The Red Cloud chief., 1894-02-16

slain. Under the ovorpowering har.
mOny | fell back. i said: Let us 40.
This is too much for mortal ears. can.
not bear the overwhelming symphony"
But | noticed as | was about to turn
away that on the steps of the altar wac
something like the lachyrmal, or tear
bottle, a. had seen it in the earthly
museums, the lachrymals, or tear bottles,
into which tho o~rientals used to weep
their griefs and set them away rs sacred.
But this lachyrmal, or tear bottle, in
stead of e~arthcnwarc, as those the orr
entails used, was lustrous and fiery with
many splendors, and it was towering
and of great capacity. And said to my
attending angel, What is that great
lachrymal, or tear bottle, standing on
tho step Of the altar" and the angel
said: why, don't you know? That Is
the bottle to which David, the psalmist,
referred in this fifty-sixth psalm when
no said, Put thou my tears into thy
bottle 1t is full Of tears from earth
tears Of repentance, tears of bereave-
ment, tears Of Joy, tears Of many CEN
turtles" And then I saw how sacred to
the sympathetic God are earthly sor-
rows.
AS I was coming out Of the temple I
saw all along the pictured walls there
were shelves, and golden walls were
being set up on all those shelves. And
l said: why the setting up Of those
walls at this time? They seem just now
to have been filed" and the attending
angel said, The week of prayer all
around the earth has just closed, and
more applications have been made than
have been made for a long while, and
these new vials, newly set up, are
what the Bible speaks Of as golden
walls full Of odors, which are the
prayers of saints" Aud I said to the
accompanying angel, Can 1t be posi-
bic that the prayers of earth are worthy
of being kept in such heavenly shapeG"
why" said the angel, there is moth
ing that SO move heaven as the prayers
of earth, and they are set up in sight of
these infinite multitudes, and, more
than all, in the sight Of Christ, and no
cannot forget them, and they are before
him world without end"
THE GREAT CHRISTIAN SEEN.
Then we came out, and as the temple
Is always open and come worship at one
hour and others at other hours we
passed down the street amid the throngs
coming to and going from the great tenn
pie. And we passed along through a
street called Martyr place, and we met
there, or saw sitting at the windows,
the souls of those who on earth went
through fire and blood and under sword
and rack. We saw John Wyclif, whose
ashes were by decree of the coun-
Gil of Constance thrown into the river,
and Rogers, who bathed his hands in
the fire as though it had been water,
and Bishop Hooper and McKail and
Latimer and Ridley and Polycarp,
whom the flames refused to destroy as
they bent outward till a spear did the
work, and some Of the Albigenses and
Huguenots and consecrated Quakers
who were slain for their religion. They
had OH them many scars, but their scars
were illumined, and they had on their
faces a look of especial triumph.
Then we passed along Song row, and
we met some Of the old gospel singers.
THAT is Isaac Watts" said my attend
ant. AS we came up to him, he asked
me il the churches on earth were still
singing the hymns he composed at the
house of Lord and Lady Abney, to
whom ho paid a visit of 36 years, and |
told him that many of the churches
opened their Sabbath morning services
with his old hymn, Welcome, Sweet
Day of Rest, and celebrated their Cos
pei triumphS with his hymn, "Salva-
ton, Oh, the Joyful Song!" and often
reused their devotions by his hymn,
Come. We That Love the Lord"
While we were talking he introduced
me to another of the song writers and
said, This is Charles Wesley, who be-
longed on earth to a different church
from mine, but we are all now men,
bers Of the same church, the temple Of
God and tho Lamb" And l told
Charles Wesley that almost every Sab
bath we sang II of his old hymns,"Arm
of the Lord, Awake!" or, Come, Let
Us Join Our Friends Above!" or, Love
Divine, All Love Excelling." And
while we were talking on that street
called Song row Kirk White, the con
sumptive college student, now everlast-
ingly we'll, came up, aud We talked over
his old Christmas hymn, when Mar
shaled on the Nightly Plain" And
William Cowper came up, 10 entirely
recovered from his religious melancholy
and not looking as IL he had aver in de-
mentia attempted suicide, and we talked
over the wide earthly celebrity and
heavenly power of his old hymns,
when / Can Read My Title Clear"
and There Is a Fountain Filled With
Blood"
And there we met George w. Be-
thune of wondrous Brooklyn ~pastorate,
and l told him Of how his comforting
hymn had been sung at ~obsequies all
around tho world-''It Is Not Death to
Die" And Toplady came up and asked
about whether the church was still max
ing use Of his old hymn, Rock Of Ages,
Cleft For Me-. And we met also on Song
row Newton and Hastings and Mont