Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-09-22

meet u rrumpeuer VI -ucEveo, anu 1 say;
Haven't you got some music for tired
pilgrimP And wiping his lip and taking
a long breath, be puts his mouth to the
trumpet and pours forth this strain, They
shall hunger no more neither shall they
thirst any more, neither shall the sun light
on them, nor any heat, for the Lamb which
is in the midst Of the throne shall lead
them to living fountains Of water, and
God shall wipe away all tears from theiI
eyes"
Igoa little distance further on the same
road and meet a maiden Of Israel. She
has no harp, but she has eymbals. They
look as II they had rusted from sea spray,
and say to the maiden Of Israel, Have
you no song for a tired pilgrimf" And
like theSlang of victors' shields the Gym
balls clap as Miriam begins 70 discourse,
Sing ye to the Lord, for he has triumphed
gloriously; the horse and the rider hath he
thrown irto the sea-" And then see u
white robed group. They come bounding
toward me, and / say, "Who are theyi
The happiest, and the brightest, and the
fairest in all heaven-who are theyp And
the answer comes, "These are they who
came out Of great tribulations, and had
their robes washed and made white with
the blood Of the Lamb"
THE TERMINUS.
Ipursue this subject only one step far
ther. What is the terminus2 l do not
care how fine a road you may put me on,
want to know where 1t comes out. My
text declares it, 1.-THE redeemed Of the
Lord come to Zion" You know what Zion
wasf That was the kings palace. 1t was
mountain fastness. 1t was impregnable.
And so heaven is the fastness of the uni
verse. No howitzer has long enoughran
to shell those towers. Let all the bat
teries of earth and hell blaze away; they
cannot break in those gates. Gibraltar
was taken; Sebastopol was taken; Babylon
fell; but those walls of heaven shall never
surrender either to human or satanic be-
siegement. The Lord God Almighty is
the defense of it. Great capital Of the
universal Terminus of the Kings high
wayl
DR.. Dick said that, among other things,
he thought in heaven we should study
chemistry and geometry and comic sec
tions. Southey thought that in heaven
; he would have the pleasure of seeing
Chaucer and Shakespeare. Now, Dr.
. Dick may have his mathematics for all
eternity, and Southey his Shakespeare
Give me Christ and my old friends-that
is all the heaven I want. that is heaven
enough for me. o garden Of light,
whose leaves never wither, and whose
fruits never fail o banquet of God
whose sweetness never pals the taste, and
whose guests are kings foreverl o city
of light, whose walls are salvation, and
whose gates are praisel o palace of rest,
where God is the monarch and everlast-
ing ages the length of his reignl o song
louder than the surf beat of many waters
yet soft as the whisper of cherubim
When my last wound is healed, when
the last heartbreak is ended, when the last
tear of earthly sorrow is wiped away, and
when the redeemed of the Lord shall come
to Zion, then let all the harpers take down
their harps, and all the trumpeters take
down their trumpets, and all across heaven
there be chorus of morning stars, chorus
of white robed victors, chorus of martyrs
from under the throne, chorus of ages,
chorus of worlds, and there be but one
song sung, and but one name spoken, and
but one throne honored-that of Jesus
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