Connecticut western news., 1892-09-22
The kings of the earth shall bring their

The kings of the earth shall bring their honor and glory into it.
 A palace means splendor of apart ments. Now, I do not know where looks, but if our bodies are to be resur- rected in the last day I think heaven must have material splendor as we'll as a spiritual grandeur. Oh, what grandeur of apartments when that divine hand which plunges the sea into blue, and the foliage into green, and sets the sunset on fire, shall gather all the beautiful colors of earth around his throne, and when that arm which lifted the pillars of Alpine rock, and bent the arch of the sky, shall raise before our soul the eternal architecture, and that hand which hung with loops of fire the curtains of morning shall prepare the upholstery of our kingly residencel
 THE PALACES OF GOD.
 A palace also means splendor of asso- citations. The poor man, the outcast cannot get into Windsor castle. The sentinel of the queen stands there and cries "Haltl" as he tries to enter. But in the palace of which I speak we may all become residents, and we shall all be princes and kings. We may have been beggars, we may have been outcasts, we may have been wandering and lost as we all have been, but there we shall take our regal power. What companionship in heavenl 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 companionshipl
 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- craze. 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 proveitl do not know but that it may be literal. Ido 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 l have as much right for thinking it is SO as you have for thinking the other way. At any rate, it will be a glorious banquet. Harkl the chariets' ruablihg ini the distance. really believeE 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. .sOh," 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 King2 "Where sin abounded, grace shall much more abound, that whereas sin reigned | unto death, even so may grace reign | through righteousness unto eternal life | by Jesus Christ our Lord" One flash of that coming glory ohliterates the | Sepulcher.
 Years ago, with lanterns and torches and guide, we went down in the Nam moth cave of Kentucky. You may walk fourteen miles and see no sunlight. It is stupendous place. Some places | the roof of the cave is 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 mak ing pillars of the Almighty's sculptur- l 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 guide only for few hours. 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 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 un- 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 8 cleft of
 the rock there, is reflection cast on the
 dome of the cave, and there are stars
 coming out in constellations-a brilliant night heavens-and you involuntarily excIaim, "Beautifull beautifully
 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 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.