The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1892-07-15

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lated host from all ages seems like I
half formed regiment compared will
the great array of the redeemed.
| stood one day at Williamsport, an(
saw on the opposite side Of the Potomac
the forces coming down, regiment after
regiment, and brigade after brigade. L
seemed as though there was no end tx
the procession. But now let me take
the field glass of st. John and look of
upon the hosts of heaven-thousands
upon thousands, ten thousand times ter
thousand, one hundred and forty and
four thousand, and thousands of thou
sands, until put down the field glass
and say, 81 cannot estimate it-a great
multitude that no man can number"
You may tax your imagination and
torture your ingenuity and break down
your powers of calculation in attempt
ing to express the multitudes of the re-
leased from earth and the enraptured of
heaven, and talk of hundreds of hun
dreds of hundreds, of thousands of thou
sands of thousands, of millions of mil
lions of millions, until your head aches
and your heart faints, and exhausted
and overburdened you exclaim, II can
not count them-a great multitude that
no man can number"
But my subject advances, and tells
you of their antecedents, "of all nations
and kindreds and tongues" Some Of
them spoke Scotch, Irish, German, Eng
lish, Italian, Spanish, Tamil, Choctaw,
Burmese. After men have been long in
the land you can tell by their accentua-
ton from what nationality they came,
and suppose in the great throng around
the throne it will not be difficult to tell
from what part of the earth they came.
GATHERED OUT OF ALL NATIONS.
These reaped Sicilian wheat fields and
those picked cotton from the pods.
These under blistering skies gathered
tamarinds and yams Those crossed
the desert on camels, and those glanced
over the snow, drawn by Siberian dogs,
and these MIXED the goats far up on
the Swiss crags. These fought the wal
rus and white bear in regions of ever
lasting snow, and those heard the song
of fiery winged birds in African thick
cts. They were white. They were
black. They were red. They were cop
per color. From all lands. from all ages.
They were plunged into Austrian dun
geons They passed through Spanish
inquisitions. They were confined in
London 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 d constitutional mon
archy. Austria wants absolutism. But
when they come up from earth from
different nationalities they will prefer
one great monarchy-King Jesus ruler
over it. And if that monarchy were dis
banded and it We're submitted to all the
hosts OF heaven who should rule, then
by the unahimous suffrages of all the
redeemed Christ would become the pres
ldent 1T the whole universe. Magma
lharitas, bills of right, houses OF bur-
triumvirates, congresses, parlia-
afeiits - nothing III 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 his
tories, of nationalities, ''of all nations
and kindreds and people and tongues"
My subject advances and tells you OF
the dress of those IN heaven. The OBJ
iect 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 dewdrops hung from tree
branch and mantle of crimson cloud
flung over the shoulder and the violetted
slippers of the grass for her feet-I know
that God does not despise beautiful APP
parel Well, what shall we wear in
heaven? 81 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 it 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
scarf for the arm, black
veil for the face, black gloves for the
hands, black band for the hat. Abra-
nam 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 a heart breaks.
THE RESURRECTION.
The earth from zone to zone and from |
pole to pole is cleft with sepulchral rent,
and the earth can easily afford to bloom |
and blossom when it is so rich with |
life. Graves! graves! gravesl
But when these bereavements have all |
nassed and there, are no more graves to |