The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-11-06

PROOF. lncre Will De 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. resonant with songs, and not
cries of fire. O, my dear brother and
sister! if this short lane Of life comes ub |
SO soon to that blessed place, what is the |
use of worrying? l have felt a good |
many times this last week like Father
Taylor, the sailor preacher. He got in
a long sentence while h 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 I am |
bound for the kingdom anyhow"
And during this last week, when l saw
the rushing to and fro, and the excite
ment, i said to myself, ~ do not know
lust where we shall start again, but I am
bound for the kingdom anyhow" / 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 may be persuaded to
90 a little earlier-for instance, at eighty.
two or eighty-three; but l really think
that, if we could have an appreciation
of what God has in reserve for us, we
would would want to. go, stepping right
out of the Academy OF Music into the
glories Of the skies. u
All! that is good land. Why, they
tell me that in that land they meyer
have heartache. They tell me that
man might walk five hundred years in
that land and never see a tear or hear a
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 IA
miliarly, and that they open that hand
and see in the palm of 1T a healed wound
that must have been very cruel before
| it was healed. And they tell that there
is no winter there, and that they never
get hungry or cold, and that the sewing
girl never wades through the sncw bank
| to her daily toll, and the clock never
strikes twelve for the night, but only
| twelve for the day. ~ .El, HDE .4aI,
See that light in the window. Won
der who set it there. '"Oh!" you say, ''my
father who went into glory must have
set that light in the window" No; guess
again. "My mother, who died fifteen
years ago in Jesus, think must havo
set that light there" No; guess again.
You say: my darling little child that
last summer put away for the resur-
rection, | think she must have set the
light there in the window" No; guess
again. Jesus set it there; and He will
keep it burning until the day we put
our finger on the latch of the door and
90 in to be at home forever Oh! when
my sight gets black in death, put on my
eyelids that sweet ointment. When in
the last WEAKNESS i can not take an
other step, just help me put my foot on
that doorsill. When my ear catches no
more the voices of wife and child, let
me 60 right in, to have my deafness
cured by the stroke of the harpers,
whose fingers fly over the strings with
the anthems of the free. at-
Heaven never burns down! The fires
of the last day, that are already kindled
in the heart of the earth, but are hidden
because God keeps down the hatches-
those internal fires will after while
break through the crust, and the plains,
and the mountains and the seas will be
consumed, and the flames will fling their
long arms into the skies; but all the
terrors of burning world will do nc
more harm to that heavenly temple than
the fires of the setting sun which kindle
up the window glass of the house on
yonder hill top. 0, blessed land! But ]
| do not want to 60 there until see the
Brooklyn Tabernacle rebuilt. You say,
"Will it be?' You might as we'll ask me
if the sun will rise tomorrow morning,
, or if the next spring will put garlands
| on its head. You and / may not do it
you and may not live to see it; but the
, Church of God does not stand on two legs
nor on thousand legs.
, How did the lsraelits get through the
: Red Sea? suppose somebody may have
, gone and said "There is no need of try
, ing; you will get your feet wet you will
spoil your clothes you will drown your
| selves. Whoever heard of getting
t through such sea as that? How did
7 they get through it? Did they 60 back
! No. Did they go to the right? No. DID
they 60 to the left? No. They went
forward in the strength of the Lord AL
mighty; and that is the way we mean te
get through the Red Sea. BY going
forward. But, says some one: ST We
should build larger church, would you
: be able with your voice to fill it?" Why
. have been wearing myself out for the
: lost sixteen years in trying to keep my
! voice in. Give me room where car
preach the glories Of Christ and thu
: grandeurs of Heaven.
Forward! We have to march on
breaking down all bridges behind us
making retreat impossible. Throw away
d your knapsack if it impedes your march
$ keen your sword arm free. Strike fol
Christ and his kingdom while you may
y | NJ oo1o o,,ar ho1 a hoffor col IN '
. YOU are sent on. Prove yourselves
: worthy. If | am not fit to be your leader
> set me aside. The brightest goal OF
= earth that can think OF is a countr,
parsonage amidst the mountains. But
= am not afraid to lead you. have som'
= dollars; they are at your disposal. hav'
), good physical health; it is yours as lonl
Z as it lasts. ] have enthusiasm Of soul
y will not keep it back from your service
? have some faith in God, and shall di
rect 1t toward the rebuilding of our new
!. spiritual house. Come on, then. l viii
I lead you.
! Come on. We aged men, not yet passe,
= over Jordan! Give us one more lift be
= fore you go into the promised land
y You men in middle life, harness all you
u business faculties to this enterprise
y Young man, put the fire of you
. soul into this work. Let wome,
: consecrate their persuasiyeness an
- persistence to this cause, and the
!; will be preparing benedictions 70
u their dying hour and everlasting re
: wards; and if Satan really did bur
. that Tabernacle down, as some peopl
Il say he did, he will find it the poores
!. Job he ever undertook. -.
y Goodbye, old Tabernacle. l put Inn
u fingers to my lip and throw a kiss 10th
e | lo0,rtaJ nbprcb In tho last 6au n, n