Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-10-19

tarry here only brief space. We want
somebody to teach us how to get out OF this
life at the right time and in the right way.
Some fall out of life, some go stumbling
out Of life, some go grooming out Of life,
some 20 cursinL out of life. We want to
go singing, rising, rejoicing, triumphing.
We want half the doors of the church set
in that direction. We want half the pray
ers that way, half the sermons that way.
We want TO know how to get ashore from
the tumult of this world into the land of
everlasting peace. We do not want to stand
doubling and shivering when we go away
from this world We want our anticipa-
tions aroused to the highest pitch.
We want to have the exhilaration of II
dying child ip England, the father telling
me the story. When he said to her, as
the path narrow" she answered.: THE
path is narrow 1t is so narrow that |
cannot walk arm in arm with Christ, so
Jesus goes ahead and he says, Mary,
follow" Through these church gates
set heavenward how many of your friends
and mine have gomez The last time
they were out Of the house they came
to church. The earthly pilgrimage end
ed at the pillar OF public worship, and
then they marched out to a bigger and
brighter assembaKe. Some Of them were
so old they could not walk without a cane
or two crutches; now they have eternal
juvenescence. Or they were SO young they
could not walk except as the maternal
hand guided them; now they bound with
the hilartes celestial.
The last time we saw them they were
wasted with malarial or pulmonic disor-
der, but now they have no fatigue and no
difficulty of respiration in the pure air of
heaven. How | wonder when you and |
will cross ovar Some of you have had
about enough of the humping and failing
of this life A draft from the fountains of
heaven would do you good. Complete re-
lease you could stand very we'll. If you
got on the other side and had permission
to come back, You would not come.
Though you were invited to come back
and join your friends on earth, you would
say: NO, let me terry here until they
come. l shall not risk going back. If a
man reaches heaven, he had better stay
here"
TIE PALM BRANCH.
Oh, join hands with you this morning
in that uplifted splendor!
When The shore is won at last,
Who will count the pillows past?
In Freybourg, Switzerland, there is the
trunk of q tree 400 years old. That tree
was planted to commemorate an event.
About 10 miles from the city the Swiss
conquered the Burgundians, and young
man wanted to take the tidings to the city.
He took tree branch and ran with such
speed the 10 miles that when he reached
the city waving the tree branch he had only
strength to cry, "Nictoryr' and dropped
dead The tree branch that he carried was
planted, and it grew to be great tree 20
feet in circumference, and the remains Of it
are there to this day.
My nearer, when you have fought your
last battle with sin and death and hell, and
they have been routed in the conflict, it
will be a JOY worthy of celebration. You
will fly to the city and cry "Nictoryl' and
drop at the feet of tie great King. Then
the palm branch of the earthly race will be
planted to become the outbranching tree
of everlasting rejoicing.
When shall these eyes thy heaven built
walls,
And pearly gates behold,
Thy bulwarks with salvation strong,
And streets Of shining gold?