Telegram-herald., 1891-04-20

Of hsaven on white hcrses- But the crys
Ia eanaos equal a. Joka ssys crystal
RIVER Ihas means Joy Deep and ever roll
ing. Nos ons drop Of the Thames or TIE
Haslsea oE tie Akis.s ~ sosl Il Sos oas
tear of human sorrow 20 inoltser IL crys-
IA the ruin cut of which IL was made.
Crystal, the hed over which it shall roll
and ripple Crystal, its inauise surface.
Bat The crystal eaBaet equal iIS JOHN
says crystal sea That means nuitita-
diRoasiy vast. Vast Ia rapture. Rapture
vast as the sea, deep as tie sea. strong as
the 80, ever changing a. the sea Blilows
Of light. BIilo~s of beauty, blue with
skies that were never cio1ded and green
with depths that were never fathomed
ArcGies and Ansare.ies aad Aeclterrsneans
aud AtisBties and Paciecs ia crystalline
rnagnifeenee Three ecrvstals-crystal light
falling on crystal savef. crystal river roll
ing into a crystal sea But "the crystal
cannot equal IT,"
"Oh, says some one. putting his hand
over his eyes. "can IL be that who have
been in SO much sin aud trouble will ever
come TO those erys.als" Yes. IL may be-
IL will be- Heaven we must have, what
ever else We have or have not, and We come
here 70 get IL. ''How much must pay for
its" you say. You will pay for it just As
much a. the coal pays 10 become the dia-
moId- IN other words, nothing. The same
Almighty power that makes the crystals
in the mountains will change your heart
which is harder than stone. for the promise
Is, II will take away your stony heart and
will give you a heart OF flesh"
"Oh, says some one, lit is just the doc
=. a ~.
am 10 do nothing" Ny brother, 1t is not
the doctrine you want. The coal mskss
To resistance. Ii hears the resurrection
voice in the mountain, aud il comes 20
crystalhzation, but your heart resists. The
trouble with you, my brother. is the coal
wants to stay coal. do not ask you TO
throw open the door and let Christ in. i
only ask that you stop holting ii and bar
ring il. Oh, my friends. we will have 10
get rid OF our sins VIII have TO get rid
Of my sins, and You will have 10 get rid Of
your sins. What will we do with oar sins
among the three crystals? The crystal at
mosphcre would display our pollution.
The crystal river would be befouled with
our touch. The crystal sea would whelm
us with its glistening surge. Transforms
tion now or no Transformation at all.
Oisc hlh kutl CudnCc III your UcdEt dnN
the Transformation will be downward in
stead Of upward. Instead OF crystal il
will bc cinder. In the days of Carthage
a Christian girl was condemned to die for
her faith, aud boat was bedaubed with
tar and pitch and filed with combustibles
aud set on fire, and the Christian girl was
placed in the boat, and the wind was of
shore and the boat floated away with its
precious treasure. No one can doubt that
boat landed at the shore of Heaven.
Sin wants 10 put you in q fiery boat and
shove You off in an opposite direction-of
from peace, OF from God, of from heaven.
everlastingly off; and the port toward
which you would sail would be a port OF
darkness, and the guns that would greet
you would be the guns Of despair, and the
flags that would wave at your arrival
would be the black flags of death. o, my
brother, you must either kill sin or sin will
kill you. 1t is no wild exaggeration when
say that any man or woman that wants
to be saved may be saved. Tremendous
choice! A thousand people arc choosing
this moment between salvation and de-
struction, between light and darkness, be-
tween heaven and hell, between charred
ruin and glorious crystallizaton-