The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-03-22

roth and Arcturus and his sons.' "Iook
there. says st: John, lat the moon under
i Chrst's fect!' Look there says
1oshna; "at the sun standing t sun aooa at
the sparkling tirmament!' Look there,
says Amos, the herlsman. Eat the Seven
Stars and Orion" Don't let us be so sad
about those who shove off from this World
under Christ's pilotage. Don't let US be SO
agitated about our own going off this it,
tie barge sloop or canal boat OF word
to get Oh some Great Eastern or the
heavens Don't let US persist in wanting 10
stay in this barn, this shed. this clubhouse
of a world, when all the Kings palaces
already occupied by many of our best
friends are swinging wide open their gates
to let us in.
When | read, en- my Fathers house are
many mansions" | do not know but mat
each world is a ROOM and as many rooms
as there are worlds, stellar stairs. stellar
galleries, stellar Railways. stellar windows,
stellar domes. How our departed friends
must pity us, shut up in these crampeu
apartments, tired il we walk fifteen miless
when they some morning, by one stroke or
the wing, can make a circuit OF the Whole
stellar system and be back in time tor
mathis. Perhaps yonder twinking constel-
laton is the residence of the martyrs; tnat
group of twelve luminoIies is the celestial
of light is the dwelling place OF angels
cherubic, seraphic, archangeic A man,
sion with as many rooms as worlds, and all
their windows illuminated for festiyity:
Oh, how this widens and lifts and stlInu-
lates our expectation! How little it makes
the present, and how stupendous it makes
the future! How it consoles US about our
pious dead who instead OF beng 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 mansions:
Oh, Lord God of the Seven Stars and
Orion, how can l endure the transport the
ecstasy, Of such q vision. l must obey my
text and seek Him. l seek Him now, Tor
[ call to mind that it is not the matenai
universe that is most valuable, but the splr-
.tua, and that each of US has soul worth
more than all the worlds which the inspired
her.lsm;in saw form his booth on the hills
of Tekoa.
of Cologne, Germany, never impressed
me rs ii did the last time | saw it. 1t is
admittedly the grandast Gothic structure
in the world, It's foundations laid in Las,
More than six hundred years in building; all
Europe taxed for its construction; its
chapel Of the Magi with precious stones
enough to purchase kingdom; its chapel
of St Agnes with masterpieces of paint
ing; its spire sprngins OIL feet in the
rich colors; statues encirclng the pillars
and encircling all; statues above statues,
until sculpture can do no more, but faints
and falls back against carved stalls
and down on pavemcntS over which the
kings .Nnd queens of the earth have
walked to confession; nave and aisles and
transept and portals combining the splen-
dor Of sunrise; itAlaced, interfoliatcd, i'll
tercolumned grandeur. AS | stood outside,
locking at the double range of flying but
twcsses and the forest of pinnacles higher
and higher until l almost reeled from dizz!-
ness, | exclaimed: Great doXology in
stone: Frozen prayer of many nations!
But while standing there [ saw a pooc
man enter and put down his pack and
kneel beside his burden on the hard floor
of that cathedral. And tears Of deep emo
ton came into my eyes, as l said to myself:
There is q soul worth more than all the
material surroundings. That man will
live after the last pinnacle has fallen, and
not one stone of all that cathedral glory
shall remain uncrumbled. He is now
n Lazarus in rags and poverty and weari-
ness, but immortal, and q son of the Lord
God Almighty; and the prayer he now of
fcrs, though amid many supcrstitions, l
believe God will hear; and among the apos-
ties whose sculptured forms stand in the
surrounding inches he will at last be lifted
ard into the presence of that Christ whose
suffeiings are represented by the cruciix
before which he bows; and be raised i'll duo
time out Of all his pOyerties into the glori
GUS home built for him and built for US
by "ftm who maketh the Seven Stars and
Orion