Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-12

| ancient highways would think himself per
fectly secure, not knowing there was lion
! by the way, burying his head deep between
his paws, and then, when the right moment
came. under the fearful spring. the mans
| life was gone, and there was a mauled car
cass by the roadside. But, says my text,
sNo lion shall be there" / wish I could
make you teel, this morning, your entire Sc
| curity. l tell you plainly that one minute
after man has become child OF Cod ne IS
as safe as though he had been 10000 years in
heaven.
The severest trial to which you can SUBJ
ject Christian man is to kill him, and that
is glory. In other words the worst thing
that can happen a child of God is heaven.
The body is only the old slippers that he
throws aside just before putting on the
sandals OF light. His soul, you cannot hurt
it. No fires can consume it. No floods can
drown it. No devils can capture it.
But" you say, suppose his name goes
down under the hoof of scorn and CON
tempt?' The name will be so much brighter
in glory. Suppose his physical health
fails?" God will pour into him the floods or
everlasting health, and it will not make any
difference. Earthly subtraction is heavenly
addition. The tears of earth are the crys-
tails of heaven. As they take rags and tat,
ters and put them through the paper mlli
and they come out beautiful white sheets OF
tion, under the cylinders of death, come out
white scroll upon which shall be written
eternal emancipation.
L, Is Pleasant Path to Tread.
Still further, the road spoken OF is pleas
ant road. God gives a bond of indemnity
against all evil to every man that treads IL;
"All things work together for good to those
who love God" No weapon formed agarnst
them can prosper. That is the bond signed,
sealed ana delivered by the President OF the
universe.
What is the use of your fretting, o child of
God, about food? "Behold the fowls of the
air, for they sow not, neither do they reap
nor gather into barns; yet your Heavenly
Father feedeth them" Ano will He take
care of the SPARROW, will He take care OF the
hawk, and let you die? What is the use OF
your iretting about clothes? Consider the
lilies of the field. Shall He not much more
clothe You, o We of lite taith?" What is
the use of worrying for fear something will
happen to your home? He blesseth the
habftation of the just" What is the use of
fretting lest you will be overcome OF tempta-
tions? "God is faithful, who will not suffer
you to be tempted above that ye are able;
but will with the temptation also make
IT, May to escape that ye may be able to Dear
o, this Kings highway Trees of life on
either side, bending over until their branches
interlock and drop midway their fruit and
shade. Houses of entertainment on either
side the road for poor pilgrims. Tables
spread with a feast OF good things and walls
adorned with apples OF gold in pictures Of
silver
pursue this subject only one step further.
What is the terminus? L do not care how
fine a road you may put Ne on, 1 want to
know where it comes out. My text declares
Zion" You know what Zion was. That was
the Kings palace. 1t WAS a mountain fast
ness. 1t was impregnable. And SO heaven
is the fastness of the universe.
The Lords Highway Is Impregnsble.
No howitzer has long enough range to
shell those towers. Let all the batteries of
earth and hell blaze away; they cannot
break in those gates. Gibraltar was taken;
1yas taken; Babylon fell; but
hose walls of hesaYe2 shall never surrender
either to human or SaEanic besiegement.
The Lord God Almighty is\tle desfl2se of It.
Jreat capital of the universe! Terminus of +
he Kings high way!
Doctor Dick said that among other things
lie thought in heaven we should study chem
stry, and geometry, and comic sections.
'outheY thought that in heaven he should
lave the pleasure of seeing Chaucer and
shakespeare. Now, Doctor Dick may have
lis mathematics for all eternity, and
'onthey his Shakespeare. Give me Christ
Lnd my old friends-that is all the heaven I
want, that is heaven enough for me. o gar
len of light, whose leaves never wither, and
Shose fruits never fail! o banquet of God,
vhose guests are kings foreveri o city of
light, whose walls are salvation, and whose
ates are praise! o palace Of rest, where God
5 the monarch and everlasting ages the
VI Aio lOiS " sO'iS tudu blo |
urt-beat of many waters, yet solt as the
whisper OF cherubimi
When my last wound is healed, when the |
asst heart-break is ended, when the last
ear of earthly sorrow is wiped away, and |
Then the redeemed of the Lord shall come |
D Zion, then let all the harpers take down
heir harps, and all the trumpeters take !
own their trumpets and all across heaven |
here be chorus OF morning stars, chorus of
hlte robed victors, chorus of martyrs from
nder the throne, chorus of ages, chorus of 7
orlds. and there be but one song sung,
nd but one name spoken, and but one
lrone nonored-that of Jesus only.