Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-10-08
THE GRAND CoNsUMMATIoN.

Then this worlds joy will be so great
that other worlds besides heaven may be
glad to rejoice with us. By the aid of
powerful telescopes, year by year becoming
more powerful, mountains in other stars
have been discovered and chasms and vol
canoes and canals, and the style of atmos-
phere, and this will go on, and mightier
and mightier telescopes will be invented
until | should not wonder if we will be
able to exchange signals with other planets.
And as have no doubt other worlds are
inhabited, for God would not have built
such magnificent world houses to have
them stand without tenants or occupants,
in the final joy of earth's redemption
all astronomy | think will take part, we
signaling other worlds and they in turn
signaling their stellar neighbors Oh,
what day in heaven that will be when
this march of Christ is finishedl | know
that on the cross Christ said, "It is fin
ished," but he meant his saCrifcial work
was finished.
All earth and 'all heaven knows that
evangelization is not finished, but there
will come day in heaven most rapturous
1t maybe after our world, which is thought
to have about fifteen hundred million peO
pie, shall have on its decks twice it's pres
ent population, namely three thousand
million souls and all redeemed, and it will
be after this world shall be so damaged by
conflagratiOn that no human foot can
tread it's surface and no human being can
breathe its air, but most certainly the day
will come when heaven will be finished
and the last of the twelve gates of the eter-
nal city shall have changed shut, never to
open except for the admission of some
celestial embassage returning from some
other world, and Christ may strike his
SCARED but healed hand in emphasis on
the arm of the amethystine throne and say
in substance, 'All my ransomed ones are
gathered; the work is done; have finished
my march through the centuries"
| When in 1913, after the battle of Leipsic,
which decided the fate of the Nineteenth
century, in some respects the most tire
mendous battle ever fought, the bridge
down, the river incarnadined, the street
choked with the wounded, the fields for
miles around strewn with a dead soldiery
! from whom all traces of humanity had
been dashed out, there met in the public
square of that city of Leipsic the allied con-
querors and kings who had gained the vic
tory-the king of Prussia, the emperor of
Russia, the crown prince of Sweden-fol-
lowed by the chiefs Of their armies. With
drawn swords thess monarch saluted each
other and cheered for the continental vic
tory they had together gained. History
! has made the scene memorable.
Greater and more thrilling will be the
spectacle when the world is all conquered
for the truth, and in front of the palace of
heaven the kings and conquerors of all the
allied powers Of Christian usefulness shall
salute each other and recount the strug-
giles by which they gained the triumph,
and then hand over their swords to him
who is the chief of the conquerors, crying;
"Thine, oh, Christ, is the kingdom. Take
the crown of victory, the crown of domin-
ion, tie crown of grace, the crown OF
glory.s "On his head were many crowns. "