Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-02-20

men made perfect. and We shall ascribs
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
bounding and lenping toward the fire,
| glad to go to Jesus and die for Him. Sir
Charles Hare. in last moment, had such
rapturous vision that he cried: up
ward, upward, upwardi" And SO great
was the peace Of one of Christ's disci-
pies that he put his fingers upon the
pulse in his wrist and counted it and
observed it; and SO great was his placid
| ity that after awhile he said: "Stoppedl'
and his life had ended here to begin in
Heaven. But grander than that was the
testimony Of the worn out first mission
ary, when in the Mamartine dungeon;
he cried: I am now ready to be offered,
and the time of my departure is at hand;
have fought the good fight, have
finished my course, have kept the
faith; henceforth there is laid up for me
crown of righteousness, which the
Lord, the righteous Judge, will giye me
in that day, and not to me only, but to
all them that love His appearingl" Do
you not see that Christ is above all in
dying alleviations?
Toward the last hour of our earthly
residence We are speeding. When / see
the sunset, say, ]One day less to live.
When see the spring blossoms scat
tered, l say, Another season gone for
ever" When close this Bible on Sab
bath night, I say, "Another Sabbath de-
parted" When / bury friend, / say,
Another earthly attraction gone for
ever What nimble feet the years havel
The roebucks and the lightnings run
not SO fast. From decade to decade,
from sky to sky, they go at bound.
There is place for us, whether marked
or not, where you and will sleep the
last sleep, and the men are now living
who will, with solemn tread, carry us to
our resting place. Ay, it is known in
Heaven whether our departure will be a
coronation or Punishment.
Brighter than banqueting hall
through which the light feet of the
dancers 60 up and down to the sound of
trumpeters willb the sepulcher through
whose riffs the holy light of Heaven
streameth. God will watch you. He
will send His angels to guard your
slumbering ground, until, at Christ's
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, oil
the crowns down at His feet. Cherubim
to cherubim, seraphim to seraphim, re-
deemed spirit to redeemed spirit, shall
recite 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 the scars of his suffering, in
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, oil the
happier for the shipwreck and the
scourging through which they went, will
say: This is the Jesus whom we
preached at Corinth, and at Cappadocia,
and at Antioch, and at Jerusalem. Lit
tie children clad in white will say:
This is Jesus who took us in his arms
and blessed us, and when the storms of
the world were too cold and loud,
brought us into this beautiful place,
The multitudes of the bereft will say:
This is the Jesus who conf orted us
when our heart broke" Many who
wondered clear off from God and plunged
into vagabondism, but were saved by
grace, will say: This 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
whitelas snow" Mercy boundless, grace
unparalleled. And then, after each
one has recited his peculiar deliver
ances and peculiar mercies, recited them
as by solo, ALI the voices will come to-
gether intosa great chorus, which will
make the arches echo and 're-echo with
the eternal reverberation of gladness
and peace and triumph.
Edward I. was SO anxious to go to the
Holy Land that when he was about to
expire he bequeathed $160,000 to have
his heart, after his decease, taken to the
Holy Land in Asia Minor, and his re-
quest was complied with. But there are
hundreds to-day whose hearts are al
ready in the Holy Land of Heaven.
Where your treasures are, there are
your hearts also. Quaint John Bunyan,
of whom spoke at the opening of the
discourse. caught a glimpse Of that
place, and in his quaint way said: "And
/ heard in my dream, and 10! the bells
of the city rang again for joy; and as
they opened the gates to let in the men
looked in after them, and 10! the city
shone like the sun, and there were
streets Of gold, and men walked on them,
harps in their hands, to ring praises
withal; and after that they shut up the
gates, which when / had seen wished
myself among theml"