St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-14
but there is flash, and the opening of a

but there is a flash, and the opening of a
celestial door and shout: Lift up your
heads. We everlasting gates. and let her come
1n;'' and Christ will step forth and say:
Come in; We suffered with Me on earth, be
glorified with Me in heaven" What is the
highest throne in heaven? The throne of
the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb. No
doubt about it. What is the next highest
throne in heaven? While | speak it seems
to me that it will be the throne of the
drunkard's wife, if she with cheerful
patience endure all her earthly torture.
Heroes and heroines! find also in this roll
the heroes of Christian charity. We all adj
mire the George Peabodys and the James
LenoXes of the earth, who gave tens and
hundreds and
THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS
to good objects. But l am speaking this
morning of those who out of their pinched
poverty help others-Of such men as those
Christian missionaries at the West who are
living on $3.50 year that they may pro-
claim Christ to the people. One of them
writing to the secretary in New FORK says:
Il thank you for that S25. Until yester-
day we have had no meat in our house for
three months. We have suffered terribly.
My children have no shoes this winter" l
am speaking of those people who have only
half loaf of bread. but give piece of it to
others who are hungry; OF those who have
only a scuttle of coal but help others to fuel;
and of those who have only dollar in their
pocket and give 25 cents to somebody else;
and of that father who wears a shabby coat,
and of that mother who wears a faded dress
that their children may be well appareled.
| Y ou call them paupers, or ragamufflnS, Or
| immigrants. l call them heroes and hero
ines. Y on and l may not know where they
| live OF what their name is; God knows, and
they have more angels hovering over them
than you and l have, and they will have a
higher seat in heaven. They may have had
only cup of cold water to give poor
| traveller. or may have only picked a splinter
| from under the nail of child's finger, or
put only two mites into the treasury, but
the Lord knows them. Considering what
they had they did more than we have ever
done, and their faded dress will
BECOME A WHITE ROBE,
and the small room will be an eternal man.
sion, and the old hat will be coronet of
victory. and all the applause of earth, and
all the shouting of heaven will be drowned
out when God rises up to give His reward
to those humble workers in His kingdom,
|
faithful servantS!'
Heroes of earth. but paupers in eternity!
[ beat the drums of their eternal despair.
Woe! Woe! Woe! But there is great
excitement in heaven. Why those long
professions? Why the booming of that
great bell in the tower? 1t is coronation
day in heaven. Who are those rising on
the thrones with crowns of eternal royalty?
They must have been great people on earth,
world renowned people. No, they taught
IN a ragged school. Taught in ragged
school? Taught in a ragged school! Is
that all? That is all. Who are those souls
waving sceptres of eternal dominion? Why,
they were little children who waited on in
valid mothers. That all? That's all. She
was called Little Mary" on earth; she is
an empress now. Who are that great null
titude on the highest thrones Of heaven?
Who are they? Why. they fed the hungry,
they clothed the naked. they healed the
sick, they comforted the heart-broken.
They never found any rest until they put
/ their head down ON the sepulchre. GOO
watched them. God laughed defiance al
the enemies who put their heels hard down
on these, His dear children; and one day
the Lord struck his hand so hard on His
| thigh that the omnipotent sword ratified in
the scabbard as He sQid: 81 am their God.
| and no weapon formed against them shall
prosper" What harm can the world dc
you when the Lord Almighty, with un-
sheathed sword, fights for you?