The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-10-31

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 tho fruits, aud tho
brightness and the JOYS, and then turn away
because Thou dost give us one cup of bitter
nesJ to drink Oh, no, Jesus we will drink
it dry. But how il is changed! Blessed Je-
sus, what has Thou put into the cup to
sweeten it? Why, 1t 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
that never felt since the day of my souls
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 go. Last Sab
bath morning at 0 o'clock we had but one
church; now we have about thirty, all at
our disposal. Their pastors and their
audience rooms, you may take our lecture
rooms, you may take our church parlors, you
may baptize in our baptisteries and sit on
our anxious seats.' Oh! il there be any
larger hearted ministers or larger hearted
churches anywhere than in Brooklyn, tell me
where they are, that l may go and see them
before l 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.
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. / am
sure the swords would have melted, and they
who welded them have learned war no more.
can never say a word against any other de
nomination of Christians. thank God
never have been tempted to do it, cannot
be a sectarian. | have been told ought to
be- and l 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 fire or something else,
and all is gone. The angels of God shake out
Oh this air. GLORY to God in the highest,
and on earth peace, good will toward men,"
do not know but l see on the horizon the
first CLEAN of the morning which shall unite
all denominations in one organization, dis
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 Iaodi-
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
orc Of eli ityy
want to put on 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 lghti
Arise, the combat 70 maintain;
Arise and put thy foes to flight
We also feel reinforced by the thought
that we are on the way to 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 them open resonent with songs
and not cries of fire. Oh, my dear brother
and sister! il 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 " 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; II do not know just where we
.,t, ,t,er ,,, 1,tf I fGt. a
kingdom anyhow" | do not want to go
just vet l want to be pastor Of this people
until l am about eighty nine years of age,
but have sometimes thought that there are
such glories ahead that may be persuaded
to go a little earlier-for instance, at eighty
two or three; but really think that, il We
could have an appreciation of what God ha
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 heart
ache. They tell me that a man might wall;
five hundred years in that land and never
see tear or hear sigh. They tell me that
our friends who have left us and gone there,
their feet are radiant Us 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
have been very cruel before it was healed
And they tell me that there is no winter
there, and that they never get hungry OIL
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 l wondov
who set it there ''Ohm you say: "My
father that went into glory must have Sc
that light in the window" No; CUES
again. my mother who died fifteen year
ago in Jesus l think must have set that ligh
there" No; guess again. You say: M,
darling little child, that last summer pu
away for the resurrection, think she mus p
have set that light there in the window No
guess again. Jesus set it there; and Il
will Keep it burning until tn
day, We put our finger on tn
latch of the door and go in to be a
home forever. Oh when my sight gets blacl
IN death. put on my eyelids that sweet oint
ment. When in the last WEAKNESS canno
take another step Just help me put my foo
on that doorsill. When my ear catches n,
more the voices of wife and child, let me q
right in, to have my deafness cured by tn
stroke of the harpers whose fingers fIy owe
the strings with the anthems of the free.
Heaven never burns down. The fires O
the last day that are already kindled in thu
heart of the earth, but are hidden becans,
God keeps down the hatches-those ipterna
fires viii after q while break through tn
crust, and the plains, and the mountains. an,
the seas will be consumed, and the fame
will fling their long arms into the skies: bu
all the terrors of burning world will do nj
more harm to that heavenly temple than TIN
fires of the setting sun which kindlo up tn
window glass of the house on wonder hill ton
Oh, blessed land But do not want to e
there until see the Brooklyn Tabernacle re
built You say, "Will it befn You nigh
| as well ask me il the sun will rise tomorrow
morning, OF if the next spring will put gar
lands on its head You and | may not dt
it-you and | may not live to see it; but tn,
| Church of God does not stand on two leg
nor on a thousand legs.
How did the Israelites get through the Re;
Sea? l suppose somebody may have com
and said: There is no need of trying; yo
will get your feet wet; you will spoil you
clothes; you win drown yourselves Who
ever heard of getting through such a sea a
that's How did they get through
it, Did they go back? No Did the,
go to the right' No. Did they go 3
the left? No They went forward 4
the strength of the Lord Almighty: and tina
is the way we mean to get through the Re
Sea. BY going forward. But says some one
IF we should build larger church, woul
you be able with your voice to Gil itg' Why
have been wearing myself out for the las
sixteen years in trying TO keep my voice in
Give me room where | can preach the glorie
of Christ and the graudeurs of heaven