The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1889-11-07

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is freproof. 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, reso-
nent 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 worrying2 l have felt good many
times this last week like Father Taylor
the sailor preacher. He got in long
sentence while preaching one day, and
lost himself, and could not find his
way out of the sentence. He stopped
and said: s'Brethren, have lost the
nominative of this sentence, and things
are generally mixed up, but l am
bound for the kingdom anyhow"
And during this last week, when |
saw the rushing to and fro, and the
excitement, l said to myself: "I do
not know just where we shall start
again, but l am bound for the kingdom
anyhow l do not want to 60 just
yet. want to be pastor of this peo-
pie until l am about eighty-nine years
of age, but have sometimes thought
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 re-
serve for us, we would want to 60,
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 a heart-ache. They tell
me that man might walk five hun
dred years in that land and never see
a 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 familiarly, 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
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. l
wonder who set it there. "Oh!' you
say: "My father that went into glory
must have set that light in the window. I"
No; guess again. "My mother, who
died fifteen years ago in Jesus, l think
must have set that light there Ne !;
guess again. You say: J." My darling
little child, that last summer l put
away for the resurrection. | think
she must have set that light there in
the window No; guess again.
Jesus set 1t there and He will keep it
burning until the day we put our finger
on the latch of the door and 60 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 | cannot take step,
just help me put my foot on that door
sill. When my ear catches no more
the voices of wife and child, let me go
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.
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, land
seas will be consumed, and the flames
will fling their long arms into the skies;
but all the terrors of burning world
will do no 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. Oh,
blessed land! But I do not want to
go there until see the Brooklyn Tab
ernacle rebuilt. You say: "Will it
be?" You might as we'll ask me ifthe
sun will rise tomorrow morning, or if
the next spiing will put garlands on its
head. You and I may not do it-you
and l may not live to see it; but the
Church of God does not stand on two
legs, nor on a thousand legs.
How did the Israelites get through
the Red Sea? 1 suppose somebody
may have come and said: s:There is
no need Of trying you will get your
feet wet; you will spoil your clothes ;
you will drown yourselves. Whoever
heard of getting through such a sea as
that?" How did they get through it
Did they 60 back? No. Did they &c
right? No. Did they 60 to the left
No. They went forward in the strength
of the Lord Almighty and that IS the
way we mean to get through the Red
Sea. By going forward. But say:
some one: elf we should build Z
larger church, would you be able witt
your voice to fill it?" Why, have
been wearing myself out for the las
sixteen years in trying to keep m.
voice in. Give me room where Cal
preach the glories of Christ and tn
grandeurs of Heaven.
L Forward! We have to march on