West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-03-07


what y best for You better than you can
yourself Don't think you arc too inNgnif-
sant 20 be divinely cared for 10 wss said
that Diana. the goddess couli not be pres.
snt To keep her temple at Ephesus from burn
ing because she was attending upon the birth
OF him who was 20 be Alexander the Great
but tell you that your God and my God is
30 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 Won.
and there IL one song that you will sing
svery hour your first ten years I'm heaven.
and the refrain OF that song will be: II am
so glad God did not let mo have it my own
way" Your case win be all fixed up i'm
heaven and there will be such q reversal
afnd s ecgdl ntens ,o that We cap hardly
who have lived In first rate houses here and
In first rate neighborhoods will be found, be-
cause OF our lukewarmness OF earthly
service living on ono OF the back streets OF
the celestial city, and Gear down at the end
OF IL at No. sos. or 900. or 1908, while
some who had unattractive earthly
abodes, and cramped ono at
that, win. i'm the heavenly city, be in a
house fronting the Royal plaza. right by the
looking the River Of Life, the chariots OF
salvation halting Mt your door while those
visit you who arc more than conquerors,
and those who are Kings and Queens
you, my sister, who have IL so hard here
will have IL so fine and grand there that
you will hardly know yourself and will feel
disposed 70 dispute your own Identity, and
the first time see you there 1 will cry out;
didn't tell you so when you sat down
there IN the Brooklyn Tabernacle and looked
mcreduious because you thought Il too
good to Ice truey' And You will
answer: You, were right the half
was not told mel" SO this morning open
your dark saying OF despondency and com.
plant ON my gospel harp and give you Just
one ar OF music, for do not pretend to be
much OF player "The Lamb which is i'm
the midst OF the throne shall lead them TO
living fountains OF water and God shall wipe
away all tears from their eyesn But
] must confess ] am a little perplexed
how some OF you good Christians are going
70 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 aud will all
want tho first kiss. They will have heard
that you are coming, and they will all press
around 10 welcome you 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 10 the
first kiss 1t IS the hand and tho cheek
OF Him without whom you would
never have got there at all, the
Lord Jesus; the darling of the skies. as He
lasting love and the fires could not burn IL
and tho floods could not drown itn Then
you, my dear people, having no moro us9
for my poor harp on which I used
to open your dark sayings and whose
the symphony, you will take down your
own harps from the willows that grow by
the eternal water courses and play together
those celestial airs, some OF the names of
Beauty "The Land That Was Far OT,n
Jerusalem, the Golden" "Home Again.
The Grand March OF God" 1.-THE
Life Everlasting" And as the last
it will be as though all the ora
torios that were ever heard hal been rolled
into one and Israel I'm Egypt" and "Jeph.
mas Daughter" and Beethoven's "Overture
In =" and Ritter's first sonata In ID minor
and the "Cr alton" and the "Messiahn had
been blown from the lips OF one II umpet or
been invoked by the sweep OF one bow or
ned been dropped from the vibrating chords
of one harp.
But here l must slow up lest in trying TO
solve mysteries add TO tho mystery that wa
have already wondered at; namely: Wbv
preachers should keep on after all the hear
e ersa arc . IlreG 80 gather UP into one
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 10 eternity" I rejoice
that we do not under tand all things now.
for IL we did, what would we learn I'm
henyenf IL we knew il all down ere in the
freshman and sophomore class, what would
90 the use OF our going up To stand amid
the Juniors and the seniorsf III we could
put down one leg of the compass and
with the other sweep n circle clear around
all the inscrutab.es, ii we could lift our little
STEWARDS and weigh the throne of the ON
nipotent, II we could with our seven day
clock measure cternity. what wouh be ,sit
Tor heavenly revelationl so j move that we
cheerfuuy adjourn what Is now be.
yond our comprehension, and as
according TO Rollin, the historian.
Alexander the Great, having Obtained
the gold casket in which Darius nod kept his
rare perfume. used that aromatic casket
thereafter TO keep his favorite copy OF Homer
IN, and called the hook, therefore. tho ''edi-
ton OF the casket-p and at night he put the
casket and his sword under his pillow.
so put this d y into the perfum 4 casket OF
your riches affections aud hopes this pom
ise, worth mere than anything Homer ever
wrote or sword ever coaquersd: What I
40 thou knowest not now, but thou shalt
know hereafter" anil that ca the edition
celestial