The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-06-23

firm that they will never again D,
broken? Is that Mary? Is that John;
Is that my loved one put away into
darkness? Can it be that these are
the faces of those who Law SO wan and
emaciated in the back room on that
awful night dying? Oh, how radian,
| they arel Look at theml How radiant
| they are!
"Why, how unlike this place is from
what thought when left the world
below. Ministers drew pictures of this
land, but how tame compared with the
reality! They told me on earth that
death was sunset No, no! 1t is sun
rise. Glorious sunrise! see the light
now purpling the hills, and the clouds
afame with the coming day."
Then the gates of Heaven will be
opened, and the entranced soul, with
the acuteness and the power of the ce-
lestial vision, will look ten thousands
of miles down upon the hammered pro-
cession-a river of shimmering splendor
and will cry out: "Who are they?"
And the angel of God, standing close
by, will say: Don't you lsnow who
they are?" "No," says the entranced
soul, 81 cannot guess who they are"
The angel will say: 81 will tell you,
then, who they are. These are they
who come out of great tribulation, or
threshing, and had their robes washed
and made white in the blood of the
Lamb"
Oh! that could administer some of
these drops of celestial anodyne to
those nervous and excited souls. If
you would take enough of it it would
cure all your pangs The thought that
you are going to get through with this
after a while, all this sorrow and all
this trouble. We shall have a great
many grand days in Heaven, but l will
tell you which will be the grandest day
of all the million ages of Heaven. You
say: Are you sure you can tell me?"
Yes, can. 1t will be the day we get
there. Some say Heaven is growing
more glorious. l suppose it is; but do
not care much about that. Heaven now
is good enough for me.
History has no more gratulatory scene
than the breaking in of the English
army upon Lucknow, India. A few
weeks before a massacre had occurred
at Cawnpore and 26O women and chill
dren 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
a well. As the English army came into
Cawnpore they went into the room, |
and, oh. what a horrid scene. Sword !
on the wall near the floor, I
showing that the poor things had .
when they died; and they also /
saw that the floor was ankle deep in /
blood. The soldiers walked on their ,
heels across it, lest their shoes be SUBJ
merged of the carnage. And on that ,
floor of blood there were flowing 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
N pain and starvation, but waiting he
one day, Havelock and
)utram and Norman and Sir David
Beard and Peel. the heroes of the En-
ylish army, broke in on that horrid
scene: and while yet the guns were
and while cheers were issuing
rom the starving, dying people on
he one side and from the travel-worn
md powder blacl1ened soldiers on the
,ther-right there, in front of the
ling's palace, there was such a scene
If handshaking and embracing and
)oisterous JOY as would utterly con-
ound the pen of the poet and the PEN
Ill of the painter. And no wonder,
when these emanciated women. who
lad suffered so heroically for Christ's +.
axe, marched out from their incarcera-
ion, one wounded English soldier got ,
p in his fatigue and wounds and ,
brew his cap up and shouted, three {
heers, my boys, for the brave women 4;
Oh! that was an exciting scene. But
gladder and more triumphant scene {
vii it be when YOU come up into Heav-
n from the conflicts and dincarcerations ,
( this world, streaming with the ,
rounds of battle and wan with hunger; {
nd while the hosts of God are cheer
1g their great hosanna you will strike c
ands of congratulation and eter- a
al deliverance in the presence c
the throne. On that night there Y
ill be bonfires on every hill of Heaven, c
nd there will be illumination in every i
alace, and there will be a candle in Y
very window-ah. no; forget, for a
ct; they will have no need of the cam n
lie or of the sun. for the Lord God Y
iveth them light. and they shall reign g
'rever and ever Hail! hall sons and t
aughters of the Lord God Almighty. |.
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