News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-09-22

all become residents, and we shall all be
princes and kings. We may have been
beggars, we may have been outcasts, we
NAV have been wandering and lost as
we all have been, but there we shall take
our regal power. What companionshlp
in heaven! To walk side by side with
John and James and Peter and Paul
and Moses and Joshua and Caleb and
Ezekiel and jeremiah and Micah and
Zechariah and Wilberforce and Oliver
Cromwell and Philip Doddridge and Ed
ward Payson and John Milton and Eliza
beth Fry and Hannah More and Char
lotte Elizabeth, and all the other kings
and queens of heaven. Oh, my soul,
what a companionship!
A palace means splendor of banquet.
There will be no common ware on that
table, There will be no unskilled mu-
sicians at that entertainment. There
will be no scanty supply of fruit or bev-
erage There have been banquets spread
that cost million of dollars each; but
who can tell the untold wealth of that
banquet? do not know whether Johns
description of it is literal or fgurative.
A great many wise people tell me it is
fgurative; but prove it! l do not know
but that it may be literal. lido not know
but that there may be real fruits plucked
from the tree of life.
do not know but that Christ referred
| to the real juice of the grape when he
said that we should drink new wine in
our Fathers kingdom, but not the in
| toxicating stuff of this worlds brewing.
| | do not say it is so; but | have as much
right for thinking it is so as you have
| for thinking the other way. At any rate,
it will be glorious banquet. Hark!
the chariots rumbling in the distance.
| | really believe the guests are coming
now. The gates swing open, the guests
| dismount, the palace is filling, and all
| the chalices, flashing with pearl and
amethyst and carbuncle, are lifted to the
| lips of the myriad banqueters, while
standing in robes of snowy white they
drink to the honor of our glorious King.
"Oh," you say, ''that is too grand
place for you and me-" No, it is not.
| If spider, according to the text, could
crawl up on the wall of Solomon's pal
ace, shall not our poor souls, through
| the blood of Christ mount up from the
| depths of their sin and shame, and finally
reach the palace of the eternal King?
"Where sin abounded, grace shall much
more abound, that whereas sin reigned
unto death, even so may grace reign
| through righteousness unto eternal life
bv Jesus Christ our Lord" One flash
of that coming glory obliterates the
sepulcher.
Years ago, with lanterns and torches
| and guide, we went down in the Mann
moth cave of Kentucky. You may
| walk fourteen miles and see no sunlight.
| 1t is stupendous place. Some places
the roof of the cave is a hundred feet
high. The grottoes filled with weird
echoes; cascades falling from invisible
| height to invisible depth. Stalagmites
rising up from the floor of the cave;
salactites descending from the roof of
| the cave, joining each other and max
ing pillars of the Almighty's sculptur-
ing There are rosettes of amethyst in
halls of gypsum. AS the guide carries
his lantern ahead of you, the shadows
have an appearance supernatural and
spectral. The darkness is fearful.
Two people, getting lost from their
Sulu0 only lOI lew uOuISs years ago,
were demented, and for years sat in
their insanity. You feel like holding
your breath as you walk across the
bridges that seem to span the bottom
less abyss. The guide throws his cal
cium light down into the caverns, and
the light rolls and losses from rock to
rock and from depth to depth, making
at every plunge a new revelation of the
awful power that could have made
such place as that. A sense of suf-
location comes upon you as you think
that you are two hundred and fifty feet
in straight line from the summit sur
face of the earth.
The guide after awhile takes you into
what is called the ''star chamber;" and
| then he says to you, ''Sit here" and then
he takes the lantern and goes down I'M
| der the rocks, and it gets darker and
] darker until the night is SO thick that
| the hand an inch from the eye is unOb-
! servable. And then, by kindling one of
| the lanterns and placing it in a cleft of
the rock there, is a reflection cast on the
dome of the cave, and there are stars
coming out in constellations-a brilliant
night heavens-and you involuntarily
Then he takes the lantern down in
other depths of the cavern and wanders
on and wanders off until he comes up
from behind the rocks gradually, and it
seems like the dawn of the morning and
it gets brighter and brighter. The guide
is a skilled ventriloquist, and he initiates
the voices of the morning, and soon the
gloom is all gone and you stand con-
graduating yourself over the wonderful
spectacle.
FROM THE GRAVE TO GLORY.
Well, there are a great many people
who look down into the grave as great
cavern. They think it is thousand
miles subterraneous, and all the echoes
seem to be the voices of despair, and the
cascades seem to be the falling tears
that always fall, and the gloom of earth
seems coming up in stalagmite, and the
gloom of the eternal world seems de-
scending in the stalactite, making pill
lars of indcscribable horror. The grave
is no such place as that to me, thank
God! Our divine guide takes us down
into the great caverns, and we have the
lamp to our feet and the light to our
path, and all the echoes in the riffs of
the rock are anthems, and all the fall
ing waters are fountains of salvation,
and after awhile we look up, and be-
hold! the cavern of the tomb has be-
come Kings star chamber
And while we are looking at the pomp
of it an everlasting morning begins to
rise, and all the tears of earth CRYSTAL
lie into stalagmite, rising up in a pillar
on the one side, and all the glories of
heaven seem to be descending in a sta
lactite, making pillar on the other side.
and you push against the gate that
swings between the two pillars, and as
that gate flashes open you find it as one
of the twelve gates which are twelve
pearls. Blessed be God that through
this Gospel the mammoth cave of the
sepulcher has become the illumined star
chamber of the King! Oh, the palaces!
the eternal palacesl the Kings palaces!
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