Milford chronicle., 1893-05-05

but there comes q test which moro Than
anything else viii show whether he was
God or man. You remember that great
passage which says, I'VE must all appear
before the Judgment seat Of Christ. The
earth will be stunned by a blow that will
make it stagger In midheaven, the stars
will circle like dry leaves Ia ON equinox. the
earth viii unrOll the bodies, aud the sky
will unroll the spirits. and soul and flesh
will come into incorrupdble conjunction.
Day Of smoke and fire and darkness aud
triumph. On one side, piled up in galleries
Of light, the one hundred and forty and
four thousand--yea, the quintlllions-oft the
saved. On tho other side, piled up in gal
leries Of darkness, the frowning the glsr-
ing multitude Of those who rejected God
BEFORE TIE ETERSAL THRONE.
Between these two piled up galleries a
throne, a high throne throne standing on
two FURNISHED pillars-justice, mercy--a
throne so bright you had better hide your
eye lest it be extinguished with excess Of
vision. But 1t IS an empty throne Who
Will come up and take Str VIII your
"Ah, nor' you say. 81 am but child Of
dust. would not daro to climb that
throne" Would Gabriel climb iti He
dare not. Who viii ascend ftf Here comes
above step, height above height, until be
aud faces all nations, and we all see who 1t
is. It is Christ the God, and all earth, and
all heaven, and oil hell kneel, crying. cit
is a GOdl It Is q Godp We must all ap-
pear before the judgment seat of Christ.
Oh, am so glad that it Is a divine being
who comes to pardon all our sins, to com
fort all our sorrows. Sometimes our griefs
are so great they are beyond any human
sympathy, and we want Almighty sympa-
thy. Oh, ye who cried all last night be-
cause Of bereavement or loneliness, want
to tell you it is an omnipotent Christ who
is come.
When the children are in the house and
the mother is dead. the father has to be
more gentle In the home, and he has to take
the Office Of father and mother, and It seems
to me Christ looks out upon your helpless
ness, and he proposes to be father and moth
er to your soul. He comes in the strength
Of the one, in the tenderness of the other,
He says with one breath, "As q father
pitieth his children, 30 the Lord pitieth
them that fear him" and then with the
next breath he says, "As one whom his
mother comforteth, so will I comfort you. -
Do you not feel the hush of the divine lul-
laby9
Oh, put your tired head down on the
heaving bosom Of divine compassion while /
he puts bis arms Ground you and says: 20 (
widowed soul, will be thy God o or
phaned soul, 1 will be thy protector. Do /
not cry.n Then he touches your eyelids (
with his fingers and sweeps his fingers /
down your cheek and wipes away all the (
tesrs Of loneliness and bereavement Oh, /
what a tender and sympathetic God has (
come for usl donot ask you to lay Eold /
Of him. Perhaps you are not strong enough I
for thai. do not ask you to pray. Per I
haps you Gle too bewildered for that. 4
only ask you to let 60 and fall back into /
the arms Of everlasting love
Soon you and will hear the click Of the I
latch of the door Of tho sepulcher StrOhg (
men will take us In their arms and carry US I
down and lay us in the dust, and they can
not bring US back again. / should be scared |
with infinite fright if thought / must stay
In the grave, if even the body were to stay /
in the grave. But Christ viii come with /
glorious iconoclasm and split and grind up
5he rocks and let US all come forth. Tho /
Christ of the mRnger is the Christ Of tho
.hrone