The Russellville Democrat., 1890-02-27
PRICE FIVE CENTS.

surely no one can Two in th1s world after such glories as God has manifested to my soul. "
 What did the dying Janeway say9 ''I can as easily die as close my eyes or turn my head in sleep. Before few hours have passed I shall stand on Mount Zion with the one hundred and forty and four thousand, and with the just men made perfect and we shall ascribe riches, and honor, and glory, and majesty, and dominion, unto God and the Lamb.'
 Dr. Taylor, condemned to burn at the stake, on his way thither broke away from the guardsmen and went bound ing and leaping and jumping toward the fire, glad to go to Jesus and to die for Him.
 Sir Charles Hare, in last moment, had such rapturous vision that he criedi Upward, upward, upwardP And so great was the peace of one of Christ's disciples that he put his fingers upon the pulse in his wrist and counted itand observed it; and so great was his placid ity that after awhile he said: "Stoppedi" and his life had ended here to begin in Heaven. But grander than that was the testimony of the worn-out first mission ary, when, in the Mamartine dungeon, he cried: 'I am now ready to be offered. and the time of my departure is at hand; have fought the good fight have fin ished my course. have kept the faith; henceforth there is laid up for me crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give me in that day, and not to me only, but to all them that love His appearingl" Do you not see that Christ is above all in dying alleviations?
 Toward the last hour of our earthly residence we are speeding. When l see the sunset l say: "0ne day less to live" When I see tho spring blossoms scattered, I say: Another day gone forever" When I close this Bible on Sabbath night, I say: Another Sab bath departed" When I bury friend, say: Another earthly attraction gone forever" What nimhle feet the years havel The roebucks and the cade to decade, from sky to sky, they go at bound. There is place for us, whether marked or not, where you and will sleep the last sleep, and the men are now living who will, with solemn tread, carry us to our resting-place. Ay, it is known in Heaven whether our de- parture will be a coronation or banish. ment.
 Brighter than a banqueting hall q nh r,h ah hn sr1+ Df dancers go up and down to the sound of trumpeters will be the sepulcheI through whose rifts the holy light oi Heaven streameth. God will watch you. He will send His angels to guard your slumbering ground, until, az Christ's behest, they shall roll away the stone.
 So, also, Christ is above all in Heaven. The Bible distinctly says that Christ ia the chief theme of the celestial ascrip- tion, all the thrones facing His throne, all the palms waved before His face, all the crowns down at His feet Cherubim to cherubim, seraphim to seraphim, redeemed spirit to redeemed spirit shall recite the Saviour's earthly sacrifice.
 ''Stand on some high hill of Heaven, and in all the radiant sweep tho most glorious object will be Jesus. Myriads gazing on the scars of His suffering, in silence first afterward breaking forth into exclamation. The martyrs, all the purer for the flame through which they passed, will say:
 This is Jesus, for whom we died"
 The apostles, all the happier for the shipwreck and the scourging through which they went, will say:
 ''This is the Jesus whom we preached at Corinth, and at Cappadocia, and at Antioch, and at Jerusalem"
 Little children clad in white will say: ''This is the Jesus who took us in His arms and blessed us, and when the storms of the world were too cold and loud brought us into this beautiful place."
 The multitudes of tho bereft will say: This is the Jesus who comforted us when our heart broke"
 Many who wandered clear off from God and plunged into vagabondism, but were saved by grace, will say: This is the Jesus who pardoned us. We were lost on the mountains, aud He brought us home. We were guilty, and He has made us white as snow"
 Mercy boundless, grace unparalleled. And then, after each one has recited his peculiar deliverances and peculiar mer- cies, recited them as by solo, all the voices will come together into great chorus, which will make the arches echo and re-echo with the eternal re- verberation of gladness and peace and triumph
 Edward l. was so anxious to go to the Holy Land that when he was about to expire he bequeathod one hundred and sixty thousand dollars to have his heart, after his decease, taken to the Holy Land in Asia Minor, and his request was complied with. But there are hundreds to-day whose hearts are already in the Holy Land of Heaven. Where your treasures are there are your hearts also. Quaint John Bunyan, of whom l spoke at the opening of the discourse, caught glimpse of that place, and in his quaint way he said;
 And heard in my dreams, and lol the bells of the city rang again for joy; and as they opened the gates to let in the men looked in after them, and lo the city shone like the sun, and there were streets of gold, and men walked on them, harps in their hands, to sing praises withal; and after that they shut up the gates, which, when I had seen, wished myself among theml'