The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-04

Oh tu9 6ArbU u man COMES ups II HA&
heart IS right there Is q gate open before h4r1:
On the north, three gates That means mercy
for Lapland. and Siberia, and Norway, and Swe-
den On the south, three gates. That means
pardon for Hindostan, and AIgiers, and Ethiopia.
On the east, three gates. That means saliva
ton for China, and Japan, and Borneo On the
west. three gates. That means redemption for
America 1t does not make any difference how
dark-skinned or how palefaeed men may be-
they will find gate right before them. Those
plucked bananas under tropical sun. Those
shot across Russian SHOWS behind
reindeer. From Mexican plateau, and
from Roman campagna, from Chinese
tea-held. from Holland dixie. from Scotch high
lands, they come, they come. Heaven is not a
monopoly for q few precious souls. tits not
Windsor Castle for royal families. 1t is rot
small town with small population, but John saw
1t, and he noticed that an angel was measuringih
and he measured it this way. and then he meas
ured it that. and whichever way he measured it
it was ], 800 miles; so that Babylon, and Thebee.
and Tyre, and Nineveh, and st. Petersburg aud
Canton, and Pekin, and Paris and London, and
New York. and all the dead cities of the past
and all the living cities of the present added To-
gether, would not equal the census of that great
metropolis.
Walking along the street you can by the coz
tour of the dress or of the face guess where .
man came from. You say: THAT is French
man; that is Norwegian; that is an American
But the gates that gather III the righteous will
bring them IN irrespective of nationality. For
eigners sometimes get homesick. Some of the
tenderest and most pathetic stories have been
told of those who left their native cline and
longed for it until they died. But the Swiss,
coming to the high residence of heaven. will not
long any more for the Alps standing in the eter~
nal hills. The Russian will not long any moro
for the luxuriant harvest-felds he left, now that
he hears the hum and the rustic of the harvests
Of everlasting light. The royal ones from earth
will not long to go back again to the earthly
court, now that they stand in the palaces Of tbs
u - - -
spice and oranges will not long to return, now
that they stand under the trees of life that bear
twelve manner of fruit
While / speak an ever increasing throng 10
passing through the gates They going up
from Senegambia from Patagonia, from Mad
ras, from Hong Kong.
'Whatw you say. 'do you introduce al the
heather into gloryW
| tell You the fact is, that the majority Of tie
people in those chimes die in infancy and the ir-
fants all go straight into eternal life and so tue
vast majority of those who die in China and In
dia, the vast majority of those who die in Africa
60 straight into the skes-they Gle in infancy.
One hundred and sixty generations have been
born since the world was created and so esE-
mate that there must be 10, 900, 000 900 childrur
in glory. If at concert 2 900 children sing,
your soul is raptured within yon. O the trans
port, when $4,000, 600, 600 little stand up in
white before the throne of God, their chanting
drawing out all the stupendous harmonies of
Dusseldorf, and Leipsic, and Boston! Pour IN
through the twelve gates, ye redeemed. ban
lifted. rank after rank, saved battalion after
saved battalion, until all the city of God shall
hear the tramp tramp. Crowd all the twelve
gates. Room yet. Room on the thrones Room
in the mansions Room on the river bank Let
the trumpet of invitation be sounded until all
earth's mountains hear the shrill blast and tha
glens echo it. Let missionaries tell it in pagoda
and colporteurs sound it across the western
prairies Shout it to the Laplander, on his swift
sled; halloo it to the Bedouin careerng across
the desert News! news! A glorious heaveu
and twelve gates to get into it! Hear it. o ven
thin blooded nations of eternal winter! on the
north three gates. Hear it, O you bronzed In-
hahitants painting under equatorial heats! on the
south three gates.
But | notice when John saw these gates they
were open--wide open. They will not always be
So After while heaven will have gathered up
all its intended population, and the children az
God will have come home. Every crown taken
Every harp struck Every throne mounted All
the gories of the universe harvested in the CREST
garner. And heaven being made up, of course
the gates will be shut. Austria in and the first
gate shut. Russia, in and the second gate shut
Italy in and the third gate shut. Egypt Ia.
and the fourth gate shut Spain in, and the
fifth gate shut France in, and the sixth gate
shut England in and the seventh gate shut
Norway in, aud the eighth gate shut. Switzef-
land in, and the ninth gate shut. Hndostan ia.
and the tenth cate shut Siberia in, and TIE
eleventh gate slut All the gates are closed hnf
islands of the sea and all the other nations that
have called on God. The captves all freed
The harvests all gathered The nations AT
saved. The flashing splendor of this last pearl
begins to move its hinges. Let two mighty
angels put their shoulders to the gate and heave
it to with sllvery clang IT'S donel 1t thundersl
The twelfth gate shut!
Once more, | want to show you the gate
keeper. There is one angel at each one of thesa
gates You say that is right OF course it IL
You know that no earthly palace or CASTLE or
fortress would be safe without sentry pacina
up and down by night and by day; and if the.a
were defenses before heaven, and the doors
set wide open, with no one to guard them, all the
vicious of earth would go up after a while, and
all the abandoned of hell would go I'D aftera
while; and heaven, instead of being world of
light. and joy, and peace and blessedness.
would be a world of darkness and horror SCI
am glad to tell you that while these twelve gates
stand open to let great multitude in there are
twelve angels to keep some people out. Robes
pierre cannot go through there nor Hilderbrand,
nor Nero, nor any OF the debauched Of earth
VINO have not repented of their wickedness Is
one of these nefarious men who despised God
should come to the gate, of the keepers
would put his hand his shoulder and push
him into outer darkness. There is 70 place in
that land for thieves, and liars, and whore-
mongers and defrauders and all those who
disgraced their and fought against their
God If a miser should get in there, he would
pull up the golden pavement 1t house breaker
snOulu get III Cnere no WOuI9 SGT llre 10 the m&u-
sion If hbertine should get in there, hs
would whisper his denominations standing on the
white coral of the sea beach. Only those who
are blood-washed and prayer-lipped will get
through. o my brother, if you should at last
come up TO one Of the gates and try to get
through. and you had not pass written by tha
crushed hand Of the Son of God, the gatekeep0r
would with one glance wither you forever.
There will be password at the gate of heayen-
Do you know what that password isl Here comes
the crowd Of souls up to the gate and they say:
'sLet me in. Let me in. was very useful on
earth / endowed colleges. built churches aud
was famous for my charities; and having done
so many wonderful things for the world, now
come up to get my reward"
A voice from within says Il never know
YOU