The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-09-19

ness and glory you are coming, to what
life, to what riches, to what royalty.
Hearers, pleased to fascination with
this world, gather up your souls for
one appreciative look upon riches that
never fly away, upon health that never
sickens, upon scepters that never
break, upon expectations that are
never disappointed. Look in and see
If there are not enough crowns to pay
us for all our battles, enough rest to
relieve all our fatigues, enough living
fountains to quench all our thirst,
enough glory to dash out for ever and
ever all earths signing and restlessness
and darkness. Battles ended, tears
wiped away, thorns plucked from the
bosoms, stabs healed, The tomb rven-
what scene to look upon!
WE MAY ENTER HEAVEN THROUGH TT.
Again, the door of heaven stands
open for the Christians final entrance
Death to the righteous is not climbing
high walls or foBling deep rivers, but it
is entering an open door If you ever
visit the old homestead where you were
born, and while father and mother are
yet alive, as you go up the lane in front
of the farm house. and put your hand
on the door and lift the latch, do you
shudder with fear9 No, you are glad
to enter. So your last sickness will be
only the lane in front of your Fathers
house, from which you hear the voice
of singing before you reach the door.
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 company of spirits have already
entered those portals, bright and shin
ing. Souls released from the earthly
prison house. how they shouted as they
went through! Spirits that sped up
from the flames of martyrdom, making
heaven richer as they went in, pouring
their notes into the celestial harmony.
And that door has not begun to shut.
If redeemed by grace we all 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 it we shall be without fatigue
On this side we bleed with the war
rior's wounds, on the other side we
shall have the victors palm. When
you think of dying what makes your
brow contract, what makes you breathe
50 deep and sigh? What makes you
gloomy in passing grave yard? Fol
lower of Christ, you have been think
ing that death is something terrible,
the measuring of lances with power
full antagonist, the closing in of con-
flict which may be your everlasting de-
feat. You do not want much to think
of dying. The step beyond this life
seems so mysterious you dread the tax.
ing of it. Why, who taught you this
lesson of horrors9 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 ar.
rival there. Not half so long as the
twinkling of an eye. Not the millionth
part of an instant There is no STUN
bling into darkness. There is no plung-
ing down into mysterious depths. The
door is open. This instant you are
here, the next you are there When a
vessel struck the rocks of the French
coast while the crew were clambering
up the beach cage of birds in the
ships cabin, awakened, 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 dissolu-
ton, 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 prom.
Uses of deliverance and victoryl
NO BELIEVING ONE WILL BE TURNED
AWAY.
For all repenting 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 wealth
lest, for the outlaw as well as for the
moralist, for Chinese coolie as we'll as
his emperor, for the Russian boor a.
, well as the car, for the Turk as vel
as the sultan. Richer than all wealth,
more refreshing than all fountains
deeper than all depths, higher than al
heights and broader than all breadth.
is the salvation of Jesus Christ which
press upon your consideration. Come
all We travellers of the desert, under
these palm trees Oh, if | could gather
before you that tremendous future upor
which you are invited to enter-domin
i, ions and principalities, day without
night, martyrs under the throne, anG
the four-andtwenty elders falling before
it, stretching off in great distances
] the hundred and forty and four thou
! sand, and thousands of thousands
. host beside host. rank beyond rank, in
' infinite distance; nations of the saved
3 beyond nations of the saved, until an
r gelic visions cease to catch anything
3 more than the faint outline of whole
: empires yet outstretching beyond thu
, capacity of any vision save the eye O
! God Almighty. Then, after had fin
: ished the sketch, 1 would like to asI
. you if that place is not grand enough
, and high enough and if anything coult
. be added, any purity to the whitenes
D of the robes, any power to the &C
claiming thunders of its worship. An,
all that may be yours.