Connecticut western news., 1892-09-15

their branches interlock and drop mid- way their fruit and shade. Houses of entertainment on either side the road for poor pilgrims. Tables spread with . feast of good things and walls adorned with apples of gold in pictures of silver. start out on this kings highway, and l find a harper, and say, What is your name?" The harper makes no response, but leaves me to guess, as with his eyes toward heaven and his hand upon the trembling strings this tune comes rip bling out on the air: 1.-The Lord is my light and my salvation. Whom shall l fear? The Lord is the strength of my life. Of whom shall be afraidT'
 Igo little farther on the same road and meet trumpeter of heaven, and 1 say, Haven't you got some music for tired pilgrim?' And wiping his lip and taking long breath, he puts his mouth to the trumpet and pours forth this strain: "They shall hunger no more, neither shall they thirst any more, neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat, for the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall lead them to living fountains of water, and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes"
 go & little distance farther on the same road, and 1 meet maiden of Israel, She has no harp, but she has cymbals. They look as if they had rusted from sea spray, and I say to the maiden of Israel, Have you no song for a tired pilgrimY" And like the clang of victors' shields the cymbals clap as Miriam be- gins to discourse, ''Sing ye to the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously; the horse and the rider hath he thrown into the sea-" And then I see a white robed group. They come bounding toward me, and I say, "Who are theyr The happiest, and the brightest, and the fair est in all heaven-who are theyP" And the answer comes, "These are they who came out of great tribulations, and had their robes washed and made white with the blood of the Lamb.p >.4
 THE TERMINUS.
 1 pursue this subject only one step farther. What is the terminus2 do not care how fine road you may put me on, I want to know where it comes out. My text declares it, "The re- deemed of the Lord come to Zion" You know what Zion was. That was the Kings palace. It was & mountain fastness. It was impregnable. And so heaven is the fastness of the universe. No howitzer has long enough range to shell those towers. Let all the batteries of earth and he'll blaze away; they can not break in those gates. Gibraltar was taken; Sebastopol was taken; Babylon fell; but those walls of heaven shall never surrender either to human or sa- tanic besiegement. The Lord God Al mighty is the defense of it. Great cap ital of the uniyerse Terminus of the Kings highway!
 Dr. Dick said that, among other things, he thought in heaven we should study chemistry and geometry and comic sections. Southey thought that in heaven he would have the pleasure of seeing Chaucer and Shakespeare. Now Dr.
 Dick may have his mathematics for all eternity, and Southey his Shakespeare. Give me Christ and my old friends that is all the heaven want, that is heaven enough for me. O garden of light, whose leaves never wither, and whose fruits never faili O banquet of | God, whose sweetness never palls the taste, and whose guests are kings for ever! O city of light, whose walls are salvation, and whose gates are praisel o palace of rest, where God is the mon- arch and everlasting ages the length of his reign! o song louder than the surf beat of many waters, yet soft as the ,r,h;cnaY- of cb
 When my last wound is healed, when the last heartbreak is ended, when the
 last tear of earthly sorrow Is wiped away and when the redeemed of the | shall come to Zion, then let the l. IS take down their harps, and all tL umpeters take down their trum- pt and all across heaven there be cl of morning stars, chorus of wl4.e robed victors, chorus of martyrs | from under the throne, chorus of ages,
 chorus of worlds, and there be but one song sung, and but one name spoken | and but one throne honored-that of Jesus only.