The Globe-republican., 1892-04-07

And am so glad that 80 many texts
call MS to look of to other worlds, many
of them larger and grander and moro
Respondent "Look there" says Job.
Eat Nazareth and Arcturus and his
sons!' Look there" says St John, ''at
the moon under Cnrist's feet!" Look
there" says Joshua, lat the sun stand
ing still above Gibeon!' Look there. {"
says Moses, 'at the sparkling armament!
Look there" says Amos, he herdsman,
TAT the Seven Stars and OriOn!" Don't
let us be so sad about those who shove
off from this world under Christly pilot
age. Don't let US be so agitated about
our own going of this little barge or
sloop or canal boat of a world to get on
some Great Eastern of the heavens.
Don't let Us persist in wanting to stay
in this barn, this shed, this clubhouse o:
a world when all the kings palaces al
ready occupied by many Of our best
friends are swinging wide open their
gates to let Us in.
When read. SIN nv Fathers house
are many mansions" do not know but
that each world is room, and as many
rooms as there are worlds, stellar stairs,
stellar galleries. stellar Railways, stellar
windows, stellar domes. How our de-
parted friends must pity US shut up in
these cramped apartments, tired if we
walk fifteen miles, when they some morn
ing, by one stroke of wing, Can make
circuit Of the whole stellar system and
be back in time for mathis! Perhaps
yonder twinkling constellation is the
residence of the martyrs; that group of
twelve luminaries is the celestial home
OF the apostles. Perhaps that steep Of
light is the dwelling place of angels
cherubic, seraphic, archangelic. A man
sion with as many rooms as worlds,
and all their windows illuminated for
testivity.
Oh, how this widens and lifts and
stimulates our expectations! How little
it makes the present and how stupendOus
1t makes the future! How it consoles US
about our pious dead, who, instead of
being boxed up and under the ground,
have the range Of as many rooms as
there are worlds, and welcome every
where, for it is the Fathers house, in
which there are many mansions! Oh,
Lord God Of the Seven Stars and Orion,
how can l endure the transport, the
ecstasy Of such vision! l must obey
my text and seek Him. Twill seek Him.
l seek Him now, for l call to mind that
it is not the material universe that is
most valuable, but the spiritual, and
that each Of US has soul worth more
than all the worlds which the inspired
herdsman saw from his booth on the hills
of Tekoa.
had studied it before, but the Cathe-
dral of Cologne, Germany, never i'm
pressed me as it did the last time l saw
it. 1t is admittedly the grandest gothic
structure in the world, it's foundation
laid in 124S. only eight or nine years ago
completed. More than 600 years in
building. All Europe taxed for its con-
structiOn. Its chapel of the Magi with
precious stones enough to purchase a
kingdom. Its chapel of ST. Agnes with
masterpieces of painting. Its spire
springing 511 feet into the heavens. Its
stained glass the chorus of all rich
cOlOrs. Statues encircling the pillars
and encircling all. Statues above stat
ues, until sculpture can do no more, but
faints and falls back against carved
stalls and down on pavements over which
the kings and queens of the earth have
walked to confession. Nave and aisles
and transept and portals combining the
the splendOrS of sunrise. Interlaced,
interfoliated, intercolumned grandeur.
AS l stood outside looking at the double
range of flying buttresSes and the forest
of pinnacleS, higher and higher and
higher, until 1 almost reeled from dizzi-
ness, l exclaimed: Great dOXOlogy in
stone! Frozen prayer of many nationsr'
But while standing there saw a poor
man enter and put down his pack and
kneel beside his burden on the hard floor
of that cathedral. And tears of deep
emotion came into my eyes as 1 said to
myself: There is soul worth more
than all the material surroundings
That man will live after the last pima
Gle has fallen, and not one stone of all
that cathedral glory shall remain un-
crumbled. He is now a Lazarus in rags
and poverty and WEAKNESS. but immor-
tai and son of the Lord God Almighty,
and the prayer he now offers, though
amid many superstitions, l believe God
will hear, and among the apostles whose
sculptured forms stand in the surround
ing inches he will at last be lifted. and
into the presence of that Christ whose
sufferings are represented by the cruel
fix before which he bows, and be raised
In due time out of all his poverties into
the glorious home built for him and
built for US by Him who maketh the
Seven Stars and Orion"