The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1886-07-16

are being doctrined to death. They have
been trying to find out all about Gods de. !
crees, and they want to know who are elected
10 be saved and who are reprobated to be
damned and they are keeping on discussing I
that subject when there are millions Of souls
who need to have the truth put straight az
them. They sit counting the number OF
teeth in the iawbone with which Samson
slew the Philistines. They sit on the beach
and see d vessel going to pieces in the
offing, and instead Of getting into boat
and pulling for the wreck they sit discussing
the different styles of oarlocks. God in
US not to know others. have. heard scores
Of sermons explanatory of Gods DEGREES, but
came away more perplexed then went The
only result Of such discussion is great fog
Here are two truths which are to conquer
the world: man, sinner; Christ, savior.
Any 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 river in time OF
freshet. He wants to get across. He has to
swim. What does he do! The first thing is
-. put off his heavy apparel and drop every
\ Nhg he has in hands. He must go
handed if he is going to the
we have come down to the river. Of
death and find it swift and raging we will
have to put off all our sectiriansm and lay
down our cumbersome creel. and empty
handed put out tor the other shore. What
Church into one kind Of churcha Would you
make all Christendom worship in the same
way, by the same formsP Oh, mol 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, will decide whether you go to
! this or that chnrch and adopt this or that
policy.
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 a
/ distinct announcement. On the north three
} gates on the south three gates, on tae east
} Ehree gates. on the west three gates. What
, does that mean! Why, It means that ali
, nationalities are included and it does not
4 make any difference from what quarter of
} the earth man comes up; il his heart
9 is right there is a gate open before
9 him. On the north three gates. That means
: mercy for Lapland and Siberia and Norway
t and Sweden. On the south three gates. That
o means pardon for Hindostan and Algiers and
s Ethiopia. On the cast three gates. That
1 means salvation for China and Japan and
}, Borneo. On the west three gates That
g means redemption for America. 1t does not
8. make any difference how dark-skinned or
it how pale faced men may be, they will find q
y gate right before them. These plucked
70 bananas under O tropical sun. These shot
10 across Russian SHOWS behind relndeers.
70 From Mexican plateaus, from Roman cam.
SO pana, from Chinese tea-fields. from Holland
ID dixie, from Scotch Highlands, they come,
IN they come. Heaven is not a monopoly for q
W few precious souls 1t is not Windsor Cas-
IS, tie for royal families. 1t is not small towI
Id with small population, but John saw it and
r: he noticed that an angel was measuring IT,
IN and he measured it in this way and then he
a measured that, and whichever way he meas
n ured it was / 800 miles, so that Babylon ant
n. Thebes, and Tyre and Nineveh, and st
n Petersburg and Canton, and Pekin anS
to Paris, and London and New York, and al
re the dead cities of the past and all the Twins
cities of the present added together, woult
to not equal the census of that great metrop
OF oils.
to Is passing through the gates. They are goini
nd up from Senegambia, from Patagonia, fron
ch Madras, from Hong Kong. 'Whatr you say
as do you introduce all the heathen into glory
, | tell you, the fact is that the majority of th
in beople in those climes die in infancy and th
ch infants all go straight into eternal life, an
ng 90 the vast majority of those who die
mt China and India, the vast majority of thos
ose who die in Africa, go straight into, th
ne dred and sixty generations hay
he been born since the world ws
in created and so estimate that there must
Of $4,000, 600, 600 children in glory. Ii at cor
the cert 1900 children sing your soul is rapture
ed, within you Oh, the transport when L, ,ooO
lon 900, 900 little ones stand up in white befol
ties the throne of God their chanting drawn
rly out all the stupendous harmonies of Dusse
bed dorf and Leipsic and Boston Four
the through the twelve gates, o ye redeeme
inc banner-lifted, rank after rank, saw
rk, battalion after saved battalion, until
| as the city of God shall hear the tram
ira trampl Crowd all the twelve, gait
cut Room yet. Room on the thron on
suf- room in the mansions, room on the rlV
Q is bank. Let the trumpet of Invitation
but sounded until all earth's mountains hear
lie it shrill blast and the glens echo it. Let N
up sionaries tell it in pagoda, and colporte'
'om sound it across the Western prairles. SnS
and it to the Laplander on his swift sled, hal
| up 1t to the Bedouin careering across the desc
cav Newsl newsl a glorious heaven and tive
tho gates to get into It'll Hear it, o You tt
ster blooded nations of eternal winter lon
this north three gates. Hear it, o you bron
spar inhabitants pantlng under equa0oriai nea'
one on the south three gates.
lash Sand heaven being made up, OF course
ness gates will be shut. Austria in and the !
rucl gate shut; Russia in and the second gate ST
ster- Italy in and the third gate smut; Egypo III
the fourth gate shut; Spain in and the I
on. gate shut; France in and the sixth gate 81
lsted England in and the seventh gate shut; !
leo way in and the eighth gate shut; Switleri
RI Is In and the ninth gate shut; Hindoseal
r all Ind the tenth gate shut; Sibe ria In and
hem eleventh gate shut. All the gates are cl(
set but one. Now let America go in, with
S MT the islands of the sea and all the other
AL , tions that have called on God Inc capt
sh ID ali freed; the harvests all gathered; the
side tions all saved-the flashing splendor of
auty last pearl begins to move on its hinges.
beat the mighty angels put their shoulders to
the gate and heave it to with silvery clahg.
,arm donel 1t thunders! The twelfth gate shl
step az want to show you the gate-kee
pers. There is one angel at each one of these g
/ we You saw that is right. OF course it is.
ro.ng know that no earthly palace or ca it'
Il his fortress would be safe without a sentry
light ing up and down by night and by day,
veary if there were no deIenses peIore hea'eh
the doors set wide open with no one to G
walls them, all the VICIOUS ~. ol eaIon mouiu
would go up after awhile, and he
instead of being world of light and
and peace and blessedness would
enose world of darkness and horror. So am
rs I are TO tell you that while these twelve gates
a tne open to let great multitude in ther'
tnese twelve angels to keep some people
Che, Robespierre cannot go through there
nlne, Nero, nor any of the debauched of cart
d d anu have not repented OF their wickedne!
IL tnls one of these nefarious men who despise
Ii should come to the gate, one of the k
west would put his hand on his shoulder ant
makes him into outer darkness. There is no
US TO In that land for thieves and liars, al
stay frauders, and all those who disgraced
Ted ne race aud fought against their God.
must miser should get in bhere he would pl
r stay tha aoIdan nayan,ent If a house,
y say: shoufd oct in there he would set fire
make nsns;o9 RI n Jihertine should pet in
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