The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1889-11-01
The trumpet gives n martial strain
o lsrael! grid the for the fight;
Arise, the combat to maintains;
AriRe and nut thy fnas tn ni,rht

We also feel rein orced by the thought TINT
We are on the why to heaven that can
never burn down. Fires may sweep through
other citles-bnt am glad to know that
the New Jerusalem ID fire proof. There will
be no engines rushing through these streets;
there will be no temples consumed in TINT
city. Coming to the doors of that church,
We will find them open, resonant with songs,
md not cries of fire. Oh my dear brother
and sister, il this short lane OF lie comes up
so soon to that blessed place, what is the
use Of worrying? have felt n good many
many times this last week like Father Taylor,
the sailor preacher. He got in n long sen:
lost himself, md could not find his why out
Of the sentence He stopped and said
Brethren, have lost the nomnative OF this
sentence, and things are generally mixed up.
but am bound for the kingdom anyhow -
And during this Inst week when saw tho
rushing to md fro and the excitement,
said to myself, 81 do not know just where
We shallstart again, but am bound for the
kingdom anyhow" do not want to go
just yet. want to he pastor of this people
until am about 80 years of ngc, but have
sometimes thought that there IRE such glo.
ries ahead that may he persuaded to go q
little earlier-for instance, Mt 81 or 80; but
really think that, il ne could hive un appre-
citation Of what God has in reserve for us.
We would want to go, stepping right out Of
the Academy OF Music into the glories Of the
skies.
Ali! that is good land. Why, they tell
Inc that in that land they never have Il heart
ache. They tell me That IL man might wnlk
500 years in that land and never see tear
or hear sigh. They tell me that our friends
who have left us and gone there, their feet
are radiant US the sun, and thut they take
hold Of the hand of Jesus familiarity, and that
they open that hand md see in the palm
oft o healed wound that must have been
very cruel before it was healed. And they
that.they never get hungry 0rcold, and that
the sewing girl never wades through the
snow bunk to her daily TOLL and that the
clock never strikes II for the night, but only
IL for the day.
See that light in the window. I wonder
who set it there. "Oh!" you say, my father
@ %s9h into %n so mp Na haye set as tnat
My mother. who died Is years ago in Jesus,
think must have set that light there" MOI
guess again. You shy: "My darling little
child. TINT last summer put away for the
resurrection. think she must hive net that
light there in the window" No; guess again.
until the day we put our finger on the
latch Of the door and go in to lie Mt home
forever. Oh! when my sight gets black in
death put ON my eyelids that sweet oint.
ment When in the last weariness cannot
take another step, just help me put my
foot on that door sill When my ear catches
no more the voices of vie and child, let me
60 right In, to have my deafness cured by
the stroke OF the harpers whose fingers fly
over the strings with the anthems OF the free
Heaven never burns down! The tiros Of
the last day. that are already kindlsd in the
heart of the earth but ore hidden because
God keeps down the hatehes..those internal
fires will after while break through the
crust. and the plains and the mountains.
and the sens will be consumed, and the flames
will fling their long arms into theskies; bnt all
the terrors Of q burning world will do no
more harm to that heavenly temple than the
fires Of the setting sun which kindle up the
window glass of the house on yonder Hill top.
Oh, blessed iandl But | do not want to 20
there until see the Brooklyn Tabernacle re.
built. You cay. "Will it be-" Yon might as
us well ask me il the run will rise tomorrow
morning, or il the next spring will put gar.
lands on his head. You ind may not do it
you and may not live to see it; but the
Church Of GOD does not stand on two legs
nor on q Thousand legs.