Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-06-28

TWELVE MANNER or FRUIT.
N While speak an eyer-increaslng thronq
Is passing through the gates. They are
going up from Senegambia, from Patapo.
MIA, from Madras, from Hong Kopg.
what" you say, edo you introduce ali
the heather into glory2n I tell Won
the fact Is, that the majority of
the people in those climes die I'm
Infancy and the infants all 20 straight
into eternal life, and 80 the vast majority
OF those who die in China and India tho
vast majority Of those who die IN Africa.
go straight into the skies-they die in In.
fancy. One hundred and sixty genera.
tons have been born since the world was
created, and so / estimate that there
must be fifteen thousand million children
In glory. III at a concert two thousand
children sing, your soul is raptured
within you. O, the transport, when Of.
teen thousand million little ones stand
up in white before the throne Of God,
their chanting drawing out all the stu.
pendous harmonies OF Dusseldorf and
Leipsic and Bostonl Pour in through
the twelve gates, Dye redeemed banner
llited, 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 trnmnnt /
OF invitation be sounded until ali
earth's mountains hear the shrlIl hlset
and the glens echo it. Let missionaries
tell 1t In pagoda ana colporteurs sound II
across e Western prairles. shout Il 10 |
the laplandor on his swift sled; hello
u 10 the Bedouin c0rpefoa across Tho
desert News news A glorious heaven
and twelve gates to get into ia Hear IL.
o you tAln.blooded nations Of eternal win. !
ter, ON The north three gates. Hear il. o !
you bronzed Inhabitants painting under /
equatorial hea, on the south three |
gates,
But | notice when John ss.S these
gales they were open--wide open. They
VIII not always be 30. After awhile |
heaven will have gathered up all the in
tended popnlat on, and the children of
God will have come home. Every crown
taken. Every harp struck. Every throne
All the glorios OF the universe
harvested In the great garner. Ana
heaven being made up, OF course the
gates will be shut, Austria In, and the
nrst gate shut, Russia in, and the sec
ond gate shut. Italy in, and the third
gate shut. Egypt In, and the fourth gate
smut Spain In, and the lfth gate shut
France In, and the sixth gate shut. En-
gland In, and the seventh gate shut. Nor
way In aud the eighth gate.shut Switzer.
and In, and the Rinth gate shut. Htndos-
AN IN, and the tenth gate shut. Siberia
m, ana the eleventh gate shut All the
gates are closed but one. Now, lei
70 10 with all the islands Of the
yea ana OIL the other nations that have
allied on God The oaptiyes all freed
me haryests all gathered. The nations
VI saved, The flashing splcndor OF this
asst pearl begins 70 move on its hinges
let TWO mighty angels put their shout.
iers TO the gate and heaye ii to vita All.
'ery clangs IT'S donel II thunders,
TiIE TWELFTH GATE sHlrl
once more, | want 10 show YOU the
gate. keeper There Is one angel al each
me OF these gates. You say that n
light. OF course 1t Is. You know that
10 earthly palace, or castle, or fortress
would be safe without sentry pacing up
,nd down by night and by day; and II 4
here were no deienses before heaven.
nd the doors set wide open with no one ,
o guard them, all the vicious OF earth
lonid 20 up after while, and ali the !
oandoned oi he'll would 20 up after /
fhllei and heaven, Instead Of being a ,
.orld OF light, and Joy, and peace, and {
NHsednessi would be a world OF dark /
ess aud horror. SO / am glad ~ ten /
GU that while these gates stand omen ~ 1
u great multitude In, there are t,veive
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