Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-10

say: "If there was ever good Christian
father, mine was one. If there was ever q
good Christian mother, mine was one?"
Still further, we want this scarlet line oi
the text drawn across the window of our
prospects. see Rahab and her father and
her mother and her brothers and sisters
looking out over Jericho, the city of palm
trees, and across the river, and over at the
army invading, and then up to the noun
tains and the sky.
IT MARS NOTHING.
Mind you, this house was on the wall,
and suppose the prospect from the win
dow must have been very wide. Besides
that do not think that the scarlet line at
all interfered with the view Of the land
scape. The assurance it gave ofsafety must
have added to the beauty of the country.
To-day, my friends, we sit in the window of
earthly prospects, and we look off toward
the hills of heaven and the landscape of
eternal beauty. God has opened the win
dow for us, and we look out. We now only
get dim outline of the inhabitants. We
now only here and there catch note of the
exquisite harmony.
But blessed be God for this scarlet line in
the window. That tells me that the blood
of Christ bought that home for my soul, and
l shall go there when my work is done. And
as put my hand on that scarlet line, every
thing in the future brightens. My eyesight
gets better, and the robes of the victors
are more lustrous, and our loved ones who
went away some time ago-they do not stand
any more with their backs to US, but their
faces are this way and their voices drop
through this Sabbath air, saying with all
tenderness and sweetness: "Comel Comel
Come" And the child that you think Of
only as buried-why, there she is, and it is
May day in heaven; and they gather the
amaranth, and they pluck the lilies, and
they twist them into garland for her brow,
and she Is one of the May queens of heaven.
0 do you think they could see our waving
to-day? 1t is quite pleasant day, pretty
clear, and not many clouds in the sky. I
wonder if they can see us from that good
land? think they can.
THE HEAVENLY RESPONSES.
If from this window of earthly prospects
we can almost see them, then from their
towers of light think they can fully see us.
And so wave them the glory, and wave
them the joy, and I say: Have you got
through with all your troubles?" and their
voices answer: "God hath wiped away all
tears from our eyes," say: SIS it as grand
up there as you thought it would be?" and
the voices answer: 1--we hath not seen nor
ear heard, neither hath it entered into the
heart of man, the things which God hath
prepared for those that love Him." I saw:
"Do you have any more struggle for bread?"
and they answer: "We hunger no more, we
thirst no more" And 1 say: "Have you
been out to the cemetery of the golden city?"
and they answer: "There is no death here"
And look out through the heavens, and
say: Where do you get your light from
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temple?" and they answer: ''There is no
night here, and we have no need of candle
or of star" And 1 say: "What book do
you sing out ot?" and they answer: The
Hallelujah Chorus" And say: "In the
splendor and magnifcence of the city, don't
you ever get lost7" and they answer: "The
Lamb which is in the midst of the throne
leadeth us to living fountains of water"
HOW MUCH THE SCARLET MEANS.
o, how near they SCENT Their wings-do
you not feel them2 Their harps-do you
not hear them? And all that through the
window of our earthly prospects, across
which stretcheth the scarlet linel Be that
my choice color forever. Is it too glaring
for you? Do YOU like the blue because it
reminds you OF the sky, or the green because
it makes you think OF the foliage, or the
black because it has in it the shadow of the
night? 1 take the scarlet because it shall
make me think of the price that was paid
for my soul. o the bloodl the bloodI the
blood of the Lamb OF God that taketh away
the sin of the world. L see where you are.
You are at the cross roads. The next step
decides everything. Pause before you take
it; but do not pause too long. 1 hear the
blast of the trumpet that wakes the dead.
Look out! Look outl For in that day, and
in our closing moment on earth, better than
any other defense or barricade, however high
or broad or stupendous, will be one little,
thin. scarlet thread in the HindoH