The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1888-12-14

mads no difference to them, for they
stepped from the home here to the home
there, right into the ivory palaces. All Is
well with them. All Is well.
1t is not q dead weight that You lift when
yeu carry q Christian out. Jesus makes
the bed up soft with velvet promises ana
He saws: ssPtft her down here very gently.
Pit that head, which will never ache
again, ON this pillow of hallelujahs. Send
up word that the procession is coming.
Ring the bells. Ringl Open your gates,
We ivory palaces ~ And so your loved
ones are there. They are just as certain
" there, having died in Jesus, as that you
are here. There is only one thing more
they want. Indeed, there is one thing IN
Heaven they have not got. They want 1t;
what is it? Your company. But, oh, my
| brother, unless you change your track you
c8fe not reach that harbor. You might as
| well take the Baltimore & Ohio railroad;
expecting In that direction to reach Toron-
to, as to go on in the way some of you are
going, and yet you expect to reach the
ivory palaces. Your loved ones are
looking out Of the windows of Heaven
now, and yet you seem to turn your back
upon them. You do not seem to know
the sound of their voices as well as you
Heed to, or to be moved by the, sight Of
their dear faces. Call louder, We de-
T,op,a.4 on>s, Call louder from the ivory
psIacss When 1 think of that place, and
ftiiEll. e,f NV = ntering it, feel awkward;
feel ss eSr56sEsne,- when / have been ex-
posed Il, fhe, wEat4ae, and my shoes have
been bemired, ard Ray q 'at Is soieos ana
my hair rs disheve1ed; slA h - - a.
OF stYiIs fine residence where -. "a
errand. fEsT not fit to go in as ~. o, -.
sit among polished guests. So some OF
feel about Heaven. We need to be waSff6A,
we need to be rehabilitated before we go
Into the ivory palaces. Eternal God, Lat
the stffgAs of Thy hardening mercy RON
over US. wait n1s only to wash my
hands oIfd Kay feet .bIt. Ike some skilled,
diver standing on the pierhead, who leaps
into the wave and comes up at far-dis-
tant point from where he went in, so /
waflt to ge down and so I want to come
up. Oh, Jesus, nash me in the waves of
Thy salvation.
And here 1 ask you to solve a mystery
that Eas been expressing me for thirty
years. have asked Of doctors of divinity
who have been studying theology half a
century, and they have given ME DO salts
factory answer. I have turned over all
the books in thy library, but got no so1u-
ton to the question, and to-day come
and ask you for an explanation. By what
logic was Christ induced to exchange the
ivory palaces of Heaven for the crucifiX~
ion ag0nies of earth? 1 shall take the
FIRST thousand million years in Heaven to
study out that problem, Meanwhile and
now, taking it as the tendefest and might
lest of all facts that Christ did come, that
He came with spikes IN His feet, came
with tiorns in His brow, came With spears
IN His heart, tA save you and to save me.
"God so loved the world that He gave His
only begotten Son, that whosOever be-
hev5th IN Him should not perish, nthave
everlasting lfs.' O, Christ, whelm this
audience with Thy compassion. Now
them down like summer grain with tho
harvesting sickle of Thy grace. Ride
ttfU1tslr to-day the conqueror, Thy gar
ments smelling IF murrh, and aloes, and
cassia, out of the ivory palaces
o, sinner, fling every thing else away
and take Christi Take Him now, not to-
morrow. During the night following this
very asY there may be an excitement in
your dwelling, end tremulous pouring
out of drops from an unsteady and at
frfghted hand, and before tomorrow
morning your chance may be gone.