Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-04-24
abound. The carbon become. the solitaire.

abound. The carbon becomes the solitaire.
"The crystal cannot equal IT,"
But, my friends, the chief transforming
power OF the Gospel will not be seen IN this
world aud not until heaven breaks upon the
soul. When that light falls upon the
soul then YOU Will see the crystals. Oh,
what magnificent setting for these Jewels
OF eternity sometimes hear people rep
resenting Heaven in way that ii far from
attractive To me. IL seems almost vulgar
heaven ~ they represent IL with great
blotches or color and bands of mu-
slc making deafening racket John rep
resents Heaven rs eXquisitely beautiful.
Three crystals. In one place he says:
"Her light was like "A precious stone, clear
us crystal" In another place ho says:
II saw pure river from under the throne,
clear as crystal" In another place he
says: before tue throne there was sea
OF glass clear ~ crystal" Three crystals
John says crystal atmosphere. That means
health. Balm OF eternal June. What
weather after the worlds east
wind! No rack Of storm clouds. One
breath of that air will cure the
worst tubt-'cle. Crystal light on all the
leaves. Crystal light shimmering on the
topaz OF the temples. Crystal light tossing
in the plumes Of tue equestrians of heaven
on white horses. But the crystal cnnnot
equal it," John says crystal river. That
means Joy. Deep and ever rolling. Not
one drop of the Thames or the Hudson or
the Rhine To soil IL. Not one tear of human
sorrow To embltter IL. Crystal, the rain out
OF which IL was nude. Crystal, the bed
over which 1t shall roll and ripple. Crystal,
It's infinite surface. But 1.-The crystal can
not equal it," John says crystal sea. That
means mul itudinously vast. Vast in rap
ture. Rapture vast AS the sea, deep MS the
sea, strong rs the sen, ever changing rs the
sea. Billows OF light. Billows OF beauty
blue with skies that were never fathOmed.
Arctlcs and Antarchcs and Mediterraneans
and Atlantes and Pacitics in crystalline
magnifcence. Three crystals. Crystal
light falling on crystal river. Crystal
river rolling into crystal sea. But "the
crystal cannot equal It."
"Oh," says some one, lit is just the doc
trine want; God Is To do everything ana
i am to do nothing" My brother, 1t is not
the doctrine yousNYanJ. The coal makes no
resistance. IL hears the resurrection voice
In the mountain and IL comes TO crystalliza-
ton, but your heart resists. The trouble
with you, my brother, ~, the coal wants to
stay coal. do not ask you 10 throw open
the door ana let Christ in. | only ask that
you stop boiling 1t and barring. II.
o, my friends, we Will have
TO yet rid OF our sins. L
will have to get rid OF my SINS and you
will have to get rid OF your sins. What
will we do with our sins among the three
crystalsy The crystal atmosphere would
display our pollution. The crystal river
would be 5efoulod with our touch. The
crystal sea would whelm lis with It's glisten-
ing surge. Transformation now or no
transformation at all. Give sin full chance
in your heart and the transformation will
be downward instead OF upward. In
stead OF crystal 1t VIII be cn-
der. In the days OF Carthage Chris
tian girl was condemned To die for
her faith, and boat was beddubed with tar
and pitch aud flied with combustibles and
set on fire and the Christian girl was placed
in tho boat. and the wind was off shore and
the boat iloaed away with it, precious
treasure. No one can doubt that boat
landed At the shores of Heaven. Sin wants
to put you in fiery boat and shove you off
in an opposite dlrection--on from peace,
off from God. off from Heaven.
ever'astingly off; and the port to-
ward which you w0uld 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 nc the black
flags OF death. o, NV brother, YOU must
either Kill SIN or sin will Kill you. II is no
wild exaggeration when say that any man
or woman that wants 10 be saved NAV be
saved. Tremendous choice A thousand
people are choosing this moment between
salvation and destruction, between light
and darkness, between heaven and he'll, be-
tween charred ruin and glorious crystalli-