The Odessa herald. (Odessa, Del.) 1888-1892, 1888-11-03

eonpanionshIp;n on the third step: "a Christ
Ian home With q family altar on the fourth
step: Ever widening usefulness" on the nth
step: "a glorious departure from this
world 2 on the sixthstop. "Heavenl heaven
heavenln Write IL three times, and let the
letters Of the one word be made up OF BAN
ners, the second Of eoronets, and the third OF
thrones Promise me that you will do that,
and ! will promise 70 meet you on the sixth
step, IL the Lord will through His pardoning
grace bring me there too.
And here am going to say q word OF
cheer to people who have never had word
OF consolation on that subject. There are
men and women in this world by hundreds
of thousands, and some Of them are here to-
day, who have fine natural taste, and yet
all their lives that taste has been sup
| pressed, and although they could appreciate
| the galleries OF Dresden and Vienna and
| Naples for more than nine hundred and
ninety-nine out of one thousand who visit
| them, they never may go, for they must sup
| port their households, and bread and school
| ing for their children are Of more Importance
than pictures, Though fond OF music, they
| are compelled to live amid discord, and though
| fond of architecture, they dwell in clumsy
| abodes, and though appreciative of all that
| engravings and paintings can do, they are
| in perpetual deprivation. You are going,
| after you get on the sixth step OF that stairs
| Just spoken of, to find yourselves in the
royal gallery OF the universe, tne con-
/ your transported vision. In some way all
the thrilling scenes through which we and
the Church of God have passed in our earth
ly state will be pictured or brought to mind.
At the cyclorana OF Gettysburg, which we
had in Brooklyn, one day a blind man, who
lost his sight in that battle, was with his
child heard talking while standing before
that picture. The blind man said to the
daughter; fare there at the right OF tn.
picture some regiments marching up Mir
isYes,n she said. ''Well,n said the blind
man, "is there General on horseback
leading them onln "Yes,n she said
"Well, is there rushing down on thes'
men cavalry charger Eyes" wa
the reply. "And do there seem to be many
dying and deadl' YES" was the answer
''Well, now, do you SEQ a shell from th
woods bursting near the wheel OF a cannonl
"Yes,n She said. "Stop right theren SAT-
the blind man. "That Is the last thin
ever saw on earthl What a tim
| il was, Jenny, when / lost my eye-sightl
But when you, who have found life har
battle, very Gettysburg, shall stand In th
! ROYAL Gallery of Heaven, and with you
new vision begin to see and understand tina
, ( which in your earthly blindness 20
: could not see at all, you will poin
out to your celestial comrades. merriam
I | TO your own dear children VINO nave Rop
: before, the scenes of the earthly conflicts 4
Q which you participated, saying; her
r from that hin Of prosperity was drive
a back; in that valley Of humiliation wa
I wounded. There / lost my eyesight ina
y WINS the way the world looked vine
t last saw it. But what grand thing to &c
$ celestial vision, and stand here before I'll
Z cyclorama Of all worlds while the Rider o
y the white horse goes on "conquerlng anu
4 conquer the moon under his teet aud III
: stars Of Heaven for his tiaral
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