Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-12-06

Will sing it, beggars will sing it, re-
deemed hod carriers will sing it, those
who were once the otfscouring of earth
will sing it. The hallelujah will be all
the grander for earth's weeping eyes,
and aching heads, and exhausted hands
and scourged backs, and martyred
agonies.
Again: The thought of my texts is
true when applied to the enjoyment of
have but little idea of the number OF the
righteous in Heaven. lnfidels saw:
Your heaven will he 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. Isuppose that the multitude
OF the finally lost. as compared with the
multitude 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 we'll people, would not be
smaller than the number 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 re-
member that We are living in only the
beginning of the Christian dispensation.
and that this whole world is to be popu.
lated 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 congre-
| cations that have assembled for worship
| throughout Christendom. Putthem to-
gether. and they woul Id make but q small
audience compared with the thousands
and tens of thousands, and ten thousand
times ten thousand, and the hundred
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 armies of
tumbled from high scaffoldings, or
slipped from the mast, or We're washed
OFT into the sea. They came up from
Corinth, from Laodicea, from the Red
Sea bank and Gennesaret's wave. from
Egyptian brickyards and Gideons
threshing floor. Those thousands of
years ago slept the last sleep, and these
are this moment having their ewes
closed, and their limbs stretched out for
the sepulcher.
A general expecting on attack from
the enemy stands on hill and looks
through field glass and sees in the
great distance multitudes approaching,
but has no idea of their numbers. He
says: Il cannot tell anything about
them. merely know that there are a
great number" And SO, John, without
attempting to count, says: "a great
multitude that no man can number. ;"
We are told that Heaven is q place of
happiness? Happiness in this world is
only half fedged thing; fowery path
with serpent kissing across it; q broken
! pitcher, from which the water has
dropped before We could drink it; a
shrill ofexhilaration, followed by dis
astrous reactions. To help us under
stand the Joy of Heaven, the Bible takes
us to q river. We stand on the grassy
bank. We see the waters flow on with
ceaseless wave. But the filth of the
cities is emptied into it, and the banks
are torn. and unhealthy exhalations
spring up from it, and we fail to get an
idea of the River of Life in Heaven.
We get very imperfect ideas of the re-
unions of Heaven. We think of some
mother were yet living, and the chill
dren came home. A good time,
that! But it had this drawback-all
were not there. That brother went off
to sea, and never was heard from. That
sister-did We not lay her away in the
freshness of her young life, never more
} in this world to look upon her? All!
there was skeleton at the feast; and
: tears mingled with our laughter on that
Christmas day. Not SO with Heavens
reunions. twill bel an uninterrupted
! gladness, Many Christian parent will
look around and find all his children
there. "Ah!" he says, "can it be posi-
BILE that We are all here-life's perils
over? the Jordan passed and not one
wanting? Why, even the prodigal is
| T nj uox In,
: he despised my counsels! but grace hath
} triumphed. All here! all here Tell
| the mighty Joy through the city. Let
, the bells ring, and the angels mention
it in their song. Wave it from the top of
the walls. Ali here!"
No more breaking of heartstrings, but
face to face. The orphans that were
left poor, and in merciless world,
kicked and cuffed of many hardships,
shall join their parents over whose
} graves they SO long wept, and gaze into
, their glorifed countenances forev er, face
to face. We may come up from differ
| ent parts of the world, one from the
land and one from the depths of the
| sea; from lives affiuent and prosperous,
or from scenes of ragged distress; but
we shall meet in rapture and jubilee,
face to face.
Nluuy VI OuE A1lVhuS uutO OACCA ~
upon that JOY. A few days ago they sal
: with us studying those gospel themes;
: but they only saw dimly-now revela-
ton hath come. Your time will also
come. God will not leave you foun'
dering in the darkness. YOU
stand wonderstruck and amazed
You feel as if all the loneliness of life
were dashed out. You stand gazing into
J the open chasm of the grave. Wait q
l little. In the presence ofyour departed
and of Him who carries them in His
| bosom, you shall soon stand face to face
Oh! that our last hour may kindle uI
with this promised joy! May webe able
to soy. like the Christian not long. ago
3 departing. Though pilgrim walking
through the valley, the mountain top!
are cleaning from peak to peak" or
! like my dear friend and brother, ALFRED
l Goodman, who took his flight to tn
l throne of God, saying in his last mo
3 ment that which has already gone int
: Christian classics: II am sweepinl
t through the pearly gate, washed in tn
blood of the lamb"
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