The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-10-01

lures viii adore ais name. More hon
ored and worshiped is he In this year
of 1891 than at any time since the year
one, and the day hastens when all ma
TORS viii join one procession follow
ing the Lamb whithersoever he Goeth-
Marching on, marching onl
This dear old world whose back has
been scourged, whose eyes have been
blinded, whose heart has been wrung
win yet rival heaven This planets
torn robe of pain and crime and de-
mentia viii come of and the white and
spotless and glittering robe Of holiness
and happiness will come on. The last
wound viii have stung for the last
time, the last grief viii have wiped its
last tear, the last criminal will have
repented of his last crime and our
world that has been a straggler among
worlds, q lost star, a maynard planet,
q rebeliious globe, a miscreant satel-
lite, will hear the voice that uttered
childish plant in Bethlehem and ago
nized prayer in Gethsenane and dying
groan on Golgotha, and as this voice
cries Come" our world win return
from its wandering never again to
stray. Marching on, marching on!
THE GLORIOUS VITALITY.
Then this worlds Joy will be SO graat
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 volcanoes and canals and
the style of atmosphere, and this will
go on, and mightier and mightier tele-
scopes will be invented until / should
not wonder il we will be able to ex-
change 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 oc-
cupants, in the final Joy of eartb's re-
demption all astronomy, 1 think, will
take part, We signalling other worlds
and they In tnrn signalling their stellar
neigbhcIs. Oh, what day il heaven
| that will be when the march of Christ
is finished! / know that on the cross
Christ said, cit is finished" but he
meant his sacrificial work was finished.
All earth and all heaven knows that
evangelization is not finished, but there
will come day In heaven most raptur-
| Gus.
1t may be after our world, which is
thought to have about fifteen hundred
million people, shall have on its decks
twice its present population, namely,
three thousand million souls and al
redeemed, and it will be after this
world shall be so damaged by eonfa-
grafton that no human foot can tread
its surface and no human being can
breathe it's air, but most certainly the
day will come when heaven will be fin
ished and The iase of The twelve gates
Of tks etesEsa oSg shAii hrre esaneed
shut, never to open except for the ad-
mission of some celestial e,nbassage re
turning from some other world, and
Christ may strike his SCARED but healed
hand In emphasis on the arm of the
amethystins throne and say in sub
stance: "All my ransomed ones are
gathered. The work is done. have
finished my march through the cen
turtles"
When in 1918, after the battle O
Leipsic, which decided the fate Of tht
| Sineteenth 4>---.---.1 - come respect:
the most tremendous battle ever fought
| ha
dined, the street choked with th'
wounded, the fields for miles arolnt
strewn with dead soldiery FROM
) whom all traces Of humanity had beer
, dashed out, there met Ii the publ,
, square of that city of Leipsic the allie<
conquero-s and kings who had gainet
the victory-the king of Prussia, tn
empea>r of Russia, the crown prince o
, Swedc,-followed by the chiefs o
3 their armies With drawn sword
, these monarchs saluted each other ant
3 cheered for the continental victor,
2 they had together gained. Histor,
3 has made the scene memorable
} Greater and more thrilling will be To,
! spectacle when the world is ali con
= quered for the truth and in front of tb
palace of heaven the kings and con
, querors OF all the allied powers o
:, Christian usefulness shall salute sasl
other and recount the struggles b,
which they gained the triumph ane
D then hand over their swords to hin
4 who Is the Chief of the conquerers
e crying: Thine, oh Christ, is the King
0 dom; take the crown of victory, th.
] crown Of dominion, the crown of grace
0 the crown Of glory" ION his heat
1pre many Gowns"