The Penn's Grove record., 1889-11-02

HANGS In TINS m18IOrtuuo. d~ranQIaGher SAID
IT expected from those affairs to be buried
and one Of the children last Sabbath cried
'sGrandpa, that place was next to our owr
house Yea, we are supported and con-
ldent in this time by the cross Of Christ.
That is used to the fire. On the dark day
when Jesus died, the lightning struck 1t from
above, and he flames of hall dashed up
against it from beneath. That fearful, pain
FIJI, tender, blessed cross still stands. On II
we hang all u hopes: beneath 1t we put
down all our sins; in the light Of IL we ex'
peet to make the rest Of our pilgrimage
Within sight Of such a sacrifice, who can feel
he has it hardf In the sight Of such . sym
Dol, who can be discouraged, however great
the darkness that may come down upon himi
ing, mighty Jesusi 1t shall not BE- told on
earth, or in hell, or in heaven, that three He
Drew children had the Son Of God beside
them In the fire, and that q whole church wal
forsaken by the Lord when they went
through furnace about two hundred feet
"wu1Iord JesusI 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
1t dry. But how It Is changed Blessed Je-
sweeten lit Why, 1t has become the wine Of
heaven, and our souls grow strong. I come
now, and place both Ok my fest deep down
into the blackened ashes OF our consumed
church, and ! gy out with an exhilaration
that I never felt eince the day of my souls
emancipation. .victoryi victory through
U Lord Jesus ChristF
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
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 parlors, you
may baptize In our baptisteries, and sit ON
our anxious seats" Oh II there BE- any
churches anywhere than In Brooklyn, tell mo
where they are that I may 60 and see them
before I die. The millennium has como. PEG
pie keep wondering when It Is coming. u
has como. Tho lion and the lamb lie down
together, and the tiger eats straw like n OF.
r 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
mre the swords would nave melted, and they
who welded them nave learned war nomora
I can never say q word against any other de-
nomination Of Christians. I thank God I
never nave been tempted to do 1t. cannot
be . sectarian. I have been told | ought to
be and ! AVE tried to be, but l have not
enough material in me to make such .
structure. Every time I get the thing most
done, there cone o fire, or something else,
and all is gone. The angels Of God shake out
on this air, sGlory to God in the highest
and or earth peeoe, good will toward men,"
l do not know but I sec on the horizon the
first CLEAN Of the morning which shall unite
all denominations in one organization, dis
tingutshed only by the locality - In apostolic
times. It twas then the Church Of Thyatira,
and the Church of Thessalonica, and the
Church Of Antioch, and the Church Of Laodi-
cea. 30 I do not know but that In the future
history, and not far of either, it may be sim.
ply q 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.
NY dear brethren, We cannot afford to BE-
severely divided. Standing in front of the
great foes Of our common Christianity, we
want to put on the whole armor of God and
march down In solid column, shoulder to
shoulderi one commander one triumph
The trumpet gives q martial strain
o Israeli grid thee from the hight;
Arise, the combat TO maintain;
Arise, and put thy foes to flight
We also feel reinforced by the thought
that we are on the way to a HEAVIER hat can
never burn down.. Fires may sweep through
other cities-but / am glad to know that the
New Jerusalem is ~freproof. There will be
no engines rushing through those streets;
Shers will DO no temples consumed in that
city. Coming to the doors Of that Church,
we will find them open, resoneut with songs.
and not cries Of fire. oh, my dear brother
comes up SO soon to that blessed place, what
is the use Of our w~orryingf / have felt a
good many times this last week like Father
Taylor, the sailor preacher. He got IN q
long sentence white he was preaching on,
day, and lost himself, and could not find hi,
way out Of the sentence; He stopped and
said: Brethren, ] have lost the nominatiyt
of this sentence, and things are generally
mixed np, but am bound for the kingdom
anyhow
And during this last week, when I saw tho
rushing to and fro and the excitement, / said
to myself: II do not know just where w
shall start again, but / am bound for ths
| Just yet want to be pastor Of this peoplt
until I am about eighty nine years OF age
| but ! have sometimes thought that there ar
| such glories ahead that / may be ~persuale
to 90 a little ea~rli9r-for instance, at eighty
/ two or three; but l really think that, 1t W
could rave 81 appreciation Of what God ha
in reserve for us, we would rant to go
| stepping right out Of the Academy Of Musi
into the gloriss Of the skies.
Ali that Is . good land. Why, they tel
me that in that land they never have hear
ache. They tell me that a man might wall
five hundred years in that land and nevel
80 n kaar mr. Hear n zioh Thav tan nd IN.
u friends who have left us and gone there
their feet are radiant as the sun, and tina
they take hold of the hand Of Jesus familiar
| ly, and that they open that hand and see II
the palm Of 1t . healed wound thAt mus
have been very cruel before it was healed
And they tell me that there Is no white
there, n that they never get hungry o.
cold, and that the sewing girl never wade
through the snow bank to her daily toll, an
that the clock never strikes twelve for tn
night but only twelve for the day.
Sec that light In the window. ! wondov
WHO set it there. "0hr' you say; 'M,
again. my mother, VIII died fifteen year
ago In jesus I think must have set that igh
there" No; guess again. You say: IN,
darling little child, that last summer / pu
away for the resurrection. 1 think she mus
have set that light there in the Windows No
guess nSaiu. Jesus set IL there, q ID
win keep II burning until th
latch Of the door and go in to be a
homeforeyer. OH when my sight gets blacl
IN death, put on my eyelids that sweet DIN
ment. When in the last WEAKNESS / canno
take another step, just help me put my foo
on that doorsiu. When my ear catches n
moro the voices Of wife and child, let me q
right in, to have my deafness cured by til
stroke Of the harpers whose fingers fy owe
the strings with the anthems of the free.
Heaven never burns DOWN. The fires O
the last day, that are already kindled In til,
heart Of the earth, but are hidden becaus,
God keepe down the hatches-those interna
fires will sitter . while break through tn
crust and the plains and the mountains an,
the seas win be consumed, and the dnme
will fling their long arms into the skies: bu
all the tarrors Of q burning world will do n,
more harm to that heavenly temple than Ii,
fires of the setting sun which hadle 10 Ii
window glass of the house on yondsr hill top