Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-03-15

what IS best for You better than you can
yourself. Don't think you are too insignih-
cant to be divinely cared for IL WIS said
that Diana, the goddess, couli not be pres
snt 10 keep her temple at Ephesus from burn
ing because she was attending upon the birth
OF him who was 10 he Alexander the Great
But | tell you that your God and my God is
so great in small things as well as large
things that He could attend the cradle of a
bahe and at the same time the burning Of
world
And God will make it all right with sou,
and there is one song that you will sing
every hour your first ten years in heaven,
and the refrain Of that song will be: II am
so glad God did not let me have it my own
way.n Your case will be all fixed up in
heaven and there will be such a reversal
Of conditions that we can hardly
ind each other for some time. Some OF US
who have lived in first rate houses here and
in first rate neighhorhoods will be found, be-
cause of our lukewarmness OF earthly
service, living on one OF the back streets OF
the celestial city, and clear down at the end
Of it at No. sos, or 900, or 1905, while
some who had unattractive earthly
abodes and cramped one at
that will. in the heavenly city, be in a
house fronting the Royal plaza, right by the
imperial fountain, or on the heights over
looking the River of Life, the chariots of
salvation hating at your door while those
visit you who are more than conquerors,
and those who are Kings and Queens
unto God forever. You my brother, and
you, my sister, who have it so hard here
will have 10 so fine and grand there that
you will hardly know yourself and will feel
disposed to dispute your own identity, and
the first time see you there l will cry OUT
"Didn't | tell you so when you sat down
there in the Brooklyn Tabernacle and looked
increduous because you thought 1t too
good to be trueN And you will
answer: "You were right, the half
was not told mel" So this morning I open
your dark saying of dependency and COM
plant on my gospel harp and give you Just
one far of music, for do not pretend to be
much of a player. "The Lamb which is in
the midst Of the throne shall lead them to
living fountains of water and God shall wipe
away all tears from their eyes" But
/ must confess l am a little perplexed
how some Of you good Christians are going
to get throu h the gate, because there will
be so many there to greet you and they will
all want to shake hands at once and will all
want the first kiss, They will have heard
that you are coming, and they will all press
around to welcome you and will want you to
say whether you know them after being so
long parted
Amid the tusSle and romp Of reunion I tell
you whose hand of welcome you had better
first clasp and whose cheek is entitled to the
first kiss. 1t is the hand and the cheek
of Him without whom you would
never have got there at all, the
Lord Jesus, the darling Of the skies, as He
cries out: 81 have loved thee with an ever
lasting love and the fires could not burn it
and the floods could not drown it." Then
YOU, my dear people, having no more use
for my poor harp on which I used
to open your dark sayings and whose
chords sometimes snapped, despoiling
the symphony, you will take down yorr
ha xxillOuyo not I1y
the eternal water courses and play together
those celestial airs, some of the names of
which are entitled: "The King in His
Beauty" "The Land That Was Far Off,"
Jerusalem, the Golden" "Home Again"
THE Grand March IF Cod" "The
Life Everlasting" And as the last
dark curtain of mystery is forever lifted
torios that were ever heard hal been rolled
into one and Israel in Egypt" and "Jeph-
tha's Daughter and Reethoven's ''Gverture
in c" and Ritter's first sonata in D minor
and the Creation" and the messiah" had
been blown from the lips of one trumpet or
been invoked by the sweep of one bow or
had been dropped from the vibrating chords
Of one harp.
But here | must slow up lest in trying to
solve mysteries | add to the mystery that we
have already wondered at; namely: Why
preachers should keep on after all the hear
eTS arc Jlfed! 30 gaGher up lnGO one
great armful all the why's, and hows,
and wherefores of your life and mine,
which we have not had time or the
bility to answer, and write on them The
words "adjourned to eternity" I rejoice
that we do not understand all things now,
for if we did, what would we learn in
beaven3 If we knew it all down ere in the
freshman and sophomore class, what wnnld
| be the use of our going up to stand amid
the juniors and the senorsl If we could
! put down one leg of the compass and
with the other sweep a circle clear around
all the inscrutableS, if we could lift our little
steelyards and weigh the throne of the ON.
nipotent, if we could with our seven day
clock measure eternity, what would be left
for heavenly revelation2 So | move that we
cheerfully adjourn what is now be-
yond our comprehension, and as
according to Rollm, the historian,
Alexander the Great, having obtained
the gold casket in VIII Oh Darius had kept his
rare perfume, used that aromatic caske+
thereafter to keep his favorite copy of Homer
in, and called the hook therefore, the ''edi-
ton Of the casket," and at night he put the
basket and his sword under his pill w,
10 put this d ~ into the perfum casket of
your richest affections aud hopes this prom
se worth more than anything Homer ever
wrote or sword ever conqusred: what |
10 thou knowest not now, but thou shalt
know hereafter" and that call the edition
| celestial "