Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-11-01

/ mousse \ ca, we are supported ami con-
fident in this time by the cross of Christ
That is used to the fire. On the dark day
when Jesus died, the lightning struck it from
above and the flames of hell dashed up
against it from beneath. That fearful, pain
full, tender blessed cross still stands On il
we hang all our hopes; beneath it we put
down all our sins; in the light of it we ex-
pect to make the rest of our pilgrimage
Within sight of such q sacrifice who can feel
he has it hard? In the sight of such a SYM
Dol, who can be discouraged, however great
the darkness that may come down upon him?
Jesus lives! The loving patient, sympathiz-
ing, mighty Jesusl 1t shall not be told on
earth, or in hell, or in heaven, that three He
brew children had the Son of God beside
them in the fire. and that whole church was
forsaken by the Lord when they went
| through furnace about two hundred feet
wide.
o Lord Jesus shall we take out of Thy
hand the flowers and the fruits, and the
brightness and the joys, and then turn away
because Thou dost give us one cup of bitter
ness to drink? Oh, no. Jesus! we will drink
it dry. But how it is changed! Blessed Je-
sus, what has Thou put into the cup to
sweeten it? Why, iG has become the wine of
heaven, and our souls grow strong. l come
now, and place both Of my feet deep down
into the blackened ashes of our consumed
church, and / cry out with an exhilaration
uiieiv Oh ltlb SluCb lu6 Jay Oh my SOUL is
emancipation, 'Victory victory! through
our Lord Jesus Christi
Your harps we trembling saints,
Down from the willows take,
Loud TO the praise OF love divine
Bid every string awake.
We are also REINFORCED by the Cath
olicity that have already referred to. We
are in the Academy to-day not because
we have no other place to 60. Last Sab
bath morning at o'clock we had but one
church; now we have about thirty, all at
our disposal. Their pastors and their
trustees say: 'You may take our main
audience rooms, you may take our lecture
rooms, you may take our church paTlors, you
may bapti3e i'll our baptsteries, and sit ON
our anxious seats" Oh! if there be any
larger hearted ministers or larger hearted
churches anywhere than in Brooklyn, tell me
where they are, that | may go and see them
before | die. The millennium has come. Peo-
pie keep wondering when it is coming. 1t
has come. The lion and the lamb lie down
together, and the tiger eats straw like an OK
l should like to have seen two Of the
old time bigots, with their swords, fight
ing through that great fire on Scher-
merhOrn street last Sabbath. l am
sure the swords would have melted, and they
who welded them have learned war omore
l can never say a word against any other de
nomination of Christians | thank God
be sectarian. | have been told I ought to
be, and / have tried to be, but have not
enough material in me to make such a
structure. Every time get the thing most
done, there comes q fire, or something else
and all is gone. The angels of God shake out
on this cir, GLORY to God in the highest,
and on earth peace, good will toward men"
| do not know but | see ON the horizon the
first CLEAN of the morning which shall unite
q ,,,n n,,iry a. Il
tinguished only by the locality as in apostolic
times. 1t was then the Church of Thyatira,
and the Church Of Thessalonica, and the
Church of Antioch and the Church of Laodi-
cea. So do not know but that in the future
history, and not far off either, it may be sim
ply distinction Of locality, and not of creed,
as the Church of New York, the Church Of
Brooklyn, the Church of Boston, the Church
of Charleston, the Church Of Madras, the
Church of Constantinople, the Church Of
America.
My dear brethren we cannot afford to be
severely divided. Standing in front Of the
great foes Of our common Christianity, we
want to put OH the whole armor of God and
march down in solid column, shoulder to
shoulder one commander one triumph
The trumpet gives q martial strain
o Israeli grid thee from the lght
Arise, the combat to maintain;
Arise, and put thy foes to flight.
that we are on the way 10 heaven that can
never burn down, Fires may sweep through
other cities-but | am glad to know that the
New Jerusalem is fireproof. There will be
no engines. rushing through those streets;
there will be no temples consumed in that
city. Coming to the doors of that Church,
we will find thcm open, resonent with songs
and not cries of fire. Oh, my dear brother
and sister, if this short lane of life
comes up so soon to that blessed place, what
is the use of our worrying? ] have felt a
good many times this last week like Father
Taylor the sailor preacher He got in a
long sentence while he was preaching one
day, and lost himself and could not find his
way out of the sentence. He stopped and
said Brethren, have lost the nominative
Of this sentence and things are generally
mixed up, but am bound for the kingdom
anyhow"
And during this last week, when saw the
rushing TO and fro and the excitement, [ said
to myself: 81 do not know just where we
shall start again, but 1 am bound for the
kingdom anyhow" l do not want to go
just yet l want to be pastor of this people
until | am about eighty nine years of age,
but have sometimes thought that there are
such glories ahead that l may be persuaded
to go little earlier-for instance, at eighty
two or three but really think that, ii we
could have an appreciation of what God has
in reserve for us, we would want to go,
stepping right out Of the Academy of Music
into the glories of the skies
All! that Is good land Why they tell
me that in that land they never have q heart
ache. They tell me that a man might walk
five hundred years in that land and never
see q tear or hear sigh, They tell me that
our friends who have left us and gone there
their feet are radiant as the sun, and that
they take hold of the hand of Jesus familiar
| ~, and that they open that hand and see in
the palm of it healed wound that must
nave been very cruel before it was healed.
And they tell me that there is no winter
there, and that they never get hungry or
cold, and that the sewing girl never wades
through the snow bank to her daily toll, and
that the clock never strikes twelve for the
night, but only twelve for the day
See that light in the window | wondow
who set it there. "Oh!" you say: "My
that light in the window" No: guess
again. My mother, who died fifteen Years
ago in Jesus, | think must have set that light
There" No; guess again You saw: ttMy
darling little child that last summer | nut
away for the resurrection. [ think she must
have set that light there in the window" No;
guess again. Jesus set it there; and He
VIII VIII keep it burning Until the
latch of the door and go in to be at
home forever, Oh when my sight gets black
in death, put on my eyelids that sweet ONT
ment. When in the last WEAKNESS cannot
take another step, just help me put my foot
on that doorsill. When my ear catches NO
more the voices of wife and child let me 90
right in. to have my deafness cured by the
stroke of the harpers whose fingers hy over
the strings with the anthems of the free.
Heaven never burns down! The fires Of
the last day that are already kindled in tho
heart of the earth, but are hidden because
God keeps down the hatches--those internal
fires viii after while break through the
crust, and tho plains, and the mountains, and