The Penn's Grove record., 1891-10-09

scohrged, whose eyes have beer onnaea,
whoee heart has been wrung. will yet rival
heaven. This planets torn rob- of pain and
urine and dementia will come off and the
whits and spoties. and differing robe of
holiness and happiness viii come on. The
last wound will have stung for the last time;
the last grief will have wiped its last tear;
the last criminal will nave repented of his
last crime and our world that has
been . ~straggler among worlds a lost
star, q hayward planet, a rebellious globe. a
miscreant satellite, will hear the voice that
uttered childish plant In Bethlehem and
agonized prayer in Gethsemane and dying
Rroan on Golgotha, and this voice cries.
Come" our world will return from its wan
derfng never again to stray. Marching oni
Marching oni
Then this worlds joy will be so great that
other worlds besides HEAVIER may be glad to
rejoice with us. By the aid Of powerful
powerful, mountains In other stars lave
been discovered and chasms and volcanoes
and canals, and the style OF atmosphere, and
this will go on, and mightier and mightier
telescopes will be invented until 1 should
not wonder we will be able to exchange sig
have no doubt other worlds are inhab-
tied, for God would not have built
such magnificent world houses to have them
stand without tenants or o~ccupants, Ia the
final Joy Of earth's REDEMPTION all Astronomy
l think Will take part, we signaling other
worlds and they in turn signaling their stel.
lar neighbour. oh, what a day in heaven
that Will b when this march Of Christ Is
fnishedi know that on the cross Christ
sid: ut Is finished, " but He meant His sac
rinoial work was finished.
All earth and all heave knows that evan
COLLATION. Is not finished, but there will come
day In heaven most rapturous. 1t may be
after u world, which Il thought to have
about fifteen hundred million people
shall have on its decks twice its present pop
uiation, namely three thousand million souls
and all redeemed. and it will be
after this world shall be 30 damaged by
c~onfagration that no human foot can
tread Its surface and no human being can
breathe it's air, but most certainly the day
WIN come when heaven will De 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 "Al Ny ransomed ones are gath
through the centuries.n
When In 1918, after the battle of Leipsic,
which decided the fate Of the Nineteenth
century, in some respects the most tremend-
dous battle ever fought, the bridge down,
the river inc~arnadined. 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
city of Leipsio 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
swords these 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 end recount the struggles
by which they gained the triumph, and then
hand over their swords to Him who 10 the
OF the ~conquerors, crying: Chime, oh,
Christ Is the kingdom. Take the crown Of
1cSofy, tK9 SfoWn Of dominion, the crown
of grace. the crown Of glory" 'On His head
were many crowns"