Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-03-07

But now / come nearer home and put q
dark saying on the gospel harp, a style OF
question that is asked a million times a year.
Interrogation the fourth: Why do / bave
it so hard while others have it so easyl or,
why do | have so much difficulty in getting
q livelihood while others go around
with a full portemonnaie! or, why
must | wear these plain Clothes while
Others have TO push hard to get their ward
robes closed. so crowded are they with brill
liant attirel or. why should | have to work so
hard while others have three hundred and
sixty-five holidays every yearl They are all
practically one question / answer them
by saying. it is because the Lord has
His favorites and He puts extra disci-
pline pom you, and extra trial, be-
cause he has for you extra glory, extra en-
thronement and extra felicities. That is no
guess of mine, but a divine say-so: "Whom
the Lord loveth He chasteneth.n "Well. >
says some one, 81 would rather have a little
less in heaven and a little more here. Discount
my heavenly robe ten per cent. and let me
now put it on. a fur lined overcoat; put me
in a less gorgeous room Of the house OF many
mansions and let me nave a house here in
a better neighborhood." No, no; God is not
going TO rob heaven, which is going TO be
your residence for nine hundred quadrillion
CT years, to fix up your earthly abode.
which YOU will occupy at most for less than
a century, and where you may perhaps
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one year, or perhaps a month
more. Now you had better cheerfully let
God have His way, for. you see. He has been
taken care of folks for near seven thousand
years, and knows how to do it, and can see
what IS best for you better than you can
yourself. Don't think you are too insignif-
cant TO be divinely cared for. 1t was said
that Diana, the goddess, couli not be pres
ent to keep her temple at Ephesus from burn-
ing 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
so great in small things as well as large
things that He could attend the cradle of n
bate and at the same time the burning Of a
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 he: II am
so glad Goo did not let me have it my own
way" Your case will be all fixed up in
heaven and there will DO such n reversal
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 neighhorhoods will be found. be-
cause of our lukewarmness of earthly
service, living on one of the back streets OF
the celestial city. and clear down at the end
of it at No. sos. or 900. or 1906, while
some who had unattractive earthly
abodes, and a cramped one at
that, will, in the heavenly city, be in a
house fronting the Royal plaza. right by the
imperial fountain, or on the heights over
looking the River OF Life. the chariots OF
salvation hating Mt your door while those
visit you who are more than conquerors,
and those who are Kings and Queens
unto God forever. You. my brother, and
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
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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
incredulous because you thought it too
good TO be truef' And you will
answer: you were right. the half
was not told me!' So this morning / open
your dark saying Of despondency and com
plant on my gospel harm and give you just
one ar of music, for | do not pretend to be
much of a PLAYER. ''The Lamb which is in
the midst of the throne shall lead hem to
living fountains of water and God shall wipe
away all tears from their eyes" But
/ must confess | am n little perplexed
how some Of you good Christians ARE going
to get throu b the gate. because there will
be so many there to greet you and they will
all want TO shake hands at once and will all
want the first kiss They will have heard
that Won are coming. aud thew will all press
around IN welcome you and will want you TO
NdN NhtAhNt 1oA hhba bhSih uANCA htAAb ~
long parted.
Amid the tussle and romp Of reunion | tell
YOU whose hand of welcome you vac better
first clasp and whose cheek is entitled TO the
first kiss. II is the hand and the cheek
OF Him without whom you would
never nave got there at all, the
Lord Jesus. the darling of the skies. as He
crits out: II have loved thee with an ever
lasting love and the fires could not burn It
and the fools could not drown it.n 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 your
own harps from the willows that grow by
the eternal water courses and play together
those celestial airs. some OF the names of
which are entitled: ''TAe King in His
Beauty ''The land That Was far on"
Jerusalem. the Golden Home Again.
The Grand March Of God.r ''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 hal been rollef
into one and Israel in Egpyt' and 'Jeph-
tha's Daughter and Beethoven's Overture
in CT and Ritter's first sonata in ID minor
the 'Cr alton ami the Messiah had
been blown from the lips of one trumpet or
been invoked bv the sweer of one bow or
had been dropped from the vibrating chords
of one harp.
But here / must slow up lest in trying to
solve mysteries ! add to the mystery that we
have already wondered at; namely: Why
preachers should keep on after all the hear
ers are tiredi So | gather up into one
great armful all the WINS, and hows.
wherefo-es Of your life and mine,
which we nave not had time or the
abilitv TO answer. and write on them the
words '.adjourned to eternity rejoice
that we do not understand all things now,
for If we did, what would We learn IN
If we knew it all down ! ere IN the
freshman and sophomore class. what would
be the use Of our going up 10 stand AMID
the juniors and the s%eniorst IL We could
put down one leg of the compass and
with the other sweep a circle clear around
the ~inscrutables, II we could MT our little
stewards and weigh the throne OF the Om-
if we could with our seven day
clock measure eternity. what would be lett
for hea venly revelation. so l move that we
rheerfully adjourn what is now be-
vond our comprehension, and as
to Rolln, the historian.
Alexander the Great, having obtained
he gold casket in which Darius had kept his
rare perfume. used that aromatic caskes
thereafter to keep his favorite copy Of Homer
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