Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-04-20

great blOtchGS OF color and bands OF
music making a deafening racket. John
represents heaven as exquisitely beauti-
full. Three crystals. In one place he
says, Her light was Ike a precious
stone, clear as crystal. In another
place he says, 4 saw pure river from
under the throne, clear rs crystal.
In another place lie says, Before the
throne there was sea Of glass clear as
crystal" Three crystals John says
crystal atmosphere. That means health.
Balm of eternal June What weather
after the worlds eas5 wind No rack
of storm clouds One breath of that
air viii cure th3 worst tIIbercle Crys
tai Eight on i'll the leaves. Crystal
Light shimmeri.g on the topaz of the
temples Crystal light tossing in the
plum IS Of the equestrians of heaven on
whit horses But the crystal cannot
equal it, JON says crystal river.
Thai means joy. Deep and ever rolling
Not one drop OF tI2 Thames or the Hud-
son or the Rhine to soil it. Not one tear
OF human sorrow to imbitter it.
Crystal. the rain out of which it was
made Crystal, the bed over which it
shall roll and ripple Crystal its inf
mite surface Sat the crystal cannot
equal it, John says crystal sea. That
means multtudinously vast. Vast in
rapture Rapture vast as the sea, deep
as the sea, strong as the sea, ever chang
ing as the sea. BilIows of light. Bill
lows of beauty, blue with skies that
were never clOuded, and green with
depths that were never fathomed.
Arctics and Antarctics and Mediter-
raneans and Atlantics and Pacifcs in
crystalline magnificence. Three crys-
tails. Crystal light falling on a crystal
river. Crystal river rolling into a crys-
tai sea. But the ''crystal cannot equal
it,
s'Oh," 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 bet will be. Heaven we
must have, whatever else we have or
have not, and we come here to get it.
Chow much must I pay for it?'' you
say. You will pay for it just as much
as the coal pays to become the dia-
mond. In other words, nothing. The
same Almighty power that makes the
crystal in the mountain will change
your heart, which is harder than stone,
for the promise is, Il will take away
your stony heart and | will give you a
heart Of flesh"
STOP BATTING THE DOOR.
ooh, " says some one lit is just the
doctrine l want; God is to do every
thing and | am to do nothing" My
brother, it is not the doctrine you want.
The coal makes no resistance. 1t hears
the resurrection voice in the mountain
and it comes to disqualification; but your
heart resists The trouble with you,
my brother, is the coal wants to stay
coal. | do not ask you to throw open
the door and let Christ in. | only ask
that you stop boiling it and barring it.
Oh, my friends, we will have to get rid
of our sins. | will have to get rid of
my sins and you viii have to get rid of
your sins
What will we do with our sins among
the three crystals? The crystal atmos-
phere would display our pollution. The
crystal river would be befOuled with
our touch. The crystal sea would
whelm us with its glistening surge.
Transformation now or no transfOrma-
ton ut all. Give sin full chance in your
heart, and the Transformation will be
downward instead of upward Instead
of crystal it will be cinder In the
Il Il
condemned to die for her faith, and a
boat was bedaubed with tar and pitch
and filed with combustibles and set on
fire, and the Christian girl 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 eff in an opposite direc-
tion--Off from peace, of from God, off
from heaven. everlastingly off; and the
port toward which you would sail
would be a 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 broth
er, you must either kill sin or sin will
kill you. 1t is no wild exaggeration
when | say that any man or woman
that wants to be saved may be saved.
Tremendous choice! A thousand peo-
pie are choosing this moment between
salvation and destruction, between
light and darkness, between heaven
and hell, between charred ruin and
glorious disqualification.