The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-02-13

in the head-dresS OF the queenly WiIe On
the finger of the dying man there is ru-
by. The presence of these rubies implies
opuence of all kinds The pictures on the
walls are heirlooms, or the trophies OF
European travel. The curtains are from
foreign looms. The EuSs are from Damas-
Gus or Cairo. The sofas are stuffed with
ease and quietude. The rocking chairs roll
backward and forward on lulabyS. The pill
lows. are eXquisitely embroidered. All the
appointments of the room are peroratlon
to successful commercial or professional
life. But the man has no reigion; never
has had, and never professed to have There
is not a Bible or one religious book in the
room. The departing man feels that his
earthly career is ended, and nothing opens
beyond. Where he will land stepping off
from this life is a mystery or whether he
will land at all. for it may be annihllation:
He has no prayer to offer. and he does not
nan n ow to PRAY noPf o He IS
through with this life and is sure of no
other. The ruby on the mantel and the ruby
on the wasted finger of the departing one
say nothing of the ransoming blood which
they nightly typify So far as giving
solace or illumination to a departing spirit.
they are a dead failure. Midnight of utter
hopelessness drops on all the scene.
Another room of mortal exit. Religion and
no rubies. She never had money enough to
buy one of those eXQuisites. Sometimes she
stopped at a jewelers. show window and
saw row of them ncarnadinnS the vel
vet. She had keen taste enough to appre-
ciate those gems but she never owned one
of them. She was not jealous or unhappy
because others had rubes while she had
nome out SHe ndu IL Tlc0eT treasure, anu
that was the grace of God that had COM
forted her along the way amid bereave-
ments and temptations and prosecutions
and sickness and privatio rs and trials of all
sorts. Now she is going out of life. The
room is bright. not with pictures of statues,
not with upholstery, not with any of the
gems of mountain or of sea, but there is a
strange and vivid glow in the room; not the
light of chandelier, or star, or monday sun,
but something that Outshines all of them
It must be the presence of Supernaturas.
FROM her illumined face ! think she must
hear sweet Voices-voices of departed kin
dfed; voices apostolic and phophetic and
eVangenc, but all of them overpowered by
ne voice Of Christ saying, Come We
pressed OF my rather, inherit the kingdom -
From her ilumined face think
she she mus, must hear rapturous music. Yea
SOLOS uog no mea[ raRturoGs muse now soft
aolo9, now numerous as orchestras; now
q sanity voice alone, now the hundred and
iorty ana four thousand in concert From
ief Illuminated face, | think she must
breathe redOlenCe. Yea she does inhala
aroma from off the gardens whose flowers
never wither, and from the blossoms of
orchards, every tree of which bears twelve
manner of fruit. From her Illuminated
lace, think she must see glorious sight
eS she sees the wall that has Jasper at
the base, and amethyst at the top and
blo9d-red rub'es between, Goodby, sweet
Soul! ny should you longer stay, Your
WORK all DONE your burdens all carried;
your tears all Wept! Forward into the light!
Up INTO the JOY! out into the grandeurs!
And after you have saIuted Christ, and
your kindred, search out him of the palaces
of Lebanon cedar, and tell him that you
thousands of years ago he asserted in this
mornings text: Wisdom is better than
rubes." In those FURNISHED palaces of our
God may we all meet. For | confess to
you that my chief desire for heaven is
not the radiance, or to take the suggestion
of the text, not the rubeScenCe of the scene.
My one idea of heaven is the place TO meet
cid friends, God our best friend, and our
earthly friends already transported. Aye.
to meet the millions whom | have never
seen, but to whom / have administered
in the gospel week by week through jour
nabSm ON both sides of the sea, and with
out ChriStendOm, and through many lands
yet semi-barbarc. For the last twenty
three years every blast of injustice against
me has multiplied my readers all the world
over, and the present malignancy printed
cal struggle after having two great struc-
ures destroyed by lire, and we compelled
to build three large churches-I say the
present outrageous injustice in some quar-
ters, will multiply my audience i'll all lands
if can keep in good humor and not fight
shoulder summer before last on street
of Edinburgh, Scotland, and said, Il live
in the Shetland Islands, North Scotland, ana
| read your sermons every SABBATH to an
audience of neighbOrs, and my brother lives
in Cape Town South Africa, and lie reads
them every Sabbath to an audience OF has
neighbOrs." And | here and now say to the
forty millions Of the earth to whose eyes
these words will come, that one of my
dearest antcpations is to meet them in
heaven. All! that will be better than ru-
bies Coming up from different continents,
sides of the earth to greet each other IN
holy love in the presence of the glorious
Christ who made it possible for us to get
there. our sins all pardoned, our sorrows
all banshed. never to weep, never to part,
never to die! / tell you that will be better
than rubieS. Others may have the crowns,
and the thrones, and the SCeptreS; give US
our old friends back again Christ. the
friend who sticketh closer than Il brother,
and all the kindred who have gone up
from our bereft households, and all our
friends whom we have never yet seen, and
you may have all the rubies. for that will
be better than rubieS.' Instead of the
dying kiss when they looked 50 pale and
wan and sick it will be the kiss of wei
come on lips jubant with. song, while
standing on floors paved with what n eI *
| glory bounded by walls facing us with
what splendor, amid Sadness rolling oyer
us with what dOXOlOgy. Far better,
infinitely better, everlastingly better than
| rubjeS
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