The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1890-07-26

enough crowns to pay us for AZ cpr hat
ties, enough rest to relieve all our Ia
tigues, enough living fountains to
quench all our thirst, enough glory to
dash out for ever and ever all earth's
signing and restlessness and darkness.
Battles ended, tears wiped away, thorns
plucked from the bosomS, stabs healed,
the tomb riven-what a scene to look
Upon.
Again: The door of Heaven stands
open for the Christians final entrance,
Death to the righteous is not climbing
high walls or fording deep rivers, but it
Is entering an open door. If you ever
visit the old homestead whore you were
born, and while father and mother are
yet alive, as you go up the lane in front
of the farm house and you put your hand
on the door and lift the latch do you
shudder with fear? No; you are glad to
enter. SO your last sickness will be only
she lane in ron of your Fathers house,
from which you hear the voice of sing
Ing before you reach the And
death, that is the lifting of the latch
before you enter the greetings and
embraces of the innumerable family OF
the righteous. Nay, there is no latch,
for John says the door is already open.
What a company of spirits has already
entered those portals, bright and shin
ing. Souls release from the earthly
prison house, how they shouted when
they went through! Spirits that sped
up from the flames of m~artyrdom, MAX
ing Heaven richie as they went in,
pouring their notes into tho celestial
harmony.
And that door has not begun to shut.
II redeemed by grace. we shall enter it.
This side of it we have wept, but on the
other side of it we shall never weep.
On this side We may have grown sick
| with WEAKNESS, but on the other side OF
1t we shall be without fatigue. On this
| side we bleed with the warriors wounds,
on the other side we shall wave the VIC
tors palm. When you think of dying
what makes your brow contract, what
makes you breathe SO deep and sigh?
| What makes you gloomy in passing a
graveyard? Follower of Christ, you
have been thinking that death Is some
thing terrible, the measuring OF lances
with a powerful antagonist, the clos
ing in of a conflict which may be
your everlasting defeat. o do not
want much to think of dying. The
step beyond this life seems so mysteri-
GUS o dread the taking of it. Why,
who taught you this lesson of horrorsP
Heavens door is wide OPEN, and you
step out of your sick room into those
portals. Not as long as a minute will
elapse between your departure and your
arrival there. Not half so long as the
twinkling of an eye. Not the millionth
part of an instant. There is no
stumbling into darkness. There is no
plunging down into mysterious depths.
The door is open.
This instant you are here, the next
you are there. When 4 vessel struck
the rocks of the French coast while the
crew were clambering up the beach a
cage of birds in the ships cabin, WAX
ened, began to sing most sweetly, and
when the last man left the vessel they
were singing yet. Even so in the last
hour of our dissolution, when driven on
the coast of the other world, may our
Decentralization from this rough, tossing
life be amid the eternal singing of a
thousand promises of deliverance and
victory. :
For all reporting and believing souls
the door of Heaven is now wide open,
the door of mercy, the door of comfort,
for the poorest as well as the wealthiest,
for the outlaw as we'll as for the moral
list, for the Chinese coolie as we'll as his
Emperor, for the Russian boor as well
as the Gar, for the Turk as we'll as the
Sultan. Richer than all wealth. more
refreshing han all fountains, deeper
than all depths. higher han all heights,
and broader than all breadths is the sal
walton of Jesus Christ which l press upon
your consideration. Come all We travellers
of the desert under these palm trees. o, II
l could gather before you hat tremend'
Gus future upon which you are invited tC
enter-dominions and prlncipalities,
day without night, martyrs under the
throne and the four and twenty elders
falling before it, stretching off in great
distances the hundred and forty and
four thousand, and thousands of thou.
sands, host beside host, rank beyond
rank, in infinite distance, nations Of the
saved beyond nations OF the saved, un-
til angelic visions cease to catch any
thing more than the faint outline OF
whole empires yet outstretching beyond
the capacity of any vision, save the eye
Of God Almighty. Then, after l had
finit he'd the sketch, ! would like TO ash
you If that place Is not grand enough
and high enough, and II any thing could
be added, any purity to the Wilderness o.
the robes, any power to the acclaiminl
~thunders of its worship. And all thai
may be yours
SLEEPING WITH BABY.
IT'S Not rs Pleasant as It May Seem to
LOye-Sick bachelors.
The free-from-care and e~ase-takinl
old bachelor who, in his momeptary
lapse of wisdom, contemplates matrii
mopy, should at tho same time reflect OF
the remote bat contingent possibility o.
his having to some time sleep with q
baby should he marry. Years of expert
ence Of martyrdom of this kind make
me feel it to DO my duty to set forth the
misery arising from a contingency o.
this kind.
The baby. IL he happens to be a lusty
little fellow of eight or ten months, will
decline to stay covered and will also de
cline to allow you to keep yourself GOV
cred lie indicates his wishes ip thii
direction by keeping his little pini
heels going all night, a good part of thu
time on your back. lie will also insis
on lying 'cross-wise," "end-wise," Hcat
a-cornered." ''bias," or in any other pc
sition but that which will give you
few inches of room in the bee
and a few minutes sleep. His infan
tile needs will begin to NANTES
themselves at about one o'clock In tn
morning at which witching hour yol
will go bI%gndering around in the darl
for a drink OF Water. lie will how
steadily and cheerfully from two unit
three o'clock, and will kick YOU furi
ously between the shoulder blades witt
every howl. it will not be OF any us
for you to pat him tenderly and 0 on
there, there" He is right there ant
knows IL and intends that you shall
know it,
IT i. no use to say coaxingly, "Wha
does papa's baby want?"
Papa's baby doesn't want any thin
but to howl. and he il gratifying tina
amiable desire to the utmost. it is O
no use to add to your Judgment Day lis
OF enormities by swearing. And if you
wife has been calmly passive through 1
all, she will develop an amazing degre
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