The Red Cloud chief., 1892-08-12

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"Come and sit beside me, and let us
talk OF Heaven. ] never knew what
happiness was until I found Christ"
What did dying Hannah More sayp ITO
go 10 Heaven. Think what that isl
To go TO Christ, who died that I might
live! o, glorious grave! o. what q
glorious thing II Is to diel o. the love
Of Christ, the love Of Christi" What
did Mr.. Toplady, the great hymn
maker, say in his last hour? "Who can
measure the depth Of the third Heaven?
o, the sunshine that fills my soul! I
shall oon be gone, for surely no one
can live In this world after such glories
as God has manifested to my soul"
What did the dying Faneway say? ~
can rs easily die as close my eyes or
hours have passed I shall stand on
Mount Zion with the one hundred and
forty and four thousand, and with the
just men made perfect, and we shall as
cribe riches and honor, and glory, and
majesty, and dominion unto God and
the Lamb" DIR. Taylor, condemned to
burn Mt the stake, on his way thither
broke away from the guardsmen and
went bounding and leaping and jump
Ing toward the fire, glad TO go to Jesus
n TO die for Him. Sir Charles Hare,
In his last moment, had such rapturous
vision that he cried: Upward, up
ward, upward!" And so great was
the peace of one of Christ's disciples
that he put his fingers upon the
pulse OF his wrist and counted IL and
observed 1t; and SO great was his plac.
idity that after q while he said:
stopped" and his life had ended here
to begin In Heaven. Bat grandcr
was the testimony Of the worn out first
missionary, when, In the Mamartine
dungeon, he cried: ~ am now ready to
be offered, and the time Of my depart
ure Is at hand; / have fought the good
fight, ! have finished my course, / have
kept the faith; hcnceforth there il laid
up for me n crown of righteousness,
which the Lord, the righteous Judge,
will give me in that day, and not to me
only, but TO all Of them that love His
appearingv' Do you not SEQ that Christ
Is above all in dying allcviations?
Toward the last hour of our earthly
residence we are speeding. When I see
the sunset I say, "One day less to live"
When i see the spring blossoms scat
tered, l say, Another season gone for
ever" When / close this Bible on Sab
bath night l say, Another Sabbath de-
parted" When l bury n friend I say,
Another earthly attraction gone for
ever" What nimblc feet the years
have! The roebucks and the lightnings
,.,,n ,,at a., f..x E..,. l..l.
from sky to sky, they go at a bound.
There is n place for us, whether
marked or not, where you and I
will sleep the last sleep and the men
are now living who will, with solemn
tread, carry US to II resting us. Aye,
1t is known In Heaven whether our de.
parture will be a coronation or a BAN
ishmcnt. Brighter than u banqueting
hall through which the light feet of
the dancers go up and down to the
sound Of trumpetcrs will be the scpul-
cher through whose riffs the holy light
of Heaven streams. God will watch
you. He will send His angels to guard
your slumbering ground until, at
Christ's behest, they shall roll away
the stone.
So also Christ is above all in Heaven.
The Bible distinctly says that Christ
Is the chief theme Of the celestial
inscription, all the thrones facing His
throne, all the palms waved before His
face. all the crowns down at His feet.
Cherubim to chcrubim, scraphim to
scraphim, redeemed spirit to redeemed
spirit shall rccite the Saviour's earthly
sacrifice.
Stand on some high hill OF Heaven,
and in all the radiant sweep the most
glorious object will be Jesus. Myriads
gazing on the sears of his suffering, in
silence first, aftcrward breaking forth
In reclamation. The martyrs, all the
purer for the flame through which they
passed, will say: "This is Jesus for
whom we died" The apostles, all the
happier for the shipwreck and tho
scourging through which they went,
will say: This Is the Jesus whom we
preached ut Corinth, and Mt %Cappadocia,
and Mt Antioch, and Mt Jeru-
SALEM" Little children clad in
white will say: "This Is the Jesus who
took us up in his arms and blessed us,
and when the storms of the world were
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beautiful place" The multitudes Of the
bereft will say: "This is the Jesus who
comforted us when our heart broke"
Many who had wandered clear of from
God and plunged into ~vagabondism, but
were saved by grace, will say: This
is the Jesus who pardoned us. We were
lost on the mountains and he brought
MS home. We were guilty and he
made us white rs snow. Mercy bound
less, grace unparalleled" And then.
after each one had recited his peculiar
deliverences and peculiar mercies, re-
cited them as by solo, all the voices
will come together in n great chorus,
which shall make the arches echo and
re-echo with the eternal rcverberation
of gladness and peace and triumph.
Edward l. was so anxious TO go to the
Holy Land that when he was about ia
expire he bequeathed 800, 900 to have
his heart, after his deceasc, taken to
the Holy Land In Asia Minor, and his
request was complied with. But there