The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-06-21
how radiant they arei Look at them How

how radiant they arei Look at them How
"why, how unlike this place is from wha
Thought when I left the world below. Min
isters drew pictures OF this land, but how
tame compared with the reality They tolt
me on earth that death was sunset. No, no
II Is sunrise? Glorious sunrise I see Oh,
light now purpling the hills, and the clouds
flame with the coming day."
Then the gates OF heaven will be opened,
and the entranced SOUL with the acuteness
and power OF the celestial vision, will look
] ten thousands Of miles down upon the ban.
nered procession-a river OF shimmerinp
splendor-and will cry out. "who are they?i.'
And the angel OF God standing close by will
say, Don't you know who they are2" hNo."
says the entranced soul, ~ cannot guess who
they are" The angel will say az will tell
you, then, who they are. These are they
who came out of great tribulation. or
thrashing. and had their robes washed and
| made white In .he blood Of the Lamb"
On, that could administer some OF these
drops of celestial anodyne to those nervous
and excited souls. Ifyou would take enough
OF Il, II would cure all your pangs The
Thought that you are going TO get through
with this after nwhile-all this sorrow and
all this trouble. We shall have great many
grand days In heaven. but I will tell you
which will be the grandest day OF all the mill
lion ages OF heaven. You say. "Are you sure
you can tell meY' Yes cnn II will be the
day we get there. Some say heaven IL grow
ing more glorious. l suppose II is, but do
not care much about that. Heaven now ts
good enough FOR me-
History has no moro gratulatory scene
than the breaking in OF the English army
upon Lucknow, India. few weeks before
massacre had occurred nj Cawnpore and
EGO women and children had been put in
room. Then five professional butchers went
In and slew them. Then the bodies OF the
slain were taken out and thrown into well.
AS the English army came into Cawnpore
they went into the room. and, oh, what
horrid scene! Sword strokes on the wall
near the door. showing that the poor things
had crouched when they died, and they saw
also that the floor was ankle deep in blood.
The soldiers walked on their heels across IL
lest their shoes be submerged of the carnage.
And on that floor OF blood there were flow.
ing locks OF hair and fragments OF dresses.
Out In Lucknow they had heard OF the
massacre, and the women were waiting for
the same awful death, waiting amid anguish
untold, waiting In pain and starvation, but
waiting heroically, when one day Havelock
and Outram and Norman and Sir David
Baird and Peel, the heroes OF the English
nrmy-huzzu for them broke In on that
horrid scene and while yet the guns were
sounding, and while cheers were issuing
from the starving, dying people on the one
SIDE ana from the travel worn and powder
blackened soldiers on the other, right there
in front of the kings palace there was such
scene OF handshaking and embracing and
boisterous joy rs would utterly confound tho
pen of the poet and the pencil of the painter.
And no wonder. when these emaciated
women, who had suffered so heroically for
Christ's sake. marched out from their incar-
cerations one wounded English soldier rot
up in his fatigue and wounds and leaned
against the wall and threw his cap up and
shouted. "Three cheers, my boys, for the
brave womenr'
Oh, that was an exciting scene But n
gladder and more triumphant scene will II
be when you come up into heaven from tho
conflicts and incarcerations of this world,
streaming with the wounds Of battle and won
with hunger And while the hosts OF God
are cheering their great hosanna you will
strike hands Of congratulation and eternal
deliverance in the presence Of the throne. On
that night there will be bontires on every hill
of heaven, and there will bo illumination in
every palace, and there will be candle in
every window. All, no; forget forget.
They will have no need Of the candle or OF
the sun, for the Lord God giveth them light,
and they shall reign forever and ever. Hail,
hail. sons and daughters OF the Lord God
Almighty!