Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-03-24
And T am so glad that 9,

ana aH 81 sdau tnat so manv
call us to look off to other worlda
Of them larger and grander ans
respondent. ''Look there" co ~
sat Nazareth and ArcturusS :"
sons!' 'Look there" saws St J dl1
the moon under Christs feety" 0I ~
there" says Joshua, ''at the SIM
ing still above Gibeonn' .Loolr :. 81
says Moses, sat the sparkling firm,u VII
Look there" says Amos, h haSal
cat the Seven Stars and OrionI'
et us be so sad about those wbo
off from this world under Christi,
age. Don't let US be SO agitatedi
our own going off this little has
sloop or canal boat of world ~
some Great Eastern of the boss
Don't let as persist in WANTING ="
in this barn, this shed, this ontbOy
a world when all the kings nalaoS
ready occupied by many of onr
friends are swinging wide omen u
gates to let us in.
When I read, SIN my Fathers
are many mansions" 1 do not knon'
that each world is room, and AZ
rooms as there are worlds, stellar ;.
stellar galleries. stellar railways st
windows, stellar domes. How ons
parted friends must pity us SHIN =
these cramped apartments, tired If
walk fifteen miles, when they Soma ~,
ing, by one stroke of wing, can ~
circuit of the whole stellar systpm
be back in time for mathis, par,N
yonder twinkling constellation Is
residence of the martyrs; that eronr
twelve luminaries is the celestial
of the apostles. Perhaps that stearN
light is the dwelling place of an
cherubic, seraphic, archangelic. A ~
sion with as many rooms as wor
and all their windows illuminated
testivity.
Oh, how this widens and lifts
stimulates our expectations! How HI
it makes the present and how stupend2
1t makes the future! How itconsony
about our pious dead, who, instead
being boxed up and under the grou|
have the range Of as many room
there are worlds, and welcome evt]
where, for it is the Fathers honsal
which there are many mansions,
Lord God Of the Seven Stars and Ora
how can / endure the transport
ecstasy Of such vision! | must Al
ny text and seek Him. l will seek ri
seek Him now, for | call to mind n
it is not the material universe thai
most valuable, but the spiritual.
that each of US has q soul worth mi
than all the worlds which the insnI
herdsman saw from his booth on the N
of Tekoa.
/ had studied it before, but the CaA
dral of Cologne, Germany, never
pressed me as it did the last time |
it. 1t is admittedly the grandest cot
structure in the world, it's foundat
laid in 134s. only eight or nine years ;
completed. More than 600 wears
building. All Europe taxed for its q
struction. It's chapel of the Magi W
precious stones enough to purchas
kingdom. It's chapel of st. Agnes "
pieces of painting. Its So
springing 511 feet into the heavens.
stained glass the chorus of all r
colors. Statues encircling the pill
and encircling all. Statues above ST
ues, until sculpture can do no more
faints and falls back against car
stalls and down on pavements over VIII
the kings and queens of the earth hi
walked to confession. Nave and ais
and transept and portals combining
the spIendorS of sunrise. Interlac
interfoliated, intercolumned grande
AS ! stood outside looking at the dou
range of flying buttresses and the for
of pinnacles, higher and higher {
higher, until I almost reeled from di
ness, exclaimed: "Great doxology
stone! Frozen prayer of many nation
But while standing there | saw a p
man enter and put down his pack {
kneel beside his burden on the hard fl
Of that cathedral. And tears Of d
emotion came into my eyes as | said
myself: There is d soul worth m
than all the material surroundn
That man will live after the last pin
Gle has fallen, and not one stone OF
that cathedral glory shall remain
crumbled. He is now Lazarus in r
and poverty and WEAKNESS, but INN
tai and a son of the Lord God Almigh
and the prayer be now offers, thot
amid many superstitions, | believe
will hear, and among the apostles VIII
sculptured forms stand in the surrou
ing inches he will at last be lifted,
into the presence of that Christ WI
sufferings are represented by the crl
fix before which he bows, and be raj
in due time out Of all his poverties J
the glorious home built for him
built for us by Him who maketh
Seven Stars and Orion"