Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-10-31


sorrow. The people who, during the las
sixteen years, sat on the other side of til,
aisle, whose faces were familiar to you, but
to whom you had never spoken-you greeted
them this week with smiles and tears rs you
said: swell, the old place is gone" You
did not want to seem to cry, and so you
swept the sleeve near the corner of the eye,
and pretended it was the sharp wind made
your eyes weak. Ali there was nothing
the matter with your eyes; it was your soul
bubbing over. / tell you that it is impossi-
BILE to sit for years around the same church
fireside and not have sympathes in common.
Somehow you feel that you would like those
people on the other side of the aisle, about
whom you know but little. prospered and
pardoned and blessed and saved. You feel
as if YOU are in the same boat, and you want
| to glide up the same harbor and want to dis
embark ut the same wharf.
If you put gold and iron and lead and zine
In sufficient heat. they will melt into a con-
! glomerate mass; and ! really feel that last
Sabbath's fire has fused us all, grosser and
| finer natures into one. 1t seems as If we all
| had our hands on wire connected with an
| electric battery; and when this church sor-
row started it thrilled through the whole cir
Gle, and we all felt the shock. The Oldest
man and the youngest child could join hands
| In this misfortune. Grandfather said, IL
expected from those affairs to be buried;"
and one of the children last Sabbath cried.
"Grandpa. that place was next to our own
house." Yea, we are supported and confi-
dent in this time by the cross of Christ.
That is used TO the fire. On the dark day
when Jesus died, the lightning struck it from
above, and the flames of hell dashed up
against it from beneath. That fearful, pain
full, tender, blessed cross still stands. On tive
hang all our hopes; beneath it we put down
all our sins; in the light OF it we expect 10
make the rest Of our pilgrimage. Within
sight of such.a sacrifice, who can feel he has
ii hard? In the sight Of such symbol, who
can be discouraged, however great the dark
ness that may come down upon himy Jesus
lives The loving, patient, sympathizing,
mighty Jesus 1t shall not be told on earth,
or in hell. or in heaven, that three Hebrew
children had the Son of God beside them
In the fire, and that a whole church
was fcrsaken by the Lord when they went
through furnace about two hundred feet
wide.
o Lord Jesus! shall we take out of Thy
hand the flowers and the fruits, and the
brightness and the joys, and then turn away
because Thou dost give us one cup Of bitter
ness to drink Oh, no, Jesus we will drink
it dry. But how it is changed Blessed
Jesus, what hast Thou put into the cup to
sweeten it9 Why, 1t has become the wine OF
heaven, and our souls grow strong. | come
now, and place both of my feet down into the
blackened ashes Of our consumed church,
and / cry out with an eXhilaration that !
never felt since the day OF my souls enamel
patton. "Victory victory through our Lord
Jesus CHRISTI"
Your harps, We trembling saints,
Down from the willows take,
Loud to the praise of love divine
Bid every string awake.
We are also REINFORCED by the cathocity |
that have already referred TO. We are in |
the Academy today, not because we have no |
other place to go. Last Sabbath morning at /
8 O'Clock we had but one church; now we
have about thirty, all at our disposal. Their
pastors and their Trustees say: "You may
take our main audience rooms, YOU may take
our lecture rooms, you may take our church
parlors, you may baptise IN our baptisteries,
and sit on our anxious seats.r Oh! If there
be any larger hearted ministers or larger
hearted churches anywhere than in Brooklyn,
tell me where they are, that may 20 and see
them before die. The millennium has come.
People keep wondering when it is coming.
1t has come. The lion and the lamb lie down
and the tiger eats straw like an OK.
should like TO have seen two OF the old
line bgots, with their swords, fighting
through that great fire on Schermerhorn
street last Sabbath. / am sure the
'words would have melted, and
hey who welded them would
I
! word against any other denominations Of
Christians. | thank God | never have been
empted 10 do it. / cannot be a scctarian.
AVE been tod ought to be, and have tried
o be, but have not enough material In me
o make such a structure. Every time get
he thing most done, there comes a fire or
omething else, and all is gone. The angels
Il God shake out on this air, ''GlOry to God
n the highest, and on earth peace, good will ,
oward men," do not know but | see on
he horizon the first CLEAN of the morning ,
which shall unite all denominations in one ,
rganization, distinguished only by the To-
atty as in apostolic times. 1t was I
hen the Church Of Thyatira, and the I
'hurch of Thcssalonica, and the /.
,hurch Of Antioch, and the Church Of Lao 4
icea. SO do not know but that in the fu- !
are history, and not far off either, il may be !
imply distinction of locality, and not OF !
reed, us the Church Of New York, the !
hurch OF Brooklyn, the Church of Boston,
le Church Of Charleston, the Church Of !
ladras, the Church Of Constantnople, the I
hurch Of America.
My dear brethren, we cannot afford 10 be !
,verely divided. Standing in front of the !
reat foes OF our common Christianity, we +
ant TO put on the whole ar1nor of God and |
arch down in solid column. shoulder TO I,
loulderl one commander one triumph.
and during this last week, when saw the
lshihS 10 and fro ana the excitement, said
myself, Il do not know just where we
lall start again, but / am bound for the \
ngdom anyhow" l do not want to 20
st yet. want TO be pastor OF this people
ltil am about eighty-nlne years of age, but :,
have sometimes thought that there are such !,
Dries ahead that may be persuaded to 20 .
little earlier-for instance, at eighty-two or I,
ghty-three; but | really think that, IL we a
uid have an appreciation OF what God has Il
reserve for US, we would want to go, step =
ng right out Of the Academy Of Music into =
C glories Of the skies. \ !,
The trumpet gives martial strain a
q Israel. grid thee for the fight: a
Arisc, the combat to maintain: II
Arise, and put thy foes to flight. "
We also feel reinforced by the thought Y
At we are on the way to heaven that can n
Ner burn down. Fires may sweep u
rough other cities-but / am glad TO know l
az the New Jerusalem is lireproof. There "
III be no engines rushing through those ..
reefs; there will be no temples consumed :
that city. Coming to the doors of that W
lurcn, we will find them open, resonant a'
TN songs, and not cries of fire. Oh, NV u
ar brother and sister, il this short lane OF p
comes up so soon to that blessed place, u