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no complete solution OF the mystery.
He sees through a glass darkly, and
must wait for a higher unfolding. viii
there be an explanation? Yes; God
will take that man in the light of the
throne and say Child immortal. hear
the explanationl You remember the
failing OF that great enterprise. This il
the explanation" And you will answer;
at is all right"
see, every day, profosnd mysteries
OF Providence. There is no question
we ask oftener than Why? There arc
hundreds OF graves that need to be ex-
planned. Hospitals for the blind and
lame, asylums for the idiotic and in
sane, almshouses for the destitute and a
world of pain and misfortune that de-
mand more than human solution. All!
God will clear it all up. In the light
that pours from the throne nodark NJ vs.
terry can live. Things now utterly in
scrutable will be illumined as plainly
as though the answer were written on
the jasper wall or sounded In the temple
anthem. Bartimeus will thank God
that he was blind: and Lazarus that he
was covered with sores: and Joseph that
he was cast into the pit: and Daniel that
tp NAAA1A avn tAOAios hhA u aAl kAldJ lc
was humpbacked; and David that he
vas driven from Jerusalem; and the
sewing woman that she could get only
a few pence for making a garment; and
that invalid that for twenty years he
could not lift his head from the pillow.
and that widow that she had such hard
work to ear bread for hrr children.
You know that in a song different voices
carry different parts. The sweet and
overwhelming part OF the halleluiah
OF heaveh will not be carried by those
who rode in high places, and gave
sumptuous entertainments; but pauper
children will sing IL. beggars will sing
it, redeemed bod carriers will sing it.,
those who were once the ~offscouring Of
earth will sing it. The halleluiah will
be all the grander for earth's weeping
eyes, and aching heads, and exhausted
hands. and scourged backs, and mar
tyred agonies.
Again; The thought OF my text is
true when applied to the enjoyment Of
the righteous in heaven. think we
have but little idea of the number Of
the righteous in heaven. Infidels say:
Your heaven will be a very small
place compared with the world of the
lost: for, according to your teaching,
the majority OF men will be destroyed"
l deny the charge. | suppose that the
multitude of the finally lost, as COM
pared with the multitude OF the finally
saved, VIII be a handful. l suppose
that the few sick people in the hospit-
ais OF our great cities, as compared
with the hundreds Of thousands of we'll
people, would not be smaller han the
numoer OF those who shall be cast out
In suffering, 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 dis snsation, and that
this whole world is 10 DO populated and
redeemed, and that ayes OF light and
love are TO dow on. IL this be 50, the
multltudes of the saved will be in vast
majority. Take all the congregations
that have assembled for worship
throughout Christeqdom. Put them to-
gether, and they would make but a
small audience COMPARED with the thou
sands and tens Of thousands, and ten
thousand times ten thousand, and the
hundred aad forty and four thousand
that shall stand around the
throne. Those flashed up To
hNaNCa All l1NhSJI AICcs bllOSe
tossed for mauy years upon the
invalid couch; those fought in the
armies Of liberty. and rose as they fell;
those tumbled from high scatfoldings, or
slipped from the mast, or were washed
OF into the sea. They came up from
Corinth, from Laodicea- from the Red
sea bank and Gennesaret's wave, from
Egyptian b-ickyards and Gideon's
thr -shing floor. These thousands 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.geBeral expecting an
attack from the enemy stands on q hill
and looks through a field glass and sees
in the great distance multitudes ap-
preaching, but has no idea of their mum
bers lie says: II cannot tell anything
abozt them. j merely know that there
are great number" And % John,
without attempting 10 count, says: "A
great multitude that nc man can num-
bee." Weare told that heaven is q
place Of happiness; but what do we
know about happiness? Happiness in
this world is only q half fed led thing;
o fieUery path. with a serpent Kissing
aoress It.; q broken pitcher, from which
the water has dropped before we could
drink 1t; o thrill of exhileration, fol-
lowed by MISREPRESENTATION. To help
ns understand the Joy OF heaven. the
Bible takes Us to a river. We stand on
the grassy bank. We see the waters
fow on with ceaseless wave. But the
filth Of the, cities is emptied into it, and
the hanks are torn, and unhealthy sx-
haiauons spring up from it, and we Esil
70 get an tde& OF the River Of Life In
heaven.
We get very important ideas Of the
reunions of heaven. We think Of soEe
festal day on earth, when father and
mother were yet living, and the chill
drea came honle. Agood time, thai,
Hut it had this drawbaek-all were noc
thseaL That .hr0ther ven OF 70 sea.
and never was heard nom. That sis
ter-diA we not lay her away in the
freshness Of her young life. lever more
in this world to lcok upon her? All!
there was o skeleton at the feast; and
tears miagled with our laughter on that
Christmas day. Not 80 with heavens
reunions. IL will be an unin-
terrupted gladness- Many n Chris
tian parents villa look around and
find all his ehildren there ''Ahr" he
says. can IL be possible tina. We are all
here--life's perils over? the Jordan
passed and not one wanting? Why,