Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1893-06-23
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how radiant they are Look at them, How
radiant they are
''Why, how unlike this place IA from what
Thought when left the world below, Min
| lsters drew pictures OF this land. but how
tame compared with the reality They told
me on earth that death was sunset No. NO I
1t is sunrise2 Glorious sunrise I see the
\ light now purpling the hills, and the clouds
| fame 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 shimmering
splendor-and will cry out. "Who are they2"
And the angel OF God standing close by will
say, Don't you know who they are2" "No,"
says the entranced soul, 81 cannot guess who
they are" The angel will say "I will tell
you, then, who they are. These are they
who came out of great tnbulation, or
thrashing, 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. Ifyou would take enough
OF 1t, 1t would cure all your pangs. The
thought that you are going to get through
with this after awhile-all this sorrow and
all this trouble. We shnll have a great many
grand days in heaven, but l will tell you
which will be the grandest day OF all the mil
lion ages of heaven. You say, "Are you sure
you can tell met' Yes. can. 1t will be the
day we get there. Some say heaven Is grow
ing more glorious. / suppose 1t 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 CGwnpore, and
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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 Cawnporo
they went into the room, and oh, what q
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 II
lest their shoes be submerged OF the carnage.
And on that floor OF blood there were fow-
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
army-huzza for them broke in on that
sounding, and while cheers were issuing
from the starving, dying people on the one
side and from the travel worn and powder
hlackened soldiers on the other, right there
in front OF the kings palace there was such q
scene OF handshaking and embracing and
boisterous Joy as would utterly confound the
pen Of the poet and the pencil OF the painter.
Ard no wonder, when these emaciated
women, who had suffered 30 heroically for
Christ's sake. marched out from their incar-
cerations one wounded English soldier got
up in his fatigue and wounds and leaned
against the wall and threw hts cap up and
shouted, Three cheers, my boys, for the
brave women w
Oh, that was an exciting scene. But q
gladder and more triumphant scene will It
be when you come up into heaven from the
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 congratulstion and eternal
deliverance In the presence OF the throne. On
that night there will be bonfres on every hill
Of heaven, and there will be illumination In
every palace, and there will be candle In
every window. All, no; forget, l 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