The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-03-05

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If only Christ could say through the
solitudes: II will never leave thee,
will never forsake thee" From that
pillar of stone ladder would soar
heavenward, 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, 0 God!' What did dying
Wherefore 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 60 to Heaven,
think what that is! To go to Christ,
who died that might live! o, glorious
grave! O, what glorious thing it is to
die! o, the love of Christ, the love OF
Christi" 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 l 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 go to Jesus
and to die for Him. Sir Charles Hare,
in last moment. had such rapturous
vision that he cried: Upward, upward,
upwardy" 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
MARITIME dungeon, he cried: 81 am now
J ready to be offered, and the time of my
J departure is at hand: have fought the
good fight, have finished my course, I
: have kept the faith; henceforth there is
J 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
, pearing!' Do you not see that Christ is
above ali in dying alterations?
| Toward the last hour of our earthly
t residence we are speeding. When see
the sunset Isay, Zone day less to live. .
When see the spring blossoms scat
tered, say, "Another season gone for.
r ever" When Iclose this Bible on Sab
: bath night, say, another Sabbath de-
, parted" When l bury friend, l say
"Another earthly attraction gone forev'
3 err" What nimble feet the years have
9 The roebucks and the lightnings run
3 not so fast. From decade to decade
from sky to sky, they go at a bound
= There is place for us, whether marked
S or not, where you and will sleep the
: last Sleep and the men are now living
p who will. with solemn tread, carry us t.
9 our resting place. All, it is known il
y Heaven whether our departure will be
Q a coronation or Punishment.
Brighter than banqueting hal
g through which the light feet of thu
dancers 60 up and down to the sound o
e trumpeters will be the sepulcher through
Q whose riffs the holy light of HEAVIER
d streameth. God will watch you. Hi
@ will send His angels to guard your slum
t bering ground until, at Christs behest
a they shall roll away the stone.
Q So, also, Christ is alb owe all in Heaven
= The Bible distinctly says that Christ i
|, the chief theme Of the celestial ascrip
IS ton, all the thrones faci ng His throne
l. all the palms waved be fore His face, al
v the crowns down at His feet Cherubin
, to cherubim, seraphim to seraphim, re
s deemed spirit to redeemed spirit, shall
C recite the Saviour's earthly sacrifice.
h Stand on some high hill of Heaven
d and in all the radiant sweep the mos
/, glorious object will be Jesus. Myriad
It gazing on the scars of His suffering, il
l. silence first, afterward breaking fortl
|, into reclamation. The martyrs, all tn
l. purer for the flame through whicl
I they passed, will say: "This is Jesus
r, for whom he died" The apostles, al
h the happier for the shipwreck and tn
70 scourging through which they went
t. will say, "This is the Jesus whom W
is preached at Corinth and at Jerusalem
Or Little children clad in white will say
e. "This is the Jesus who took US in Hi
arms az ! blessed us, and when tn
" storms Of the world were too col
t, and loud, brought US into thi
ID beautiful place." The multitudes Q
at the bereft will say: This is tn
es Jesus who comforted US when on
lie hearts broke" Many who wandere
" clear off from God and plunged int
ID vagabondism, but were saved by grace
re will say: This is the Jesus who pal
IN doned us. We were lost on the mouI
m tains, and He brought us home. We wer
guilty, and He has made us white a
&c snow" Mercy, boundless, grace III
10 paralleled. And then, after each on
IL has recited his peculiar deliverance
- and peculiar mercies, recited them as b
tn solo, all the voices will come togethe
le into a great chorus, which will max
the arches echo and re-echo with tn
o. eternal reverberation of gladness an
40 triumph.
40 Edward l. was so anxious to go to tn
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