The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1892-09-23

you 10 De tempted ABOVE that We are
able; but will with the temptation also
make way to escape, that We may be
able to bear it,
o, this Kings highway Trees of life
on either side. bending over until their
branches interlock and drop midway
their fruit and shade. Houses of enter
tainment on either side the road Tor
poor pilgrims Table spread with q
feast of good things, and walls adorned
with apples of gold in pictures ef sill
yer. / start out on this Kings high
way, and find harper, and 1 cay:
what is your name?" The harper
makes no response, but leaves me to
guess, ms, with his eyes toward
Heaven, and his hand upon the
| trem bling strings, this tune comes
ripping on the air: 1.-THE Lord
is my light and my salvation. Whom
shall fear? The Lord is the strength
of my life; of whom shall be afraid?''
go little further on the same road
and meet trumpeter of Heaven, and
say: Haven't you got some music for
a tired Pilgrim" And wiping his lip and
| taking long breath. he puts his mouth
| to the trumpet and pours forth this
strain: ''They shall hunger no more,
neither shall they thirst any more,
neither shall the sun light on them,
nor any heat, for the Lamb which is
in the midst of the throne shall lead
them to living fountains of water, and
God shall wipe away all tears from their
eyes" / go little distance further on
the same road, and meet maiden of
Te, al hoe H. H. ~
cymbals. They look as if they had
rusted from sea spray; and ! say to the
maiden of Israel: Have you no
song for a tired pilgrim2" And
like the clang of victors' shields the
cymbals clap, as Miriam begins to
discourse: ''Sing We to the Lord, for
He hath triumphed gloriously; the
horse and the rider hath He thrown
into the sea-" And'then j see white
robed group. They come bounding To-
ward me, and i say: "Who are they
the happiest and the brightest and the
fairest in all Heaven-who are they?''
And the answer comes: "These are
they who came out of great tribulations
and had their robes washed and made
white with the blood of the Lamb"
Ipursue this subject only one step
,, further. What is the terminus? 1 dc
me on, want to know where it comes
out. My text declares IL: 'oFhe re-
deemed of the Lord come to
Zion" You know What Zion
was. That was the Kings palace.
1t was a mountain fastness. 1t was
impregnable. And so Heaven is the
fastness of the universe. No howitzer
has long enough range to shell those
towers. Let all the batteries of earth
and hell blaze away: they can not break
in those gates. Gibraltar was taken;
Sebastopol was taken; Babylon fell; but
those walls of Heaven shall never sur.
render either to human or Satanic be-
siegement. The Lord God Almighty
is the defense of it. Great capital of
the universal Terminus of the Kings
highway! -
DIR. Dick said that, among other
things, he thought in Heaven we should
study chemistry, and geometry. and
comic sections. Southey thought that
in Heaven he would have the pleasure
of seeing Chaucer and Shakespeare.
Now, DR.. Dick may have his mathemat-
les for all eternity, and Southey his
Shakespeare. Give me Christ and
my old friends that is all the
Heaven want; that Is Heaven
enough for me. o garden of light,
| whose leaves never wither, and whose
fruits never faill o banquet of God,
whose sweetness never pals the taste,
| and whose guests are kings forever! o
city of light, whose walls are saliva
ton, and whose gates are praise! O
palace of rest, where God is the Mon
arch and everlasting ages the length of
His reign! o song louder than the surf
beat of many waters, yet soft as the
whisper of cherubim!
When my last wound is healed, when
the last heart break is ended, when the
last tear of earthly sorrow is wiped
away. and when the redeemed of the
Lord shall come to Zion, then let all the
harpers take down their harps and all
of the trumpeters take down their
trumpets and all across Heaven there
be chorus of morning stars, chorus Of
white-robed victors, chorus of martyrs
from under the throne, chorus of ages,
chorus of worlds, and there be but one
song sung, and but one name spoken,
and but one throne honored-that of
Jesus only.