Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-02-05

. NrfLllE VIZ " AAAnN WIS II lANn NAAAtN. 49,
seem just now to have been filed, and the
attending angel said. 1.-THE week o. prayer
| all around the earih has Just closrd. aud
more applications haze been made than
have been made FOR long while and these
new walls. newly set up are what the h'bie
speaks Of as golden Walls full Of odors,
which arethe prayers OF shlnts ANA
| said to the accompanying angel, Gan u
he possible that the prayers OF earth are
worthy Of being kept In such heavenly
thapei" why said the sngsl, there "a
| nothing that 80 moves heaven A. the pray
ers OF earth. and they are set up in sight Of
these infinite multltudes and, moro than
all. In the night Of Christ. and he cannot
forget them, and they are before MIN world
without end "
NETTING rHE SAINTS.
Then we came ont. 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 thr0ngs coming aud go-
ing from the great temple And We passed
through street called Martyr place and
we met there or saw sitting atthe windows
the souls ofthose who on caTth went through
IRE and food and under sword and rack. We
saw John wickln, whtse ashes were by
decree Of the council Of Constance thrown
into the river; aud Rogers who bathed his
hands In the firo ns though IL Ind been wa
ter, and Bishop Hooper and MckUl aud
LBtimer and Ridley and P0lycarp, whom
the d. mes refused TO destroy Ms they bent
outward ill a spear did the work, and SONS
Of tho Albigenscs and Hugueuots aud CON
sscrsted Quikers who were slain for their
religion. They had on them many scars,
but their scars were Illuminated and thfy
Ind on their faces a look o. especial tri'
umph.
Then we passed along Song row, and wa
mot some Of the old gospel singers. Tint
"a Isaac Watts said my attendant. ~
We came up 20 him ho asked me II tho
churches on e0rth were still singing the
hymns he composed NJ the houir of Lord
aud Lady Abney. 70 whom he prid visit
Of 81 years. and ] told him that many Of
the churches opened their Sabbath morning
services with his old hymn, Welcome,
Sweet Day OF Rest" and celebrated their
gospel triumphs with bis hymn, SALIVA
ton, o the joyful songl and often reused
their deyotlons by his hymn, Come We
That Love the Lord
While we were talking he introduced me
to another ni the song writer's aud said,
This is Charles Wesley, who belonged on
earth 10 different church FROM mine, but
W n nv AAll INV NllNl NflH Nl Wv lAl
the temple Of God aud the Lamb" And I
told Charles Wesley that almost every
Sabbath we sang one Of his old hymns,
Arm Of the Lord Awaken or Come, Let
Us Join Our Friends Above, or Love Dl-
vine. An Love ENcclling' And while We
were ulting on that street called Song row
Kirk White, the oonsnmptive college sta
dent, now everlastiugly we'll, cHmc up, and
We talked over his old Christmas hymu,
when Murshalcd on the Nightly Plain
And william Cowper came up now en-
tirely recovered from his religious molHn-
oholy and not looking as II he had ever In
dementi1 attempted suicide, and we talked
over the wide earthly celebrity and heavenly
power Of his old hymns. when Can Read
Ny Title Clear aud There Is Fountain
Filled With Blood.
\ HEALrIl ~ HEAVEN.
\And there we net George w. rethunc OF
wNdrous Brooklyn pastoratc, aud told
him\ how his comforting hymn had been
sung y. obseQues all around the world
! ut Ia NJ Death to Die" And Toplpdy
came upSnd asked about whether the
church wnN still making use Of his old
hymn, 'RucNt Ages, Cleft For Me" And
we met also " Song row Newton and
Hastings and Montgomery and Horatiu
iaNlAhli hHn VIZ hNfNl ANhANANk lANAl NlNAhN
to window snatehesNt theold hymns which
they started on eartNnd started never 10
die
But" say some OF mn hcurers, ibid you
see anything Of our friNds ia hcavcnW
Oh. yes, / did. Did YOU'VE my children
thorep says some one, "aud\re there any
marks OF their last siokne\ still upon
thsmr' did soc them, but t\re was no
pallor no cough, no fever, no HYDROCARBONS
them. They arc all well and rNldy aud
Aongful aud bounding with etcrna\mirth.
They told me 10 give their love TO yoA that
! they thought Of you hour by hour and that
when they could be excused from the hcav.
tnly Fairgrounds thsy came down aud hov.
1 cred over you, and Kissed your cheek aud
| filed your dreams with their glad faces,
mud that they would be nt thcEnt to greed
| you When you assembled to be with them
| forever
| But, - say other voices "dd you see our
| gloriHed iriendsfn Yes, | saw them, and
| they arc VOL In the land across which no
I pncumonias or palsea or dropsies or ty.
/ phoids ever sweep. The aroma blows over
from orchards with trees bearing ~ man.
! ncr Of fruits, aud gsrdena compared with
which ChgtSwouh IN desert. Tho climate
| IL mingllpg Of an earthly june aud Oot5.
/ DER the palm or the one and the tonic Of
the other. The social life in that realm
where they are ia superb and perfect. 10
controversies or jealouslcs or hates, but
| love, universal love, everlasting love. Aud
! they told me to tell you not TO weep for
them, fur their happiness knows no bound,
and II ~ only u question OF time when YOU
shall reign with uem In the same palnes
and join with them In the same explorn.
tlon OF planets and the same tour Of worlds.
Hut yonder IA this assembly is an mn.
I turned face that seems to ask how about
tho ayes Of those IN heaven DO my de.
I parted children remain children, or have
/ they lost their childish uvaoityf 10 my
departed parcns remain aged, or have they
lost the venerable OUT OF their unturef"
/ Well, from what ! saw think childhood
had advanced 10 full maturity OF faculty,
retaining an the residence OF uhildhood
and that tho aged had retreated To nidiifr.
freed from all deeadoncc, but still retaining
the charm OF the venerable, In other
words, it WAS fully developed aud complies
life OF all souls, whether young or old
Glonlous UuT
Some one says, "Will you tell us what
most impressed you IN heavcum will |
WAS most impressed with the reversal Of
earthly conditions. ! knew OF course thas
there would be differences OF attire and rcsi.
dcnoe in heaven for Paul had declared long
ago that souls would then diner "as ono
/ star ditfereth from another as Mars from,