Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-06-20
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you so is eternal juvenescence, aged
man, clap your hands at the anticipa-
ton and say, in perfect rapture Of soul,
''The time Of my departure is at haE l."
THAT WONDERFUL WORLD.
| remark again, all those ought to
feel this JOY Of the te-sG who have holy
curiosity to know what is beyond this
earthly terminus. And who has not
any curiosity about it? Paul. suppose,
had the most satisfactory view of
heaven, and he says, 1t doth not yet
appear what we shall be- 1t is like
looking through a broken telescope,
'sNow we see through a glass darkly."
Can you tell me anything about that
heavenly place? You ask me thou
sand questions about it that cannot
answer. | ask you a thousand questions
about it that you cannot answer. And
do you wonder that Paul was so glad
when martyrdon gave him a chance to
| go over and make discoveries in that
blessed country?
| hope some day, by the grace Of God,
to go over and see for myself, but not
now. No well man, no prospered man,
[ think, wants to so now. But the time
will come, | think, when | shall go over.
/ want to see what they do there and |
want to see how they do it. l do not
want to be looking through the gates
ajar forever. [ want them TO swing
wide open. There are ten thousand
things | want xplained-about you
about myself, about the government of
this world, about God, about everything.
We start in plain path of what we
know and in a minute come up against
a high wall Of what we do not know. l
wonder how it looks over there. Some
body tells me it is like Il paved city
paved with gold-and another man tells
me it is like q fountain and it is like a
tree, and it is like q triumphal process
sion, and the next man | meet tells me
it is all figurative. | really want to
| know, after the body is resurrected,
what they wear and what they eat, and
| have an immeasErable curiosity to
know what it is, and how it is and
where it is.
Columbus risked his life to find this
continent, and shall we shudder to go
out on voyage Of discovery which shall
reveal u vaster and more brilliant coun-
try? John Franklin risked his life to
find passage between icebergs, and
shall we dread to find passage to eter-
nal summer? Men in Switzerland travel
up the heights Of the Matterhorn with
alpenstocz and guides and rockets and
ropes, and getting half way up stumble
and fall down in a horrible massacre.
| They just wanted to say they had been
on the tops Of those high peaks. And
shall we fear to go out for the ascent Of
the eternal hills which start thousand
t~%-x 10
peaks of the Alps when in that ascent
there is no peril?
A man doomed to die stepped on the
scaffold and said in joy, Now in ten
minutes | will know the great secret"
One minute after the vital functions
ceased, the little child that died last
night knew more than Jonathan Ed
wards or st. Paul himself before he
died Friends, the exit from this world,
or death, if you please to call it, to the
! Christian is glorious explanation.
WE SHALL SEE EYE TO EYE.
It is demonstration. It is illumina-
ton It is snnburst. 1t is the opening
Of all the windows. 1t is shutting up
the catechism of doubt and the unroll-
ing of all the scrolls of positive and ac-
curate information Instead of stand
ing at the foot of the ladder and looking
up it is sanding at the top Of the ladder
and looking down. It is the last mys-
terry taken out of botany and geology
and astronomy and theology.
Oh, will it not be grand to have al
questions answered? The perpetually
recurring Interrogation point changed
for the mark of exclamation. All rid
dies solved. Who will fear to go out on
| that discovery, when all the questions
are to be decided which we have been
discussing all our lives? Who shall not
clap his hands in the anticipation Of that
blessed country, if it be no better than
through holy curiosity, crying, ''The
time of my departure is at hand?'
[ remark again, we ought to have the
Joy of the text, because, leaving this
world, we move into the best society of
the universe. You see a great crowd
Of people in some street, and you say:
''Who is passing there? What general,
what prince is going up there?" Well, |
see q great throng in heaven. | say:
.sWlfo is the focus of all that admira-
ton? Who is the center Of that glitter
ing company?" 1t is Jesus, the cham
pion of all worlds, the favorite of all
ages.
Do you know what is the first ques-
ton the soul will ask when it comes
through the gate of heaven? think the
first question will be, 'sWhere is Jesus,
the Saviour that pardoned my sin, that
carried my sorrows, that fought my bat
ties, that won my victories?'' Oh, radiant
one! how I would like to see thee! thou
of the manager, but without its humilia-
tons; thou Of the cross, but without its
pangs; thou of the grave, but without
its darkness.
ALIVE WITH JESUS.
The Bible intimates that we will talk