Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-25

the Brooklyn tabernacle and looked in
credulous because you thought it too
good to be true:'' And you will answer:
You were right, the half was not told
me!' So this morning l open your
DARK SAYING OF DEsPoNDENCY
and complaint on my gospel harp and
give you just one bar 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 fOun-
tains of water and God shall wipe away
all tears from their eyes. But ] must
confess am little perplexed how some
of you good Christians are going TO get
through 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 viii have
heard thafyou 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 l
tell you whose hand Of welcome you had
better first clasp and whose cheek is en-
titled to the first kiss. 1t is the hand and
the cheek OF him without whom you
would never have got there at eli +, the
Lord Jesus, the darling of the skies, as
He cries out, Ell have loved thee with an
everlasting love and the fires could not
burn il and the floods could not drown
it, Then you, my dear people, having
no more use for my poor harp on which
used to open your dark sayings and whose
CHORDS SOMETIMES SNAPPED
despoiling the symphony, you will take
down your own harps from the willows
that grow by the eternal water courses
and play together those celestial airs,
some of the names of which are entitled,
''The King in His Beauty - s'The Land
That Was Far Off. - Jerusalem, the
Golden, Home Again - t'The Grand
March of Cod s'The Life Everlast-
ing And as the last dark curtain of
mystery is forever lifted 1t will be as
though all the oratorios that were ever
heard had been rolled into one and
Daughter . and Beethoven's cover
ture in CO 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 dropped
from the vibrating chords of one harp.
But here L 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 hearers are tired? So
gather up into one great armful all the
why's and hows and wherefores of your
life and mine, which we have not had
time or the ability to answer, and write
on them the words "'adjourned to eter-
nity.' rejoice that we do not under
stand all things now for if we did what
would we learn in heaven? If we knew
it all down here in the freshman and
sophomore class what would be the use
of our going up to stand amid the juniors
and seniors? If we could put down one
leg of the compass and with the other
sweep circle clear around
ALL THE INsCRUTABLE,
if we could lift our little steelyards and
weigh the throne of the Omnipotent, if
we could with our seven-day clock
measure eternity, what W, lld be left for
heavenly revelation? So / move that we
cheerfully adjourn what is now beyond
our comprehension and as according to
Rollin, the historian, Alexander the
Great, having obtained the gold casket
III which Darius had kept his
rare perfume, used that aromatic
casket thereafter to keep his
faVorite copy of Homer in, and called
the book, therefore, the edition of the
easket, and at night he put the casket
and his sword under his pillow; so l put
this day into the perfumed casket of your
richest affections and hopes this promise,
worth more than anything Homer ever
wrote or sword ever conquered: "What
do thou knowest not now, but thou
shalt know hereafter, - and that I call
the s'e edition celestial. -