News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-07-14
GATHERED OFT OF ALL NATIONS.

over the snow, drawn by Siberian dogs,
| and these MIXED the goats far up on
| the Swiss crags. These fought the wal
rus and white bear in regions of ever.
lasting snow, and those heard the song
of fiery winged birds in African thick
| ets They We're white. They were
black They were red. They were cop
| per color. From all lands, from all ages.
! They were plunged into Austrian dun
geons. They passed through Spanish
inquisitions. They were confined in
London Tower. They fought with
beasts in the amphitheater. They were
Moravians. They were Waldenses.
They were Albigenses. They were
Scotch Covenanters. They were Sand
witch Islanders.
In this world men prefer different
kinds of government. The United States
want republic. The British govern
ment needs to be a constitutional mon
archy. Austria wants absolutism. But
when they come up from earth from
different nationalities they will prefer
one great monarchy-King Jesus ruler
over it. And if that monarchy were dis
| banded and it were submitted to all the
hosts of heaven who should rule, then
| by the unanimous suffrages OF all the
redeemed Christ would become the pres
ident of the whole universe. Magma
| Chartas, bills of right, houses of bur
| gesses, triumvirates, congresses, parlla-
ments- nothing in the presence of
| Christ's scepter swaying over all the
| people who have entered upon that great
| glory Obi can you imagine it? What
strange commingling of tastes, of his
tories, of nationalities, ''of all nations
and kindreds and people and tongues"
My subject advances. and tells you OF
the dress of those in heaven. The OBJ
| ject of dress in this world is not only to
veil the body, but to adorn it. The God
who dresses up the spring morning with
blue ribbon of sky around the brow and
earrings of dewdrops hung from tree
branch and mantle of crimson cloud
flung over the shoulder and the violetted
slippers of the grass for her feet-I know
that God does not despise beautiful ap-
parel. Well, what shall we wear in
heaven? Il saw a great multitude
clothed in white robes" 1t is whitel In
this world we had sometimes to have on
working apparel. Bright and lustrous
garments would be ridiculously out of
place sweltering amid FORCES, or mixing |
paints, or plastering ceilings, or binding
books.
In this world we must have the work [
ing day apparel sometimes, and we care |
not how coarse it is. 1t is appropriate; |
but when all the toll of earth is past |
and there is no more drudgery and no ]
more WEAKNESS, we shall stand before I
the throne robed in white. On earth
we sometimes had to wear mourning
apparel-black scarf for the arm, black
veil for the face, black gloves for the
hands, black band for the hat. Abra-
ham mourning for Sarah; Isaac mourn
ing for Rebecca; Rachel mourning for
her children; David mourning for Absa-
lom; Mary mourning for Lazarus.
Every second of every minute of every
hour of every day heart breaks.
THE RESURRECTION.
The earth from zone to zone and from
pole to pole is cleft with sepulchral rent,
and the earth can easily afford to bloom
and blossom when it is so rich with
moldering life. Graves! graves! graves!
But when these bereavements have all
passed, and there are no more graves to
dig, and no more collins to make, and
no more sorrow to suffer, we shall pull
off this mourning and be robed in white.
/ see soul going right up from all this
scene of sin and trouble into glory. !
seem to hear him say:
Journey forth rejoicing
From this dark vale of tears {
To heavenly joy and freedom,
From earthly care and fears.
When Christ my Lord shall gather
All his redeemed again,
His kingdom to inherit
Good night till then.
hear my Saviour calling;
This joyful hour has come;
The angel guards are ready
To guide me to our home.
When Christ our Lord shall gather
All his redeemed again,
His kingdom to inherit
Good night till then.
My subject advances, and tells you of
the symbols they carry. If my text had
represented the good in heaven as car
rying cypress branches, that would have
meant sorrow. If my text had repre-
sented the good in heaven as carrying
nightshade, that would have meant sin.
But it is palm branch they carry, and
that is victory. When the people came
home from war in olden times the con-
queror rode at the head of his troops,
and there were triumphal arches, and
the people would come out with branch
es of the palm tree and wave them all
Glong the host. What a significant type
this of the greeting and of the joy of the
redeemed in heaven! On earth they
were condemned, and were put out of
polite circles. They had infamous hands
strike them on both cheeks. Internal
spite spat in their faces. Their back
ached with sorrow.
Their brow reeked with unalleviated
toll. How weary they were! Sometimes
they broke the heart of the midnight in
the midst of all their anguish, crying
out, 80 God!" But bark now to the
shout of the delivered captives, as they
lift their arms from the shackles and
they cry out, ''Free! free! They look
back upon allthe trials through which
they have passed, the battles they have
fought, the burdens they carried, the
misrepresentation they suffered, and
because they are delivered from all these
they stand before God waving their
palms. They come to the feet of Christ,
and they look up into his face, and they
remember his sorrows, and they remem-
Der his pain, and they remember his
groans, and they say: ''Why, | was
saved by that Christ. He pardoned my
sins, he soothed my sorrows,' and stand
ing there they shall be exultant, waving
their palms.
NO MORE TOLL OR SORROW.
That hand once held the implement of
toll or welded the sword of war, but
row it plucks down branches from the
tree of life as they stand before the
throne waving their palms. Once he
was a pilgrim ON earth; he crunched the
hard crusts-he walked the weary way;
but it is all gone now; the sin gone, the
WEAKNESS gone. the sickness gone, the
sorrow gone. AS Christ stands up be-
fore the great array of the saved and re-
counts his victories it will be like the
rocking and tossing of forest in a tenn
pest, as all the redeemed rise up, host
beyond host, rank beyond rank, waving
their palms.
My subject makes another advance
ment, and speaks of the song they sing.
DIR. Dick, in very learned work,
says that among other things in heaven
he thinks they.will give great deal of
time to the study of arithmetic and the
higher branches of mathematics. l do
not believe it. 1t would upset my idea
of heaven if thought so; never liked
mathematics; and | would rather take