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

saw all along the pictured walls there
were shelves. and golden Walls were be-
ing set up on all those shelves And I
said: why the setting up of those
walls at this time? They seem just now
to have been filled?" And the attend
ing angel said: 1.-The week of prayer
all around the earth has just closed,
and more supplicatio tons have been made
for long while and those new walls.
newly set up. are what the Bible
speaks OF as golden walls Alll Of
odors, which are the prayers of
saints" And l said to the accompany
ing angel: Can it be possible that the
prayers of earth are worthy of being
kept in such heavenly shape?"'"Why,"
said the angel, there is nothing that
so moves Heaven as the prayers of
earth and they are set up in sight of
these infinite multitudes. and, more
than all, in the sight of Christ, and He
cannot forget them. and they are be-
fore Him world without end"
Then We came out, and as the Temple
is always open, and some worship at
| one hour and others at other hours, We
passed down the street amid the
throngs coming to and going from the
| Great Temple. And we passed along
through street called Martyr place,
and we met there. or saw sitting at the
windows, the souls of those who on
earth went through fire and flood, and
under sword and rack. They had on
them many scars but their scars were
illumed, and they had on their faces
look of especial triumph. Then we
passed along Song row, and we met
some of the old gospel singers. That
is Isaac Watts" said my attendant. As
we came up to him he asked me if the
churches on earth were still singing
the hymns he composed at the house of
Lord and Lady Abney, to whom he paid
visit of thirty-six years, and 1 told
him that many of the churches opened
their Sabbath morning with his old
hymy. Welcome, Sweet Day of Rest"
and celebrate their gospel triumphs
with his hymn, Salvation, o the JOY
full Sound" and often reused their de-
votions by his hymn, ''Come We That
Love the Lord"
While we were talking he introduced
me to another of the song writer's and
said: This is Charles Wesley, who
belonged on earth to different church
from mine, but we are all now MEM
bers of the same church, the Temple
of God and the Lamb" And while we
were talking on that street called Song
row. Kirk White. the consumptive col
lege student, now everlastingly well,
came up, and we talked over his old
Christmas hymn. "When Marshaled on
the Nightly Plain" And William
Cowper came up, now entirely recov-
cred from his religious melancholy. and
not looking as il he had ever in demen-
tia attempted suicide, and we talked
over the wide earthly celebrity and
heavenly power of his old hymns,
''When Can Read My Title Clear"
and There Is Fountain Filled with
Blood
But" say some of my hearers, did
Heaven" Oh, yes, l did. Ibid you
see my children there?" says some one,
and are there any marks of their last
sickness still upon them?" did see
them, but there was no pallor, no
cough, no fever, no languor about
them. They are all we'll, and rudy,
and songful, and bounding with eter-
nal mirth.
But" say other voices, did you see
our glorified friends?" Yes, l saw
them. and they are we'll in the land
across which no pneumonias, or palsies
or dropsies or typhoids ever sweep
The aroma blows over from orchards
with trees bearing twelve manner
of fruits. and gardens, compared
with which Chatsworth is desert. |
The climate is mingling of an earthly
June and October. the balm of the one
and the tonic of the other. The social |
life in that realm where they are is |
superb and perfect. No controversies |
versal love, everlasting love.
But yonder in this assembly is an up
turned face that seems to ask how |
about the ages of those in Heaven.
do my departed children remain chill
dren, or have they lost their childish
Do my departed parents re-
main aged, or have they lost the ven
cradle out of their nature?' Well.
from what saw l think childhood had
advanced to full maturity of faculty,
all the residence of child
hood, and that the age had retreated
to mid-life, freed from all the deca-
dence, but still retaining the charm of
the venerable. In other words, it was
fully developed and complete life of all
sou s, whether young or old.
Some one says: will you tell US
what most impressed you in Heaven"
will l was most impressed with the
reversal of earthly conditions knew,
Of course, that there would be differ
ences of attire and residence in Heaven,
Tor Paul had declared long ago that
,ouls would then differ ''as one star
1ihereth from another" But at every
Itep in my dream in Heaven l was
amazed to see that some who were ex-
oected to be high in Heaven were low
Town, and some who were expected
% be low down were high up You
.houDhf for instance that those horn