The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-12-06

vet promises, and he says: Put her
down here very gently, Put 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, ys ivory palacesl" And SO
your loved ones arc there. They
are just as certainly there, hav-
ing died in Christ, 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 it. What is it, Your COM
pany. But, oh, my brother, unless you
change your tack you cannot reach
that harbor. You might as well talse
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, ex-
pecting in that direction to reach To
ronto, as to go on in the 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 to 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, I
| 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 I stop in front
~ c<,,,a E,o ,Jo,ao ~. - -.
an GRAND. l feel not FIT to 60 in as
| am and itamong polished guests. So
some of Us feel about heaven. We
need to be %ashcd-We need to be le.
habilitated before we go into the ivory
palaces. Eternal God, let the surges
! of thy pardoning mercy roll
over US. l want not only to
wash my hands and my feet
but, like some slalled diver, standing
on the pier head, who leaps into the
wave and comes up at far distant
point from where he went in, so ]
want to 60 down and so I want to
come up. O Jesus, wash me in the
waves of thy salvation.
THE MYSTERY OF CHRIsT's DIVINE Ex.
CHANGE
And here ask you to solve q mys
terry that has been expressing me for
thirty years. / have asked it of doc.
tors OF divinity who have been study
ing theology half a century, and they
have given me no satisfactory answer
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 to exchange
the ivory palaces of heaven for tbs
erucifixion agonies Of earth? I shall
take the first thousand million years
in heaven to study out that prob
lem. Meanwhile and now, taking it a.
the tenderest and mightiest Of all fact.
that Christ did come, that he came
with spikes in his feet, came witt
thorns i'll his brow, came with spear
III his heart, 10 save you and to save
me. God SO loved the world that b,
gave his only begotten Son, that who
soever believeth in him should no
perish, but have everlasting life" {
Christ, whelm this audience with th,
compassion Now them down lik,
summer grain with the harvesting
sickle Of thy grace. Ride through
today the conqneror, thy garment
smelling "of myrrh, and aloes, ant
cassia, out of the ivory palaces"
0 sinner, fling everything else ava.
and take Christ! Take him now, no
tomorrow. During the night follow
ing this very day there may be an ez
element in your dwelling, and
tremulous pouring out of drops fron
an unsteady and affrighted hand, an
before tomorrow morning you
chance may be gone