Milford chronicle., 1891-04-24

Crystal, the bed over which it shall roll
and ripple. Crystal, its infinite surface
But ''the crystal cannot equal it." John
says crystal sea That means multitu-
dinously vast Vast in rapture. Rapture
vast as the sea, deep as the sea, strong as
the sea, ever changing as the sea. BillOws
of light. Billows Of beauty, blue with
skies that were never clOuded and green
with depths that were never fathomed.
/ Arctics and Antarctics and Mediterraneans
and Atlantics and Pacifics in crystalline
/ magnifcenee. Three erystals-erystalli light
falling on a crystal river; crystal river roll
/ ing into crystal sea. But 'the crystal
cannot equal it."
HEAVEN WE MUST HAVE.
ooh, +" says some one, putting his hand
over his eyes, ''can it be that who have
been in so much sin and trouble will ever
come to those crystals?" Yes, it may be-
it will be. Heaven we must have, what
ever else we have or have not, and we come
here to get It, "HOw much must pay for
it," you say. You will pay for it just as
much rs the coal pays to become the dia-
mond In other words, nothing. The same
Almighty power that makes the crystals
in the mountains will change your heart
which is harder than stone, for the promise
IS, Il will take away your stony heart and
will give you heart Of flesh"
"Oh, says some one, sit is just the doc
trine want. God Is TO do everything, and
I am to do nothing" My brother, it Is not
the doctrine you want. The coal makes
no resistance. Il hears the resurrection
voice in the mountain, and it comes to
capitalization, but your heart resists. The
trouble with you, my brother, is the coal
wants TO stay coal. l do not ask you to
throw open the door and let Christ in. I
only ask that you stop boiling it and bar
ring it. Oh, my friends, we will have to
get rid of our sins. will have to get rid
of my sins, and you will have to get rid Of
your sins. What win we do with our sins
among the three crystalsf The crystal at
mosphere would display our pollution.
The crystal river would be befouled with
our touch. The crystal sea would whelm
us with its glistening surge. Transforms
ton now or no transformation at ALL
Give sin full chance in your heart and
the transformation will be downward in
stead Of upward. Instead Of a crystal It
will be cindeT. In the days Of Carthage
a Christian girl was condemned to die for
her faith, and boat was bedaubed with
tar and pitch and filled with combustibles
eAAAA Qn nAgl on4 eAG LlAAaAAeA4 XIII was
placed in the boat and the wind was off
shore and the boat floated away with its
precious treasure. No one can doubt that (
boat landed at the shore of Heaven.
Sin wants to put you in a fiery boat and .
shove you off in an opposite direction-Off /
from peace, of from God, off from heaven,
everlastingly off; and the port toward /
which you would sail would be port of /
darkness, and the guns that would greet
you would be the guns Of despair, and the
flags that would wave at your arrival
would be the black flags of death. o, my
brother, you must either kill sin or sin will
kill you. 1t is no wild exaggeration when
say that any man or woman that wants
10 be saved may be saved. Tremendous
shoicel A thousand people are choosing
this moment between salvation and de-
struction, between light and darkness, be-
tween heaven and hell, between charred
ruin and glorious capitalization.