The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1892-08-19

Urn FORCES, ana put them in one great
array, and then on some swift steed
you may ride along the line and review
the troops; and that accumulated host
from all ages seems like half.formed
regiment compared with the great ar
ray of the redeemed.
l stood one day at williamsport and
saw on the opposite side Of the Potomac
the forces coming down, regiment after
regiment, and brigade after brigade.
IL seemed rs though there was no end
To the procession. But now let me take
the iicld-glasS of ~. John and look off
upon the hosts of thousands
upon thousands, ten thousand times ten
thousand, one hundred and forty and
four thousand, and thousands OF thou.
sands, until put down the field.glass
and say: IL can not estimate it--a great
multitude that no man can number"
You may tax your imagination. aud
torture your ingenuity. and break down
| your powers of calculation in attempt
ing to express the multitudcs of the re-
| leased from earth and the cnraptured of
| Heaven, and talk of hundreds of hum
| dreds of hundreds; of thousands of
thousands Of thousands: of millions of
millions OF millions, until your head
aches and your heart faints. and cN-
hauStcd and ovcrburdencd YOU eNclaim;
! II can not count thcm--a great multi
tude that no man can number"
But my subject advances and tells
you of their antcccdents. "ofall nations
and kindrcds and tongues" Some of
them spoke scotch. Irish, German,
| English, Italian, Spanish, Tamil, Choc-
taw, Burmese. After men have been
long in the land you can tell by their
acccntuation from what nationality
they came; and | suppose that in the
great throng around the throne II will
not be difficult To tea from what part of
the earth they came.
These rcapcd Sicilian wheat fields
and those picked cotton from the pods.
These under blistering skies gathered
tamarlnds and yaIus Those crossed
the desert on camcls, and those
glanced over the snow, drawn by
Siberian dogs, and these MIXED the
goats far up ON the Swiss crags. These
fought the walrus and white bear in re-
gions OF everlasting snow, and those
heard the song OF ficry-wingcd birds in
African thicl;cts. They were white.
They were black, They were red.
They were copper color. From all
lands, from ali ages. They were
plunged into Austrian dungeons. They
passed through Spanish inquisitions
They were confined in London Tower
| & ~ .. in,
thcatcr. They were Morayians. They
were Waldcnscs They were Albigcnscs,
They were Scotch Covcnanters. They
were Sandwich Islanders.
In this world men prefer different
kinds of government The United
States want republic. The British
Government needs To be II constitutional
monarchy Austria wants absolutism
But when thoy come up from earth
from different nationalitics they Will
prefer one great monarchy-Kiug Jesus
ruler over IT, And II that monarchy
were disbandcd. and it were submitted
10 all the hosts of Heaven who should
rule, thcn 10y the unanimous sufrages
Of all the redeemed, Christ would be-
come the president Of the whole uni
verse. Magma Chnrtas Bills OF Rights
Homes of HurgcSses, 1Iiumviratcs,
Congresses, PurliamcntS-nothl IN the
presence of ChriSts Sccptcr, swaylng
over all the people who have entered
upon that great glory. on can You
IMAGINE it, What u strange commlng'
ling Of tastes, of histories, OF nat'onali'
ties. "of all nations and kindrodS ana
people and tongues
Nv subject advances and tells You oi
the dress Of those in Heaven. The op-
icct of dress in this world Is not only
10 veil the body, hut 10 adorn H. Inc
God who dresses up the spring morning
with the blue ribbon of sky around the
, brow. and earrings of dcw-drops hung
from tree branch. and mantle of GRIM
son cloud flung over tho shoulder ans
the violeted slippers OF the grass to'
, her feet know that TOD does no.
d,snl,e the beautiful apparel Well
that Shall we voar in Heaven? II 81"
great multitude clothed in white
robcs" Il is white. In this world W.
, had sometimes to have on working up
parel Brigh, and lustrous garmeht'
,vould bc ridiculously out of place swell
, t.rinp amid forges, on mixing paints Oh
mastering ceilings or binding books
!. In his world we must have the work
+, ing day apparel sometimes, and we car'
-, not how coarse it ~ It's appropriate
Int when all the toll Of earth is past
and there is no more drudgery and NJ
, more WEAKNESS, we shall stand before
! the throne robed in white.
= ON earth we sometimes had to wea
!, mourning apparcl-black scarf for tn
, arm. black veil for the face oihe'
:, Ices for the hands, black band for tn