The Globe-republican., 1892-08-01

You may tax your imagination and
torture your ingenuity and break down
your powers of calculation in attempting
to express the multitudes Of the released
from earth and the enraptured Of
Heaven. and talk of hundreds OF hum
dreds OF hundreds, of thousands of thous-
ands of thousands, of millions of millions
of millions. until your head aches and
your heart faints, and exhausted and
overburdened you exclaim, 81 cannot
count them-a great multitude that no
man can number"
But my subject advances, and tells
you of their antececents, ''of all nations
and kindredS and tongues" Some OF
them spoke Scotch, Irish. German,
English. Italian, Spanish, Tamil, Choc-
taw. Burmese. After men have been
long in the LAND you can tell by their
accentuation from what nationality they
came: and suppose in the great throng
around the throne it will not be difficult
to tell from what part o. the earth they
came.
These reaped Sicilian wheat6elds and
those picked cotton from the pods.
These under bIistering skies gathered
tamarinds and yams. Those crossed the
desert on camels and those glanced over
the snow. draw by Siberian dogs, and
these MIXED the goats far up on the
Swiss crags. These fought the walrus
and white bear in regions Of everlasting
snow and those heard the song Of fiery
winged birds in African thickets. They
were white. They We're black. They
were red. They were copper color.
From all lands. from all ages. They
we're plunged into the Austrian dun
geons. They passed through Spanish
inGuisitions. The were confined in Lon
con 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 u constitutional mon
archy. Austria wants abSolutism. But
when they come up from earth from diff
ferent natiOnalities they will prefer one
great monarchy-King Jesus ruler over
it. And if that monarchy were disbanded
and ii were submitted to all the hosts of
Heaven who should rule, then by the
unanimous SURFACES of all the redeemed
Christ would become tue President of
the whole universe. Magma ChartaS,
bills of right, houses Of burgesses,
triumvirateS, congresses, par!iaments-
nothing in the presence OF Christ S
scepter, swaying over all the people who
have entered upon that great glory! Oh!
can you imagine it? What a strange
commingling of tastes, OF histories, Of
nationalitieS, ''of all nations and kim
dreds 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 dew drops hung from tree
branch and mantle of crimson cloud flung
over the shoulder and the violetted slip
pers of the grass for her feet-I know
that God does not despise beautiful ap-
pareL. Well, what shall we wear in
Heaven? II saw a great multitude
clothed in white robes" 1t is white!
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 1t 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 the
throne rObed in white. On earth We
sometimes had to wear mourning ap-
parel-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 earth from zone to zone and from
pole to pole is cleft with sepulchrsl rent
and the earth can easily afford to bloom
and blossom when 1t is SO rich with
molderine 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 of
this mourning and be robed in white.
Sec d eoUl &UltiS IiSut w llOu OIL sulS
scene Of sin and trouble into glory. /
NSm to hear him say:
- urney forth rejoicing
ON this dark vale Of tears,
:eavsnly joy and freedom
ON earthly care and fears.
Then Christ my Lord shall gather
AL His redeemed again,
Ais Kingdom to inherit
Goodnight till then.
Ihear my Saviour calling;
The joyful hour has come,
The angel guards are ready
TO guido ne our home.
When Christ our Lord shall gather
All His redeemed again,
His kingdom 70 inherit
Good might till then.
Nv subject advances, and tells you Ct
the symbols they carry. II 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 tror, war in oIden times the con-