Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-24

in this world, and not until Heaven
breaks upon the soul. When that light
falls upon tho soul then you will see the
crystals. Oh what o magnificent setting
for these jewels of eternity! sometimes
hear people representing Heaven in q
way that is far from attractive to me.
1t seems almost vulgar Heaven as they
represent it, with great blotches of color
and bands of music making deafening
racket. John represents Heaven as ex-
clusively beautiful. Three crystals. In
one place he says: ssHer light was like
a precious stone, clear as crystal" In
another place he says, 81 saw q pure
river from under thei throne, clear as
crystal"
In another place he says, "Before the
throne there was a sea OF glass clear as
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 tubcrcle. Crystal
light OH all the leaves. Crystal light
shimmering on the topaz of the temples.
Crystal light tossing in the plumes OF the
equestrians of Heaven on white horses.
But 'sthe crystal cannot 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 it. No 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 infinite surface.
But "the crystal cannot equal it," John
says crystal sea. That means multi
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ture 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
l Mediterraneans and Atlantics and Pa
cites in crystalline magniticence. Three
: crystals-crystal light falling on a crys-
) tai river; crystal river rolling into
$ crystal sea. But sthe crystal cannot
. equal it,
''Oh." says some one, putting his hand
t over his eyes, s'can it be that who have
: been in so much sin and trouble will ever
J. come to those crystals?" Yes, it may be
L it will be. Heaven we must have,
is whatever else we have or have not, and
&c we come here to get it. 'How much
II must pay for it??'' you say. You will
al pay for it just as much as the coal pays
5! to become the diamond. In other words,
S! nothing. The same Almighty power
o. that makes the crystals in the mountains
A. will change your heart, which is harder
N than stone, for the promise is, 81 will
n. take away your stony heart and l will
in give you a heart of tiesh.'
a "Oh," says some one, sit is just the
e. doctrinesI want. God is to do every
g. thing, and l am to do nothing" My
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nd The coal makes no resistance. 1t hears
nd the resurrection voice in the mountain,
,st and it comes to crystalliZation, but your
it heart resists. The trouble with you
IN my brother, is the coal wants to sta!
an coal. l do not ask you to throw opel
the door and let Christ in. l only asl
a at you stop boiling it and barring it
10, Oh. my friends, we will have to get ri
j is of our sins. l will have to get rid of III
rm sins, and you will have to get rid OF you
,ir- sins. What will we do with our SIN
His among the three crystals? The crysts
ky; atmosphere would display our pollution
nd: The crystal river would be befoaled wit
,me our touch. The crystal sea wou
ride whelm us with its ghstenlnS surg
him Transformation now Gr no transform
and ton at all.
ear Give sin full chance in your heart al
nth the transformation will be downward j
let stead of upward. Instead of Il crystal
you will be Il cinder. In the days OF Ca
is thage a Christian girl was condemned
and die for her faith, and Il boat was bedaubt
be- with tar and pitch and filled with cor
ged bustibles and set on fire. and the Chri
ow. tan girl was placed in the boat, and IL
/ is wind was off shore and the boat floatt
} away with itsIprecious treasure. No OF
our can doubt that boat landed at the sho
you of Heaven.
With Sin wants to put you in fie1
our boat and shove you off in an opposite c
&c a rcction-otf from peace, off from God, {
lille from Heaven, everlastingly off; and tt
ord port toward which you would sail won
mot be a port of darkness, and the guns tn
would greet you would be the guns
rvs despair, and the flags that would WAY
ond at Your arrival would be the black fla
oon- of death. O, my brother, you mu
e or either kill sin or sin will kill you. 1t
rvs no wild exaggcration when l say th
Ons any man or woman that wants TO
sons saved may be saved. Trcmcndo
lave choice! A thousand people are choosi
that this moment between salvation and {
for struction, between light and darkne
der between Heaven and hell, betwc
l in charred ruin and glorious crystallizatlt
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