Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-02-09


ing TO how well they did their work,
whether TO set a tea-table o. govern a
nation, whether empress a. milk
maid. / could not get over 1t as in my
dream saw all this, and that some of
the most unknown of earth were the
most famous in heaven, and that many
who seemed the greatest failures of
earth were the greatest successes of
heaven. And as we passed along one
of the grandest boulevards of heaven,
there approached us a group of per-
sons so radiant in countenance and APP
parel had to shade my eyes with both
hands because could not endure the
luster and l said: "Angel! do tell me
who they are" and the answer was:
''These are they who came ous of great
tribulation and had their robes washed
and made white in the blood of the
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My walk through the city explained
a thousand things on earth that had
been TO me ineXplicable. When l 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
cqualized it all at last; excess of en-
chantment in heaven has more than
made up for the deficits on earth"
Put" / said to my angelic escort,
~ must go now. 1t is Sabbath morn
ing on earth and must preach to-day
and be in my pulpit by 1890 o'clock.
Good-by," 1 said to the attending
angel Thanks for what you have
shown me. know l have seen only
in part, but l hope to return again,
through the atoning mercy of our
Lord Jesus Christ. Good-by."
Reflection the first: The superiority
of our heaven to all other heavens.
The Scandinavian heaven: The de-
parted are in everlasting battle ex-
cept as restored after being cut to
pieces, they drink wine out of the
skulls of their enemies The Moslem
heaven as described 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 steep
mountain, on the top of which is para
disc. The Tasmanian's heaven: a
spear is placed by the dead, that they
may have something to fight with,
and after awhile they go into a
long chase for game of all sorts. The
Tahitian's heaven: The departed are
eaten up of the gods. The native Af-
rican heaven: A land of shadows, and
all is done forever. The American
aborigire's heaven: Happy hunting
grounds, to which the soul goes on a
bridge of snake. The philosophers
heaven: Made out Of thick 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 graduate. No mountains to
climb; no chasms to bridge; no night
to illumine; no tears to wipe. Sean
dinavian heaven, Slav heaven, Tas-
manian heaven, Tahitian heaven,
African heaven, aborigines' heaven,
scattered into tamepess and disgust
by glimpse of St. Johns heaven, of
Paups heaven, of Christ's heaven, of
your heaven, of my heaven!
Reflection the second: You had bet
ter take patiently and cheerfully all
pangs, affronts, hardships, persecu-
tions 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 meekIy borne, will be heavenly adj
dition. If you want to amount to any
thing in heaven, and to move in its
best society, you must be perfected
through suffering" The only earthly
currency worth anything at the gate
I of heaven is the silver of tears AT
tie top of all heaven sits the greatest
sufferer, Christ of the Bethlehem cara
vansary ard of Plate Over and Termi-
ner and ofthe Calvarnean assassination.
What he endured, oh. who can telll
To save our souls from death and hell.
Oh, ye of the broken heart, and the
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,
L preached one Sabbath afternoon
in Hyde Park, London, to a
great multitude that no man could
number. But 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 hospital in London he saw
dying man whose face frightened as
he told him that his heart was changed
that afternoon under my sermon in
Hyde Park, and all was bright now at
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