all the cemeteries of all the ages-from
Greyfriars churchyard, and the Roman cata-
comb, from Westminster Abbey, and from the
coral crypts of oceanic cave; and some will rend
on the bandage of Egyptian mummy, and others
will remove from their brow the garland of
green sea weed From the north, and the
south, and the east and the west they come.
The dead! The trumpet the trumpet
Peal the third: Amid surging clouds and the
roar of attendant armies Of heaven the Lord
comes through, and there are lightnings, ard
thunderbolts, and an earthquake, and halle
lulah, and a wailing. The trumpet, the trumpet!
Peal the fourth: All the records of human
life will be revealed. The leaf containing the
pardonee sin, the leaf containing the unpardoned
sin. Some clappng hands with Joy, some
grinding their teeth with rage, and all the for
gotten past becomes vivid present. The trum-
pet, the trumpet
Peal the last: the audience breaks up. The
great trial is ended The high court of heaven
adJourns. The audience HE themselves to their
two termiui. They rise, they risel They sink,
they sink! Then the blue tent of hesky will be
lifted. and folded up, and put away. Then the
auditorium of atmospheric galleries will be
melted. Then the folded wings of attendant
angels will be spread for upward flight. The
fiery throne of judgment will become dim and
vanishing cloud. The condagration of divine
and angelic magnifcence will roll back and off
The day for which all other days are made has
closed, and the world has burned down. and the
last clnder has gone out, and an angel flying on
errand from world to world will poise long enough
over the dead earth to chant the funeral litany
as he cries, Ashes to ashes"
That judgment leaf in your heart seize hold
of this moment for cancellation In your city
halls the great book Of mortgages has a large
margin, so that when the mortgageor has paid
the full amount to the mortgage, the officer of
the law comes and he puts on that margin the
payment and the cancellation and though that
mortgage demanded vast thousands before, now
it is null and void. So have to tell you that
that leaf in my heart and in your heart, that
leaf of judgment has wide margin
for cancellation. There is only one hand in all
the universe that can touch that margin That
hand this moment is lifted to make the record
hand, for it is wounded hand, the nerves were
cut and the muscles were lacerated. Thatrecord
on that leaf was made in the black ink of con-
demnation; but if cancellation takes place, it
will be made in the red ink of sacrifice. 0 judg
ment-bound brother and sister! let Christ this
moment bring to that record complete and glo
rious cancellation. This moment, in an outburst
of impassioned prayer, ask for it. You think it
is the tuttering of your heart. Oh, mol 1T Is
the f1uttering of that leaf, that Judgment leaf.
| a. pOtf O 10 iyoy, soft
last will and testament, but ask for something
OF more Importance than that. | ask you not to
take from your private papers that letter so
sacred that you have put itaway from all human
eyesight, but l ask you for something of more
meaning than that That leaf, that judgment
leaf in nv heart, that jud gment leaf in your
heart which will decide our condition after this
world shall have five thousand million years
been swept out the heavens, an extinct planet,
and time itself will be so long past that on the
ocean of eternity it will seem only as now seems
ripple on the Atlantic.
When the goats in vile herd start for the bar
rem mountains of death, and the sheep, in fleece
of snowy wilderness and bleating with Joy, move
up the terraced hills to join the lambs already
playing in the high pastures of celestial altitude,
oh may you and be close to the Shepherds
crook. when the Son of Man shall come in
His glory, and all the holy angels with Him,
then shall He sit upon the throne of His glory;
and before him shall be gathered all nations and
He shall separate them one from another, as a
shepherd divideth the sheep from the goats. Oh,
that leaf, that one leaf in my heart that
leaf in your heart That leaf of judgment. Oh,
those two tremendous words at the last Gomez
''Go!" AS though the overhangng heavens were
the cup of great bell, and the stars weld
ed into a silvery tongue and swung from side to
side until it struck, "Come!" AS though all the
great guns of eternal disaster were discharged at
once, and they doomed forth in one resounding
cannonade of 'Go' Arithmetical sum in simple
division: Eternity the dividend the figure two
the divisor, your unalterable destiny the quo
rient