Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-01-06

have plans and projects ON foot that
l want to see completed, but God
knows best, and he has a thousand
better men than to do the work yet
undone. l have hope that, notwith-
standing all my sins and wanderings,
| shall, through the infinite mercy Of
my Saviour. come out at the right
place. have nothing to brag of
by way Of Christian experience; but
two things have learned-my utter
helplessness before God, and the all
abounding grace of the Lord Jesus.
If the text means some of you, my
hearers, do not want you to be
caught unprepared. would like to
have you, either through money you
have laid up, or a life insurance" 4"
be able to leave the world feeling
that your family need not become
paupers. But if you have done your
best and you leave not one dollars
worth of estate, you may confidently
trust the Lord who hath promised to
care for the widow and the father
less. would like TO have your soul
fitted out for eternity, so that if any
morning or noon or evening or night
Of these three hundred and sixty-fve
days death should look in and ask,
Are you readyT" you might with
an outburst of Christian triumph an.
swer, Aye. ayel all readyg'
CHARACTERISTIC LAST WORDS
know not what our last words
may be. Lord Chesterfield prided
himself on his politeness and said in
his last moment, "Give Dayrolles a
chair. DR.. Adam, a dying school
master, said: 1T grows dark. The
boys may dismiss" Lord T.nterden,
supposing himself on the bench of a
courtroom. said in his last moment,
Gentlemen of the jury, you will
now consider your verdict" A dying
play actor said: Drop the curtain.
The farce is played out"
would rather have for my dying
words those of one greater than
Chesterfield or Dr. Adam or Lord
Tenterden: Il am now ready to be
offered and the time of my departure
is at hand. have fought a good
fight, | have finished my course, /
have kept the faith henceforth there
is laid up for me crown of righteous
ness which the Lord. the righteous
Judge, shall give me-"
The sooner the last hour comes the
better if we are fitted for entrance in
the celestial world. There is no
clock in heaven, because it is an
everlasting day yet they keep an ac
count Of the passing years because
they are all the time hearing from
our world. The angels flying through
heaven report how many times the
elrth has turned on its axis, and in
that way the angels can keep diary;
and they say it is almost time now
for father to come up or for mother
to come up.
Some day they see a cohort leaving
heaven and they say, Whittier
bound" and the answer is, ITO bring
up soul from earth" And the ques-
ton is asked, What soul2' And a
family circle in heaven find that it is
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brought up, and they come out to
watch, as on the beach we now watch
for ship that is to bring our friends
home. After awhile the cohort will
heave in sight, flying nearer and
nearer until with a great clang the
gates hoist and with an embrace wild
with the ecstacy of heaven old
friends meet again.
Away with your stiff, formal
heaven | want none of it. Give
me a place of infinite and eternal
sociahty My feet free from the clods
of earth, shall bound the hills with
gladness and break forth in a laugh
of triumph. Aha ahal We weep
now, but then we shall laugh. "Abra-
hams bosom" means that heaven
has open arms TO take us in. Now
we fold our arms over our heart and
tell the world to stand back, as
though our bosom was two barred
gate to keep the world out. Heaven
stands not with folded arms, but with
heart open. II is "Abraham's bosom.
CHILDHOOD IN HEAVEN.
see "A mother and her child meet
ing at the foot of the throne after
some years absence. The child died
twenty years ago, but is a child
yet think the little ones who die
will remain children through all
eternity. II would be no heaven
without the little darlings. lido not
want those that are in heaven to
grow up. We need their infant
voices in the great song. And when
we walk out in the fields of light we
want them to run ahead and clap
their hands and pick out the bright.
est Of the field flowers. Yes, here is
a child and its mother meeting. The
child long in glory, the mother just
arrived.
How changed you are, my dar
ling" says the mother Yes, says
the child, this is such happy place,
and Jesus has taken such care of me,
and heaven is 81 kind, got right
over the fever with which | died.
The skies are 50 fair, mother The
flowers arc 50 sweet, mother The |
temple is so beautiful. mother Come,
take me up in your arms as you used
TO" Oh, | do not know how we shall |
stand the first day In heaven. Do
you not think we viii break down in
the song from oyer delightl once
gave out in church the hymn;
There Is a laad OF parc delight
Where saints Immortal rigu.
ard an anoNd man standing in froDf