Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-07-21


cd, hut and 20 up into the palace The |
Christian owns all heaven. "All nre |
yours" It's palaces Of beauty, It's towers |
Of strength, its castles Of love- He will |
not walk In the eternal city as foreigner
In o strange city, but as q farmer walks
over his own promises.
"An are yonrsS All the mansions yours.
Angels your companions. Trees Of life
your shade. Hills Of glory your lookout.
Thrones Of heaven the place where you
win shout the triumph. Jesus is yours.
God is yours. You look up into the face of
God and say my father" You look up
into the face ID Jesus and say, My broth
En-" Walk out on the battlements of
heaven and look off upon the city of the
sun. No tears No sorrow. No death.
No smoke of toiling warehouse curling on
the air. No voice of blasphemy thrilling
through that bright, clear Sabbath morn
ing. No din of strife jarrns the air. Then
take out your deed. and remember that
from throne to throne, and from wall to
wall, and from horizon to horizon, "Au
are yours"
Then get up into the temple of the sun,
worshipers in white, each with palm
branch, and from high gallery of that
temple look down upon the thousands of
thousands and the ten thousand times ten
thousand, and the one hundred and forty
and four thousand and the great "multi-
tude that no man can numb Der, - and louder
than the rush of the wheels, louder than
the tramp Of the redeemed, hear voice
saying, "All are yours" See the great
procession marching around the throne OF
God. Martyrs who went up on wings of
fame. Invalids who went up from couches
of distress, Toilers who went up from the
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All the suffering and the bruised children
of God. See the ohariots of salvation; In
them those who were more than conquer
ors. See them marching around about the
throne of God forever and forever, and
know that "all are yours"
THE VISION OF ETERNAL LIFE.
o ye who have pains of body that ex-
haust your strength and wear out your
patience, hold before you this morning
| tho land of eternal health and or imper-
ishablc beauty and "all is yours" o ye
| who have hard work to get your daily
| bread, hard work to shelter your children
from the STORM, | lift before you the vision
of that land where they never hunger,
and they never thirst, and God feeds them,
and robes cover them, and the warmth OF
eternal love fills them, and all that is
| yoursi
O ye whose hearts are buried in the
| grave of your dead-O ye whose happiness
went by long ago-O ye who mourn for
Gountenances that never will light up and
for eyes closed forever--sit no longer among
the tombs, but look here! A home that
shall never be broken up. Green fields
never cleft Of the grave. Ransomed ones
from you parted long ago now radian.
with Joy that shall never cease, and q love
l,pt l,nl1 GOLD md 1ri1
garments that shall never wither, ana
know all that is yours. Yours the love
Yours the acclaim. Yours the transport
Yours the cry of the four and twenty
elders. Yours the choiring of cheru bin.
Yours the lamb that was slain.
In the vision of that glorious consum
nation | almost lose my foothold, aid
| have to hold fast lest | be overborne by
the glory. The vision rose before st. John
on Patnos, and he saw Christ in a blood
red garment, riding on white horse, and
all heaven following him on white horses
What a procession! Let Jesus ride He
walked the way footsore, weary and faint.
Now let him ride. White horse of victory
bear on our chief Hosanna to the son OF
David Ride on, Jesusl Let all heaven
follow him. These cavalry Of God fought
we'll and they fought triumphantly. Now
leu them De mounted. he luVeMenlS o.
geld ring under the flying hoofs. Sword,
shsathed and victories won, like conquer
crs they SIT on their chargers. Ye mounted
, troops OF God, ride on! ride onl ten thousand
abreast, cavacade after cavalcade. N
blood dashed to the lips. No blood drip
ping from the fetlocks. No smoke of bat
tie breathed from the nostril The battll
is ended-the victory won
Oh, if there be any present who are YET
, enemies Of the cross of Christ, | beseecl
them at once to be reconciled to God Re
, member If you are not found among thai
white robed army who follow the Saviour
in his victorious march your part must bt
with those concerning whom it is said
The Lord Jesus shall be revealed from
heaven III flaming fire, taking vengeanc,
on those that know not God, and obey no
, the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ wht
, shall be punished with everlasting destruc
ton from the presence Of the Lord anC
from the glory of his power, when he shall
come to be glorited in his saints, and to b.
admired in all them that believe"