Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-11-14


the exciting spectacle. Again the PAN
Drama moves on before the cavern OF
Patmos. and John, the exile, sees
great city representing oil aoomins-
tions, Babylon lowered, paiaced,
tempted, iountained, foliaged, sculp-
tured, hanging gardens, suddenly go
ing crash! crash! and the pipers cease
TO- pipe, and the trumpeters cease 10
and the dust and the smoke
and the horror fill the canvas, while
from above and beneath are the voicet
Babylon is fallen, Is fall
en-" And we halt again TO rest from
the spectacle.
Again the panorama passes before
the cavern OF Patmos, and John, the
exile. sees mounted Christ on q snow
white charger leading forth the caval'
ry OF heaven, the long line oil white
chargers galloping through the scene,
the Gathering OF hoois, the clinking OF
bride bits, the fash OF spears, all the
earth conquered and all heaven In Dox-
o!ogy. And We halt again to rest from
the spectacle.
Again the panorama passes before the
island OF Patmos, and John the exile
sees great thrones lifted, thrones OF
martyrs. thrones OF apostles, thrones OF
prophets, thrones OF patriarchs, and
throne higher than all, on which Jesus
sits. and ponderous books are opened,
their leaves turned over, revealing the
names OF all that have ever lived, the
good and the bad, the renowned and
the humble, the mighty and the weak,
and at the turn OF every leaf the uni
verse Is In rapture or fright. and the
sea empties lis sarcophagus OF all the
dead OF the sunken shipping, and the
earth gives way and the heavens van
ish. Again we rest moment from the
spectacle.
The panorama moves on before the
cavern OF Patnios, and John, the exile,
beholds city OF gold, and q river more
beautiful than the Rhine or the Hud-
son rolls through 1t, and fruit trees
bend their burdens on either bank, and
all is surrounded by walls In which the
upholstery OF autumnal forests and the
suurises and sunsets OF all the ages, and
the glory OF burning worlds seem 10 be
commingled. And the inhabitants
never breathe sigh or utter q groan,
or discuss difference, or frown a dis.
like, or weep tear. The fashion they
wear Is pure white, and their foreheads
are encircled by garlands. and they
who were sick are we'll, and they who
were old are young, and they who were
bereit are united.
And as the last figure OF that piano.
rama rolled out OF sight, / think that
John must have fallen back into his
cavern, uerveless and exhausted. Too
much was 1t for naked eye to look at.
Too much was it for human strength to
experience. >,
NV friends, l would not wonder II
you should have q very similar vision
after awhile. :,
You see your work will be done and
the time for your departure will be at
hand, and there will be wings over you
and wings under you, and songs let
loose on the ar, and your old father and
mother gone for years will descend into
the room. and your little children
whom you put away for the last sleep
years ago will be at your side, and their
kiss will be on your foreheads, and you
will see gardens in full bloom, and the
swinging'open OF shining gates, all will
hear voices long ago hushed.
In many o Christian departure that
you have known and / have known,
there was in the phraseology OF the de-
parting ones something that indicated
the temperance OF those long deceased.
1t is no delusion, but supernal fact.
Your clorified loved ones will hear you
are about to come, and they will say in
heaven, "May 60 down to show that
soul the way up. May be the celes'
tial escort?" And the Lord will say,
Eyes. you may fly down on that mis-
sion." And think all your glorified
kindred will come down, and they will
be in tho room, and though those stand
ing around you may hear no voice and
see no arrival from heaven, you will
see and hear. And the moment the
fieshly bond OF the soul shall break
the cry will be, 'Follow me. Up this
way! BY this gilded cloud. straight for
home, straight for glory, straight for
Godw
AS on that day in the Grecian archi-
pelago, Patmos began to fade out oil
sight. walked to the stern OF the ship
that might keep my eye on the en-
chantment as long as could, and the
voice that sounded out OF heaven to
John, the exile, in the cavern on Pat
mos seemed sounding in the waters that
dashed against the side OF our ship:
behold the tabernacle Of God Is with
men, and He will dwell with them, and
they shall be His people, and God Him.
self shall be with them and be their
God, and God shall wipe away all tears
from their eyes, and there shall be no
more death. neither sorrow nor crying,
neither shall there be any more pain.
for the former things are passed away"