The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-05-14
TIT RSDAY EVENING, MAY II. 1891

ran after it through the streets, bare
headed, crying Bring me back my
motherl Bring me back my motherl"
And it was said that as the people
looked on and saw her cryins after
that which lay in the box in the Wagon
all she loved on earth-it Is said the
whole village was in trars. And that is
what great many OF you are doing
chasing the dead, Dear Lord, Is there
no appeasement for all this sorrow that
! see about me2 Yes, the thought of
resurrection and reunion far beyond
this scene of struggle and tears. "They
shall hunger no more, neither thirst
any more, neither shall the sun light
on 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
tears 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 por-
tico of the house of cedar, carried no
such pungency of perfume as exhales
today from the Lords garden. 1t is
peace. 1t is sweetness. 1t is comfort.
1t is infinite satisfaction, this gospel
commend to you, Some one could not
understand why an old German Chris.
tian scholar used to be always so calm
and happy and hopeful when he had
so many trials and sicknesses and all
ments. A man secreted himself in the
house, He said, Il mean to watch this
ord scholar and Christian" and he saw
the old Christian man go to his room
and sit down on the chair beside the
stand and open the Bible and begin to
read. He read on and on, chapter
after chapter, hour after hour, until
his face was all aglow with the tidings
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 salts,
fiction Will you come and get it2 /
cannot tell you what the Lord offers
you hereafter so well as | can tell you
now. SIT doth not yet appear what
we shall be-" Have you read of the
Tai Mahal in India, in some respects
tho most ,noiactio ,;IJ;po ~, oa,+b
Twenty thousand men were twenty
years in building it. 1t cost about six
teen millions of dollars. The walls are
of marble, inlaid with carnelian from
Bagdad, and turquois from Thibet,
and jasper from the Punjaub, and am
ethyst 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
The walls are two hundred and forty
five feet high, and from the top of these
spring dome thirty more feet high,
that dome containing the most wonder
full 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 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 dead
empress, and it is tame compared with
the grandeurs which God has builded
for your living and immortal spirit.
Oh. home of the blessed Foundations
of gAdl Arches of victoryl Capstones
of praisel And dome in which there
are echoing and re-echofHg the halle
luiafls Of the ages. And around about
that mansion is a garden-the garden
of God-and all the springing fount-
aims are the bottled tears of the church
in the wilderness, and all the crimson
of the 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 forSetfulness the cassia,
and the spikenard, and the franklin
cense, 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 gold?
Through obduracy on our part, and
through the rejection of that Christ
who makes heaven possible, I wonder
if any of us will miss that spectacle2 !
fearl fearl The queen of the south
will rise up in judgment against this
generation and condemn it, because she
came from the uttermost parts of the
earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon,
and, behold, greater than Solomon is
here! May God grant that trough
your own practical experience Yea may
find that religions ways are ways of
pleasantness and that all her paths are
paths of peace-that it is perfume now
and perfume forever. And there was
an abundance of spices; neither was
there any such spice as the queen of
Sheba gave to King Solomon.