Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-06-12

fourth foundation Of the heavenly wall.
The iery gush Of the morning. the con-
hagration Of the autumnal sunset. the cleo
tricity that shoots its forked tongue out Of
breath MOSCOW fell and Htnas burn. shall
be eternized in the fiery jasper. 1t seems
as u all earthly beauty were In one billow 70
be dashed up against that wall Of Heaven;
so that the most beautiful things Of earth
will be kept either in the wall. or the foun-
dation. or the rainbow round about the
throne.
notice the unspeakabIe attractiveness OF
Heaven In other places the Bible tells us
OF the noor OF Heaven-the waters, and the
stones, and the fruits; but now st. John
tells US OF the roof-the frescoed arch OF
eternity and the rainbow round about the
throne. Get a ticket. and. carefully
guarded. you go into the royal factory at
Paris where the Gobelin tapestries Of the
world are made, and see how for years a
man will sit putting in a ball OF colored
worsteds tl9ough the delicate threads. sat-
tshed il he can in a day make so much as
fingers breadth Of beauty for q kings
canopy. But behold how my Lord. in one
hour. with His two hands, twisted the
tapestry. now swung above the throne. into
a rainbow of infinite glory. Oh. what a
place Heaven must bel You have hereto
fore looked at the floor; this morning take
one glance at the ceiling.
notice what must be the feeling of safety
among the people of Heaven. Have you ever
seen cloud burst? There have been days
when it rained as IL it would never stop.
You knew, if it kept on in that way long, all
the nations would be drowned; yet you had
no apprehension, for you remember the Bow
OF Promise painted ON the cloud in Noah's
time. So the glorihed have but to look to
the arch around the throne of the King TO
reassured that the deluge of trial is for
ever past.
On earth, the deluge of sin covers the
tops of the highest mountains. heard an
Alpine guide, amid the most stupendous
evidences of Gods power, swear at his
mule as he stumbled in the pass. Yes, the
deluge of sin dashes over the top of the
highest mountain ranges. Revenge, drunk
enness, impiety, falsehood, blasphemy, are
but different waves of flood that has
whelmed nations. New York is, drowned
| in it. Brooklyn is drowned in it, Boston is
| drowned in it. London is drowned in it, st.
Petersburg is drowned in 1.-TWO great
hemispheres are drowned in it. But the
| redeemed, looking unto the rainbow round
about the throne see the pledge that all
this is ended for them forever. They have
committed their last sin and combated their
! last temptation. No suicide leaps into those
bright waters; no profanity befouls that
| pure air; no villains torch shall fire those
/ temples; no murderer's hand shall strike
| u.
for them the deluge Of sin Is assuaged, for
there is rainbow round about the
! throne"
| Now the world Is covered with deluge
| of blood. The nations are all the time
either using the sword or sharpening it.
| The factories of the world are night and
day manufacturing the weaponry Of death.
Throne against throne, empire against em-
pire. The spirit of despotic America
against Tree America, despotic England
against free England, despotic Germany
against free Germany, despotic Austria
against free Austria. The great battle Of
earth Is being fought--the Armageddon Qf
the nations. The song that unrolled from
the sky on the first Christmas night, of
peace and good will to men," is drowned
in the booming Of the great siege guns.
Stand back, and let the long line Of ambu-
lances pass. Groan to groan. Uncover,
and look upon the trenches of the dead.
Bloodl blood! deluge of blood!
But the redeemed of Heaven, looking
upon the glorious arch that spans the
| throne, shall see that the deluge is over.
No batteries are planted on those hills; no
barricades blocking those streets; no hos
| tile nag above those walls; no smoke of
| burning villages; no shrieks of butehered
men; but peacel German and Frenehman,
who fell with arms interlocked in hate on
| the field of death, now, through Christ in
love. Arms stacked forever; shields of
battle hung up. The dove instead of the
eagle, the lamb instead of the lion. There
shall be nothing TO hurt or destroy in all
Gods holy mount, for there is rainbow
round about the throne.
! Now the earth is covered with the deluge
OF sorrow. TROUBLED troubled The very
utteranee when we come into the world is a
cry. Without any teaching we learn to
| weep. What has so wrinkled that man 8
faceP What has SO prematurely whitened
his hair? What calls out that sigh? What
starts that tear? Troubled troubled find
lin the cellar of poverty, and far up among
the heights on the top of the crags; for this
| also hath gone over the tops Of the highest
mountains. No escape from it. You go
into the store, and il meets you at your
counting desk; you go into the street, and
1t meets you at the corner; you go into the
| house, and it meets you at the door. Tears
OF poverty tears Of peRsecutionl tears OF
bereavementl--a deluge of tearsl Gathered
together from all the earth they could float
an ark larger than Noah's.
But the glorihed. looking up to the bow
that spans the throne, shall see that the
deluge is over. No shivering wretch on the
palace step; no blind man at the gate of the
heavenly temple asking for aims; no grind
ing of the screw driver on coffin lid. They
| look up at the rainbow and read in
lines of yellow, and red. and green. and
blue, and orange, and indigo, and violet.
They shall hunger no more, neither thirst
any more, neither shall the sun light on
them, nor any heat; for the Lamb which is
in the midst of the throne shall feed them,
and shall lead them unto living fountains Of
waters, and God shall wipe away all tears
from their eyes" Thank God for the glory
spanning the throne!
In our boyhood we had asuperstition that
at the foot of the rainbow there was cas-
ket of buried gold; but have to announce
that at the foot of this rainboy of Heaven
there is a box made out of the wood of the
cross. Open it, and you find all the treas
ures of Heaven.
Oh, that our eyes may all look upon this
bow Of promise, lifted by Christ's own
handl We shall trace the separate lines OF
4 beauty across the armament. In the line Of
red shall see the blood of my Lord, in the
blue, the bruises that colored His cheek; in
| the green, the freshness of His grace; in
the violet, His humility; in all that curve OF
beauty. the bend Of His right arm Of love
swung over all the redeemed.
But mind what told you at the begin
ming, and what / tell you at the close--that
none but Noah family in the ark saw the
rainbow, and that only those who are at
last in Christ shall discove. it amid the
glories Of Heaven.
Except man be born again, he cannot
see the kingdom of God"
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