The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-09-29
seas OF glass intershot with sunrise, have

seas OF glass intershot with sunrise, have
with uplifted and downswung baton,
and sounding comets, and waving ban
ners. and heaven capturing doxologies
celebrated him, the story of his lowell
ness, and his might, and his beauty, and
his grandeur az / his grace, and his In
tercession, 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 the lullaby of earth and the transport
OF heaven.
Before the crossing Of time on the
midnight between Dec. 81, 1900, and the
lst of January, 1901, many Of us will be
gone. Some Of you will hear tho clock
strike 10 of one century and an hour
after 1t hear it strike / of another cei,-
fury, but many of you will not that
midnight hear either the stroke of tho
old city clock or of the old timepiece in
the hallway Of the homestead. Seven
years cut wide swath through the
churches and communities and nations.
But those who cross from world to
world before Old Time in this world
crosses that midnight from century TO
century will talk among the thrones Ct
the coming earthly jubilee, and on TIE
river bank and in the house of mary
mansions, until all heaven will know of
the coming Of that celebration, that viii
fill the earthly nations with Joy and
help augment the nations of heaven.
But whether here or there we viii take
part in the music and the banqueting if
we have made the Lord our portion.
Oh, how would like to stand at my
front door some morning or noon or
hight and see the sky part and the blessed
Lord descend in person, not as be will
come in the last judgment, with fire and
hail and earthquake, but in sweet ten
derness to pardon all sin, and heal all
wounds, and wipe away all tears, and
feed all hunger, and right all wrongs,
and illumine all darkness, and break all
bondage, and harmonic all discords.
Some think he will thus come, but about
that coming l make no prophecy, for
am not enough learned in the Scriptures,
as some of my friends are, to announce
very positive opinion.
But this do know, that it would be
well for us to have an international and
an interworld celebration of the ami
versary of his birthday about the time Of
the birth of the new century, and that it
will be wise beyond all others wisdom
for us to take him as our present and
everlasting coadjutor, and if that dar-
ling of earth and heaven will only accept
you and me after all our lifetime of I'M
@orthiness and sin we can never pay
him what We owe, though through all
the eternity to come we had every hour
a new song and every moment a new
ascription of homage and praise, for you
zee we were far cut among the lost sheep
that the gospel hymn so pathetically de.
scribes:
| Out in the desert he heard its cry,
Sick and helpless and ready to die,
| But all through the mountains, thunder
riven,
And up from the rocky steep,
| There rises cry TO the gate of heaven,
| "Rejoice, have found my sheepl"
| And the ang, Is echo round the throne,
| "Rejoice, for the Lord brings back his owns'