Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-02-21

4 that they may have something to fight with,
and after awhile they go into long chase
for game OF all sorts. The Tahitian's heaven
The departed are eating up of the gods. The
native African heaven, A land of shadows,
and in speaking OF the departed they say all
l is done for ever. The American aboriginal 3
heaven Happy hunting grounds, to which
= the soul goes on bridge of snake. The
philosophers heaven Made out of tn ok
fog or an infinite don't know. But hearken
| 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 characteristics separation
| from all that is vile, absence from all that
\ can discomfort; presence of all that can con-
i gratulate. No mountains to climb no chasms
| to bridge, no night to illumine no tears to
! wipe. Scandinavian heaven, Slay's heaven,
| Tasmanian heaven, Tahitian heaven, African
| heaven, aborigines' heaven, scattered into
| tameness and disgust by a glimpse OF St.
Johns heaven, OF Paups heaven, of Christ )
| heaven, OF your heaven, OF my heaven
Reflection the Second-You had better take
! patiently and cheerTuIly all pangs, affronts,
| hardships, prosecutions and trials of earth.
since, il rightly borne, they insure heavenly
payments of ecstasy. Every twinge of phys
ical distress, every lie told about you, every
earthly subtraction, If meekly borne, will be
| to anything in heaven and to move in its best
society. YOU must be perfected through suf-
| fering." The only earthly currency worth
| anything at the gate OF heaven is the silver
Of tears. 1t the top Of all heaven sits the
greatest sufferer, Christ y. the BethIeher
! carayansary and OF Pilates oyer and term
| iner, and of the Calvarean assassination.
What He endured oh, who can tel.
To save our souls from death and help
Oh, We Of the broken heart, and the disap,
pointed ambition, and the shattered fortune,
and the blighted life, take comfort froE
what saw in my Sabbath morning dean
Reflection the Third and Last-How de-
sirable that we all get there! Start this
moment with prayer and penitence and faith
in Christ, who came from heaven 70 earth
to take US from earth to heaven.
Last summer, year ago, preached one
Sabbath afternoon in Hyde PARK, London, to
great multitude that no man could number
But L heard nothing from it until few
weeks ago, when Rev. Mr.. Cook, who for
twenty-five years has presided over that
Hyde Park outdoor meeting, told me that
last winter, going through a hospital in Lon
den, he saw dying man whose face bright
ened 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 aT well as
that? Heaven as l dreamed about it. and as
1 read about it, i 50 > n IN 4 r. alan yOu can
not any OF you alrori to miss it. o. will it
not betranscendently glorious after the strug-
gle of this life is over to stan il in that etor-
nal safety? Samuel Rurher ord. though they
viciously burned his books and uniu-tiy ar
rested him for treason, wrote Of that celes-
tial spectacle:
The King there in His beauty,
Without n veil, Is seen;
II We're a well spent journey.
Though seven deaths lay between.
The Lamb with His fair army
Doth on Mount Zion stand,
And glory, glory dweleth
In Immanuels land.