The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-05-10

Didn't I tell you so when you sat down
there in the Brooklyn Tabernacle and looked
ncredulous because you thought it too
good to be trueN And you will
answer; 'sYou were right. the half
was not told mel" So this morning l open
your dark saying of dependency and com
plant on my gospel harp and give you just
one bar of music, for do not pretend to be
much of player "The Lamb which is in
the midst of the throne shall lead them to
living fountains of water and God shall wipe
away ali tears from their eyes, 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 y0u 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 tn welcome yon 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 the cheek
Of Him without whom you would
never have got there at all, the
Lord Jesus, the darling of the skies, as He
,ries out: 81 have loved thee with an ever
lasting love and the fires could not burn it
and the floods could not drown it Then
you, my dear people, having no more uss
Tor my poor harp on which | used
20 open your dark sayings and whose
chords somstimes snapped, despoiling
the symphony, you will take down your
OWN harps from the willows that grow by
the eternal water courses and play together
hose celestial airs, some Of the names Of
which are entitled: 1.-THE King in His
Beauty" 1.-THE Land That Was Far or
Jerusalem, the Golden, Home Again.
The Grand March Of God 1.-THE
Life Everlasting And as the last
lark curtain of mystery is forever lifted
t win be as though all the ora
sorios that were ever heard had been rolled
nto one and Israel in Egypt and "Jeph
has Daughter" and Beethoven's Overture
n Cn and Ritters first sonata in 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 been dropped from the vibrating chords
Of one harp.
But here must slow up lest in TRYING to
olve mysteries l add to the mystery that we
nave already wondered at; namely: WHY
preachers should keep on after all the hear
great armfu. all the why's, and hows,
and wherefores of your life and mine,
which We have not had time or the
ibility to answer. and write on them the
words adjourned to eternity.n I rejoica
that we do not understand all things now.
for If we did, what would we learn in
heaven. If we knew it all down tere in the
freshman and sophomore class, what would
be the use Of our going up to stand amid
the juniors and the seniorsl 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 Om-
nipotent if we could with our seven day
clock measure eternity. what would be left
for heavenly revelationl So move that we
adjourn what is now be-
yond orr 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 book, therefore. the ''edi-
ton of the casket," and at night he put the
casket and his sword under his pillow,
so put this ~ into the perfum casket Of
your richest affection and hopes this prom
ise, worth more than anything Homer ever
wrote or sword ever conquered: What I
do thou knowest not now, but thou shalt
aRow hereafter and that call the edition
celestial y