The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-05

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even in the city directory of the New Je-
rusalem. The fact is, that | suspected
some of them had not got there at all.
Many who had ten talents were living on
the back streets of heaven, while many
with one talent had residence fronting on
/ the Kings Park and back lawn Stop
ing TO the River Clear as Crystal, and the
highest nobility of heaven were guests at
their table, ana often the white horse Of
him who hath the moon under his feet"
+ champed its bit at their doorway. In
finite capsize of earthly conditions All
social life in heaven graded according TO
earthly struggle and usefulness as pro-
portioned to talents given!
AS / walked through those streets l
appreciated for the first time what Paul
said to Timothy IF we suffer, we shall
also reign with him" 1t surprised me
/ beyond description that all the great of
/ heaven were great sufferers. Not alll"
/ Yes, all. Moses, him of the Red Sea, a
| great sufferer. David. him of Absalom's
unhlial behavior and Ahithopel's be-
travail and a nations reinforcement,
great sufferer. Ezekiel, him of the cap
tiviJy, who had the dream on the banks
OF the Chebar, a great sufferer. Paul,
| him OF the diseased eyes, and the Medi-
| terranean shipwreck, and the Mars Hill
derision, and the Mamertine endungeon-
ment, and the whipped back and the
headsman's ak on the road to Ostia,
q great sufferer. Yea, all the
apostles after lives Of suffering died
by violence, beaten to death with full
ler's club, or dragged to death by mobs,
or from the thrust of sword, or by eX-
posture on barren island, or by decapita
tion. All the high up in heaven great
sufferers and women more than men,
kelicitas, and ST. Cecilia, and st. Agnes,
and St. Agatha, and St. Lucia, and
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| neigh borhood, queens of the needle, and
the broom, and the scrubbing brush, and
the wash-tub, and the dairy, rewarded
| according to how well they did their
| work whether to set a tea-table or govern
a ma, On, whether empress or milk maid.
| | could not get over it 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
greatestfa 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 persons so radiant in countenance and
apparel had to shade my eyes with both
| hands because l could not endure the lus.
ter and | said: Angel do tell me who
| they are}" and the answer was: "These
are they who came out of great tribUla-
tion and had their robes washed and
made white in the blood of the lamb"
My walk through the city explained
! thousand things on earth that had been
to me inexplica ole. When | 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 equalized it all at last excess
of enchantment in heaven has more than
made up for the deficits on earth
| But, l said to my angelic escort, II
! must go now. 1t is Sabbath morning on
| earth and l must preach to-day and be in
my pulpit by half past ten o'clock Good
| BY" l said to the attending angel
Thanks for what you have shown me. l
| know | have seen only in part, but l hope
| to return again, through the atoning
| mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ. Good
by"
Then passed on amid chariots of saliva
| tion, and along by conquerors' thrones,
and amid pillared majesties, and by win
dows of agate, and under arches that had
been nosted for returned victors. And
| as ] came toward the walls with the
gates, he walls flashed upon me with
emeralds, and sapphires and chrysoprases
| and amethYsts, until trembled Under the
] glory, and then heard bolt shove, and
q latch lift, and gate swing, and they
were all of pearl, and passed out loaded
| with rapJures, and down by worlds lower
and lower, and lower still, until l came
| within sight of the city of my earthly
residence, and until through the window
| of my earthly home the sun poured so
| strong upon my pillow that my eyelids
| felt il, and in bewilderment as to where
was, and what had seen, l awoke.,
Reflection the first: The superiority of
| our heaven to all other heavens. The
! Scapdinavian heaven: The departed are
| in everlasting battle, except as restored
Of
| out OF the skulls of their enemies. The
! Moslem heaven as described by the
| Moran: 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 noun
tain, on the top of which is paradise
| The Iasmanian's heaven A spear is
| placed by the dead, that they may have
something 10 fight with, and after awhile
they go into long chase for game of all
| sorts. The TahiJian's heaven: The de-
| parted are eaten up of the gods. The
native African heaven: A land of shadows,
and in speaking of the departed
| they say, all is done forever. The
American aborigine's heaven: Happy
| hunting grounds, to which the soul goes
on bridge of snake The philosophers
heaven Made out Of a 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 dream in this dis
course, 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. scandinavian
| heaven, Slav's heaven, Tasmaniau
heaven, Tahitian heaven, African heaven,
| aborIgines' heaven, scattered into tame
ness and disgust by a glimpse of Saint
Johns heaven, of Paurs heaven, of
| Christ's heaven, of your heaven, of my
heaven.
Reflection the second: You had better
take patiently and cheerfully all pangs,
affronts, hardships, prosecutions and
trials of earth since if rightly born they
insure hea1 emily payments of ecstacy
| Every twinge of physical distress. every
lie told about you, every earthly sub
traction if meekly borne, will be heav-
emily addition. If you want to amount to
! anything in heaven, and to move in its
| best society you must be perfected
! through suffering" The only earthly
currency worth anything at the gate of
! heaven is the silver OF tears. At the top
| Of all heaven sits the greatest sunerer,
/ Christ Of the bethlehem caravansary and
/ of Pilates Over and Ierminer, and of the
! Calvarean assassination.
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