Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1889-01-06

Wutlp vi tDe lion takeS It's DfSt btep
from the Jungle of luxuriant leaf and
wild flower, the kid of goat is born in
cavern chandeliered with stalactite
and pillared with stalagmite. Christ
was born in bare barn. Yet that
nativity was the offenders hope. Over
the door OF heaven are written these
words: None but the sinless may
enter here"
"0h, horror" you say, that shuts
US all oul" No. Christ came TO the
world in one door, and he departed
through another door. He came
through the door of the manger, and
he departed through the door OF the
sepulcher, and his one business was
so TO wash away our sin that one
second after we are dead there will be
no more sin about US than about the
eternal God.
know that is putting it strongly,
but that is what ] understand by full
remission. All erased, all washed
away. all secured out all gone That
undergirding and overarching and ir-
radiating and imparadising possibility
for you, and for me. and for the whole
| race was given on that Christmas night
WHY WE BRING FLOWERS
Do you wonder we bring flowers To-
day TO celebrate such an EVENT. Do
you wonder that we take organ and
cornet and youthful voice u d queenly
soloist TO celebrate in Do you won
that Raphael and Rubens and Titan
and Giotto and GhirlandaIo and all
the old Italian and German painters
gave the mightiest stroke OF the pencil
TO sketch the Madonna. Mary and her
boyi
OH now / see what the manger
was. Not so high as the gilded and jew
eled and embroidered cradle OF the
Henrys OF England, or the Louises of
France. or the Fredericks Of Prussia
Now find out Of that Bethlehem crib
fed not SO much the oxen of the stall
as the white horses Of Apocalyptic
vision. Now | find the swaddling
clothes enlarging and emblazoning
into an imperial robe for conqueror.
Now | find that the star OF that
Christmas night was only the diamond
sandal of him who hath the moon un-
der his feet. Now l come to under
stand that the music OF that night was
not complete song, but only the
stringing Of the instruments for q
great chorus Of two worlds. the base
10 be carried by earthly nations saved,
and the soprano by kingdoms Of glory
won.
Oh. heaven, heaven. heavenl
shall meet you there. After all our
imperfections are gone, ! shall meet
you there. | look out today. through
the mist Of years. through the fog that
rises from the cold Jordan, through
the wide open door OF solid pearl, 70
that reunion ! expect TO see you
there, as certainly as ] see you here.
What a time we shall have. in high
converse. talking over sins pardoued,
and SORROWS comforted. and battles
triumphant
| ! am going in. ] am going TO take
all my family with me. | am going
10 take all my church with me. l am
going TO take all my friends and
neignbors with me. have so much
faith in manger and cross l feel sure
Of it. am going 10 coax you in. ]
am going TO push you in. By holy
stratagem ! am going TO surprise you
in Yea. with all the concentrated
energy OF my nature-physical. mem
, tai, spiritual and immorta1-I am go
, ing TO compel you 10 go in. ] like you
SO well | want 10 spend eternity with
you'll
Some of your children have already
gone. Some time ago buried one of
them, and though people passing
along the street and seeing white
Grape ON the doorbell may have said,
, ut is only a child" yet when thc
broken hearted father came 10 solicit
my service he said: Come around
: and comfort us. for though she was
only IS months old we loved her &c
, much" Ali il does not take long for
: child to get its arms around the pa
! rents whole nature.
What a Christmas morning il will
make when those with whom you
J keep the holidays are all around you
; in heavcni Silver haired old father
young again. and mother who had &C
many aches and pains and decrep
,, itudes we'll again. and all your broth
! ers aud sisters and the little ones
! How glad they will be 10 see you'll
THEY WILL WELCOME Us.
They have been waiting. The las
, time they saw your face II wa
covered with tears and distress am
, pallid from long watching. an'
: one Of them can imagine today. witt
/ one hand holding fast the shininl
; gate, and the other hand swung ou
toward you, saying:
D Steer this way. father. steer strairht for ncs
Here safe In heaven am waiting for thea
, OIL those Bethlehem angels. who
Z they went back after the concert tbs
night over the. hills. forgot TO shut th
q door. All the secret is out No MOI
1 use Of trying 10 hide from us the ri,
/ ries 10 come II is too late 10 shut II
= gate. II is blocked wide open vii
r hosannas marching this way, and d.
Z ieluiahs marching that way.
. What almost unmans me IA u
} thought that il il provided for u,o
0 sinners as you and I have been III
{ had been provided only for those vi
0 had always thought right. and spoko
night and acted right you and ! wou|
{ have had no interest Ia IL, had no sha1
. IN 1t; you and would have stuck
r ne raft midocean, and lct The ~
, :an by, carrying perfect pansnGeI
o. from n ncr{cct lilo ~. no-kL A, = -.