Daily Yellowstone journal., 1888-12-09
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and mother, not SO years and 20 years,
as when they left us, but blithe and
young as when on theirmarriage day.
And there are brothers and sisters,
merrier than when we used TO romp
across the meadows together. The
cough gone. The cancer cured. The
erysipelas healed. The heart break
over. Oh, how fair they are in the
ivory palacesl And your dear little
children that went out from YOU
Christ did not let one of them drop as
he lifted them. He did not wrench
one of them from you. No. They
went as from N they loved well to
'one whom they loved better. Ii l
should take your little child and press
its soft face against my rough cheek,
j might keep it a little while; but
when you, the mother, came along, IT
would struggle to GO with you. And
SO you stood holding your dying
child when Jesus passed by in the
room, and the little one sprang
out TO greet him. That is all.
Your Christian dead did not
go down into the dust and the
gravel and the mud. Though it
rained all that funeral day, and the
water came up to the wheels hub as
you drove out to the cemetery, 1t made
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.
IL is not a dead weight that you lift
when you carry n Christian out.
Jesus makes the bed up soft with vel
vet promises, and he says: "Put her
down here very gently. Put that
head, which will never ache again, on
this pillow of halleluiahs. Send up
word that the procession is coming,
Ring the bells. Ring! Open your
gates, We ivory palaces!" And so
your loved ones are there. They
are just as certainly there, hav-
ing died in Christ, Us that
you are here. There is only ane thing
more they want. Indeed, there is one
thing in heaven they have not got.
They want l.. What is liz Your COM
pany. But, oh, my brother, unless you
change your tack you cannot reach
that harbor. You might as well take
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, ex-
pecting in that direction to reach To-
ronto, as 10 go ON in tie way some Of
you are going and yet 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 used to,
or 10 be moved by the sight
of their dear faces. Call louder, We
departed ones. Call louder from the
ivory palaces. When | think of that
place, and think of my entering it, l
feel awkward; / feel as sometimes
when | have been exposed TO the
weather, and my shoes have been be-
mired, and my coat is soiled, and my
hair is disheveled. and | stop in front
of some fine residence where | have
an errand. / feel not fit to 90 in as |
am and sit among polished guests. So
some of us feel about heaven. We
need to be washed-we need to be re-
habilitated before we go into the ivory
palaces. Eternal God, let the surges
of thy pardoning mercy roll
over us. / want not only to
wash my hands and my feet.
but, like some skilled diver, standing
on the pier head, who leaps into the
wave and comes up at a far distant
point from where he went in, so |
want to go down and SO | want TO
come up. o Jesus, wash me in the
wave of thy salvation.
THE MYSTERY OF CHRIsT'S DIVINE Ex-
CHANGE.
And here | ask you to solve a mys-
terry that has been depressing me for
thirty years. have asked il of doc
tors of divinity who have been study
ing theology half a century, and they
have given me no satisfactory answer.
i have turned over all the books in my
library, but got no solution to the
question, and today | come and ask
you for an explanation. BY what
logic was Christ induced 10 exchange
the ivory palaces of heaven for the
cruciiiNion agouics of carthl | shall
take the first thousand million years
in heaven to study out that prob
lem. Meanwhile and now. taking il as
the tenderest and mighticst Of all facts
that Christ did come, that he came
with spikes in his feet, came with
thorns in his brow, came with spears
an ms heart, 10 saw you and 30 save
me. God 50 loved the world that he
gave his only begutten Son, that who.
soever beIievelh in him should not
perish. but have everlasting life" o
Christ, whelm this audience with thy
compassion. Now them down like
summer grain with the harvesting
sickle Of thy grace, Ride through
today the cOngucror, thy garments
smelling 'of mywh. aud aloy>, and
cassia, out Of the ivory palaces,
o sinner, fling everything else away
and take Christ Take him now, not
tomorrow. Duringthe night follow
ing this very day there may be- AN cx.
element in your dwelling. and "A
tremulous pouring out Of drops from
an unsteady and ailrightcd hand, and
before tomorrow morning your
chance may be gone.
Tho Treatnasnt nj sIesDI.sgnesa.