The Red Cloud chief., 1892-09-30

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looks, but IL our bodies are to be resur-
rected in the last day I think Heaven
must have q material splendor as we'll
as u spiritual grandeur. o, what
grandeur of apartments when that
Divine hand which pluugcs 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 be-
fore our soul the eternal architecture.
and that hand which hung with loops
of fire the curtains of morning shall
prepare the upholstery of our kipgly
residence.
A palace mean splendor OF banquet.
There will be no ominon ware on thai
table. There will be no unskilled mu-
sicians ut that entertainment There
will be no scauty supply of fruit or
beverage. There have been banquets
spread that cost 81 900, 900 each, but
who can tell the untold wealth OF thas
banquet? I do not know whether
Johns description of II is literal or
figurative. A great many wise people
tell ne 1t Is Ggurative: but prove IL. l
do not know but that IL may be literal.
I do not know but that there may he
real fruits pluckcd 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
toxicatiug stuff of this worlds brew
ing. do not say it is so; but | have rs
much right for thinking it is 40 as you
have for thinking the other way. At
any rate 1t will be n glorious banquet.
Harkl the chariots rumbling in the
distance. l really believe tho guests
are coming now. The gates swing
open. the guests dismount, the palace
/, is filing and all the chnlices, flashing
with pearl and amethyst and carbuncle,
are lifted to the lips of the myriad ban
qucters, while standing In robes of
snowy white they drink to the honor of
/ our glorious King. 80" you say, that
: IL too grand n place for you and for
+ me-" No. it is not. II n spider, accord.
| ing to the text, could crawl up on the
! wall Of Solomon's palaceHhould not our
> poor souls, through the blood of Christ,
t 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
r righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus
Christ II Lord" One flash of that
coming glory oblitcrates the sepulchre.
c Years ago, with lanterns and torches
and Il guide, we went down In the
p Mammoth cave of Kentucky. You may
walk fourteen miles n see no sunlight.
J, II is n ~stupendous place. Some places
the roof of the cave il one hundred feet
high. The grottocs filed with wierd
echoes. cascades falling from invisible
height I o invisible depth. Stalagmitcs
y rising from the floor of the cave-stal.
d ~actites descending from the roof of the
cave-joining each other and making
It pillars Of the Almighty's sculpturing.
There are roscttcs of amethyst In halls
d Of gypsum. AS the guide carries
his lantern ahead Of you the shad
l. ows have an appearance supernatural
d and spectral. The darkness Is fear
lie full. Two people, getting lost from
le their guide for only a few
e. hours years ago. were demented, ant
" lOE yGUTS Sit AL tICiI ihSuhtNy' Aot
lie feel like holding your breath as 20,
e. walk across the bridges that seem I,
,r span the bottomless abyss. The guild,
&c throws his calcium light down into tn,
ID caverns and the light rolls and tosse
" from rock to rock and from depth I,
N depth, making ut every plunge a new
s, revelation of the awful power tina
n, could have made such q place as that
o. A sense Of sutfocation comes upon yol
re as you think that you are $50 feet In
ly straight line from the sunlit surface O
is the earth. The guide, after awhile
n takes you into what Is called the Star
III ry Chamber" and then he says to you
Q, "Sit here" and then he takes tn
lantern and goes down under tn
G. rocks, and it gets darker and darke
r. until the night is so thick that tn
Is hand an inch from the eye Is unobserva
BILE. An then, by kindling one Of tn
H. lanterns. and placing in a cleft of tn
T. rock, there Is u reflection cast on tn
ID dome Of the cave, and there are star
IN coming out in constellations-a bril-
Vi liant night heavens-and you involuu
II tarily exclaim: Beautiful! beautiful
n. Then he takes the lantern down !
Nv IotitI uCptio VI hC CttNCth tilA WdHucI
Of on, and wanders on, until he comes u
in from behind the rocks gradually, and
seems like the dawn of the morning
in and it gets brighter. The guide is
10 skilled ventriloquist, and he initiate
n the voices of the morning, and soon tn
10 gloom is all gone, and you stand cor
Is graduating yourself over the wonder
he full spectacle.
" Well, there are a great many peopl
n who look down into the grave as a grea
&c cavern. They think it Is a thousan
lie miles sub%terraneous, and as the echoe
IL seem TO be the voices of despair, an
s. the cascades seem TO be the fallini
" tears that always fall, and the gloon
9, of earth seems coming up In stalagmitt
ne and the gloom Of the eternal worl
I'd seems descending in the stalactite
" making pillars of indescribable horror
C, The grave is no such place as that