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more, neither shall the sun light Oh them,
nor any heat; for the Lamb which Is In the
midst Of the throne shall lead them to living
fountains Of water, and God shall wipe away
all Years from their eyes"
Across the couches OF your sick and across
the graves Of your dead fling this shower
of sweet spices. Queen Balkis driving up
to the pillared portico Of the house of cedar,
carried no such pungency Of perfume as ex-
hales to-day from the Lords garden. It Is
peace. 1t Is sweetness. It is comfort. It
infinite satisfaction, this Gospel I commend
to you. Some one could not understand why
an old German Christian scholar used to be
always so calm and happy and hopeful when
he had so many trials and sicknesses and
ailments. A man secreted himself in the
house. he said, ~ mean to watch this old
scholar and Christian;" and he saw the old
Christian man 60 to his room and sit down
on the chair beside the stand and open the
Bible and begin to read. BE read on and
on, chapter after chapter, hour after hour,
until his face was all aglow with the It'd
ings from heaven, and when the clock
struck twelve he arose and shut his Bible,
and said: "Blessed Lord, we are on the
same old terms yet. Good night. Good
night"
Oh, you sin parched and you trouble
pounded, here is comfort, here is satisfaction.
VIII you come and get ita I cannot tell you
what the Lord offers you hereafter so well
as can tell you now. 1T doth not yet ap-
pear what we shall be-" Have you read Of
the Tai Mahal in India, In some respects the
most majestic building on earthi Twenty
thousand men were twenty years In building
1t. It cost about sixteen millions Of dollars.
The walls are Of marble, inla;d with carne-
lian from Bagdad, and turquois from Thibet,
Ind jasper from uue Punjaub, and amethyst
from Persia, and all manner of precious
stones. A traveller says that it seems to him
like the shining Of an enchanted castle of
FURNISHED silver. Tho walls are two hum
dred and forty-fve feet high, and from the
top Of these springs dome thirty more feet
high, that dome containing the most won.
derful echo the world has ever known, so that
ever and anon travellers standing below with
flutes and drums and harps are testing that
echo, and the sounds from below strike up, L.
and then come down, as it were, the voices
Of angels all around about the building.
There is around it garden Of tamarind and
banyan and palm and all the floral glories Of
the ransacked earth.
But that is only tomb Of a dead empress,
and it is tame compared with the grandeurs
which God has builded for your living and
immortal spirit. Oh, home of the blessedl
Foundations Of gold! Arches Of victory!
CapSCOQeS Oh pTtalSSI kAu0 OOue III WHICH,
there are echoing and re-echoing the hallelu.
jahs of the ages. And around about that
mansion is garden-the garden Of Cod
and all the springing fountains are the bot
tied tears Of the church in the wilderness,
and all the crimson of flowers is the deep hue
that was caught up from the carnage Of
earthly martyrdoms, and the fragrance is
the prayer Of all the saints, and the aroma
puts into utter forgetfulness the cassia, and
The spikenard, and the frankincense and the
world renowned spices which the Queen
Balkis, Of Abyssinia, flung at the feet Of
King Solomon.
When shall these eyes thy heaven built walls
And pearly gates behold,
Thy bulwarks, with salvation strong,
And streets Of shining gold2
Through obduracy on our part ana
through the rejection Of that Christ who
makes heaven possible, wonder II any OF US
will miss that spectacle? I fearl I fearl
The queen Of the south will rise up in judg-
ment against this generation and condemn
it, because she came from the uttermost
parts Of the earth to hear the wisdom Of Sol
omon, and behold, greater than Solomon
Is herel May God grant that through your
own practical experience you may find that
religions ways are ways Of pleasantness, and
that all her paths are paths of peace-thatit
is perfume now and perfume forever. And
there was an abundance Of spice; neither
was there any such spice as the Queen or
Sheba gave to King Solomon"