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and suffering are going on we see mostly
that which is deplorable. But twenty
thousand years from now, standing in
glory, we shall appreciate that Heaven is
better off than if the battle of this worlds
sin and suffering had never been project
ed.
But now l come nearer home and put
dark saying on the gospel harp, style OF
question that is asked a million times
every year. Interrogation the fourth:
Why do I have it so hard while others
have it so easy? Or. why do have so
much difficulty in getting a livelihood
while others go around with a full
portemonnaie: Or, why must 1 wear
these plain clothes while others have to
push hard to get their wardrobes closed,
SO crowded are they with brilliant attire?
Or, why should I have to work so hard
while others have three hundred ami six
ty-five holidays every year? They are all
practically one question. l answer
| them by saying, it is because the
Lord has His favorites and he
puts extra discipline upon you, and
extra trial, because He has for You extra
glory, extra enforcement and extra
felicities. That is no guess of mine, but a
divine say-so: "Whom the Lord loveth
He chasteneth." "Well," says some one,
81 would rather have q little less in
| Heaven and 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 have
| house here in better neighborhOod."
! No, no; God is not going to rob Heaven,
which is to be your residence for nine
hundred quadrillion of years, to fix
| up your earthly abode, which you
will occupy at most for less Elan
century, and where you may, perhaps,
stay only ten years longer, or only year,
or perhaps month more. Now you had
| better cheerfully let God have his way,
| for, you see, he has been taking 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 significant to be
divinely cared for. 1t was said that Diana,
the goddess, could not be present to keep
her temple at Ephesus from burning, be-
cause 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 a
babe 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 of your first ten years in Heav-
en-, and the refrain Of that song will be:
clam so glad God did not let me have my
own way" Your case will be all fixed up
in Heaven and there will be such a re-
versal in conditions that we can hardly
find each other for so1se time. Some Of
US who have lived in first-rate houses
here and in first-rate neighbOrhoeds will
be found, because 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. 808, or
800, 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 overlooking
the River of Life, the chariots of saliva
ton hating at 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 it SO hard here will
have it so fine and grand there thas you
disposed to dispute your own idNn tity
and the first time l see you there l will
cry out: Didn't I tell you so when you
3 sat down there in the Brooklyn Tabernacle
and looked incredulous because yor
> thought it too good TO be true?" And you
will answer: 'You were right, the hal
. was not told mel" So this morning
. open your dark saying of despondepcy
t and complaint on my Gospel harp anC
e give you just one bar of music for l d.
r otpretend to be much of player. 'Tht
3 Lamb which is in the midst of the throne
, shall lead them to living fountains O
. water, and God shall wipe away all tears
r from their eyes," But I must confess
s am little perplexed how some of yoI
n good Christians are going to get through
a the gate, because there will be so man!
T there to greet you, and they will all wan
: to shake hands at once and will all wan
: the first kiss. They will have heard tina
: you are coming, and they will all pres
r around to welcome you and will want yol
o to say whether you know them after beinj
7. so long parted.
n But here must slow up, lest in tryins
n to solve mysteries I add to the myster,
It that we have already wondered at, name
v ly: Why preachers should keep on afte
d all the hearers are tired? So I gather u
1t into one great armful all the why's, an
n hows, and wherefores of your life an
e mine, which we have not had time or tn
II ability to answer, and write on them tn
j. words adjourned to eternity" I rejoic
1t that we do not understand all things now
II for if we did, what would we learn i
: Heaven? If we knew it all down Lere i
it the freshman and sophomore class, wha
n would be the use of our going up to stan
d amid the juniors and the seniorsl If W
: could put down one leg of the compass
% and with the other sweep a circl
n clear around all the inscrutabIes
10 if we could lift our little steel
ir yards and weigh the throne of tn
g Omnipotent; ii we could with our seven
,e day clock measure eternity, what woui
y be left for this heavenly revelation? So
,e move that we cheerfully adjourn what
n now beyond our comprehension, and al
ID according to Rollin, the historian, Alex
ID ander the Great, having obtained the gol
lie casket in which Darine had kept his rar
1t perfume, used that aromatic casket there
If after to keep his fayorite copy of HON e
lie in, and called the book, therefore, tn