Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-07-10

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nal hills. The Russian vii
not long any more for the luxurian
harvest fields he left. now that he hear,
the hum and the rustic of the harvest.
of everlasting light. The royal one,
from earth will not long TO go bacl
again to to the earthly court, now tina
they stand in the palaces OF the sun
Those who once lived amid the groves
OF spice and oranges will not long tc
return, now that they stand under tn,
TREES OF LIFE
thai bear twelve manner Of fruit.
While | speak an ever increasing
throng is passing through the gates,
they are going up from Senegambia,
from Patagonia, from Madras, from
Hong kong. WHAT you say, lido
you introduce all the heather into Clio.
ryP' | tell you the fact is, that the
majority of the people in those cliiues
die in infancy and the infants all 90
straight into eternal life. and 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 hum
drcd and sixty generations have been
born since the world was created. and
SO | estimate that there must be fifteen
thousand million children in glory. If
ut n concert two thousand children
sing. your soul is 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 stipend
GUS harmoDies of Dusseldorf and Leip-
sic and Boston! Pour in through the
twelve gates. o We redeemed! banner
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 the glens echo it. Let mis-
sionaries tell it in pagoda and colpor.
teuTs sound it across the western
prairies. Shout it to the Laplander on
his swift sled; haloo it to the 'Bedouin
%careering across the desert. News,
news! A glorious heaven and twelve
gates to get into it! Hear it., O, you
thin blooded nations of eternal winter
on the north three gates. Hear it, 9
you bronzed inhabitants painting un.
der equatorial heats. on the south three
gates.
There will be a password ut the gate
of heaven. Do YOU know what thai
password tsp Here comes IA crowd OF
souls up to the gate and they say: Let
me in. Let me in. | was very useful
on earth. | endowed colleges. bull,
churches and was famous for my chart.
ties; and having done so many wonder
full things for the world, now come
up to get my reward A voice from
within says: Il never knew you.''
Another great crowd comes up AMI
they try to get through. They say:
1--WE were highly honorable on earth
and the earth bowed very lowly before
us. We were honored on earth and
now we come to get our honors in
heaven and a voice from within saws:
81 never knew you" Another crowd
ady and says: 1--WE were very
moral people or earth, very moral in
deed, and we come up to get appro-
pirate recognition" A voice answers:
Il never knew YOU
After a while | see another throng
approach the gate and one seems to be
spokesman for all the rest, although
their voices ever and amor crr:'Amen.
Amen!' This one stands at the gate
and says: ''Let me in. | was Il wan
derer from God. | deserve to. die. |
have come up to this place not because
| deserve it but because | have heard
that there is a saving power in the
blood of Jesus" The gate-kecper says:
That is the password, Jesus. Jesus! v
and they pass in and they surround the
throne, and the cryis: Worthy is the
Lamb that was slain to receive power,
and riches, and wisdom, and strength,
and honor and glory. and blessing"
o, When heaven is all done and the
troops of God shout, 1.-THE castle taken"
how grand it will be if YOU and | are
among them! Blessed are all they who
enter in through the gates into the city.