Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1888-12-13

WREN you carry Christian out. Jesus makes
the bed up soft with velvet promises, and
be 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 ellis
Ring Open your gates, We ivory palacesl"
And so your loved ones are there. They are
just as certainly there. having 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 company.
But, oh, my brother, unless you change
your tack you cannot reach that harbor.
You might as well take the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad. expecting in that direction to
reach Toronto, 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 de-.
parted ones. Call louder from the ivory
palaces When think of that place. and
think Of my entering it, feel awkward;
feel as sometimes when have been exposed
10 the weather, and my shoes have been be-
mired. and my coat is soiled and my hair is dis
heveled, and l stop in front of some fine resi-
dence where have an errand. | feel not fit
to go in as am and sit among polished guests
So some of us feel about heaven. We need to he
wsshed-we need to he rehabilitated before we
gointo the ivory palaces. Eternal God let the
surges OF Thy pardoning mercy roll over us.
! want not only 20 wash my hands and my
feet but. like some skilled diver, standing
on the pier-head. who leaps into the waves
and comes up at a far-distant point from
whore he went in. so | want TO 90 down an
so | want TO come up. Jesus, wash me
in the waves of Thy salvation.
And here | ask Won to solve mystery TINT
has been depressing me for thirty years |
have asked it of doctors of divinity who have
been studying theology half century, and
they have given me no satisfactory
books in my library. but got no solution to
the question. and to-day l come and ask you
for an explanation BY what logic was
Christ induced to exchange the ivory palaces
of heaven for the crucilixion agones OF earthi
shall take the first thousand million years
in heaven 60 study out that problem
Meanwhile and now, taking it as the tender
est and mightiest of all facts that
Christ did come. that He came with the
spikes in His feet. came with thorns in His
brow, came with spears in His heart. to save
you and to save ma. God SO loved ths
world that He gave His only begotten Son,
that whosoever believeth in Him should not
perish, but have everlasting life.n o Christ,
whelm this audience with Thy compassion
Now them down like summer grain with the
harvesting sickle OF Thy grace Ride through
to-day the conqueror, Thy garments smelling
''of myrrh, and aloes and cassia, out Of the
ivory palaces
o, sinner, fling everything else away and
take Christ Take Him now, not tomorrow. |
During the night following tins very day |
there may he an excitement in your dwelling, /
and tremulous pouring out OF drops from /
an unsteady and affrighted hand, and before /
tomorrow morning your chance may be /
gone