Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-02-05

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scribed by the Koran: There shall be
Houris with large black eyes Ike pearls
hidden in their Shells" The Slav's
heaven: After death the soul hovers
six weeks about the body, and then
climbs a steep mountain, on the top OF
which is Paradise. The Tasmanian's
heaven: A spear Is placed by the dead,
that they may have something to light
with, and after awhile they go into
long chase for game OF all sorts. The
Tahitian's heaven: The departed are
eaten up Of the gods. The native Afrl-
can heaven: A land OF shadows, and In
speaking of the departed, they say All
is done forever The American aoorlg-
ines heaven: Happy hunting grounds.
to which the soul goes on bridge OF
snakes. The Philosophers heaven;
Made out OF thick fog, or an Infinite
don't-know. But hearken! and behold
our Heaven, which, though mostly de-
scribed by figures of speech in the BIZ
BILE, and by parable Of dream In this
discourse, has for its chief character
istics, separation from
ALL THAT IS VILE;
absence from all that can discomfort;
presence of all that can graduate.
No mountains 10 climb; no chasms to
bridge; no night 10 Hume; no tears to
wipe. Scandinavian heaven. Slav's
heaven, Tasmanlan heaven, Tahitian
heaven, African heaven, aboriglnes'
heaven. scattered into tameness and
disgust by a glimpse OF st. Johns
heaven, OF ST. Paul'S heaven, OF Christ's
heaven, OF your heaven, OF my heaven.
Reflection the second: You had bet
ter take patiently and cheerfully all
pangs, afTronts hsrdShips, prosecutions
and trials OF earth since il rightly oorne
they insure heavenly payment OF
ecstacy. Every twinge OF physical dis
tress, every lie told about you, every
earthly subtraction II meekly borne,
will be heavenly addition. II you want
TO amount TO anything in heaven, and
move 10 its best society you must be
perfected through suffering" The
only earthly currency worth anything
at the gate OF heaven is the silver OF
tears. Az the top of heaven sits the
greatest sufferer. Christ OF the Bethle-
hem caravansary and Of Pilates Oyer
and Terminer, and Of the Calvarean as
sassinatiOn.
What He endured. Oh. WHO can tell?
To save our souls rom ceath and hell
Oh, We OF the broken heart and the dis
appointed ambition, and the shattered
fortune, and the bighted life, take COM
fort from what l saw in my Sabbath
morning dream.
Reflection the third and last: How
desirable that we all get there! Start
this moment with prayer and penitence
aud faith in Christ, who came from
heaven to earth to take US from earth to
heaven. Last summer a year ago
preached one Sabbath afternoon IN
HYDE Park, London, to a great multi
tude that no man could number. But
heard nothing from it until few weeks
ago, whep Rev. Mr. Cook, who for TWEEN
tv.t~0 years has presided over that
Hyde Park out door meeting, told me
that last winter
GOING THROUGH A HOSPITAL
In London he saw a dying man whose
face Frightened as he told him that his
heart was changed that afternoon under
my sermon in Hyde Park, and all was
bright now at his departure from earth
To heaven. Why may not the Lord
bless this as well as that? Heaven as
dreamed about it, and as | read about
it, is so benign realm you cannot any
OF you afford to miss it. Oh, will it not
be transcendantly glorious after the
struggle of this life is over to stand in
that eternal safety. Samuel Ruther-
ford, though they viciously burned his
books and unjustly arrested him for
treason, wrote of that celestial spec
| tacle:
'The King there in his beauty,
Without a vsil is seen;
II were q well-spent Journey,
Though seven deaths lay between.
The Lamb with his fair army
Doth on Mt. Zion stand,
Aud glory, glory yelleth
In Immanuel'S land