The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-06-24

tryt John Franklin risked his life Il
find passage between icebergs, an,
shall we dread to find a passage TO etcr
nal summer? Men In Switzerland tyaye
up he heigh, = of tho Matterhorn will
alpcnstock I'd guides and rockets nm,
ropes, AMI getting half way no stumbl
AMI fall down in IL horrible massacre
They Just wanted to say they had beer
ON tho tops of those high peaks, An(
shall we fear to so ont for the ascent O
the eternal hills which start Thousand
miles beyond where stop the highes
peaks of the Alps when in that ascent
there is no perilg
A man doomed to die stepped on the
scaffold and said in joy, SHOW in ter
minutes will know the great secret.
One minute after the vital functions
ceased, the little child that died las,
night knew more than jonathan Ed
wards or st. Paul himself before he
died. Friends, the exit from this world
or death, If you please to call it, to the
Christian is glorious explanation.
WE SHALL SEE EYE TO EYE.
/ 1t is demonstration. 1t is illumina.
ton. 1t is sunburst. lt is the opening
of all the windows. 1t is shutting up
the catechism of doubt and the unroll.
ing OF all the scrolls of positive and ac-
curate information. Instead Of stand
ing at the foot of the ladder and looking
up it is s:.,nding at the top of the ladder
and looking down. 1t is the last mys-
terry taken out of botany and geology
and astronomy and theology.
Oh, will it not be grand to have all
questions answered? The perpetually
recurring interrogation point changed
for the mark of exclamation. All rid
dies solved Who will fear to go out on
that discovery, when all the questions
are to be decided which we have been
discussing all our lives? Who shall not
clap his hands in the anticipation of that
blessed country, if it be no better than
through holy curiosity, crying, 1.-THE
time of my departure is at handr"
remark again, we ought to have the
JOY of the text, because, leaving this
world, we move into the best society of
the universe. You see great crowd
of people in some street, and you say:
"Who is passing there? What general,
what prince is going up there?" Well,
see a great throng in heaven. | say;
"Who Is the focus of all that admira-
ton? Who is the center of that glitter
ing company" 1t is Jesus, the cham
pion of all worlds, the favorite of all
ages.
Do you know what is the first uues-
ton the soul will ask when it comes
through the gate of heaven? think the
first question will be, "Where is Jesus,
the Saviour that pardoned my sin, that
carried my sorrows, that fought my bat
ties, that won my victories?" Oh, radiant
one! how would like to see thee! thou
of the manager, but without its humilia-
tions; thou of the cross, but without its
pangs; thou of the grave, but without
its darkness.
ALIVE WITH JESUS.
The Bible intimates that we will talk
with Jesus in heaven just as brother
talks with a brother. Now, what will
you ask him frstp | do not know.
can think what would ask Paul first if
saw him in heaven. | think | would
like to hear him describe the storm that
came upon the ship when there were two
hundred and seventy-five souls on the
vessel, Paul being the only man on board
cool enough to describe the storm. There
a a q eli;
that | never shall get over, and think |
would like to hear him talk about that
first
But when l meet my Lord Jesus
Christ, of what shall | first delight to
hear him speak? Now | think what it
is. shall first want to hear the tragedy
Of his last hours, and then Luke's ac-
count of the crucifxion, and Marks &C
G. unit Of the crucifixion, and Johns &C
count of the crucifxion will be nothing,
" lille from the living lips of Christ the
story shall be told of the gloom that fell,
and the devils that arose, and the fact
that upon his endurance depended the
rescue Of race; and there was dark
ness in the sky, and there was dark
ness in the SOUL and the pain became
more sharp and the burdens became
more heavy, until the mob began to
swim away from the dying vision of
Christ, and the cursing of the mob came
to his ear more family, and his hands
were fastened to the horizontal piece of
the cross, and his feet We're fastened to
the perpendicular piece of the cross, and
his head fell forward in swoon as he |
uttered the last moan and cried, at is
finishedr' All heaven will stop to listen
until the story is done, and every harp
will be put down, and every lip closed,
and all eyes fixed on the divine narrator
until the story is done, and then, at |
the tap of the baton, the eternal orches-
ira will rouse up, finger ON string of
harp, and lips to the mouth of trumpet,
there shall roll forth the oratorio of the
Worthy is the Lamb that |
was slain to receive blessing and riches
and honor and glory and power, world
without endr'
What he endured, oh, who can tell,
To save our souls from death and hell!
When there was between Paul and |
that magnificent Parsonage only the
thinness of the sharp edge of the sword |
Of the executioner, do you wonder that
he wanted to go? Oh, my Lord Jesus,
let one wave of that glory roll over us!
Hark! | hear the wedding bells of
heaven ringing now. The marriage of
The Lamb has come, and the bride hath
made herself ready. And now for
little while goodby. have no morbid
feelings about the future. But if any
hing should happen that we never meet
again in this world. let us meet where
here are no partings. Our friendships
have been delightful on earth, but they
will be more delightful in heaven. And
now | commend you to God and the
word of his grace, which is able to build
rs up and give us an inheritance among
III them that are sanctified
What we want is mems beauty
how. Why should girls and women
all the prizes for good looks
nd physical development? Have men