Connecticut western news., 1892-08-04
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What did the dying 'Faneway say? "I can as easily die as close my eyes or turn my head in sleep. Before a few hours have passed shall stand on Mount Zion with the one hundred and forty and four thousand, and with the just men made perfect, and we shall ascribe riches and honor and glory and majesty and dominion unto God and the Lamb. 3 Dr. Taylor, condemned to burn at the stake, on his way thither broke away from the guardsmen and went bounding and leaping and jumping toward the fire, glad to go to Jesus and to die for him. Sir Charles Hare, in his last mo- ment, had such rapturous vision that he cried, "Upward, upward, upwardw
 And so great was the peace of one of Christ's disciples that he put his fingers upon the pulse in his wrist and counted 1t and observed it, and so great was his placidity that after awhile he said, Stepped" and his life had ended here to begin in heaven. But grander than that was the testimony of the worn out first missionary when in the Mamar- tine dungeon he cried: "I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my depar- ture is at hand. have fought the good fight, have finished my course, 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 them that love his ap- pearingp Do you not see that Christ is above all in dying alleviationsp
 WE ARE FASTENING TO THE GRAVE.
 Toward the last hour of our earthly residence we are speeding. When l see the sunset say, "One day less to live. :" When 1 see the spring blossoms scat tered 1 say, Another season gone for ever." When l close this Bible on Sab bath night say, Another Sabbath de- parted" When l bury friend 1 say Another earthly attraction gone for ever." What nimble feet the years havel The roebucks and the lightnings run not so fast From decade to decade, from sky to sky they go at bound. > .
 There is place for us, whether marked or not, where you and 1 will sleep the last sleep, and the men are now living who will with solemn tread carry us to our resting place. Aye, it is known in heaven whether our departure will be coronation or banishment Brighter than a banqueting hall through which the light feet of the dancers go up and down to the sound of trumpeters will be the sepulcher through whose rifts the holy light of heaven streameth. 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 ascrip- tion, 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, re- deemed 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 be Jesus. Myriads gazing on the scars of his suffering, in silence first, afterward breaking forth into exclamation. 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 shipwreck and the SCOUT ging through which they went, will say, "This is the Jesus whom we preached at Corinth, and at Cappadocia, and at Antioch, and at Jerusalem" Little children clad in white will say, "This is the Jesus who took us 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 com forted 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 made us white as snow." Mercy boundless, grace unparalleled. And then, after each one has recited his peculiar deliv- erances and peculiar mercies, recited them as by solo, all the voices will come together in great chorus, which shall make the arches echo and re-echo with the eternal reverberation of glad ness and peace and triumph.
 TO THE HOLY LAND.
 Edward I was so anxious to go to the Holy Land that when he was about to expire he bequeathed $160,0O0 to have his heart, after his decease, taken to the Holy Land in Asia Minor, and his re- quest was complied with. But there are hundreds today whose hearts are already in the holy land of heaven. Where your treasures are there are your hearts also. John Bunyan, of whom I spoke at the opening of the discourse, caught a glimpse of that place, and in his quaint way he said: "And I heard in my dream, and loi the bells of the city rang again for joy; and as they opened the gates to let in the men looked in after them, and lot 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 I had seen wished myself among them!'