The Odessa herald. (Odessa, Del.) 1888-1892, 1889-03-02

my heavenly robe ten per cent, and let me
in less gorgeous room of the house Of many
mansions ard let me have a house here in
better neighborhood. No, no; God is not
going to rob heaven, which Is going to be
your residence for nine hundred quadriion
of years, to fix up your earthly abode,
which you will occupy at most for less than
century, and where you may perhaps
stay only ten years longer, or only
one year, or perhaps month
more. Now you had better cheerfully let
God have His way, for, you see, He has been
taken care of folks for near seven Thousand
years. and knows how to do it. and can see
what is best for you better than you can
yourself. Don't think you are too insignif-
cant to be divinely cared for. It was said
that Diana, the goddess could not be pres
ent to keep her temple at Ephesus from burn
ing because she was attending upon the birth
OF him who was to be Alexander the Great
But / tell you that your God and my God is
so great in small things as well as large
things that He could attend the cradle of a
babe and at the same time the burning Of
world.
And God will make IL all right with you,
and there is one song that YOU will sing
every hour your first ten years in heaven,
and the refrain of that song will be: II am
so glad God did not let me have it my own
way" Your case will be all fixed up in
heaven and there will be such a reversal
find each other for some time. Some of US
who have lived in first rate houses here and
in first rate neighhorhoods will be found, be-
cause of our lukewarmness of earthly
service, living on one OF the back streets Of
the celestial city, and clear down at the end
of it at No. s0S or 909 or 1905, while
some who had unattractive earthly
nbodes, and cramped one at
that, win, in the heavenly city, be in a
house fronting the Royal plaza, right by the
imperial fountain, or on the heights over
looking the River of Life, the chariots of
salvation battling at your door while those
visit you who are more than conquerors,
and those who are Kings and Queens
unto God forever. YOU my brother, and
you, my sister, who have i 50 hard here
will have it SO fine and grand there that
you will hardly know yourself and will feel
disposed to dispute your own identity, and
the first time see you there | will cry out;
"Didn't | tell you so when you sat down
there in the Brooklyn Tabernacle and looked
good to be truep And you will
answer; "You were right, the half
was not told meir So this morning open
your dark saying of dependency and COM
plaint on my gospel harp and give you just
one bar of music, for do not pretend to be
the midst of the throne shall lead them to
living fountains of water and God shall wipe
away all tears from their eyes.n But
must confess | am a little perplexed
how some Of you good Christians are going
to get throu h 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 coming, and they will all press
around to 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 better
first clasp and whose cheek is entitled to the
first kiss. 1t Is the hand and the cheek
Of a,or Him So,a without lnos +So whom you woald
Lord Jesus, the darling of the skies, as He
cries out: II have loved thee with an ever
| lasting love and the fires could not burn it
and the floods could not drown it.n Then
You, my dear people, having no more uss
for my poor harp on which 7 used
essrds sorsetiries smapIsdssasdsAposlingi
| Jh5 symphony, you'd win take down your
| own harps from the willows that grow by
] the eternal water courses and play together
which are entitled: sThe King in HIS
Beauty" ''The Land That Was Far Of,n
''Jerusalem the Golden,n Home Again. y
THE Grand March of God,n HThe
! Life Everlasting" And as the last
| dark curtain of mystery is forever lifted
/ " Will D6 us buOuRu Hu bub pfu-
torios that were ever heard had been rolled
| into one and 'Israel in Egpytn and "Jeph-
| thas Daughter and Beethovenis "Overture
In O" and Ritter's first sonata in d minor
| and the ''Creationn and the 'Messiahn had
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 tc
solve mysteries l add to the mystery that we
have already wondered at; namely: Why
| preachers should keep on after all the hear
ers are tired9 So 1 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 eternity" l rejoice
| that we do not understand all things now,
| for If we did, what would we learn in
heaven9 If we knew it all down ere in the
| freshman and sophomore class what would
be the use of our going up to stand amid
| the juniors and the senorsi IL we could
| put down one leg of the compass and
with the other sweep circle clear around
all the inscrutabes, if we could lift our little
| steelyards and weigh the throne of the 0m-
nipotent, if we could with our seven day
clock measure eternity, what would be left
| for heavenly revelations So move that we
| yond 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 aromatic casket
thereafter to keep his favorite copy Of Homer
| in, and called the hook therefore, the ''edi-
tion of the casket,n and at night he put the
caslSet and his sword under his pillow,
| so put this day into the perfum u casket OF
| your richest affections and hopes this prom
| Use, worth more than anything Homer ever
wrote or sword ever conquered: "What !
do thou knowest not now, but thou shalt
know hereafter" and that call the edition
| celestial"