Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-10-12

Christmas night, You know that IL was
not JOY confined to our world. The
choir above Bethlehem was imported
from another world, and when the star
left its usual sphere to designate the
birthplace, all astronomy felt the
thrill. If there be anything true about
our religion, it is that other worlds
are sympathetic with this world and in
communication with it. The glorified
of Heaven would join in such cele-
bration. The generations that toiled
to have the world for Christ would
take part in such jubilation and pro-
longed assemblage. The upper gal
leries 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 for Him, would take
part in the scene, though to our poor
eyesight they might be invisible. The
old missionaries who died in the ma
larial swamps of Africa. or were struck
down by Egyptian typhus, or were
butchered at Lucknow, or were slain
by Bornesian eannibals. would come
down from their thrones TO rejoice that
at last Christ had been 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"
Aye Aye bethink myself such
vast procedure as that might hasten
our Lords coming. and that the expee-
tation Of many millions of Christians,
who believe in the Second Advent,
might be realized then at the eonjune-
tion of the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries. / do not say it would be,
yet who knows but that our blessed
==1 =Ac-o1 49,, p.eEssS with such
a plan Of worldwide observance, might
say, concerning this wandering and
rebellious planet: THAT world, at last,
shows disposition TO appreciate what
| have done for 1t, and with one wave
of my SCARED hand l viii bless and re-
claim and save it." That such cele-
bration OF our Lords birth. kept up for
DAYS and months. would please all the
good Of earth. aud nightly speed on
the gospel chariot, and please all the
heavens sanity, cherubic, seraphic,
and divine. is beyond ques-
ton. Oh. get ready for the worlds
greatest festivity? Tune your voices
for the worlds greatest anthem, Lift
the arches for the worlds mightiest
procession. Let the advancing stand
ard of the army of years which has in
scribed on one side of it 1000 and on
the other side 1901" have also in
scribcd on it the most charming name
of all the universe-the name of Jesus
Whether this suggestion of worlds
celebration of the nativity be taken or
not. il has allowed me an opportunity
in "A somewhat unusual way of express
ing my love for the great central char
acter of all time and all eternity. lie
is the infinite none-such. The armies
of Heaven drop on their knees before
Him. After Bourdaloue, before over
whelmed audiences. has preached Him,
and Milton. in immortal blank verse
has sung Him, and Michael Angelo has
glorified the ceiling of the Vatican
with His second coming. and martyrs
while girdled and canopied with the
flames of the stake have with burn
ing lips kissed the memory, and
in the hundred and forty and
four thousand of Heaven with
feet on seas of glass intershot with
sunrise, have with uplifted and down
swung baton, and sounding comets,
and waving banners and heaven-cap-
turing doxologies celebrated Him, the
story of His loneliness and His might
and His beauty and His grandeur, and
His grace, and His intercession, and
His sacrifice. aud of His birth and His
Heath will remain untold. BE His name
On our lips while we live, and when we
lie after we have spoken farewell to
father and mother. and wife, and child,
et us speak that Name which is the
lullaby of earth and the transport OF
heaven.
Before the crossing Of time on the
midnight between December ST. 1900:
md the LIST of January. 1901, many of
Us will be gone. Some of you VIII near
the clock strike IL of one century and
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other century. but many of YOU will
not that midnight hear either the
stroke of the city clock or of the old
time-piece in the hallway of the home
stead.
Seven wears cut wide swath through
churches and communities and nations.
But those who cross from world to
world before old time in this world
eros ses that midnight from century to
century will talk among the thrones of
the coming earthly jubilee, and on the
liver bank and in the house of many
mansions. until all Heaven will know
If the coming of that celebration, that
will fill the earthly nations with JOY
and help augment the nations of Heav-
IN. But. whether here or there. we
will take part in the music and the
if we have made the Lord
our portion. oh. how | would like to
stand at my front door some morning
n noon or night and see the sky part
md the blessed Lord descend in person,
not as he viii come in the last judg-
ne mt. with fire and hail and earth
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