The Brookhaven leader., 1890-02-27

can as easily die as close my eyes or
turn my head in sleep. Before few
hours have passed / shall stand or
Mount Zion with the one hundred and
forty and four thousand, and with the
Just 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 go 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 1t and
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 that was the
testimony of the worn-out first mission
airy, when, in the Mamartine dungeon,
he cried: ~ am now ready to be offered,
and the time of my departure is at hand;
l have fought the good fight, have fin
ished my course. / 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 appearingr' 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 1 say: ''One day less to
live" When see the spring blossoms
scattered, l say: Another day gone
forever" When l close this Bible on
Sabbath night, l say: Another Sab
bath departed" When bury friend,
| say: another earthly attraction
gone forever" What nimble feet the
years have! The roebucks and the
lightnings run not so fast. From de-
cade to decade, from sky to sky, they GO
at bound. There is a 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 de.
I parture will be coronation or a Danish.
| ment
Brighter than a banqueting hall
through which the light feet of the
dancers go 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 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,
| all the crowns down at His feet.
Cherubim to cherubim, seraphim tc
seraphim, redeemed 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, all the happier for the
shipwreck and the scourging through
which they went, will say:
This is the Jesus whom we preach ed
at Corinth, and at Cappadocia, and a.
| 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 were 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 heart broke"
Many who wandered clear off from
God and plunged into vagabondism, but
were saved by grace, will say: "Thii
is the Jesus who pardoned u.s. 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 his
peculiar deliverances and peculiar mer.
cies, recited them as by solo, all the
voices will come together into a great
chorus, which will make the arches
echo and re-echo with the eternal re-
verberation of gladness and peace and
triumph.
Edward I. was so anxious to go to the
Holy Land that when he was about Il
expire he bequeathed one hundred and
sixty thousand dollars to have his heart,
after his decease, taken to the Holy
Land in Asia Minor, and his request was
complied with. But there are hundreds
to-day whose hearts are already in the
Holy Land of Heaven. Where your
treasures are there are your hearts also.
Quaint John Bunyan, of whom I spoke
at the opening of the discourse, caught
glimpse of that place, and in his quaint
way he said:
"And l heard in my dreams, and 10.
the bells of the city rang again for joy;
and as they opened the gates to let in
the men l 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 sing
praises withal; and after that they shu
up the gates, which, when l had seen, J
wished myself among them!'
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