The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-01-11

companionship;n on the third step: "A Christ
ian home with family altar on the fourth
step: Ever widening usefulness; on the fifth
step: "A glorious departure from this
world on the sixth step: "Heaveni heaveni
heavenl" Write it three times, and Il, the
letters of the one word be made up Of ban
ners, the second of coronets, and the third Of
thronesl Promise me that you will do that,
T. "a viii promise TO meet you on the sixth
~ the Lord will through His hardening
bring me there too.
~ here am going to say word Of
EReople who have never had word
ION on that subject There are
men in this world by hundreds
~, 3, and some Of them are here to
Eve fine natural taste, and yet
- lives that taste has been sup
and although they could appreciate
,lleries of Dresden and Vienna and
for more than nine hundred and
ninety-nine out of one thousand who visit
khem, they never may go, for they must sup
f. Aort their households, and bread and school
+ hing for their children are of more Importance
than pictures. Though fond of music, they
Iare compelled to live amid discord, and though
'Bfond Of architecture, they dwell in clumsy
u abodes, and though appreciative of all that
engravings and paintings can do, they are
In perpetual deprivation. You are going,
after you get on the sixth step of that stairs
Just spoken of, to find yourselves in the
royal gallery of the universe, the con-
centered splendors of all worlds before
your transported vision In some way all
the thrilling scenes through which we and
the Church OF God have passed in our earth
ly state will be pictured or brought to mind.
At the cyclorama Of Gettysburg, which we
had in Brooklyn, one day blind man, who
lost his sight in that battle, was with his
child heard talking while standing before
that picture. The blind man said to the
daughter: Are there at the right of the
picture some regiments marching up hillf
YES she said. Well said the blind
man, sis there a General on horseback
leading them orr YES she said.
''Well, is there rushing down on these
men a cavalry chargep "Yes," was
the reply. 'And do there seem to be many
dying and .deadf' "Yes, . was the answer
We'll, now, do you see a shell from the
1-woods bursting near the wheel of cannonfn
Yes she said. stop right thereI" said
the blind man. THAT is the last thing
l ever saw on. earthi What a time
it was, Jenny, when 1 lost my eye sightFl
But when you, who have found life hard
battle, very Gettysburg, shall stand in the
Royal Gallery of Heaven, and with your
new vision begin to see and understand that
which in your earthly blindness you
could not see at all, you will point
TO your own dear children who have gone
before, the scenes of the earthly conflicts in
which you participated, saying: There
from that hill of prosperity | was driven
back; in that valley OF humiliation l was
wounded. There [ lost my eyesight That
was the way the world looked when
| l last saw it. But what grand thing to get
celestial vision, and stand here before the
| cyclorama of all worlds willis the Rider on
the white horse goes on "conquering and to
conquer" the moon under His feet and the
stars of Heaven for bis tiaral