The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-01-18
HOW TO REACH HEAVEN
And How to Pave the Way
to That Desired
Haven.
REV. DIR. WICK'S IDEAS.
illustrations Which Struck His
Hearers Favorably-A Prac-
tical Comparison.

At the Wayne Street Reformed Church
last evening large and appreciative con-
gregation heard Associate Pastor Robert
K. Wick talk about Heaven"
Mr.. Wick is not much given to orator
ical or rhetorical fourishes. Nor can il
be said of his speech that it is plain and
blunt. He Is rather meditative conver.
sationalist. He believes in practical
Christianity and is inclined to eschew
sensational topics. AS he warns up in
his theme. his ideas and the language
with which he expresses them, assume a
poetic tiuge. In speaking of Heaven
last evening among other things he
said:-
"There has ever been a well-nigh uni
tality. world-wid hope of reward and q
worldwide fear of punishment in the
world to come. The countless affairs that
humanity has reared give evidence of its
hope, and, at the same time, betray its
fear. In the fires of sacrifice that have
burned on ten thousand altars you can
see that humanity is making ready for
the Day of Reckoning that it feels in its
heart may come.
''Tbis deep seated apprehension God
implanted in the soul finds its substauti
alton in the revelation of these words of
Scripture, The wicked shall go away iu-
TO everlasting punishment, but the right
eous into life eternal
ION last Sunday tried to show you
one side OF the future; and today. God
helping me, l will try and give you Just a
glimpse OF the other"
HEAVEN AND TERRA DEL FUEGo.
Heaven is place we should talk over,
think over and pray over. You do not
care TO know anything particularly
about Terra Del Fuego its physical fea.
lures, its mineral resources, etc. You
have no friends there. You are not going
there. But suppose you had property
there or friends. 1t would be entirely
different with you. We have. perhaps,
friends here who come from across the
sea. Before they came they were matt
ally much intereste in America-its soil,
its resources, its government. its climate,
the chances it afforded to better their
condition BY getting on in the world. II
was to be their me. And so they
wanted to know as much about our COM
mon country as they could well fiud out.
They would have been very impractical
people had they thought and acted other
wise. And if emlgrants are SO taken up
in the consideration of their future
homes and Of the surroundings and asSo-
C'utlOuo thVy udhCt duo euCoc
at the best for few years, it seems
eminently proper that We should think
over and talk over and pray over the
associations and surroundings that are to
be ours forever aud forever"
The speaker then quoted much familiar
Scripture TO describe what aud wdere
heaven is. Christ's words:-"'Iu my
to prepare place for you.'" etc.; Moses,
in Deute teronomy:-"'Look down from
Thy Holy habitation.'" etc; Christi
"'No man hath assembled up TO heaven,
but he that came down from heaven. "
etc.; Acts:-"' While they beheld he was
taken up. and cloud received Him out
of sight,"
above u.s." said the minister, "the
city of God seems 10 be; in what part Of
that infinite space l cannot tell. But for
fear some of you may become dis
couraged, and say there is no seuse in Il
man striving to get into city that can
not be located. will tell you hat heaven
foretaste of its glad experience right
here.
when a man has let Jesus Christ
make his peace with God, and then does
his Christian duty, he has in his heart
peace aud happiness that is like unto the
joy of heaven. Look at Thom e. f ur-
ney, so happy in his new found faith that
lie Wepb d1Out, dDu L Sudil ulc IL
these waves continue to pass over II e.:
a. Poyson, the preacher hing in agony.
yet so happy in his heart that he could
cry, i float in n sea OF glory
NO 400 IN HEAVEN.
"When l say the inhaDItauts of heaven
are very select as popularity do not
mean to say that its society is made up of
lords it over kingdom, if he is fortunate
enough to get into Heaven. will have no
greater honor there than the poorest
peasant who toilet that princes might
live in earthly affluence. But all the
same, society will De select, because the
wicked have gone away into everlasting
punishment, aud the righteous remain
with God. i know there are men who
will say Heaven is for all, and they are
right, Heaven is for all-who want il,
aud live as though that was the upper
most wish of their heart; but these men
go farther, make no restriction, and
sweep humanity right through the gates
aud set them promenading up and down
the streets of gold.
"And pretty mess they'd make of it..
For il they are right, Nero is there; and
as Nero, he would not be happy unless he
were torturing some saint or .kindling
some celestial conf1agration. And
CR ar must be there plan
mug the conquest of Gods
hlnguOm ana planning TO QetnrOne the
Almighty And all the worl IS murder
ers must be there glowing with hateful
scorn upon the victims of their hate; and
tyrants, desDoilers of virtue; assassins,
reeling and cursing-a great maddening =
mob-throuSh Gods mansions and over
His city's streets.
But they are wrong. For neither
hieves, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor
xtnrtionists shall inherit the Kingdom
God. They shall go away into ever
asting punishment.
Some people will turn upon you with
the assertion that God is too merciful to
allow anything of that kind. Why don't
these tender hearted uengs circulate a
petition and keep 1t circulating until every
honest man, woman and child have signed
their names aud present iJ to he ruler of
their nation beseechiug the pardon of
everv convict, the release of every felon,
and set agoing Il destructive legislature
that will tear down every gibet, and tear
down every prison ana penitentlary and
reformatOry institution, and al ow thuse
incarcerated to defame, aud steal, and
terrorize and ravish aud murder to their
he rt'S coutent"
Mr.. Wick Largued forcibly that Heaven
is a graded place, and closed with an ap-
peal TO his hearers to prepare themselves
for a happy eternal home with God.