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is the uncertainty of the future NOV,
child of God, do not play the inhdel. A1ter
God has filled the Bible TIL IL can hoiu NJ
more with stories of the good things aneau,
better not talk about uncertainties.
7 remark again; all those ought to feel
| this iov Of the text who have holy cur1os
ty to know what is beyond this earthly ter
| minus. And who has not any curiosity
about it? Paul, suppose had the most sat
isfactory view of heaven, and ne says, ~
doth not yet appear what we snail De-. ~
| is like looking through broken telescope,
snow we see through glass darby" Can
YOU tell me anything about that heavenly
| place? You ask me thousand questions
| about it that | cannot answer. 1 ask you
thousand questions about it that you cannot
| answer And do you wonder that Paul was
SO glad when martyrdom gave him chance
to 90 over and make discoveries III that
| blessed country?
| hope some day, by the grace of God, to
90 over and see for myself, but not now.
| No well man, no prospered man. think.
wants TO 20 now. Du1 the Tune Will come,
think, when shall go over. want to see
what they do there and | want to see now
! they do it. l do not want TO De LOOKING
! through the gates agar forever "anC
| them to swing wide open. There are ten
| thousand things 1 want explained-about
| Won. about myself, about the government OF
| this world, about God, about everything.
| Columbus riskei his life to find this con-
| tinent. and shall we shudder to go out on
voyage of discovery which shall reveal
vaster and more brilliant country? John
Franklin risked his life to find passage
between icebergs and shall we dread to find
n massage to eternal summer? Men IN
Switzerland travel up the heights of the
Matterhorn with alpenstocil and guides and
rockets and ropes, and getting half way up
stumble and fall down in horrible mas
sacre They just wanted to say they had
been on the tops of those high peaks. And
shall we fear to go out for the ascent OF the
eternal hills which start a thousand miles
beyond where stop the highest peaks OF the
Aims when in that ascent there is no peril?
A man doomed to die stepped on the
scaffold and said in joy, Now In ten MN
ntes / will know the great secret. one
minute after the vital functions ceased, the
little child that died last night knew more
than Jonathan Edwards or 81 fa"t hinise',
before he dlei Friends, the exit from thi:
world, or death, if you please TO call it, t.
the Christian is glorious explanation.
1t is demonstration. 1t is illumination.
1t is suuburst. 1t is the opening of all the
windows. 1t is Shutting up the catechism
of doubt and the unrolling of all the scrolls
OF positive ana accurate information. In
stead of standing at the foot of the ladder
and looking up it is standing at the top of
the ladder and looking down. 1t is the last
mystery taken out of botany and geology
and astronomy and theology.
| remark again, we ought to have the joy
of the text, because, leaving this world, we
move into TIE best society of the universe.
You see great crowd of people in some
What general, what prince is going up
there?' Well, L see a great throng in
heaven l say: "Who is the focus of all
that admiration? Who is the centre of that
glttering companyp 1t is Jesus, the cham
pion of all the world, the favorite of all
ages.
Do you know what is the first question the
soul will ask when it comes through the
gate of heaven? | think the first question
will be, "Where is Jesus, the Saviour that
pardoned my sin, that carried my sorrows,
that fought my battles, that won my victor
ies? Oh, Radiant One1 how l would like to
see Thee! Thou of the manger, but without
its humiliations; Thou of the cross but
without its pangs; Thou of the grave, but
without its darkness.
But when meet my Lord Jesus Christ, of
what shall first delight to hear Him speak9
Now think what it is. l shall first want to
hear the tragedy of His last hours, and then
Luke's account of the cructixion and Marks
account of the crucifixon, and Johns ac-
count of the crucixion will be nothing,
while from the living lips of Christ the
story shall be told of the gloom that fell, and
the devils that arose, and the fact that upon
His endurance depended the rescue of
race; and there was darkness in the sky, and
there was darkness in the soul, and the pain
became more sharp, and the burdens became
more heavy until the mob began to SWIM
away from the dying vision of Christ, and
the cursing of the mob came to His ear more
family, and His hands were fastened to the
horizontal piece of the cross, and lis feet
4 49, a rlAVs Of
the cross, and His head fell for ward in a swoon
as He uttered the last moan and cried, 1T is
finishedw All heaven will stop to listen
until the story is done, and every harp will
be- put down, and every lip closed, and all
eyes fixed on the Divine Narrator until the
story is done, and then, at the tap of the
baton the eternal orchestra will rouse up
finger on string of harp, and lips to the
mouth of trumpet, there shall roll forth the
oratorio of the Messiah, Worthy is the
Lamb that was slain to receive blessing and
riches and honor and glory and power, world
without endP
What lie endured, oh, who can te
To save souls from death and hell
When there was between Paul and that
magnificent Parsonage only the thinness of
the sharp edge of the sword OF the execu-
TONER, do you wonder that he wanted to go?
Oh! my Lord Jesus, let one wave of that
glory ron over uSl Ildrhi heat Cue Wou-
ding bells Of heaven ringing now. The
marriage of the Lamb has come, and
the bride hath made herself ready.
And now for little while
good by. have no morbid
feeling about the future. But if anything
should happen that we never meet again in
this world, let us meet where there are nc
partings. Our friendships have been delight.
full on earth. but they will be more delightful
in heaven And now | commend YOU to Goo
and the word of His grace. which is able to
build us up and give an Inheritance among
all them that are sanctitied.