The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-10-14
,,;ecroont satellite. VIII hear tie voice tnau

miscreant satellite, VIII hear tie voice tnau
uttered childish plant in Bethlehem and
eoonized prayer in Gethsemane and dying
oIoan on Goleotha, and this voice cries,
SCorne." our world will return from its wan.
dering never again to stray. Marching on!
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 more
nowerful. mountains in other stars have
kean discovered and chasms and volcanoes
and canals, and the style Of atmosphere, and
this will 90 on, and mightier and mightier
teIescopes will be invented until l should
not wonder we will be able to exchange sig.
nails with other planets. And as /
have no doubt other worlds are inhab-
tied. for Col 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 stei
lar neighbors. Oh, what q day in heaven
that viii be when this march Of Christ is
finished! know that on the cross Christ
seid: SIT is finished" but He meant His sac
rifcial work was finished.
All earth and all heaven knows that evan
pelization is not finished, but there will come
q day in heaven most rapturous. 1t may be
after our world, which is 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 snail be so damaged BY
conhaeration that no human foot can
tread its 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 thu 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 oaes are gath.
maro1 through the centuries"
When in 1918, after ths battle o. Leipsc,
which decided the fate of the Ninetsenrn
century, in somo respects the most tremend-
dous battle ever fought, the bridge down,
the river incarnadined. the street choked
with the wounded, the fields for miles around
strewn with dead soldiery from whom
all traces or 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 these monarch saluted each
other and cheered for the continental VIC
tory they hal together gained. History has
made the scena 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 struggles
by which they gained the triumph, and then
hand over their swords to Him who is the
chief of the conauerors, crying: "Thine, oh,
Christ. is the kin ydom. Take the crown Of
victory, the crown Of dominion, the crown
of grace, the crown of glory" 'On bis head
were many crowns"