Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-04-01
ISLAND POND. VERMONT. April. |, 1892

about those who shove Off from this world
under Christly pilotage. Don't let us be s
| ag tated about our going of this little barge
or sloop or canal boat OF world TO get or
some Great Elstern OF the heavens Don't
lei uspersist in wanting 10 stay in this barn,
this shed, this Clubhouse OF a world when all
the Kings palaces already occupied by many
OF our best friends ara swinging wide open
their gates 10 let us in.
When | read, IN NY Fathers house are
many Mansions | do not know but that
each world is a room, 2nl as many rooms as
| there ara worlds, stellar stairs, stellar gal
lerles, stellar Railways stellar windows,
stellar donei. How our departed friends
must pity US shut up in these crampei
apartments. tired il we walk fifteen mites,
when they soms morning. by one stroke OF
wing, can make circuit OF tho whole stellar
system and bs back in time for matinsi
Perhaps yondar twinklng constellation is
the resTdence of the martyrs; that group of
twelve lumiuareS is thu celestial home of
tho apostles. Perhaps that steep OF light is
the dwelling place of an gels c1erubic, sera-
phic, archan yelic. A mansion VITA as many
rooms rs worlds. and all their win lows ilu-
minated for fes -ivity.
Oh, how this widens an lifts AMI stimu-
lates our expectations! How little it makes
tbs present ani how stlpeliOus it makes
the futurel How it consoles Us about our
ani under the ground, have the range OF as
many rooms as there are worlds, and well
come everywhere, 70: II is the Fathers
house, in whica there are many MANSIONS!
Ga, Lord Go o. the Seven Stars AMI Orion,
hoS can | en- lure the transport the ecstasy
OF such a visonl must obsy my text ami
seek Hin. | will seek Him. seek Him how,
FOR cali to min that it is not the material
universe that is most valuable, but the spir-
y n kag a ynrfn
more than all the worlds which the inspired
herism IN saw from his booth on the hills
of Tekoa
hal studied it before but the Cathedral
OF Cologne, Germany, never impressed me
as it did the last timo saw it. 1t is al
mitta1 the gran lest go,hic structure in the
world, its foundation laid in l2iS, only eight
or nine years ago completed. Mora tEan SIX
hun lrel years in buiiiing All Europe
taNel for It's construction. Its chapel of the
Magi with precious stones enough to pur-
chlse q kin ylon. It's clap,l OF st. Agnes
with Muster -pieces OF paintings Its spre
sp7lnSlng five hundred and eleven feet into
the heavens. Its stained glass the chorus OF
al, rich c0lors. Statue, encircling the pillars
and encircling all. Statues ABOVE statues, un.
til sculpture can do no more, out faints and
falls back against carved stalls and down on
pavaments over which tle kings ami queens
OF tde earth have walked to confession. Nave
AMI alses ani transapt and portals cOmbin-
in, the splen Tors OF sunrise. Interlace1,
luterfoliatsl, mterc)Iumuei grandeur. As
| stood outside looking at tho double range
of dying buttrsSses ami tho forest OF pima
cles, higher anl higher and higner, until
amo,t rselei from dizziness, | exclaimel:
Great doXOioIy in stoneI Frozen prayer OF
many nations!'
But while standing there saw a poor man
enter and pat down his PACK an knee be-
slie his burden on the hard floor Of that
clthetral. AMI telrs OF deep emotion came
tnto my eyes as | sal 70 myself: There Is a
soul worth more than all the material sur
rouniiuss. That man will live after the last
pinnacle mas fallen, AMI not one stone OF all
that cathedral glory shall remain uncrum.
b.el. He is now LszrIs in rags
and poverty ani wearinnS-, but immor
tai AMI son q. tha Lord GOD
Almighty and the prayer hs now offers,
Though amid many slperSttlOnS
believe Col will hear, aud among tho apos-
ties whose sculpture forms stantin this sur
rouu ling inches he will at last bs littsi, AMI
into the presence OF that Carst wnoss SUI
ftrngs are representa- By tha crucldH be-
fore which he bows, and bs raisei in duo
time GU. o. all his pDYcrties into the glorious
homo built for him AMI built Tor us b." "hlm
VIZ maKeth tn, Seven Stars and Orion"