Sharp County record., 1890-03-06

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his internal archery? No, no, no, nv.
Alas! poor soul, if that is all DSI.en t.ea
die in the wilderness, far from treo
shadow and from fountain, alone VuiC,
nres circling through the air waiting lor
our BODY, unknown to men, ana 10 ha'o w
no burial. if only Christ could Say
through the solitude: ,,o-,or
81 will never leave thee l viii never
forsake thee ,.51or
From that pillow of stone a ladaer
would soar hoavenward, angels ColliiS
and going; and across the solitude anu
tho barrenness would come the sweet
notes of heavenly minstrelsy' Gordon
Hall, far from home, dying in the door
of heather temple, said:
"Glory to Thee, 0 God!"
What did dying Wilberforce say TO Ms
wife?
Come and sit beside me, and let us
talk of Heaven. l never knew WhaO
happiness was until ! found Christ -
What did dying Hannah More say?
"To 90 to Heaven, think what that Isl
To 90 to Christ who died that l might
live! Oh, glorious grave! Oh, what
glorious thing it is to die! Oh, the love
of Christ, the love of Christi"
What did Mr. Toplady, the great
hymn-maker, say in his last holr'
"Who can measure the depths OF tao
third Heaven? Oh, the sunshine thar
fills my soul! shall soon be gone, 1ol
surely no one can live in this world
after such glories as God has manifested
to my soul"
What did the dying Janeway say? Il
can as easily die as close my eyes or
turn nv head in sleep. Before a few
hours have passed l shall stand on
Mount Zion with the one hundred and
forty and four thousand, and with the
lust men made perfect, and we shall
ascribe riches, and honor, and glory,
and majesty, and dominion, unto God
and the Lamb"
DR.. Taylor, condemned to burn at the
stake, on his way thither broke away
from the guardsmen and went bound
ing and leaping and jumping toward
the fire, glad to 60 to Jesus and to die
for Him.
Sir Charles Hare, in last moment had
such rapturous vision that he cried:
upward, upward, upward!' And so
great was the peace of one of Christs
disciples that he put his fingers upon
the pulse in his wrist and counted itand
observed it, and so great was his placid
ity that after awhile he said: "Stopped'
and his life had ended here to begin in
Heaven. But grander than thatwas the
testimony of the worn-out first mission
ary when in the Mamartine dungeon,
he cried: 81 am now ready to be offered,
and the time Of my departure isat hand;
| have fought the good fight, l have fin
ished my course. have kept the faith,
henceforth there is laid up for me a
crown of righteousness, which the Lord
the righteous Judge, will give me in
that day, and not to me only, but to all
them that love His appearing" Doyou
not see that Christ is above all in dying
alleViationS?
Brighter than banqueung hall
through which the light feet of the
dancers coup and down to the sound o
trumpeters will be the sepElchel
| through whose riffs the holy light o
Heaven streameth. God will watcl
you. He will send His angels to guart
your slumbering ground, until, a
l-Christs behest, they shall roll away the
stone.
SO, also, Christ is above all in Heaven
The Bible distinctly says that Christ is
the chief theme of the celestial ascrip
tion, all the thrones facing His throne,
all the palms waved before His face
all the crowns down at His feet
Cherubim to chcrubim, seraphim tc
scraphim, redeemed spirit to redeemed
spirit, shall rccite the Saviour's earthly
sacrifice.
"Stand on some high hill of Heaven
and in all the radiant sweep the most
glorious object will be jesus Myriads
gazing on tho scars Of His suffering, il
silence first, afterward breaking forth
into acclamation. The martyrs, all the
purer for the flame through which they
passed, will say:
This is Jesus, for whom we died"
The apostles, all the happier for the
shiswreck and the scourging through
which they went, will say:
''This is the Jesus whom we preached
at Corinth, and at Cappadocia, and al
Antioch, and at, Jerusalem"
Little children clad in white will say
"ThiS is the Jesus who took us in His
arms and blessed us, and when the
storms of the world we're too cold AMI
loud brought us into this beautiful
place"
The multitudes of the boreft will say
'This is the Jesus who comfcrted us
when our heart broke"
Many who wandered clear off from
God and plunged into vagabondism, but
were saved by grace, will say: "Thi,
is the Jesus who pardoned us. We were
lost on the mountains, and He brought
US home. We were guilty, and He has
made us white as snow
Mercy boundless, grace unparalleled
And then, after each one has recited hi;
peculiar deliverances and peculiar mer,
cies, recited them as by solo, all the
voices will come together into a great