Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-03-24

Johns Apocalypse, practically saying,
''Worlds! worlds! worlds Get ready
for them!" We have nice little world
here that we stick to, as though losing
that we lose all. We are afraid of fall
ing off this little raft of world. We
are afraid that some meteoric iconoclast
will some night smash it, and we want
everything to revolve around 1t, and
are disappointed when we find that
it revolves around the sun instead Of
the sun revolving around it. What a
fuss we make about this little bit of q
world, its existence only short time
between two spasms, the paroxysm by
which it was hurled from chaos into
order, and the paroxysm of its demoli-
ton.
And / am glad that so many texts
call us to look off to other worlds, many
! of them larger and grander and more
Respondent Look there" says Job.
''at Nazareth and Arcturus and his
sons" Look there" says st. John,
''at the moon under Christs fectp
look there" says Joshua, ''at
the sun standing still above Gibeonl'
"Looi there" says Moses, ''at
the sparkling ARMAMENT Look
there" says Amos, the herdsman, lat
the seven stars and Oriopr' Don't let
us be so sad about those who shove off
from this world under Christly pilotage.
Don't let us be so agitated about our
own going off this little barge or sloop
or canal-boat of world to get on some
SGrpot Ea Starp: IF tho ba,yope no,,'t
let us persist in wanting to stay in this
barn, this shed, this clubhouse Of
world, when all the Kings palaces al
ready occupied by many of our best
friends are swinging wide open their
gates to let us in.
When read, SIN my Fathers house
are many mansions" / do not know
but that each world is room, and as
many rooms as there are worlds, stellar
stairs, stellar galleries, stellar hall
ways, stellar windows, stellar domes.
How our departed friends must pity
us shut up in these cramped apart
ments, tired if we walk fifteen miles,
when they some morning, by one stroke
of wing, can make circuit of the whole
stellar system and be back in time for
mathis. Perhaps yonder twinlSling
constellation is the residence of the
martyrs: that group of twelve lumi-
naries is the celestial home of the
Apostles. Perhaps that steep of light
is the dwelling-place of angels che
rubic, seraphic, archangelic. A mansion
with as many rooms as worlds, and all
their windows illuminated for festivity.
! had studied it before, but the Cathe-
dral of Cologne, Germany, never i'm
pressed me as it did the last time saw
it. 1t is admittedly the grandest
Gothic structure in the world, its
foundation LAID in 1913, only eight or
nine years ago completed. More than
600 years in building. All Europe
taxed for its construction. Its chapel
of the Magiwith precious stones enough
to purchase a kingdom. Its chapel of
st. Agnes with masterpieces of paint
ing. Inspire springing 5ll feet into the
heavens. Its stained glass the chorus of
all rich colors. Statues encircling the
pillars and encircling all. Statues
above statues, until sculpture can do
no more, but faints and falls back |
against carved stalls and down on pave !
mcnts over which the kings and !
queens of the earth have walked to !
confession. Nave and aisles and tran
sept and portals combining the |
splendor of sunrise. Interlaced, inter !!
foliated, intcrcoumned grandeur. As |
/ stood outside, looking at the double |
range of flying buttresses and the for
est of pinnacles, higher and higher and |
higher, until almost reeled from dizzi- |
ness, | exclaimed Great doXology in |
stone! Frozen prayer of many ma.
tions."
But while standing there / saw a
poor man enter and put down his pack |
and kneel beside his burden on the hard |
floor of that cathedral. And tears Of |
deep emotion came into my eyes, as l !
said to myself: There is a soul worth |
more than all the material surround !
ings. That man will live after the last !
pinnacle has fallen, and not one stone |
of all that cathedral glory shall re-
main uncrumbled. lie is now Lag
arus in rags and poverty and weari-
ness, but immortal, and a son of |
the Lord God Almighty; and the prayer |
he now offers, though amid many sup
erstitions, / believe God will hear; and |
among the apostles whose sculptured /
forms stand in the surrounding inches |
he will at last be lifted, and into the |
presence of that Christ whose suffer.
ings are represented by the crucifix be-
fore which he bows; and be raised in |
due time out of all his poverties into
the glorious home built for him and |
built for us by Him who maketh the |
Seven Stars and Orion"