The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-03-21

world here that we stick TO. as though los
! ing that we lose all. We are afraid OF falling
| off this little raft OF world. We are at aid
| that some meteoric Iconoclast will some might
smash it, and We wanteyerythlng % revoiye
around IL, and are disappointed when We
find that it revolves around the sun instead
Of the sun revolving around it. What g
| fuss we make about this II, tie bit of world,
its existence only a short time between two
spasms, the paroxysm by which 1t Was
hurled from chass into order, and the
paroxysm Of its demolition.
AID an glad tbat so many texts call Us
70 look of % other worlds, many of them
larger and grander and more Respondent.
Look there, says JOB, ''at Nazareth and
Arcturus ami his sons!n LOOK there" says
st. John, "at the moon under Christ's
feet" Look there. says Joshua. at the
sun standing stil above Gibe ln" Look
there :" says Moses, Eat the sparkling firm
amentm Look there says Amos. the
herdsman, at the seven stars and Orionw
Don't let us be so sad about those who shove
of from this world under Christly pilotage.
Don't let US be so agitated about our own
going of this little barge or sloop or canal
boat OF a world to get on sIme Great
Eastern of the heavens Don't let us persist
in wanting to stay in this barn. this shed,
this clubhouse of a world, when all the
kings palaces already occupied by many Of
our best friends are swinging wide open
their gates to let us in.
When l read. Elm 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 crRmped
apartments, tired If 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 matinsl
Perhaps yonder twinkling constellation is
the residence of the martyrs; that group of
twelve luminaries is the celestial home of
the apostles. Perhaps that steep of light is
the dwelling place OF angels cherubic,
seraphic, a ,changeic. A mansion with as
many rooms as worlds, aud all their win
dows illuminated for festLVity.
o how this widens and lifts and stimu-
lates our expectation How little 10 makes
the present, and how stupendous it makes
the futurel How it consoles US about our
pious dead. who. instead of being boxed up
and under the ground, have the range OF as
IN ny rooms as there are worlds, and well
come everywhere, for it is the Fathers
house. in which there are many mansIonsl
o Lord God of the seven stars and Orion
how eau l endure the transport, the ecstasy
OF such visionl l must obey my text and
seek him. Twill seek him. seek him now,
for call to mind that 1t is not the material
universe that is most valuable, but the spir-
itual, and that each of US has a soul worth
more than all the words which the inspired
b erdsman saw from his booth on the hills Of
Tekoa.
had studied it before, but the cathedral
of Cologne, Germany, never impressed me
as it did the last time | saw IL. 1t is adj
mittedly the grandest gothic structure in
the world, its foundation laid in 1913, only
eight or nine years ago completed. More
than six hundred years In building. All
K lrope taxed for Its construction. Its
chapel of the Magi with precious stones
enough TO purchase kingdom. Its chapel
of st. Agnes with masterpieces Of painting.
Its spire springing five hu dred and eleven
feet into the heavens. Its stained glass the
chorus of all rich oolors. Statues eneircling
the pillars and encircling all. Statues above
statues, until sculpture can do no more, but
faints and falls back against carved stalls
and down on pavements over which kings
and queens of the earth have walked to
confession. Nave aud aisles aud transspts
and port lis combining the splendors of sun
rise, lnterlaced, interfoliated, intercolumned
grandeur. As l stood outside, looking al
the double range OF flying buttresses and
the forest Of pinnacles, higher and higher
and higher, until almost reeled from dixzi<
ness, exclaimed: Great doxology in stone
Frozen prayer of many nations |"
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 myself:
There is a soul worth more than all the
material surroundings. That man will live
after the last pinnacle has fallen, and not
one stone Of all that cathedral glory shall
remain uncrumoled. He is now a
Lazarus In rags aud poverty and
WEAKNESS, but immortal, and a son OF the
Lord God Almighty; and the prayer
be now offers, though amid many supersti-
tons, believe God will hear; and among
the apostles whose sculptured forms stand
in the surrounding inches he will at last be
lifted, and into the presence of that Christ
whose sufferings are represented by the
/ crucihx before which he bows; and be
raised in due time out of all his poverties
into the glorious home built for him and
built for us by "him who maketh the seven
stars and Orion"