Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-03-08

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 will have heard that you are COM
ing, and they will oil 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
tell you whose hand of welcome you
had better first clasp and whose cheek
is entitled to the first kiss. 1t is the
hand and cheek of Him without whom
you would never have got there at all,
the Lord Jesus, the darling of the skies,
as He cries out, Il have loved thee with
an everlasting love and the fires could
not burn it and the floods could not
drown it." Then you, my dear peo-
harp on which I used to open your
dark sayings and whose chords some
times snapped, despoiling the SYM
phony, 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" THE Land That
Was Far OFF, Jerusalem, the Golden"
Home Again" "The Grand March Of
God" The Life Everlasting" And as
the last dark curtain of mystery is for
ever lifted it will be as though all the
oraterios that were ever heard had been
rolled into one and Israel in Egypt"
and "Jephtha's Daughter" and Beetho-
VEINS Overture in c." 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 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 I
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 etern-
ity." 1 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 the seniors? If we could
put down one leg of the compass and
with the other sweep a circle clear
around all the inscrutables, if we could
lift our little steelyards and weigh the
throne of the Omnipotent, if we could
with our seven day clock measure etern-
ity, what would be left for heavenly
revelation? SO 1 move that we cheer
fully adjourn what is now beyond our
comprehension, and as according to
Rollin, the historian, Alexander
the Great, having obtained the
gold casket in which Darius had
kept his rare perfume, used that aro-
matte casket thereafter to keep his ia
yorite copy Of Homer in, and called the
book, therefore, the edition of the
casket, and at night he put the casket
and his sword under his pillow, SO I put
this day into the perfumed casket o.
your richest affections and hopes this
promise, worth more than anything
Homer ever wrote or sword ever con
quered: What do thou knowest not
now, but thou shalt know hereafter,
and that call the edition celestial"