News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-06-23

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, "The
time of my departure is at hand?"
| 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 a great crowd
of people in some street, and you say:
'Who is passing there? What general,
what prince is going up there" Well, L
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 ques-
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 l would like to see thee! thou
of the manager, but without its humilia-
lions; 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 first? | do not know. l
can think what would ask Paul first if
I saw him in heaven. | think I would
like to hear him describe the storm that
came upon the ship when there were two
hundred ana seventy-fve souls on the
vessel, Paul being the only man on board
cool enough to describe the storm. There
is a fascination about ship and the sea
that never shall get over, and think
would like to hear him talk about that
first.
But when 1 meet my Lord Jesus
Christ, of what shall l first delight to
hear him speak? Now 1 think what it
is. I shall first want to hear the tragedy
Of his last hours, and then Luke's ac-
count Of the crucihxion, and Marks ac-
count of the crucifixion, and Johns &C
count of the crucifxion will be nothing,
while 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 q 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 lathe horizontal piece of
the cross, and his feet were fastened to
the perpendicular piece of the cross, and
bis head fell forward in a swoon as he
uttered the last moan and cried, "It is
inishedr' All heaven will stop to listen
until the story is done, and every harp
will be put down, and every lip closed,
md all eyes fixed on the divine narrator
1ntil the story is done, and then, at
he tap of the baton, the eternal orches-
ia will rouse up, finger on string of
larp, and lips to the mouth of trumpet,
here shall roll forth the oratorio of the
Messiah, Worthy is the Lamb that
vas slain to receive blessing and riches
md honor and glory and power, world
without endr'