The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-08-12

can live in this world after such glorie:
rs God has manifested to my soul"
What did the dying Faneway sayP I"
can as easily die as close my eyes o.
turn my head in sleep. Before few
hours have passed 1 shall stand OF
Mount Zion with the one hundred anC
forty and four thousand, and with tn.
just men made perfect, and we shall as
cribe riches and honor, and glory, anC
majesty, and dominion unto God anG
the Lamb" DR.. Taylor condemned t.
burn at the stake, on his way thithel
broke away from the guardsmen and
went bounding and leaping and jump
ing toward the fire, glad to go to Jesu:
and to die for Him.. Sir Charles Hare
in his last moment, had such rapturous
vision that he cried: Upward, up
ward, upwardI' And so great was
the peace of one of Christ's disciples
that he put his fingers upon the
pulse of his wrist and counted it and
observed it; and so great was his plac.
| idity that after a while he said
stopped" and his life had ended here
to begin in Heaven. But grander
was the testimony of the worn out first
/ missionary, when, in the Mamartine
| dungeon, he cried: 81 am now ready to
be offered, and the time of my depart
ure is at hand; l have fought the good
fight, l have finished my course, 1 have
kept the faith; henceforth there is laid
up for me a crown of righteousness,
which the Lord, the righteous judge,
will give me in that day, and not to me
only, but to all of them that love His
! appearing"' Do you not see that Christ
is above all in dying alleviations?
Toward the last hour of our earthly
residence we are speeding. When 1 see
the sunset 1 say, Zone day less to live. "
When l see the spring blossoms scat
tered, L say, Another season gone for
ever" When close this Bible on Sab
bath night l say, Another Sabbath de-
parted" When 1 bury friend l say,
Another earthly attraction gone for
ever" What nimble feet the years
have! The roebuclls and the lightnings
run not so fast. From decade to decade,
from sky to sky, they go at a bound.
There is a place for us, whether
marked or not, where you and l
viii sleep the last sleep and the men
are now living who will, with solemn
tread, carry us to our resting us Aye,
it is known in Heaven whether our de-
parture will bc a coronation or ban
ishment Brighter than a banqueting
hall through which the light feet Of
the dancers go up AID down to the
sound of trumpeters will be the sepul-
cher through whose riffs the holy light
of Heaven streams. God will watch
You. He will send His angels to guard
your slumbering ground until, at
Christ's behest, they shall roll away
the stone.
So also Christ is above all in Heaven.
The Bible distinctly says that Christ
is the chief theme of the celestial
ascription, all the thrones facing His
throne all the palms waved before His
face, all the crowns down at His feet.
Cherubim to cherubim, seraphim to
seraphim, redeemed spirit to redeemed
spirit shall recite the Saviour's earthly
sacrifice.
Stand on some high hill of Heaven,
and in all the radiant sweep the most
glorious object will bc Jesus. Myriads
gazing on the sears of his suffering. in
silence first, aftcrward breaking forth
in reclamation. The martyrs, all the
purer for the flame through which they
passed, will say: This IS Jesus for
whom we died" The apostles, all the
happier for the shipwrecil and the
scourging through which they went,
will say: This is the Jesus whom we
preached at Corinth, and at Cappadocia,
and at Antioch, and at Jeru-
SALEM" Little children clad in
white will say: This is the Jesus who
took us up in his arms and blessed US,
and when the storms of the world were
too cold and loud brought us into this
beautiful place" The multitudes of the
bereft will say: This is the Jesus who
comforted us when our heart broke"
Many who had wandered clear off from
God and plunged into vagabondism, but
were saved by grace, will say: This
is the Jesus who pardoned us. We were
lost on the mountains and he brought
us home We were guilty and he
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less, grace unparalleled. And then,
after each one had recited his peculiar
deliverences and peculiar mercies, re-
cited them as by solo, all the voices
will come together in a great chorus,
which shall make the arches echo aud
re-echo with the eternal reverberation
of gladness and peace and triumph.
Edward !. was so anxious to go to the
Holy Land that when he was about to
expire he bequeathed 100000 to have
his heart, after his decease, taken to
the Holy Land in Asia Minor, and his
request was complied with. But there
are hundreds to-day whose hearts are
already in the Holy Land of Heaven.
Where your treasures are, there are
your hearts also. John Bunyan, OF
whom l spoke at the opening of the dis
course, caught glimpse of that place,
and in his quaint way he said: And I
heard in my dream, and 10! the bells of
the city rang again for joy; and as they
opened the gates to let in the men l
looked in after them, and 10! the city
shone like the sun, and there were
streets of gold and men walked on
them, harps in their hands to sing
praises with all; and after that they
shut up the gates, which when 1 had
seen l wished myself among them"
staying Where We Are Happy.
Much of the worlds disquietude
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