The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1890-02-19

fountain, alone, vultures circling
through the air waiting for our body,
unknown to men, and to have no burial,
II only Christ could say through the
solitudes: II will never leave thee,
will never forsalSe thee" From that
pillar Of stone a ladder would soar
hesvenward, angels coming and going,
and across the solitude and the barren
ness would come the sweet notes Of
heavenly minstrelsy.
Gordon Hall, far from home, dying in
the door of heather temple, said:
"Glory to Thee, o Godp' What did dying
Wilberforce say TO his wife? "Come and
sit beside me, and let us talk Of Heaven.
never knew what happiness was until
/ found Christ" What did dying Han
nah Moore say? "To go to Heaven,
think what that is! To 60 to Christ,
who died that might live! 0, glorious
grave! o, what glorious thing 1t IA to
die! o, the love Of Christ, the love Of
Christ!' What did Mr.. Toplady, the
great hymn-maker, say in his last hour?
"Who can measure the depths Of the
third Heaven? o, the sunshine that fills
my soul! / shall soon be gone, for sure
ly no one can live in this world after
such glories as God has manifested to
my soul"
What did the dying Janeway say? 81
can as easily die as close my eyes or
turn my head in sleep. Before few
hours have passed | shall stand on
Mount Zion with the one hundred and
forty and four thousand and with the
just men made perfect, and we shall as
cribe 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 leaping and jump
ing 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 Christ's disciples that he put his
fingers upon the pulse in his wrist and
counted it and observed it; and so great
was his placidity that after while he
said: "Stopped!" and his life had ended
here to begin in Heaven. But grander
than that was the testimony Of the worn
out first missionary, when, in the Ma
marine dungeon, he cried 81 am now
ready to he offered. and the time OF my
departure is at hand; have fought the
good fight, have finished my course, I
have kept the faith; henceforth there Is
laid up for me 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 APP
pearingw Do you not see that Christ is
above ali in dying alleviations?
Toward the last hour OF our earthly
residence we are speeding. When see
the sunset, Isay, "One day less to live"
When see the spring blossoms scat
tered, 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 forev-
er." 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 a boundH
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. All, 1t is known in
Heaven whether our departure will be
q coronation or banishment.
Brighter than a banqueting hall
through which the light feet Of the
dancers 90 up and down to the sound OF
trumpeters will be the sepulcher through
whose riffs the holy light of heaven
streameth. God will watch you. He
will send His angels to guard your slum-
bering ground until, at Christ's behest,
they shall roll away the stone.
so, also, Christ is alb oveall in Heaven.
The Bible distinctly says that Christ is
the chief theme Of the celestial ascrip-
ton, all the thrones facing His throne,
all the palms waved be fore His face, all
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 fame through which
they passed, will say: "This is Jesus,
for whom he died" The apostles, all
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 Jerusalem"
Little children clad in white will say:
"This is the Jesus who took US in His
arms and blessed us, and when tho
storms Of tho world we're too cold
and loud, brought us into this
beautiful place." The multitudes of
the bereft will say: This is the
Jesus who comforted US when our
hearts broke" Many who wandered
clear of from God and plunged into
vagabondism, but we're saved by grace,
will say: "This Is the Jesus who par
doned us. We were lost on the noun
tains, and He brought us home. We were
guilty, and He has made US white as
snow" Mercy, boundless, grace un-
paralleled. And then, after each one
has recited his peculiar deliverances
and peculiar mercies, recited them as by
solo, all the voices will come together
into great chorus, which will make
the arches echo and re-echo with the
eternal reverberation Of gladness and
triumph.
Edward ]. was 80 anxious TO go to the
Holy Land that when he was about to |