The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-08-29

MOTH EATEN TREASURES.

AIhCiChbs 4hO ANNoiob Va htaNoh dio
vital and inherent, Just as much Of
heaven as I get into myself here in the
childhood of spirit shall have as the
foundation of the growth and develop
ment Of the manhood Of spirit. There is
only one place Of which we know where
treasures can be laid up in heaven, and
that is on this earth. Lay not up for
yourselves treasures that are earthly"
says the Word, "but lay up for your
selves treasures that are in heaven"
Lay them up here, now, today, then you
will have them in heaven.
A quaint preacher, speaking of treas
ures in heaven, said that woman who
was very selfish gave an old moth eaten
silk dress to poor woman-she said
that it was q very costly dress, but it
was of no use to her now. She felt that
she ought to lay some treasure in heaven.
"Yes," said the quaint preacher, "you
will cut beautiful figure sweeping
through the streets of heaven in that old
moth eaten dress" If we are to have
real treasures in heaven, they will be of
the character and proportion of the
treasures stored up on earth.
AN A DEMOCRAT.
Paul speaks Of crowns being bestowed
rs rewards. What does he mean? The
figure of heaven in Biblical language is
replete with crowns and stars and scep-
ters. Is my reward to be this extrinsic,
judicial crown to be delivered to me with
80 many jewels and SO many stars? | do
not want q crown. l do not believe in
crowns. l am opposed to crowns. lam
democrat-a world democrat.
believe in the people governing, not
In the autocratic, eastern, imperial
idea. Ihave no aspiration to sit on a
throne and wave scepter and feel the
weight of n crown on my brow. But
did not Paul say, 81 have laid up for
me CROWN Yes, he did. Let us read
the whole sentence: 81 have fought a
good fight, l have kept the faith.
Henceforth there is laid up for me q
crown of righteousness" Exactly. A
crown that is the result of righteous
life here in this world.
BRUTAL WAR.
A crown is the symbol of power. 1t
is nothing III itself. 1t is but figure,
it is but word. He who lives this life
of righteousness will be endowed by tho
inherent power of that righteousness.
He will wear the crown of righteous
ness commensurate with the strength of
righteousness developed here The in
habitants Of heaven will therefore be
the righteous, the redeemed. How q
man can live o life Of supreme selfish
ness, though he profess ever so many
religious formulas, and expect heaven
as q reward is a mystery to me. Such
a man does not understand certainly
the alphabet Of Gods revelation to man.
Here is a man who spends his whole
life in the Vaccinations of a brutal COM
mercial system. His whole genius is
given solely to the work of this brutal
war. His ambition in life, the end to-
ward which his life is driven, is TO cor
ner the bread market of a world. The
attainment of this object would mean
poverty and wretchedness and hunger
and cold and misery and starvation to
thousands nthousands, yet he bends
the energy of body and soul to the ac-
Gomplishment of this supreme act of
commercial genius.
CORNER IN CROWNS.
I1t lHlHhS CDTnBTb. he sleeps III COZ
hers. He lives and moves and has his
being in corners. What would that
man do in heaven if you let him in2
There would be corner in harps in
twenty-four hours. It's his nature.
What sort of crown would he wear1
The minute he would see crown he
would conceive the idea of cornering
crowns, and would never be satisfied un-
til he had affected corner in crowns.
His crown must be made of the same
material as the fiber of his life here.
when that which is perfect is come,
then that which is in part shall be done
away" The heaven that we see here
will have swallowed up and destroyed
In the process of its triumphal march all
the imperfection and weakness and in
completeness Of the earth upon which
we now look. Sin shall be no more.
The red foot of war shall never again
press the threshold of the poor. Weak
ness shall be clothed in strength. Pain
shall lice away. Sorrow shall be no
more. Tears shall cease to flow.
THE LOST CHORD.
The chord lost by the bungling hand
Of the musician will be found and reset
in its divine relations. The poem that
flashed through the mind of genius and
was lost before it could be imprisoned
in language will be gathered up and
translated with perfect notes. Cold and
hunger and nakedness and darkness and
death shall be no more. Life shall reign
supreme. Light shall fill the universe.
God has called you and me to be CO.
workers with him in this divine saliva
ton of the world. The lines touch us
at every point--the lines of heaven
drawn into and part of this earth.
May we have eyes to see, ears to hear,
hearts to understand the meaning Of
these duties that press themselves close
upon us today.