Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1892-04-09

about those who shove on from this Wort.
under Christlv pilotaRe. on't% US be 81
agitated about our going of this little barg.
or sloop or canal boat Of a world to get on
some Great Eastern Of the heavens. Dom,
let Us persist in wanting to stay in this barn.
this shed, this put OF . world when al,
the Kings palaces already occupied by many
OF our best friends are swinging wide oper
their gates to let Us in.
When [ read. In Nv Fathers house ar,
many mansions / do not know but tha'
each world is a room, and as manr rooms a
there are worlds, stellar stairs, stellar gal
leries, stellar Railways. stellar windows,
stellar domes. How our depart>i friends
must pity Us, shut up In these crampel
apartments. tired IL We walk fifteen miles,
when they some morning. by one stroke OF
wing. can make circuit OF the whole stellar
system and be back ia time for mathis
Perhaps Wonder twinklIDg constellation Is
the residence OF the martyrs. that GROUP OF
twelve luminaries is the celestial home III
the apostles. Perhaps that steeo OF light IS
the dwelling place OF an1eis cherubic- sara
pnlc. a~rcDanZelc. A MANSION with as man>
rooms as worlds. and all their win lows lin
minated for fes.ivit-.
lates our expectations How little It makes
the present and how stupen ious it makes
the future, How Il consoles US about our
pious dead. who, instead Of being boxet up
and under the ground, have the range OF as
many rooms as there are worlds. and wei
come every where. for it is the Fathers
house, in which there are many mansions
Oh, Lord God of the Seven Stars and Orion.
how can l ndure the transport, the ecstasy
Of such q vision. l must obey my text AMI
seek Him. will seek Him I seek Him now
Tor call to mind that 1t Is not the material
universe that is most valuable. but the spir-
itual, and that each o. us has a soul worth
more than all the worlds which the inspired
herdsman saw from his booth on the hills
of Tekoa.
had studied it before. but the Cathedral
of Cologne, Germany, never impressed me-
as it did the last time | saw it. 1t Is ad-
mitted the grandest gothic structure in TT,
world. its foundation laid in l24S. only eigbr
or nine wears ago como!eted, More than siN
hundred years in building. All EuroE
taxed for Its construction. its chapel Of til.
Magi with precious stones enough to pu"-
chase a kingdom. Its clapel OF st. Agne>
with master pieces of painting. Its spirt
springing five hundred ana eleven feet int,
the heavens. Its stained glass the chorus o:
all rich colors. Statues encircling the pillars
and encircling all. Statues above statues un
til sculpture can 90 ~ more, out IalntS an ,
falls back against carved stalls and down on
over which the kings and queen
of the earth have walked to confession. Nave
and aisles and transept and portals combin
ing the spiendors of sunrise. Iuterlaced
interfoliated, ntercolumued grandeur. A
| stood outside looking at the double range
of flying buttresses and the forest OF pima
Giles. higher and higher and higher. until
almost reeled from dizziness. / exclaimed
Great doxology in stone Frozen prayer OF
many nations"
But while standing there i saw a poor mar
enter and put down his PACK and kneel be
side his burden on the hard floor Of tina
cathedral. And tears Of deep emotion CAM
INTO my eyes as | said to myself: There is
soul worth more than all the material sur
roun1ings. That man will live after the las
plliuacIe naS IaAeu. ana nOL tOne otOue vi u.
that cathedral glory shall remain uncrum
bled. He is now a LazarAs in rag
and poverty aud WEAKNESS, but 1mnol
tai and a son Of the Lord Go
Almighty, and the prayer he now OFFER
Though amid many -superstltions,
believe God will hear. aud among the apos
ties whose sculpture 1 forms standin ths SUI
rounding inches he will at last be lifted, an
into the presence OF that Cnrist whoss sui
ferings are represented by the crucifx be
fore which he bows. and be raise1 in du
time out OF all his poverties iuto the gloriou
home built for him and built for us bY"Hin
who makath the Seven Stars and Orion"