The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-11-28

nigh places, and gave sumptuous en-
tertainments; but pauper children will
sing it, beggars will sing it, redeemed
hod carriers will sing it, those who
were once the oifscouring of earth
will sing it. The hallelujab will be
all the grander for earth's weeping
eyes, and aching heads, and exhausted
hands, and scourged backs, and mar
tyred agonies.
BEFORE THE THRONE OF GOD.
Again: The thought of my texts is
true when applied to the enjoyment
of the righteous in heaven. l think
we have but little idea of the number
of the righteous in heaven Infidels
say: Your heaven will be very
small place compared with the world
of the lost; for, according to your
teaching, the majority of men will be
destroyed" | deny the charge. l
suppose that the multitude of the
finally lost, as compared with the null
titude of the finally saved, will be a
handful. l suppose that the few sick
people in the hospitals of our great
cities, as compared with the hundreds
of thousands of well people, would
not be smaller than the number of
those who shall be cast out in suffer
ing, compared with those who shall
have upon them the health of heaven.
For we are to remember that we are
living in only the beginning of the.
Christian dispensation, and that this
whole world is to be populated and
redeemed, and that ages of light
and love are TO flow on. If this
be SO, the multitudes of the
saved will be in vast majority.
Take all the congregations that
have assembled for worship through
out Christendom. Put them together,
and they would make but a small au-
dience compared with the thousands
and tens of thousands, and ten thou
sand times ten thousand, and the hun
dred and forty and four thousand that
shall stand around the throne. Those
flashed up to heaven in martyr fires;
those tossed for many years upon the
invalid couch; those fought In the ar
mics of liberty, and rose as they fell
those tumbled from high scaffoldings,
OR slipped from the mast, or were
washed off into the sea- They came up
from Corinth, from Laodicea, from the
lNSNl Std DStllh iuO NdNt,
from Egyptian brickyards and Glide
on's threshing floor. Those thou
sands of years ago slept the last sleep,
and these are this moment having
their eyes closed, and their limbs
stretched out for the sepulcher.
A general expecting an attack from
! the enemy stands on hill and looks
through a field glass and sees in the
great distance multitudes approaching,
] but has no idea of their numbers. He
says: II cannot tell anything about
them. | merely know that there are
a great number" And so John, with
out attempting to count, says; "a
great multitude that no man can num-
ber" We are told that heaven is a
place of happiness; but what do we
know about happiness9 Happiness in
this world is only half fledged thing;
fowery path, with a serpent kissing
across it; broken pitcher, from which
the water has dropped before we could
drink it; thrill of exhilaration, fol
lowed by disastrous reactions. To help
us understand the JOY of heaven, the
Bible takes us to river: We stand
/ on the grassy bank We see the wa
| JeTS HOW OH Will CtdScItSS wave. Dub
the filth of the cities is emPtied into
it, and the banks are torn, and un-
healthy exhalations spring up from it,
and we fail to get an idea of the River
of Life in heaven.
IN HEAVEN REUNION WILL BE PERFECT.
We get very imperfect ideas of the
reunions Of heaven. We think of
some festal day on earth, when father
and mother were yet living, and the
children came home. A good time,
thatl But it had this drawback-all
were not there That brother went
off to sea, and never was heard from.
That sister-did wo not lay her away
in the freshness of her young life,
never more in this world TO look upon
here All there was a skeleton at the
feast; and tears mingled with our
laughter on that Christmas day. Not
so with heavens reunions. 1t will be
an uninterrupted gladness. Many
Christian parent will look around and
find all his children there. "Ahp he
says, ''can it be possible that we arc
all here-life's perils over2 the Jordan
passed and not one wanting2 Why,
oven the prodigal is here. / almost
gave him up. How long he despised
my counselsl but grace hath tri-
umphed All here all herel Tell the
mighty JOY through the city. Let
the bells ring, and the angels mention
it in their song Wave it from tho
top of the walls, All herel"
No more breaking of heartstrings,
but face to face The orphans that
were left poor and in a merciless
world. kicked and cuifed of many
hardships, shall join their parents
over whose graves they so long vept,
and gaze into their gloriaed counte-
nances forever, face 10 face. We may
come up from different parts of the
world, one from the land and another
from the depths Of the sea; from lives
affluent and prosperous, or from scenes
OF ragged distress; but we shall all
meet in rapture and jubilee, face TO
face.
Many of our friends have entered
upon that Joy. A few days ago they
sat with us studying these Gospel
themes; but they only saw dimly-
now revelation hath come. Your
time will also come God will not
leave you foundering in the darkness.
You stand wonderstruck and amazed.
You feel as if all the loveliness of life
were dashed out. You stand gazing
into the open chasm of the grave
Wait little. In the presence OF your
departed and Of him who carries them
in his bosom, you shall soon stand
face to face. OH that our last houi
may kindle up with this promised JOY
May we be able to say, like the Chris
tian not long ago, departing: Though
a pilgrim walking through the valley
the mountain tops are cleaning from
peak to peak p or, like my dear friend
and brother, Alfred Goodman, who
took his flight to the throne of God
saying in his last moment that which
has already gone into Christian class
les: IL am sweeping through the
pearly gate, washed in the blood oi
the lambl"
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