The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-07-01


added together, would not equal the |
census of that grea' metropolis.
Walking along the street, you can, by
the contour of the dress or of the face, |
guess where q man came from. You
say: That is a Frenchman; that is a
Norwegian that is an American" But
the gates that gather in the righteous
will bring them in irrespective of ma
tionality. Foreigners 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 eternal hills. The
Russian will mot long any more for the
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 the sun.
Those who once lived amid the groves
return, now that they stand under
/ the trees of life that bear twelve manner
| of fruit.
While I speak an ever-increasing
throng is passing through the gates.
They are going up from senegambia,
Hong Kong. ..Whatw you say, "do
you introduce all the heather into glory?"
tell you the fact is, that the majority
of the people in those climes die in in
fancy and the infants all go straight
into eternal life, SO the vast majority Of
those who die in China and India, the
vast majority of those who die in Africa,
! go straight into the skies-they die in
infancy. One hundred and sixty gen.
erations have been born since the world
was created, and SO I estimate that
there must be fifteen tn usand million
| oh iv,c TT af cnncnrf fyrrS
raptured within you. o, the transport.
when fifteen thousand million little ones
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, o ye
redeemed! banner lifted, rank after
rank, saved battalion after saved bat
TALON, 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 earths
mountains hear the shrill blast and the
glens echo it. Let missionaries tell 1t
in pagoda and colporteurs sound it across
the Western prairies. Shout it to the
Laplander on his swift sled ; halloo it to
the Bedouin careering across the desert.
News! news! A glorious heaven and
twelve gates to get into it Hear it, 0
you -blooded nations of eternal
winter, on the north three gates. Hear
it, o you bronzed Inhabitants under
equatorial heats on the south three gates.
But I notice when John saw these
gates they were open-wide open. They
will not always be SO. After awhile
heaven will have gathered up all its in
tended population and the children OF
God will have come home. Every
crown taken. Every harp struck. Every
!, throne mounted, All the glories of the
: universe harvested in the great garner.
!, And heaven being made up. OF course the
gates will be shut. Austria in, and the
, first gate shut. Russia in, and the sec
/ on gate shut. Italy in, and the third
; gate shut. Egypt in, AMI the fourth gate
shut. Spain in, and the fifth gate shut.
. France in, and the sixth gate shut
England in, and the seventh late shut
; Norway in, and the eighth gate shut
1 Switzerland in, and the ninth gate shut
Hindostan in, and the tenth gate
shut. Siberia in, and the eleventh gate
. shut. All the gates are closed but one
Now, let America go in with all the isl
: ands of the sea and all the other ma
. tions that have called on God. The
g captives are freed. The harvests al
Il gathered. The nations all saved. Thu
9 flashing splendor of this last pearl be
: gins to move on its hinges. Let TIVE
: mighty angels put their shoulders to tn
S gate and heave it to with silvery clang
g 'Tis done! It thunders. The Twelfth
gate shut!
/ Once more, I want to show you tn
- gate keeper. There is one angel at eac
70 side of these gates. You say that
u right. OF course it is. You know tina
70 no earthly palace, or castle, or fortress
AZ would be safe without sentry pacin
10 up and down by night and by day; an
% if there were no defenses before HEAVIER
and tho doors Cat vida wit n
,, to guard them, all the vicious Of cart
DE- woul go up after awhile, and all til
AZ abandoned of hell would go up aftt
10 awhile; and heaven. nstead of being
=. world of light, and Joy. and peace. AT
Oh blessedness would be a world of darkness
20 and horror. So 1 am glad to tell yo
81 that while these twelve gates stand ope
to let a great multitude in, there a
Ia twelve angels to keep some people GU
" Robespierre cannot go through ther
no nor Hildebrand, nor Nero, nor any
ue the debauched ofearth who have not
IL pented of their wickedness. If one of the
y nefarious men who despised God, shou
3n come to the gate, one of the keepe
10 would put his hand on his shoulder III
no push him into outer darkness. There
NV no place i'll that land for thieve
gu and liars, and whoremongerS, and q
ne frauders, and all those who disgrac
their race and fought against their Go
~ If II miser should get in there he won
:. pull up the golden pavement. Ii a hous
OF breaker should get n there, he wou
es set fire to the mansion If liberti
on should get in there he would whisI
Ut his denominations standing the VIII
"a coral of the sea-beach. Only those w
IN are blood-washed and prayer-lipped W
es' get through. o. my brother, il y
ST, should at last come up to one of t
n! gates and try to get through, and y
, rs had not pass written by the crush
III hand OF the Son of God, the ga
De keeper would with one glance wither y
III, forever,
he There will he a password at the o,
icy of heaven. Do YOU know what Il
no password is? 1 see throng approa
es; the gate and one seems to be spok
no man for all the rest, although tn
ST, g. ,yoiooc avar and anon cry A. m.