Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-06-20


The green that sleeps on the brooks
bank, and rides on the sea wave and
spreads its banners on the mountain top,
shall be eternized in the emerald that forms
the fourth foundation OF che heavenly wall
The fiery pushes OF the morning. the con-
fagration of the autumnal sunset, the cleo
tricity that shoots its fOrked tongue out Of
the thunder cloud, the flame at whose breath
Moscow fell and Etnas burn, shall be etern-
lied in the fiery jasper. II seems as II all
earthly beauty were in one billOw TO be
dashed up against that wall OF heaven: 50
that the most beautiful things of earth will
be kept either in the wall, or the foundation,
or in the rainbow round ABOUT the throne.
| notice the unspeakable attractiveness OF
heaven. In other places the Bible tells Us OF
the floor of heaven-the waters and the
stones and the fruits; but now St John tells
us of the roof-tbe frescoed arch OF eternity
and the rainbow round about the throne.
Get 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
and out a ball of colored worsteds through
the delicate threads, satisfied il he can in
day make so much a fingers breadth OF
beauty for Kings canopy. But behold
how my Lord, in one hour, with His two
hands twisted the tapestry, now swung
above the throne, into rainbo" of infinite
glory Oh, what place heaven must be!
You have heretofore 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 a cloud burst? There have been days
when it raned as if 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 tie Bow
of Promise painted on the cloud in Noah's
time So the glorified have but to look
to the arch around the throne OF the King
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ever past.
On earth the deluge of sin covers the tops
of the highest mountains. | heard an AL
pine guide, amid the most stupendous evil
dences 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 mount
ain ranges. Revenge, drunkenness, im-
piety fasehood, 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, Lon
don is drowned it 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 befous that pure air; no Williams
torch shall fire those temples; no murderers
hand shall strike down those sons Of God.
is assuaged for there is O 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 1T. The fac
tories of the world are night and day manu-
featuring the weaponry of death. Throne
against throne, Empire against Empire. The
spirit of despOtism and freedom at in
every land; despOtic America against free
America despotic England against free Eng
many deSpOtic Austria against free Austria.
The great battle of earth is being fought
the ArnageddOn Of the nations The song
that unrOiled from the sky on the first
Christmas night OF ''Deace and good will to
men, - is drowned in the booming of the great
siege guns Stand back and let the long line
OF amDulanceS pass. GrOan to grOan. IN
cover, and look upon the trenches of the dead.
Blood! blood!-a deiuge 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 hostile flag above those
walls; no smoke of burning villages; no
shriekS of butcher3d men; but peaceI Ger
man and Frenchman, who fell with arms in
teriOcke in hate on the field of death, now,
through Christ in heaven, stand with arms
lnterlOcked 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 a rainbow
round about the throne.
Now the earth is covered with the deluge
of sorrow. Trouble! Trouble The very
first utterance when we come into the
world is a cry. Without any teaching, we
learn to weep. What has so wrinkled that
mans face? What has so prematurely
whtened his hair? What calls out that
sigh? What starts that tear? Trouble!
trouble! | find it in 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 es-
cape from it. You go into the store, and
1T meets you at your counting desk: YOU go
into the street. and it meets you at the
corner; you go into the house, and it meets
you at the door. Tears of poverty! tears
of persecution tears of bereav ement!-a
deiuge Of tears! Gathered together from
all the earth, they could float an ark larger
than NOah'S
that spans the throne, shall see that the de-
huge Is over. No ShiyerinS 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 aay
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 a superstition that
at the foot of the rainbow there was q casket
OF buried gold; out | have to announce that
at the foot of this rainbow of heaven there
is Il box made out of the wood of the cross
Open 1t, and you find all the treasures of
heaven.