Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-11-27

! ing. At the first sight of the torches of the
bridegroom aud his attendants coming
over the hill tine cry rings through the
home of the bride: "They are in sight! Get
ready Behold the bridegroom comethl Go
We out to meet him." As the two process
sions approach each other the timbrels
strike and the songs commingle, and then
the two professions become one and march
toward the bridegroom's house. and meet
third procession which is made up of the
friends of both, bride and bridegroom.
Then all enter the house and the dance
BEGINS aud the door Is shut. And all this
CAiis1 t.ses 70 Illustrate the joy with which
the rausomcd Of earth shall meet him when
he comes garlanded with clouds and robed
in the morning and trumpeted by the
thunders OF the last day. Look There
h. comes down off the hills of heaven, the
bridegroom And let us start out to hail
him, for hear the voices Of the Judgment
day sounding: Behold, the bridegroom
comcthl Go ye out to meet himW And the
disappointment Of thosewho have declined
the invitation to the gospel weddings pre-
scented under the figure Of door heavily
closed You hear it slam. Too late. The
door is shut!
AID VOW FOR lake GALILEE.
But we must hasten on, for | do not
mean to close my q 3 tonight till see
from a mountain tor Lake Galilee. on
whose banks next Sabbath we win wor-
ship. and on whose waters the following
morning we win take q sail. On and up
we go in the severest climb Of all Pales-
tine. the ascent of the Mount Of Beatitudes,
~ oil
famous sermon on the blesseds-blessed
this and blessed that. Up TO their knees
the horses plunge in I1olehlls and sur
face thaf gives way at The first touch OF she
hoof. ana agitin Gnd again the tired beasts
halt, as much rs to say TO the riders, II is
unjust for you to male rs climb these
s eeps.n On and up over mountain sides,
where in the later season hyacinths and
caisies and phloxes ana anemones hndle
their beauty On and up until on the rocks
Of black basalt we dismount, and climbing
10 the highest peak look out on an en-
chantmeut of scenery that seems 10 be the
beatitudes themselves arched into skies
and rounded into valleys and sivered into
waves The view is like that Of Tennessee
and North Carolina from the top Of Look.
out mountain, or like that OF Vermont and
New Hampshire from the top Of Mount
Washington. Hail hills Of Galilee Hail
Lake Gennesaret, only four miles awayl
Youder. clear up and most conspicuous, IS
Sailed the very city to which Christ point
ed for illustration 10 the sermon preached
here saying, A city set on hill cannot be
hidn There are rocks around me ON this
Mount Of Beatitudes enough to build the
highest pulpit the world ever saw Ay,
il is the highest pulpit. II oyerlooks all
time and all eternity.
The valley Of H8ttin between here and
Lake Gallee is anamphithcatre as though
the naturl contour Of the earth had in.
vited all nations To come and sit down and
hear Christpreach sermon inwhich there
were more startling novelties than were
ever announced in all the sermons that
were ever preached To those who heard
him on this very spot his word must have
seemed the contradiction of everything
that hey had ever heard or read or expert
ence1 The worlds theory had been:
Blessed are the arrogant; blessed are the
superclious; blessed are the fearless bless.
ed are they that have everything their own
way: blessed are the war eagles; blessed
are the prosecutors: blessed are the popu-
lar; blessed arc the Herods and the Caesars
and the Ahabs mol MOI nor says Christ,
with voice that rings over these rocks
and through yonder valley Of Hattin, and
down TO the opaline lake on ono side, and
the sapphire Mediterranean on the other,
and across Europe in one way, and across
Asia in the other way and around the
earth both ways. till the globe shall yet be
girlded with the nine beatitudes; Blessed
are the poor; blessed are the mournful;
blessed are the meek; blessed are the hun
cry; blessed are the merciful; blessed are
the pure, blessed are the peaeemakers;
blessed are the prosecuted. blessed are the
falsely reviled.
Do you see how the Holy Land aud the
Holy Book 10 each other2 God with his
left hand built Palestine and with his right
wrote the Scriptures, the two hands of the
same being. And IN proportion as Pales.
tine is brought under close inspection, the
Bible will he found more glorious and more
true Mightiest book Of the past, Mighti-
est book OF the futurel Monarch Of all Il
erature,
The pr0udeSt works OF genius shall decay,
And reasons brightest iuster fade away;
The sophist art, the poets bodest flight,
Shall sink ia darkness and conclude In Night;
Bat faith triumphant time shall stand
Shall grasp the sacred volume in her hand
li3cI, T. It's source the heavenly sill convey;
Then in the food OF glory melt away
A station Master and the Mobiles.