The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-08-01

Christ, when hs came from heaven to Beth.
lehcm, laft u open and NO ono aimee has
dared to shut 1t. Mathew threw 1t still
wider open when he came to write, md Pau.
pushed the door further back when he spoke
citation actually points us to the harps and
the waters, and the crowns, aud the thrones.
There are profound mysteries about that
blessed place that We cannot solve. But look
through this wide open door OF heaven and
see what you can sec. God means us to look
md catch up now something of the rapture,
and attuns our hearts to its worship
1t is wide open enough to sec Christ. Do.
hold him, the chief among IL, 900, all tho ban.
ncred pomp 0f heaven athis feet With your
enkindlcd filth look up along these ranks of
glory. Watch how their palms wave and
hear how their voices ring. Floods ciapplng
their hands. streets streaming with gold, un.
number and ever rising up into gladder no.
sannas. Kyou cannot stand to look upon
that joyfor ut least one hour, how could you
endure to dwell among it forever? You
would wish yourself out OF it In three DAYS
and choose the earth again or any other
place where it was not always Sunday.
honored, healthy and happy. look in upon
that company of the redeemed, and how the
poor soul in heaven is better of than you
are, brighter in apparel, richer in estate,
hinlcr in power. Hearers, afflicted md tried,
look in through that open door, that YOU
may Sc" to what sladncss and glory you ale
coming, to what life, to whit riches, to what
royalty. Hearers pleased to fascination with
this world, gather up your souls for one mp.
preriativc look upon riches that never fly
away, upon health that never sickens upon
sceptres that never break, upon ex ppctations
that are never disappointed. Look in and
see j there are not enough crowns to pay us
for all our battes, enough rest to relieve all
our fntigucs, enough living fountains to
quench all our thirst, enough glory to dash
out forever nnd ever all earth's sghing
and restlessness and darkness. Battles
ended. tears wiped away, thorns plucked
from the hosoms, stabs healed the tomb
riven-whnt 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 ford
ing deep rivers. but it is entering an open
door. lfyou ever visit the old homestead
where you were born and while father and
mother are vet alive, as you go up the lane
hand on the door and lift the latch, do YOU
sludder with fear? No, you are glad to en-
ter. So your last sickness will lie only the
lane in front of your Fathers house from
which you hear the voice of singing before
you reach the door. And death, TINT il thu
ii'inE VI tne ihtch oeIOre you enter tile
greetings and embraces of the innumerabls
fnmly of the righteous. Nay. there il no
latch, for John says thedoor is already oper
What company of spirits have already en-
tered those portals. bright and shining
Souls released from the earthly prison house,
how they shouted as they went through
Spirits that went up from the flames of mnr-
tyr'iom making heaven richer as they went
i'll. pouring their notes into the celestial hur.
mony.
And that door has not begun toslut II
redeemed by grace, we shall enter it. This
side OF it We have wcpt. but on the other
side of it we shall never weep. On this side
on tho other side Of it We shall be without
fatigue. On this sdo VIC bleed with the
warriors wound, on tho other side VIC shull
wave tho victors palm. When you think of
dying what makes your brow contract what
makes you breathe 80 deep and sigh? What
males you gloomy in passing a graveyard?
Follower OF Christ, you have been thinking
that death is something terrible, the meas.
nring OF lances with powerful antagonist.
The step reyond this lie seems 30 mysterious
you dread the taking o: il. Why, who
this lesson Of horrors? Hsavsn'a
door is wide open ind you step out OF your
sick room into those, portals. Not as
department and your arrival there.
Not half 80 long as the twinkling
of an eye Not the millionth part of an
instant There is no stumbling into durk-
ness. There is no plunging down into mys-
terious depths. The door is open. This in
When vessel struck the rocks Of the French
coast, while the crew were clambering up the
beach, cage OF binds in the ships cabin.
awakened, began to sing most Rweetly and
when the last man left the vessel they were
singing vet. Even so in tho Inst hour of our
dissolution when driven on the coast of the
other world may our Instrumentation from
singing ola thousand promises of deliver.
nnce and victory!
For all repenting md believing souls the
q DOR OF heaven is now wide open, the
door of mercy, the door OF comfort, for the
poorest us we'll us the wealthiest, for the out.
coolic as well MS his emperor, for the Russian
as well ny the ear. for the Turk as we'll az the
sultan. Richer than all wealth, more re-
freshing than all fountains, deeper thnn ul
depths, higher than. all heights. and
broader than all brendths. is
the the, salvation Of Jesus Christ,
Come, all 70 travellers of the desert under
these palm trees. Oh. II could gnther be.
fore you that tremendous future upon which
you are invited to enter-dominions and
day without night, martyrs
under the throne and the four and twenty
elders fulins before it, stretching off in great
distances the hundred and forty and four
and thousands OF thousands, host
beside host, rank beyond rank, in infinite
distance, nations of the saved beyond ma.
tons of the saved, until angelic visions cease
to catch anything more than the faint out
line of whole empires yet outstretching bo-
yond the capacity Of any vision save the eye
Of God Almighty. Then after had finished
the sketch. would like to usk you If that |
plnce is not grand enough, and high enough,
md il anything coultl be added, any purity |
to the Wilderness of the robes, any power to |
I he ncclaiming thunders of it's worship. And
all tllut may be yours