Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-06-28


between those two posts or stay out" VI
perhaps an Kpiscopaian may say: Here IS
liturgy ont of which mean to make gate.
60 through u or stay out" or Baptist may
slt Here Is n water gate. You 20 throu2h
that or you must stay out" And so In all
our churches and IN our denominations Jnefe
are men VINO make one gaze for themselves
and then demand that the whole world go
through it. ! abhor this cOntractedness In
religious views. o, small sOuled man, when
| did God give you the contract for making
gate? l tell you plainly will not go in that
gates. will go IN at any one Of the twelve
gates choose. Here Is man VINO says; II
can more easily and more closely approach
God through prayer book" | say: my
! brother, then use the PRAYER book" Here is
| man who says: Il believe there is only one
| mode of baptism, and that is immersion"
| Then say: Let me plunge you" Anyhow.
| say away with the gate OF rough panel and
rotten posts and rusted latch, hen there are
twelve gates and they are twelve pearls
| Inc fact IS that great many of the
| churches in this day are being doctrined 10
death. They have been trying to find out all
about Code DEGREES, and they want TO know
VINO are elected to be saved and no are
| reprobated to be damned, and they are keep
ing on scussing that subject when there are
! missions OF so ls who need TO have the truth
| put stral- hit at them. hey sit counting the
number of teeth in the iawbone with which
! samson slew the Phllistnes. They sit on the
! beach ana see vessel going to pieces In the
olnng anu instead OF getting into boat ana
| pulling away for the wreck, they sit discuss
| ing the different styles OF Oarlocks God In
! tended us to know some things and INTENDED
us not to know others. have heard scores of
| sermons explanatory OF Gods DEGREES, but
| came away more perplexed than when |
| went. The only result of such discussion is
a great fog, Here are two truths which are
| to conquer the world: Man, a sinner
/ Christ. d savior. Amy man who adopts these
! two theories in his religious belief shall have
| my right hand in warm grip OF Christian
| brotherhood.
| A man comes down to a river in time OF
| fresDeT. q
swim. What does he do? The first thing is
| to put of his heavy apparel and drop every
thing he has in his hands; He must go empty
! handed If he Is going to the other bank. And
| | tell you. y hen we have come down to he
river of death and find it swift and raging.
we will have TO put off all our sectaranism
and lay down our cumbrous creed, and empty
handed put out for the other shore.
what" say you, would you resolve all the
! Christian church into one kind OF church?
| Ould You make all ChrstendOm wor-hlp IN
the same way, by the same forms?' o. no!
You might as well decide that all people shall
eat the same kind of food without reference
TO appetite. or wear the same kind of apparel
without reference to the shape of their body.
Your ancestry. your temperament your sur
roundings, viii decide whether you go to this
or thai church and adopt this or that poity.
One church will best get one man to heaven
and another church another man. do not
care which one OF the gates you go through.
u you only go through one of the twelve gates
that Jesus lifted.
Looking out at the one hundred and forty
and four thousand and you cannot tell at what
gate they came in. one Lord One faith.
One baptism. One CLASSY sea. One doxOlogy.
One triumph. One heaven. "Why. Luther,
how did you get in?" II came through the
third gate" "Cranmer, how did you get in?"
Il came through the eighth gate" ''Adoni-
ram Judson. how did you get through" II
came through the seventh gate" Hugh Nc
Kali, the martyr how did you get through"
II came through the twelfth gate" Glory to
God twelve gates but one heavenl
n he Mt If flan
compass towards which these gates look.
They are not on one side. or on two sides, or
on three sides, but on four sides. This is no
fancy OF mine, but distinct announcement.
On the north three gatei, on the south three
gates. on the east three gates, on the west
three gates. What does that mean? Why. it
means that all nationalities are included, and
II does not make any difference from what
quarter of the earth man comes up: if his
heart is right, there is a gate open before
him. On the north three gates That
means mercy for Lapand. and Siberia,
and Norway, and Sweden. On the south
three gates. That means pardon for HindOstan,
a"d Algers and Ethiopia. On the east
three gates. That means salvation for CHI
ia and Japan and BOrneo. On the west,
three gates. That means redemption for
America. 1t does not make any difference
how darS-skinned or how pale-faced men
may be, they will find gate right before
them. Those plucked bananas under tropi-
cal sun. These shot across Russian snows be-
hind reindeer From Mexican plateau, from
Roman campana, from Chinese tea field,
from Holland dyke, from Scotch highlands.
they come, they come. Heaven is not
monopoly for few precious souls.
1t is not Windsor Castle for
royal families. 1t is not small town with
small populations; but John saw it and he
noticed that an angel was measuring 1t, and
he measured it this way, and then he meas
IRE II thst. and whichever way he measured
it, 1t was fifteen hundred miles; s0that Baby
Ion and rhebes. and Tyre aud Nineveh, and
> Petersburg and Canton. and Pekin and
and Ion nr.IN Nm ~ a NJ
deaG cities of the past and all the living cities
OF the present, added together, would not
equal the census Of that great metropolis.
walking along the street, y"u can, by the
contour of the dress or OF the face. guess where
a man came from. You say: That is a
FreGchman; that Is Norwegian; that is an
American" But the & ties That gather in the
righteous VIII bring them in Irrespective Of
nationality. Foreigners sometimes get home
sick. 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 t. the high residence of
heaven will not long any more for the Alps
standing in the eternal hills. The Russian viii
not long any more for the luXuriant harvest
fields he left now that he hears the hum
md the rustic OF tine harve~ts of everlasting
light. The royal ones from earth will not
lorg to go uack again 10 the earthly court
now that they stand IN the palaces of the sun.
Those who once lived amid the groves of spice
and oranges will not long to return now that
they stand under he trees of life that bear
/
While speak an ever increasing throng is
pass ng through the ates. They are going up
from Senegambla, from Pa egonla, from
Madras, from Hong Kong What" you saw
''do you introduce all the heather into goryp"
/ | tell YOU the fact is, that the majority Of the
! people in those climes die in infancy and the
| infants ali 20 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-thev die
| IN infancy. One hundred and sixty genera
| tions have been born since the world was
created. and 80 | estimate that there must be
| fifteen thousand mi lion children in glory. II
at concert two thousand children sing your
soul is enraptured within you. o! the trans
port when fifteen thousand million
little ones stand up in white before
the throne OF God, their chanting drawing
out all the stupendous harmonies Of Dussel-
dorf and Leipslc aud Boston Ponrin through
the twelve gatee, 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
/ OOm in the mansions. Room on the river
/ bank. Let the trumpet Of invitation he
sounded until all earth- mountains hear the