Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1893-10-06

world for Christ would take part In suoh
iubilstion and prolonged assemblage
The upper galleries of Gods universe
would applaud the scene, whether We heard
the clap OF their wings and the shout OF their
voices or did not hear them. Prophets who
predicted the Messiah, and apostles who
talked with Him, and martyrs who died Tor
HIN would take part In the scene, though TO
our poor eyesight they might be invisible.
The old missionaries who died In the mAlariAl
swamps OF Africa, or were struck down by
Egyptian typhus, or were butchered at Luck
now, or were slain by Bornesian cannibals
would come down from their thrones to IT.
ioice that at last Christ had boon heard Of,
and so speedily in all nations. At the first
roll OF the first overture Of the first day OF
that meeting all heaven would cry "Hear !
Hear "
Ayel Ayel think myself such vast pro-
cedure as that might hasten our Lords COM
ing, and that the expectation of many mil
lions OF Christians who believe in the second
advent might be realized then at that CON-
junction OF the Nineteenth and Twentieth
Centuries. do not say 1t would be, yet who
knows but that our blessed and adored Mas
ter, pleased with such plan OF worldwide
observance, might say concerning this vans
dering and rebellious planet, "Thst world at
last shows q disposition to appreciate what
have done for it, and with one wave of my
SCARED hend l Will bless and reclaim and
save II"
That such celebration OF our Lords birth,
kept up for days and months, would please
all the good OF earth and nightly speed on
the gospel chariot and please all the heavens,
sanity, cherubic, seraphic archangehc and
divine. is beyond question. oh, get ready
for the worlds greatest festivltyl Tune your
voices for the worlds greatest anthem. Lift
the arches for the worlds mightest process
sion. Let the advancing standard OF the
army OF years, which has inscribed on one
side Of 1t 1900 and on the other side 1901"
have also inscribed on II the most charming
name OF all the universe-the name OF Jesus.
Whether this 50 question ola worlds oele-
hration OF the nativity be taken or not, Il
has allowed me an opportunity In some
what unusual way OF expressing my love fol
the great central character of all time and
all eternity. He Is the infinite nonesuch.
The armies OF heaven drop on their knees
before him. After Bourdaloue, before over
whelmed audiences, has preached Him, and
Milton In immortal blank verso has sung
Him, and Michael Angelo has glorified tia
ceiling OF tho Vatican with His second COM
ing, and martyrs while girdled and cano-
pied with the flames OF the stake
have with burning lips kissed his mem.
DRY, and In the hundred and forty and four
thousand" OF heaven with feet on seas OF
glass intershot with SUNRISE have with up
lifted and downswung baton, and sounding
comets, and waving banners. and heaven
capturing doxologies celebrated Him, the
story OF His loneliness, and His might and His
beauty, and His grandeur, and His grace, and
His interccssion, and His sacrifice, and OF His
birth, and His death will remain untold. Be
His name on our lips while We live, and when
we die after we have spoken farewell to father
and mother and wife, and child let US speak
that name which Is tho lullaby OF earth and
the transport OF heaven.
Before tho crossing OF time on the mid
night between December 81, 1900, and the
LIST OF January, 1901. many of US will be
gone. Some ofyou will hear the clock strike
twelve Of one century AMI an hour after u
hear it strike onn Of another century, but
many OF YOU Will not that midnight hear
either tho stroke of old the city clock or OF
the old timepicre in the hallway OF the home
stead. Seven years cut Il wide swath through
the churches and communities and Nations.
But those who cross from world to world
before Old Time in this worli crosses that
midnight from century to century will talk
+ among the thrones OF tho coming earthly
jubilee and on tho river bank and In the
house OF many mansions, until oil heaveu
will know OF the coming OF that celebration,
that will I'LL the earthly Nations with Joy and
help augment the Nations OF heaven. But
whether here or there we will take part In
tho music and tho bauqueting II We have
made tho Lord our portion.
Oh. how | would like to stand at my front
door some morning or noon or night end sea
the sky part AMI the blessed Lord descend In
person, not ~ he will come in the last judy
ment with Are AMI hail and earthquakes. but
In sweet ten !"rneSI 10 pardon all sin, and
heal all wounds, and wipn away all tears,
and feel all hunger, and right all wrongs,
and illumtno all darkness. and break all
bondage. and harmonic all discords. Sons
think he will thus cone, but about that
coming make no prophecy, for l Am mot
enough learned IN tho scriptures, Rs some oil
my frirn Is are. to announce very positive
opinion.
Blu; this DO know. TINT Ii would be well
| for us to have an international and an inter-
world celebration OF the anniversary OF His
birthday about the time OF the birth of the
new century. and that 1t will be wise beyond
| all others wisdom for us to take Him as our
| present and everlasting cOadiutor, and II
that Daring OF earth and heaven will only
accept you and mo- after all our lifetime OF
! unworthness and sin we can never pay Him
what We owe, though through all the eternity
| to com" W. had every hour new song and
| every moment new inscription of homage
aad praise. for you see we were far out
among the lost sheep that the gospel hymn
alphabetically describes
cat in tho dasar. he heard its cry,
S"< ant rlpir an rea iy to die,
l'Ut All ,r1nSI the mountain thunder riven,
An up from the rocky steep,
There rises q cry Ia the gate OF heaven
"krJ .cr, have found my sheep
Apd the angels echo round the throne,
"icJ ice for tho Lord brings back His ownI"