Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-03-21

nante's su6sFiEz cane lie sublime s%D1-
siaa CozaE1saAa. sad cat II John hEseoa's
blindness came -har&1iise Lost. aud Get
q miserable in9dsl attack cAEse tbs
Bird ge~ster Treatise" II favor u Chris
tlznlty. and sat Of Dssisi's exile came tse
songs Of consolation, aRG cut Of the suffer
ings Of CkFist eenne the possibility II the
words redemption, aEd out Of your BE-
-nent, yosF persecution, your power
lies, your EsisfoEt Qnes may yet come Al
eterual heayea-
THE Boiling WORLDS on HIGH
Oh, what q mercy il Is that in the text
and al up and down thu Billie God induces
"a % look out toward other worlds Bible
gst rcAsay ia Genesis. ia Joshua, ia Job, in
tue Palms. in the prophets, major AMI
miner, IN 81. JoAn's Apocalypse, practical
Is saying: Works. worldsi worlds! Get
ready fer IhrnR We have a nice little
wosii here that we stick 10, as thoagh los
Tag tissst We lose all We are afraid offall-
ing < this little raft Of world. We are
afraid that some meteoric iconoclasc will
some Rigat smash II, and we want every
thing 70 revelve around it, and are disap-
poinsei when we find that IL revolves
around the sun instead OF the sun rrvols-
ing around il. What a fuss we make about
~
q shOft time between two spGsias, the par
oxysIn BY which it was hurled from chaos
into order, aud the paroxysm Of its demo
l.tion.
And am glad that so many texts call
Us TO look on TO other worlds, many Of
them larger and grander aud more re-
spiendent Look there" says Job, "a.
Nazareth and Arcturus and his sonsr'
ssr Il 4 u g ~
under Christ's feetl'' Look there" says
Joshua, at the sun standing still above
Gibeont" Look there" says Moses. lat
the sparkling armament" Look there"
says Amos, the herdsnan, at the Seven
Stars and Orioni" Don't let Us be so sad
about those who shove off from this world
under Christly pilo,sge. Don't let US be
SO agitatsd about our own going of this
little barge or sloop or canal boat of q
world TO get OK ssrne Great Eastern Of
the heavenA Don't let as persist In want
ing TO stay in this barn, this shed, this out
house Of world when oil the kings palaces
already occupied by many of our best
friends are swinging wide open their gates
to let US in.
When reed, "In my Fathers house are
many mansions. )" do not know but that
each world is a room, and as many rooms
as there are worlds, stellar stairs, stellar
galleries, stellar Railways, stellar windows
stellar domes. How our departed friends
must pity US shut up in these cramped
apartments, tired il we walk fifteen miles,
when they some morning, 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 il the celestial home
OF the apostles. Perhaps that steep of
light is the dwelling place Of angels cheru-
bic, seraphic, archangelic. \ mansion
with as many rooms as worlds, and all
their windows illuminated for festivity.
! THE STIMULUS To CHRISTIAN THOUGHT.
! Oh, how this widens and lifts and stim-
ulstes our expectations! How little il
makes the present and how stupent,pus it
makes the future How it consoles US
about orr pious dead, who. instead Of be-
ing boxed up and under the ground. have
the range Of as many rooms as there are
worlds, aud welcome everywhere, for it is
the Fathers housc, in which there are
many mansions, On, Lord God of the
Seven Stars and Orion, how can endure
the transport, the ecstasy of such a vision!
must obey my text and seek him. will
seek him. / seek him now, for call to
mind that it is not the material universe
that is most valuable, bat the spiritual.
and that each of rs he's soul worth more
than sill the worlds which the inspired
herlsman saw from his booth on the hills
OK Tekoa.
had studied it before but the Cathe-
dral Of Cologne. Germany. never i'm
pressed me "a it did the last time saw it.
Il IL . IA u
ture in the world, it's foundation laid IN
1913, only eight or nine years ago COM
pletcd. More than six hundred years In
building. All Europe taxed for its con-
struction It's chapel OF the Magi with
precious stones enough to purchase a king
dom It's chapel Of ST. Agnes with master
pieces Of painting It's spire springing FIVE
hundred and eleven feet into the heavens.
It's stained glass the chorus OF all rich
colors. Statues encircling the pillars and
escircling all. Statues above statues, until
sculpture can do no mere, but faints and
falls back against carved stalls and down
on pavements over which the kings and
queens Of the earth nave walked to con-
fession. Nave and aisles and transept and
portals aiming the spiendors Of sunrise.
Interiaced, interfeliated, intercolumncd
grandeur. As stood outside looking at
the double range of Aying buttresscs and
the forest OF ptnnac,es, higher and higher
and higher, until almost rceled from dig
Einess, I exclaimed: Great doxoloZy in
stonel Frozen prayer of many nationsP'
But while standing there l 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 said TO my
telf: There is a soul worth more than all
the matcyinl sarrosndings That man will
live after the last pinnacle has fallen, and
not one stone Of all that cathedral glory
shall remain uncrumbled. He u now
Lazarus ia rags and poverty and weari-
nesss, but irsuortai and a son Of the Lord
Ged Almighty, and the prayer he now
offers. though amid many supersfittons.
bslievc God will hear, and among the
apostles vhsse scuiptured forms stand In
the surrounding inches he viii st last be
lifted, and into The presence Of that Christ
whose ssffertsgs are represented by the
crucifix hefoSe which he bows, And Be
raised in due sirue cat Of all his pcverties
into the glorious horne built for him and
bait for rs by Kim who maketA the
SSysn Stars and Orion"