Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-07-16

ade. II seemed MS though there was no
end to the procession But now let me
take the field glass of st, John and look
off upon the hosts OF Henven-thous-
ands upon thousands, 10000 times TO-
600, l44, 900 and thousands of thousands.
until put down the field glass and say
81 cannot estimate it-a great multi
tude that no man can number"
You may tax your imagination and
torture your ingenuity and break down
your powers of calculation in attempt
ing to discuss the multitudes of the re-
leased from earth and the enraptured
of Heaven and talk of Heaven and talk
of hundreds OF hundreds Of hundreds,
of thousands of thousands Of thousands,
of millions of millions Of millions until
your head aches and your heart faints,
and exhausted and overburdcned you
exclaim: II cannot count them-a
great multitude that no man can num-
ber"
But my subject advances and tells You
of their antecedents, of oil nations and
lsindreds and tongues" Some OF them
spoke Scotch. Irish. German. English.
Italian, Spanish. Tamil, Choctaw, Bur
mesc. After men have been long in the
land you can tell by their accumulation
from what nationality they came; and
suppose in the great throng around the
throne it will not be difficult TO tell
from what part of the earth they came.
These reaped Sicillan wheatfelds
and those picked cotton from the pods,
These under blistering skies gathered
tamarinds and yams Those crossed
the desert on camels, and those glanced
over the snow, drawn by Siberian dogs,
and these MIXED the goats far up on
the Swiss craga These fought the wal
rus and white bear in regions Of ever
lasting snow. and those heard the song
of fiery winged birds in African thick
cts They were white, They were
black They were red. They were
copper color. From all lands, from all
ages They were plunged into Austrian
dungeons They passed through Span
ish inquisitions They were confined
in London tower. They fought with
beasts in the amphitheater. They were
Moravians They were Waldenses.
They were AlbigcnseS They were
Scotch Covenanters. They were Sand
witch Islanders
In this world men prefer different
kinds of government The United States
want n republic. The british govern
ment needs to be constitutional mon
archy. Austria wants absolutism. But
when they come up from earth from
different nationalitics. they will prefer
one great monarchy-King Jesus ruler
over it. And If that monarchy were
disbanded, and it were submitted to all
the hosts Of Heaven who should rule
them, then by the unanimous sutfrages
of all the redeemed Christ would be-
como the president of the whole uni
verse Magma Chartas. bills OF right,
houses of burgesses, triumvirates, con-
crosses, parliaments-nothin In the
presence OF Christ's scepter, Sswaying
over all the people who have entered
upon that great glory. o! can you i'm
agine it? What strange commingling
of tastes, of histories, of nationalities
"of all nations and kindreds and people
and tongues.
My subject advances and tells you of
the dress Of those in Heaven. The OBJ
ject of dress IN this world Is not only to
veil the body but to adorn It. The
God who dresses up the spring morning
with blue ribbon of sky around the
brow, and earrings of dewdrops hung
from tree branch, and mantle OF Grim
son cloud flung over the shoulder, and
the violcted slippers of the grass for
her feet-I know that God does not de-
spisc beautiful apparel Well, what
shall we wear in Heaven? IL saw a
great multitude clothed in white
robes" 1t is white! In this world we
had sometimes TO have on working APP
parel Bright and lustrous garments
would be ridiculously out of place
sweltering amid FORCES, or mixing
paints, or plastering ceilings or binding
books. In this world we must have the
working day apparel sometimes, and
we care not how coarse IT is. 1t is APP
propriate; but when all the toll of earth
is past and there Is no more drudgery
and no more WEAKNESS. we shall stand
before the throne ,robed in white On
earth we sometimes had to wear mourn
ing apparel-black scarf for the arm,
black vail for the face, black gloves for
the hands, black band for the hat.
Abraham mourning for Sarah; Isaac
mourning for Rebecca; Rachel mourn
ing for her children; David mourning for
Absolem; Mary mourning for Lazarus.
Every second OF every minute of every
hour ofevery day heart breaks.
The earth from zone TO zone and from
pole to pole is cleft with sepulchral
rent, and the earth can easily afford to
bloom and blossom when it is so rich
with moldering life. Graves! graves!
gravesl But when these bereavements
have all passed and there are no more
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