Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1892-03-26

feetl'' ''Look there" says Joshua,
"at the sun standing still above
Gibeonl" sLook there, says Moses,
"at the sparkling firmament" Look
there" says Amos, the hertlsman,
sat the Seven Stars and Orionl" Don't
let us be sad about those who shove
off from this world under Christly
pilotago. Don't let US be SO agitated
about our own going off this little
barge or sloop or canal boat Of
world to get on some Great Eastern
Of the heavens. Don't let lis per.
sist in wanting to stay in this barn,
this shed, this clubhouse Of world,
when all the kings palaces, already
occupied by many Of our best friends,
are swinging wide open their gates
to let us in.
THE HEAVENLY MANSIONS.
When read, "In my Fathers
house are many mansions" do not
know but that each world is a room,
and as many rooms as there are
worlds, stellar stairs, stellar CALLER
les, stellar Railways, stellar windows,
stellar domes. How our departed
friends must pity us shut up in these
cramped apartments, tired if we
walk fifteen miles, when they some
morning, by one stroke of wing, can
make circuit of the whole stellar sys-
tenn and be back in time for mathis
Perhaps yonder twinkling constella-
ton is the residence of the martyrs;
that group of twelve lllminaries is
the celestial home of the Apostles.
Perhaps that steep of Light is the
dwelling place of angels cherubic,
seraphic, archangelic. A mansion
with as many rooms as worlds, and
all their windows Illuminated for fes
tivity.
Oh, how this widens and lifts and
stimulates our expectation How little
it makes the present, and how stu
pendous it makes the futurol How
it consoles us about our pious dead,
who, instead of being boxed up and
under the ground. have the range of
as many rooms as there are worlds,
and welcome everywhere, for it is
the Fathers house, in which. there
are many mansionsl O Lord God
of the Seven Stars and Orion, how
can I endure the transport, the &C.
stacy, of such a visionl / must obey
my text and seek him. l will seek
him. 1 seek him now, for 1 call to
mind that it is not the material uni
verse that is most valuable, but the
spiritual, and that each of US has a!
soul worth more than all the worlds
which the inspireds herdsman saw
from his booth on the hills of Tekoa.
had studied it before, bit the ca
thedral of Cologne, Germany, never
impressed me as it did the last time
saw it. 1t is admittedly the grandest
Gothic structure in the world; its
foundation laid in 124S, only eight or
nine years ago completed. More than
six hundred years in building. All
Europe taxed for its construction. It's
chapel of the Magi with precious
stones enough to purchase king
dom. Its chapel of st. Agnes with
masterpieces of painting Its spire
springing FIVE hundred and eleven
feet into the heavens. Its stained |
glass the chorus of all rich colors.
Statues encircling the pillars and en-
circIng all. Statues above statues
until sculpture can do no more, but
faints and falls back against carved
stalls and down on pavements over
who the kings and queens of the |
earth have walked to confession. |
Nave and aislcs and transept and
portals combining the splendors of
sunrise. Interlaced, interfoliated, |
grandeur. AS stood
looking at the double range |
of flying buttresses and the forest of
pinnacles, higher and higher and
higher, until I almost reeled from
dizziness, I exclaimed: Great dox-
ology in stonel Frozen prayer of
many nations!"
TIE HUMBLE SOUL.
But while standing there I saw a
poor man enter and put down his
pack and kneel beside his burden on
the hard floor of that cathedral. And !
tears of deep emotion came into my
eyes as said to myself: There is a
soul worth more than all the mate
rial surroundings. That man will
live after the last pinnacle has fallen,
and not one stone Of all that cathe-
lral glory shall remain uncrumbled.
He is now Lazarus in rags and pow
srty and WEAKNESS, but immortal,
md a son of the Lord God Al
and the prayer he now
offers, though amid many superst-
tons, believe Cd will hear; and
among the Apostles whose sculp-
tured forms stand in the surrounding
inches he will at last be lifted, and
into the presence of that Christ whose
are represented by the
cruciix before which he bows; and
be raised in due time out Of all his |
poverties into the glorious home built |
for him and built for us by Him
who maketh the Seven Stars and |
Orion >"
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