The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1890-11-27

Bridegroom And let us start out 10 hail
Him, For hear the voices of the Judgment
day sounding: Behold the Bridegroom
comethl Go We out to meet Him. And the
disappointment OF those who have declined
the invitation 20 the gospel wedding is pre-
sented under the figure OF n door heavily
closed. You hear il slam. Too late. The
door Is shut!
But we must hasten ON, for do not mean
to close my eyes tonight till i see from a
mountain top Lake Gailee. on whose banks
next Sabbath we will worship, and on whose
waters the following morning we will take
sail On and up we go in the severest climb
OF all Palestine, the ascent OF the Mount of
Beatitudes, on the top of which Christ
preached that famous sermon on the blesseds
blessed this and blessed that Up 10 their
knees the horses plunge in molehills and a
surface that gives way at the first touch of
the hoof, and again and again the tired beasts
halt, as much rs TO say TO the riders 1t is
unjust for YOU 10 make us climb these steeps"
On and up over mountain sides where in tho
later season hyacinths and dasies and phloxes
aud anemones kindle their beauty On and
up until on the rocks Of black basalt we dis
mount, and climbing TO the highest peak look
out on an enchantment OF scenery that seems
be the beatitudes themselves nrched into
skies and rounded into valleys and silvered
into waves. The view Is like that of Tennessee
and North Carolina from the top OF Look.
W
New Hampshire from the top OF Mount
Washington. Hail hills OF Gallilee! Hail
Lake Gennesaret, only four miles away
Yonder, clear up and most conspicuous, is
Safed. the very city 10 which Christ pointed
for illustration In the sermon preached here.
saying: "A city set on a hill cannot be hid"
There are rocks around me on this Mount OF
Beatitudes enough to build the highest pulpit
the world ever saw. Av, IL Is the highest
pulpit. IL overlooks all time and all eternity.
The valley OF Hattin, between here aud
Lake Galilee, Is an amphithcatre, as though
the natural contour OF the earth had invited
all nations to come and sit down and hear
Christ preach a sermon in which there were
more startling novelties than were ever an-
nouuced In all the sermons that were
ever preached. To those who heard Him on
this very spot His word must have seemed
the contradiction Of everything that they
had ever heard or read or experienced. The
worlds theory had been Blessed arc
tho arrogant; blessed are tho super.
cilious; blessed are the fearless; blessed
are they that have everything their own
way; blessed are tho war eagles; blessed
are the prosecutors: blessed are the popular;
blessed are the Herods and the Caesars and
the Ahabs. mo! mol now says Christ with
voice that rings over thess rocks and
through yonder valley of Hattin, and down
10 the opaline lake on one side, and the sap
phre Mediterranean on the other, and across
Europe in one way, and across Asia in the
other way, and around the earth both WAYS
till the globe shall yet be grdled with the
nine beatitudes Blessed are the poor; bless.
ed are the mournful blessed arc the meek
blessed are the hungry; blessed are the mer
ciful; blessed are tho pure; blessed nre the
peacemakers blessed are the presented
blessed are tile falsely rcyilcl.