The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-03-14

"Didnr I tall you so whom you sat down
there in the Brooklyn Tabernacle and looked
incredulous because you thought IL TO
good 10 bs true" And you WI
answer, "You were right, the hall
was not told mel" So this morning ! open
plant on my gospel harp and give you ju'.
one bar OF music, for do not pretend TO o'
much OF a player. "The Lamb which Is IN
the midst OF the throne shall lead them ~
living fountains OF water and God SHAH wipe
away all tears from their eyes" BIZ,
I must confess l am =, little psrp,s aie,
10 get throu h the gate, because there VIII
be so many there to greet you and they VIII
all want to shake hands at once and viii al
want the first kiss. They will have heart
that you are coming, and they viii all press
around tn welcome you and will want you to
say whether you know them after being So
Amid the tussle and romp of reunion tell
You whose hand of welcome you had bette
first clasp and whose cheek is entitled TO the
first kiss. 1t is the hand and the cheek
OF Him without ,S whom you wo ND
Lord Jesus, the darling Of the skies, as IIo
cries out: ~ have loved thee with an ever.
lasting love and the fires could not burn -
and the floods could not drown it." Thci,
you, my dear people, having no more u.s.
for my poor harp on which used
70 open your dark saying, and s,, whose
the symphony, you will take down yc"r
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: 1.-THE King In Es
Beauty" 1.-THE Land That Was Far or,
Jerusalem, the Golden Home Again, gain.
Life Everlasting" And as the last
dark curtain of mystery is forever LITE!
| il will be as though all the oras
torios that were ever heard had been rolled
into one and Israel in Egypt" and 'Jeph|
tha's Daughter and Beethoyen's "Cvertu7s
| in CT and Ritter's first sonata in d minor
and the Creation and the messiah" hail
| been blown from the lips Of one trumpet or
been invoked by the sweep OF one bow or
had been dropped from the vibrating chords
of one harp.
But here must slow up lest in trying to
solve mysteries add to the mystery that wa
have already wondered at; namely; Why
preachers should keep on after all the hear
ers arc tired! So / gather up into on
| 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 tho
words adjourned to eternity" 1 reJoio''
that we do not understand all things now
for il we did, what would we learn hi
heavenl II we knew it all down tere in ths
freshman and sophomore class, what woul ,
be the use Of our going up TO stand ANU ,
the juniors and the seniors' II we coul',
put down one leg OF the compass and
with the other sweep a circle clear around
ali the inscrutables, if we could lift our little
steelyards and weigh, the throne OF the o N.
nipotent, il we could with our seven da
clock measure eternity. what would be lei .
for heavenly revelation So move that W we
cheerfully adjourn what is now be
yond our comprehension, and Us
according to Rollin, the historian
Alexander the Great, having oota . S''
the void casket in which Darius had kept his
rare perfume used that aromatic caske
thereafter to keep his favorte copy Of or Home aa
ton OF the casket.n and at night he put tbs
casket and his sword under his pillow
so put this day into the perfum ID casket o
your richest affections and hopes this prom
'se worth more than anything Homer eve
wrote or sword ever conquered: What
do thou knowest not now, but thou snal
know hereafter and that call the ''editio
| celestial