The Penn's Grove record., 1892-10-28
NUMBER IA.
adj! ine nuger

.un peat. Look ahead! ine nnger
1oints for ward.
ssOh, but" says soma one. 81 am getting
old, and l rave a touch OF rheu natism 10
that foot, and believe so ne.hing fsthe mat
ter with my heart, n / cannot stand a.
much as l used to-" Well, I congratulate
you, fur that shows you are getting nstrer
TO the time when you are going to enter i'm
mortal youth and be strong enough to huri
of the battlemeuts Of heaven any ban lit who
hv rrse.rd nf hrroiarv might break into tbs
3olden City. s.But," says some one, II feel
70 lonely. The most OF my friends are 9
and the b~ereavements Of lie have multiplied
until this world that was once 50 bright to
ne has lost its charm"
congratulate you, for when you go there
will be fewer here to hold you back and
more there to pull you in. Look aheadt
The finger OF Goi is pointing forward We
it here In church, and by hymn and prayer
and sermon and Christian association We
try TO get into q frame Of min that will b
acceptable to God and pleasant to ourselves.
But what a stupid thing 1t all 10 COM
pared with what It will be when We have
gone beyond psalmbook ami sermon and
Bible, and we stand, our last fmpsr'.
~feotion gone. In the presence Of that charm
Of the universe-the blessed Christ-and
have Him look in our facs aud say: II havs
been watching you and sympathizing with
you and helping you all these years. and
lnow you are here. Go where you please and
never know a sorrow and never sned q tear.
There is your mother now-she is coming to
Ereet you--and there is your father. and
there are your children. Sit. down under
lthis tree of life, and on the banks OF this
lsiyer ak 1t all over"
I tell you there will be more joy In one
minute of that than in fifty years OF earthly
lsxuitation. Look aheadi Look at the finest
house on earth, aud know that you will have
7 = L-x-zu al 80 Nka ka~lehfaa%
l~psrson you can find, aud know you will yet
be healthier. Look up the one who has the
lbest eyesight Of any one you have ever heard
lot, and know you will have better vision.
Listen to the sweetest prima donna that
ever trod the platform. I'M know that In
heaven you will lift a more enrapturing song
lshan ever enchantei earthly au iitorium.
Ny friends, I do not know how we are 60
ling to stand i'll mean the full thrush OF
THAT splendor. Last sunner 1 saw Mos.
Cow, In some respects the most splendid city
under the sun. The emperor after ward
asked me IL I had sssn it. for Moscow is the
pride OF Ru ssia. / told him yes, and that I
had seen Moscow burn. l will tell you
what / meant. After examining nine hun-
dred brass cannons which were picked out
of the snow after Napoleon retreated
from Moscow, each cannon deep
cut with the letter IN" | sscsnded Q tower
Of some two hundred and fifty feet just be-
fore sunset, and on eacn platform there were
bells large and small, AMI ! climbed up
among the bells, n then as 1 reached the
top all the bells underneath me began to
ring, and they were joined by the bells OF
fourteen hundred towers and domes and tur-
cts.
Some OF the bells sent out a faint tinkleo OF
sound, q sweet Standardization that seemed
to bubble In the air, and Others Numbered
forth boom after boom, boom after boom.
until it seemed to shake the earth and fill
| the heavens-sounds so weird, so sweet, 50
awful, so grand. SO charming, 50 tre-
msndous, so soft, SO ripping. 50 re.
verbsratiug and they seemed to wrsathe
and whirI ami rise and sink aud
burst and roll AMI mount and die.
When Napoleon saw Moscow burn, 10
could not have been more brilliant than
when I saw all tue fourteen hurried turrsts
slame with the sunset roofs OF gold INT
walls of malachite, and architecture OF all
solors mingling the brown OF autunnai for
esus, and the blue OF summer heavens and
the condagration of morning skies and tins
green OF rich meadows, and the foam OF
tossing seas
The mingling OF so many colors with %
many sounds was IN enhancement almost
| too much for human nerves, or human eyes,
or humau ears. I expect to see nothing to
equal it until you and see heaven. But that
will surpass it and make the memory OF what
most tame and insipid. All heaven aglow
aud all heaven airing, not in the sanset
but in the sunrise. Voices Of our " kim
bred mingliug with the doxologiss of sm-
ipires. Organs of eternal worship respond.
Ing to the trumpsts that have Weakened the
dead. Nations in white. Centuries IN cor
onatiop. Anthems like the voice of many
waters. Circle of martyrs. Circle Of
APOSTLES. Circle OF prophets. Thrones OF
l~rherubim. Thrones OF ssraphim. Throns
tof a~rchangel. Throne OF Christ. Throne
Of God, Tnronesl rnronesl Toe finger OF
God points that "a Stop not uutn you
IChrist ali L spsak OF and more may be
yours and mini. Do you not now hear the
iehime of the bells of that metropolis OF ths
lhniverses Do you not see the shi mmerinS
Of the towersf Good morning.