The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1892-09-24

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b the sunshine that Ills my soul! fsha
. soon be gone, for surely no one ca
3 live in this world after such glories q
e God has manifested to my soul"
What did the dying Faneway say
Il can rs easily die as close my eyes q
turn my head in sleep. Before FEY
hours have passed shall stand o.
Mount Zion with the one hundred an
: forty and four thousand, and with tn
: Just men made perfect and we shall
ascribe riches and honor, and glory
and majesty. and dominion unto 60,
and the Lamb" DIR. Taylor, con
demned to burn at the stake, on tn,
I way thither, broke away from tn,
! guardsmen, and went bounding and leap
ing and jumping toward the fire, GLAD
to go to Jesus and to die for Hin. Sin
Charles Hare. in last moment, had such
rapturons vision that he cried: up
ward. upward, upwardr' And % great
was the peace of one of Christ's dis
ciples that he put his fingers upon the
pulse in his wrist and counted IL and
observed it; and 50 great was his rla-
cidity that after awhile he said:
stopped, "and his life had ended here 70
begin in Heaven. But grander than that
was the testimony of the WORKOUT frat
missionary, when, IN the Mamartine
dungeon, he cried: II am now ready to
be offered, and the time of my depar-
ture is at hand; have fought the good
fight. / have finished my course, 1
have kept the faith; henceforth there is
laid up for me crown Of righteousness
which the Lord. the righteous Judge,
will give me in that day, Ind not to me
only, but TO all them that love His ap-
pearingp' Do you not see thai Christ il
above all in dying alterations?
Toward the last hour of our earthly
residence we arc speeding. When SEQ
the sunset I say: ''One day less to live
When see the spring blossoms scat
tered say: Another season gone for
ever" When / close this Bible on Sab
bath night l say: Another Sabbath de-
parted" When bury a friend say:
Another earthly attraction gone for
ever" What nimble feet the years
have! The roebucks and the light
nings run not so fast From decade to
decade, from sky to sky, they 20 ut .
bound There is q place for us, whether
marked or not, where you and l |
Will sleep the last sleep. and the men
are now living who will, with solemn |
tread, carry US to our resting place.
Ay, it is known in Heaven whether our |
departure will be coronation or q
Punishment. Brighter than banquet.
ing hall through which the light feet
OF the dancers go up and down to the
sound Of trumpeters will be the
sepulcher through whose riffs the holy
light of Heaven streameth. God will
watch you. He will send His angels to
guard your slumbering ground, until,
At Christs behest. they shall roll away
the stone.
So, also, Christ is above all in Heaven.
The Bible distinctly says that Christ is
The chief theme of the celestial ascrip-
ton, all the thrones facing His throne,
Ill the palms waved before His face, all
the crowns down at His feet. Cherubim
10 cherubim, seraphim to seraphim, re-
1eemed spirit to redeemed spirit shall
'ecite the Saviour's earthly sacri-
ice.
Stand on some high hill of Heaven.
md in all the radiant sweep the most
glorious object will be Jesus. Myriads
.azing on the scars of His suffering, in
Hence 1T first, afterward breaking
orth into exclamation. The martyrs, |.
III the purer for flame through
which they passed. will say: This
Jesus for whom we died."
he apostles, all the happier for !
be shipwreck and the scourginp a
trough which they went, will saw: s
This is the Jesus whom we preached L
Corinth and at Csppadocia and at !.
Antioch and at Jerusalem" Little v
hildren clad in white will say: "This 6
the Jesus who took us in His arms
nd blessed US, and when the storms !,
the world were too cold and loud. K
rought MS into this beautiful place. y b
he multitudes of the bereft will
~: This rs the Jesus who comforted II
when our heart broke" Many who =
I'd wandered clear OF from God and
unged into vagabondism, but were m
we'd by grace, will say: This is the "
ssus who psrdoned us. We were lost
the mountains, and He brought us
'me.' We were guilty, and He made
white rs snow. Mercy boundless,
ace unparalleled. And then, after -
oh one has .recited his peculiar de-
verances and peculiar mercies, recited til
EN- as by solo, all the voices will como
gether in great chorus, which shall -
AXE the arches echo and re-ocho with
. eternal reverberation of glsdness
I'd peace and triumph.
l. was so anxious to 20 to the
'iy Land that when he was about to
pire he bequeathed one hundred and
Ity thousand dollars to have his heart,
Ter his decease, taken to the HOLY ,
nd in Asia Minor, and his request WI
Is complied with. But there are hun.
Ids to-day whosehearts are already
the Holy Land of Heaven. Where Pc
nr treasures are there are your =,
arts also. John Bunyan, of whom wa
ike ut the beginning of the discourse. ac'
aght glimpse Of that place, and in .
quaint way he said: And / heard in otf
dream, and 10! the bells of the citv BIZ
e again for Joy; and a. they opened
} gates to let In the men looked 40,
after them, and 10! the city shone hS'