The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1894-02-09

lives here?" and the answer was: Tho
widow who gave two mites" And
who lives there?' and the answer was:
The penitent thief to whom Christ
said: This day shalt thou be with Me
. in Paradise" '.And who lives there?"
l said, and the answer was: THE blind
beggar who prayed, Lord, that my
eyes may be opened.
/ Some of those professors of religion
who were famous on earth asked about,
but no one could tell me anything con.
corning them Their names were not
even in the City Directory of the New
Jerusalem The fact is that suspect
ed some of them had not got there at
all Many who had ten talents were
living on the back streets of Heaven,
while many with one talent had resi-
dences fronting on the Kings park. AL
social life in Heaven graded according
to earthly struggle and usefulness as
proportioned to talents given!
AS l walked through those streets I
appreciated for the first time what
Paul said to Timothy: IF we suffer,
we shall also reign with him" Ii sur
prised me beyond description that all
the great OF Heaven We're great suffer
erS Not all? Yes all Moses, him
OF the Red sea, great sufferer. David,
him of AbsolOm's unfilial behavior, and
Ahithophefs betrayal and a nations
dethronement, great sufferer. Eze-
KEEL, him Of the captivity. who had
dream on the banks of the Chebar. a
great sufferer. Paul. him of the dis
| eased eyes, and the Mediterranean
shipwreck, and the Mars Hill derision,
and the Mamertine enlargement,
and the whipped back and the heads
mans AK on the road to Ostia, a great
sufferer Yea, all the apostles. after
lives of suffering. died by violence
beaten to death with fuller's club. or
dragged to death by mobs, or from the
thrust of sword, or by exposure on bar
rem island. or by decapitation. All the
high up in Heaven great sufferers,
and women more than men: women
never heard of outside their own neigh
borhOod. queens of the needle. and the
broom, and the scrubbing brush, and
the wash tub, and the dairy. rewarded
according to how well they did their
work whether to set tea table or gov
ern a nation, whether empress or milk
maid.
Then l passed on amid Ihariots of
salvation, and along by conquerors'
thrones, and amid pillared majesties,
and by windows of agate, and under
arches that had been hoisted for re-
turned vietors And as came toward
the walls with gates. the walls flashed
upon me with emeralds. and sapphires
and chrysOprases and amethysts. until
l trembled under the glory, and then l
heard bolt shove, and latch lift,
and gate swing, and l passed out
loaded with raptures, and down by
worlds lower and lower, and lower
still, until came within sight of the
city of my earthly residence, until
through the window of my earthly
home the sun poured so strong upon my
pillows that my eyelids felt it, and in
bewilderment as to where l was and
what l had seen, l awOke.
Reflection the first: The superiority
of our Heaven to all other heavens.
The Scandinavian heaven: The depart.
ed are in everlasting battle, except as
restored after being cut to pieces, they
drink wine out of the skulls of their
enemies. The Moslem heaven as de-
scribed by the Koran: There shall be
hours with large black eyes like 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 fight
with, and after while they &c
into long chase for game OF
all sorts. The Tahitian's heaven:
The departed are eaten ur
of the gods The native African
speaking of the departed they say. all
is done forever. The American alb
origine's heaven Happy hunting
grounds, to which the soul goes on q
bridge of snake. The philosophers
heaven. made out of a thick fog or an
infinite don't know. But harken. and
behold our Heaven, which though
mostly described by figures of speech
in the Bible and by parable of a dream
in this discourse, has for its chief char.
acteristics separation from all that is
vile; absence from all that can dis
presence of all that can
graduate.
Reflection the second: You had bet
ter take patiently and cheerfully all
pangs. affronts, hardships. persecu-
tons and trials of earth. since if rightly
borne they insure heavenly payments
of ecstasy. Every twinge of physical
every lie told about you, every
earthly subtraction if meekly borne,
will be heavenly addition. If you
want to amount to anything in Heaven
and to move in its best society you
must be perfected through suffering"
The only earthly currency worth any.
thing at the gate of Heaven is the sill.
rer of tears At the top all Heaven
sits the greatest sufferer, Christ of the
caravansary, and of Pilates
oyer and terminer, and of the Calvarean