The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-02-09

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.
My walk through the city explained
| a thousand things on earth that had
been to me inexplicable. When / saw
up there the superior delight and the
superior heaven of many who had on
earth had it hard with cancers, and
bankruptcies, and prosecutions, and
trials of all sorts, | said: God has
equalized it all at last; enchantment in
Heaven has more than made up for the
deficits on earth"
Then / passed on amid Chariots 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 victors. And as | came toward
the walls with gates, the walls flashed
upon me with emeralds, and sapphires
and chrysoprases and amethysts, until
| / trembled under the glory, and then |
| heard a bolt shove, and latch lift,
and a gate swing, and 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 | was and
what 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
houris with large black eyes like pearls
| hidden in their shells" The siav's
heaven: After death the soul hyvers
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 tc fight
| into long chase for game of
all sorts. The Tahitian's heaven:
The departed are eaten up
of the gods. The native African
| heaven: A land of shadows, and in
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
bridge of snake The philosophers
heaven, made out of a thick fog or an
| infinite don't know. But harken! and
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mostly described by figures of speech
in the Bible and by parable of dream
| in this discourse, has for it's chief char
| acteristics separation from all that is
vile; absence from all that can dis
comfort; presence of all that can
| graduate.
Reflection the second: You had bet
| ter take patiently and cheerfully all
pangs, affronts, hardships, persecu-
lions and trials of earth, since if rightly
| borne they insure heavenly payments
of ecstasy. Every twinge of physical
distress, 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
yer of tears. At the top all Heaven
sits the greatest sufferer, Christ of the
Bethlehem caravansary, and of Pilates
oyer and terminer, and of the Calvarean
assassination.
What He endured, oh. who can tell?
Oh, We of the broken heart, and che
disappointed ambition, and the shat
tered fortune, and the blighted life,
take comfort from what / 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
and faith in Christ, who came from
Heaven to earth to take us from earth
to Heaven. Last summer, year ago,
preached one Sabbath afternoon in Hyde
park, London, to a great multitude
that no man could number. But i
heard nothing from it until a few
weeks ago, when Rev. Mr.. Cook, who
for twenty-five years has presided over
that outdoor me citing, told me that
last winter going through hospital in
London he saw dying man whose
face frightened as he told him that his
heart was changed that afternoon I'M
der 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 a realm
you cannot any of you afford to miss
it. Oh, will it not be transcendently
glorious after the struggle of this life
| is over to stand in that eternal safety.
| Samuel Rutherford, though they
viciously burned his books and unjust
| ly arrested him for treason, wrote OF
| that celestial spectacle:
Tho Zinc fhara in his heautv
without q veil Is seen:
1t were a well-spent journey,
Though seven deaths lay between
The Limb with His fair army