Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-03-03

ira enthfonement and extra felicities.
That is no guess of mine, but q divine
say-so: Whom the Lord loveth he
chasteneth." well, says some one, 81
would rather have a little lessin heaven
and a little more here. Discount my
heavenly robe 10 per cent. and let me
now put il on, q fur lined overcoat;
put me in a less gorgeous room OF the
house of many mansions and let me
have a house here in a better neigh
borhood." No, no; God is not going
TO rob heaven, which is to be your
residence for nine hundred quadrillion
of years, TO fix up your earthly abode,
which you will occupy at most for less
than a century, and where you may
perhaps stay only ten years longer, or
only n year, or perhaps a month
more. Now you had better cheerfully
let God have his way, for, you see, he
has been taking are of folks for near
seven thousand years, and knows how
TO do il, and can see what is best for
you better han you can yourself.
Don't think you are too insignificant
to be divinely cared for. II was said that
Diana, the goddess, could not be pres
ent to keep her temple at Ephesus from
burning 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 20 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 q world.
And God will make it 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 re-
versal OF conditions that we can hardly
find each other for some time. Some
of us who have lived in first rate
houses here and in first rate neighbor.
hoods will be found, because Of our
lukewarmness Of earthly service, liv'
ing on one of the back streets Of the
celestial city, and clear down at the
end of it at No. sos, or 909, or 1905,
while some who had unattractivt
earthly abodes, and a cramped one al
that, will, in the heavenly city, be in Q
house fronting the Royal plaza, RICH,
by the imperial fountain, or on the
Heights overlooking the River Of Life,
the chariots Of salvation hating al
your door while those visit you who
r more than conquerors, and those
who are kings and queens unto God
forever. You, my brother, and you,
my sister, who have it SO hard here
will have i so fine and grand there that
you will hardly know yourself and
will feel disposed to dispute your OWL
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 in.
credulous because you thought it toe
good to be true2" And you will
answer; "You were right, the hall
was not told mel" So this morning ]
open your dark saying of dependency
and complaint on my gospel harp and
give you Just one bar of music, for
do not pretend to be much of a PLAYER
"The Lamb which is in the midst Of
the throne shall lead them to living
fountains of water and God shall wipt
away all tears from their eyes" Blu
/ must confess l am a little perplexet
how some Of you good Christians ar,
going to get through the gate, becaus,
there will be so many there to gree
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 long parted.
THINGS BEYOND OUR COMPREHENSION
SHOULD BE ADJOURNED.
Amid the tussle and romp of re.
union | tell you whose hand OF wei
come 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
cries out, II have loved thee with
an everlasting love and the fires
could not burn il and the floods could
not drown it," Then you, my dear
people, having no more use for my
poor harp ON which / used to open
your dark sayings and whose chords
sometimes snapped, despoiling the
symphony, you will take down YOU
own harps from the willows tina,
grow by the eternal water courses
and play together those celestial airs
some OF the anne Of which an
entitled, Tho King in His Beauty
THE Land That Was Far OFF,
Jerusalem, the Golden" HON,
Again" ''The Grand March Of God,
'The Life Everlasting" And as the
last dark curtain of mystery is forever
lifted it will be as though all the ora
torios that were ever heard had beer
rolled into one and Israel in Egypt
and "Jephtha's Daughter" and Bee
thoven's Overture in C' and Ritterl
first sonata in d minor and the "Cre.
ton" and the Messiah" had beer
blown from the lips Of one trumpet OF
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 try.
ing to solve mysteries / add 10 the
mystery that we have already won,
dered at; namely, Why preachers
should keep on after all the hearers