The southern argus. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Cherokee County, Kan.) 1891-1???, 1891-10-01
Now we follow orr Chieftain

the flowers and trees OF a garden. tba
gladioluses, the oleanders the liEas
the geraniums, the mandrakes. dow
five or six steps to an aisle Of grants
where He sleeps
But only little while He slaaru
there, for there is an earthquake in ali
that region, leaving the rocks to this
day IN their aslant and ruptured state
declarative of the fact that somethin.
extraordinary there happened. And
we see our Chieftain arouse from H;s
brief slumber and wrestle down the
ruffian Death who would keep Him i'm
prisoned in that cavern and put both
heels on the monster, and coming forth
with a cry that will not cease to be
echoed until on the great resurrection
day the door of the last sepulcher shall
be unhinged and flung changing into
the debris of demolished cemeteries
Now we follow our Chieftain to the
shoulder of Mount Olivet, and without
wings He rises, the disciples clutchine
for His robes too late to reach them,
and across the great CULTS of space
with one bound He gains that world
which for thirty-three years had been
denied His companionship, and all
Heaven lifted shout OF welcome as
| he entered and of coronation as up the
lncdiatorial throne he mounted. 1t
was the greatest day Heaven had ever
| seen.
But still we follow our Chieftain in
His march through the centuries, for
invisibly He still walks the earth, and
by the eye of faith we still follow Him.
You can tell where He walks by the
churches and hospitals, and reforma-
tory institutions, and houses of mercy
that spring up along the way. | hear
His tread in the sick room, and in the
abodes of bereavement He marches
on and the nations are gathering around
Him.
The islands of the sea are hearing
| His voice. The continents are feeling
| His power. America will be His!
| Europe will be His! Asia will be His!
Africa will be His! Australia will be
His! New Zealand will be His! All
the earth will be His!
One by one governments will fall
into line and constitutions and litera-
lures will adore His name. More
honored and worshiped is He in this
year of 1891 than at any time since the
year l, and the day hastens when all
nations will join one procession SOL
lowing the Lamb whithersoever He
goeth." Marching on, marching on,
marching On!!
This dear old world whose back has
been scourged, whose eyes have been
blinded, whose heart has been wrung,
will yet rival Heaven. This planets
torn robe of pain and crime and
dementia will come off and the white
and spotless and glittering robe of holt |
ness and happiness will come on
Then this worlds joy will be SO great |
that other world beside 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 the style of |
atmosphere, and this will go on, and |
mightier and mightier telescopes will |
be invented until | should not wonder |
if we will be able to exchange signals |
with other planets. And as | have no |
doubt other worlds are inhabited, for |
nificent world houses to have them |
stand without tenants or occupants, in |
the final JOY of earth's redemption all |
astronomy l think will take part, we |
signalling other worlds and they |
in turn signalling their stellar neigh |
bors o, what a day in Heaven that |
will be when this march of Christ is
finished! | know that on the cross |
Christ said, st is finished" but He |
meant His sacrifcial work was finished |
All earth and all Heaven knows that
evangelization is not finished but there
will come day in Heaven most raptu
rous 1t may be after our world which
is thought to have about fifteen hun
dred million people shall have on its
decks twice its present population,
namely three thousand million souls
and all redeemed, and it will be after
this world shall be so damaged by con-
flarration that no human foot can tread
it's surface and no human being can
breath its air.
But most certainly the day will come
when Heaven will be finished and the
last of the twelve gates of the eternal
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 amethy stine
throne and say in substance: "All my
ransomed ones are gathered; the work
is done; | have finished my march
through the centuries"
When in 1913. after the battle of
Leipsic, which decided the fate of the
nineteenth century, in some respects
the most tremendous battle ever
fought, the bridge down, the river in
carnadined, the street chol1ed with the
wounded, the fields for miles around
sire wn with dead soldiery from whom
all traces of humanity had been dashed
ont, there met in the public square of
that city of Leipsic the allied conquer
ors, and the kings who had gained the
victory-the king of Prussia, the en-
peror of Russia, the crown prince of
Sweden-followed by the chiefs Of their