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

celebrity and heavenly power OF his old
hymns, "When Can Read Ny Title Clear"
and 'There Is a Fountain Filled With
Blood"
And there we met George ". Bethune Of
wondrous Brooklyn pastorate, and told hirr
u how his comforting hymn had been sung
It obsequies all around the world-''It Is
Not Death TO Die" And Toplady came up
: and asked about whether the church was
still making use Of his old hymn, Crock Of
Ages, Cleft For Ne" And We also met on
song row Newton and Hastings and Mont
gomery and Horatio Bonar. and we heard
loatinG from window to window snatches of
he old hymns which they started on earth
md started never to die.
But, say some OF my hearers, "did You
see anything or our friends in heaven Oh
res, did. Did you see my children there?'
says some one ''Snd are there any marks OF
heir last sickness still upon themY" Ibid
zee them, but there was no pallor, no cough,
no fever, no languOr. about them. They are
| all well and ruddy and songIul and bound
NJ with eternal mirtb. They told me to give
heir love to you, that they thought or Won
10ur by hour. and tnat when tbcv could be
'Zcussi from the heavenly Fairgrounds they
| anne down. and hOverei over You. an
kissed your cheek. and nllei YOUR dream
! With their glad faces. and that they would be
At the gate TO greet you when you asceniei
20 be with them forever.
J But say other voices. "liI You see our
| yloriHed frienast" Yes. I saw them, and
hey are well in the land across which no
'neumonias or rpalsies or dropsies Of typhOids
! sver sweep. The aroma blows over from or
I .haris with trees bearing twelve manner Of
| ruits, and gardens compared with which
! lhatsw0rih is n desert. The climate is a
! nlnging OF an earthly June and October
! he balm Of the one and the tonic OF the
other. The social life in that realm where
| hey are IS superb and perfect. No contro-
| versies or iealouSics or hates, but love, uni
/ rarsal love, everlasting love. And theyto,d
neto tell you not 10 weep for them. fortheir
happiness knows no bound. and it is only
I question Of time when you shall reign with
them in the same palace and Join with them
| Ia the same exploration Of planets and the
same tour OF worlds.
But yonder in this assembly is an M
| turned face that seems to ask how about the
ages OF those in heaven. .'Do my departed
children remain children. or have they lost
their childish vivacityy Do my departed
parents remain aged. or have thew lost the
venerable ont OF their nature?" Well, from
what | saw l think childhood has advanced
% iui! maturity OF faculty, retaining all the
-esii"nes Of childhood, and that the aged
1al retreated TO midlife, freed from all de-
/ 'adencp, but still retaining the charm Of the
'enerahie. In other words it was fully .lc-
,slODed and complete life OF all souls.
EEejher young or Oh.
Some one says. "Will you tell US what most
y L L
most in pressed with the reversal of earthly
conditions l knew. OF course, that there
would be differences OF attire and residence
n heaven, Tor Paul had declared long ago
hat souls would then differ "as one star diff
cred from another" as Mars from Mercury
IS Saturn fromJup.Cer. But at every step in
ny dream in heaven | was amazed to see
hat some wro wore expected to be high in
legven We're low down. anl some who war.
r;par,ed 70 be low down We're high up. You
aOught, for instance. that those born o!
1iOuS pGr'ntaye. and OF naturally gOOt dis
Nosit,On. and of brilliant faculties. and of all
styles OF attractlyeneSs VIII move in the high
1T range of celestial 81 lsnior anI pomp.
No, no. l found the highest thrones, the
brightest cOronets. the richest mansions |
we're occupied by those who had repro |
pate father or bad mother, and who J
Inherited the twisted natures of !
ten generations OF miiscraants, and who ,
had compressed in their body all the de- ,
praved appetites and all evil propensities. !
out they laid hold of Gods arm, they cried !
for especial mercy, they conquered seven :
devils within and seventy devils without AMI |
were washed in the blood of the Lamb, and |
by so much as their contest was terrific and |
awful and proli- their victory was consum- |
mate and resplendent, and they have taken /
places 1mmeasurably higher than those OF 4
good parentaSe, who could hardly help be-
Ing good, because they had ten generations
of preceding piaty to aid them. The steps by ,
which many have mounted TO the highest .
places In heaven were made out OF the era
Hes OF corrupt parentaCa. When l saw that
said TO my attending angel: ''That is fair
that is right. The harder the struggle the
more glorious the reward" :
Then l pointed to one OF the most colon
aaded AMI Eraaily dOmei residences in all
.he city and said. "WnO lives there?' AMI 3
ne answer was, The widow who gave two
mites" And who lives therey" and the
answer was, "The penitent thief 10 whom
Christ said, This day shalt thou be with No /
in Paradise "Ani who lives thare?' !
said, and the answer was. ''The blind beggar
who pravei, Lord that my eyes may be
opened"
Some OF those professors OF religion who
were famous on earth | asked about. but 10
one could tell mo anything concerning then.
Their names were not even in the city dirrp-
.ory o the New Jerusalem. The fact il that
suspected some o. them had not got there at
all. Many who hal ten talents were liv,n, |
on the back streets Of heaven. W lie m4ny :
win one talent hal residences fronting on J
the Kings park. and back lawn sloDiu- to
TN" river clear as crystal, an the highest no.
Jility OF heaven We're guests ut their table
and often the white horse OF Him VINO "harh
the moon under His feet" champei its bit at
their doorway. Infinite capsizs of earthly
conditions! All social life in heaven grade,
lccoriinr to eG-thly struggle AM usefuln ,ss :
rs rroportioned to talents given.
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