The Penn's Grove record., 1895-09-13
NUMBER 8

and then let him drop $50 feet sheer down..
So the world first enahraces the idolaters,
then closes upon them with many tortures,
and then let's them drop forever down. The
highest honor the world could confer was to
make a man Roman emperor, but out OF
sixty-three emperors 1t allowed only six to
die peacefully in their beds.
The dominion of this world over multi
tudes is illustrated by the names Of coins of
many countries. They nave their pieces OF
money which they call sovereigns. crowns
and half crowns, Napoleons and half Ma
p~oleons. Fredericks and double Fredericks
and ducats and lsabellinos, all of which
names mean not so much usefulness as
dominion. The most Of our windows open
toward the exchange, toward the salon OF
fashion, toward the god OF this world. 10
olden times the length of the English ya!t
was fixed by the length of the arm of KiLg
Henry l., and we are apt to measure things
by n variable standard and by the human
arm that in the great crises of life can give
us no help. We need, like Daniel, TO opes
our windows toward God and religion.
But. mark you. that good lion tanner Is nos
sanding at the window, but kneeling while
ne looks out. Most photographs are takeb
of those in standing or sitting posture. 1
now 7amember but one picture of a nah
kneeling, and that was David Livingstone
who In the cause of God and civilization
Baorilced himself, and in the heart Of AtricJ
MS servant AWKWARD. lOuuu MN III INC IONS
by the light of a candle stuck on the top o.
a box. his head in his hands upon the pit,
low and dead on his knees. But here Is Il
great lion tanner living under tho
dash of the light, and his hair
disheveled by the breeze, praying. Tn fact
Is that a man can see farther on his knees
than standing on tiptOe. Jerusalem was about
$50 statute miles from Babylon, and the vast
Arabian desert shifted its sands between
them. Yet through that open window Dam
lei saw Jerusalem, saw all between 1T, saw
beyond, saw time, saw eternity, saw earth
and saw heaven.
Would YOU like 10 see the way through
your sins to pardon, through your troubles
10 comfort, through temptation to rescue,
through dire sickness TO immortal health,
through night to day, through things terres-
tiial to things celestial-you will not see
them till you take Daniels posture, No cap
Of bone to the Joints of the fingers, 40 cap OF
bone to the joints of the elbow. but cap OF
bone to the knees, made so because the God
Of the body was the God of the soul, and
especial provision for those who want TO
pray and physiological structure joins with
spiritual necessity in bidding Us pray and
pray and pray.
In olden time the Earl Of Westmoreland
said he had no need to pray because he had
enough pious tenants on his estate to pray
for him, but all the prayers Of the church
universal amount to nothing unless, ike
Daniel, we pray for ourselves. o men and
women, bounded on one side by Shadrach'S
redhot furnace and the other side by de-
vouring lions. learn the secret of courage
and deiiverance by looking at that Baby
.onish window open toward the southwest.
'Oh, +" you say, THAT is the direction OF the
arabian desert Yes, but on the other side
)f the desert is God, is Christ, is Jerusalem,
S heaven.
Homer's HEAVIER was an elysium which he
describes as IL plain at the end Of the earth
Or beneath, with no snow nor rainfall, and
the sun never goes down, and RhadOman-
thus, the iustest of men, rules. Hesiod's
heaven is what he calls me islands of the
blessed, in the midst Of the ocean, three
| times a year blooming with most exquisite
flowers, and the air Is tinted with purple,
| while games and music and horse races oc-
| eupy the time. The scandinavian heaven
was the hall Of Wathalla, where the god
0din gave uuending wine suppers to earthly
heros and heroines. The Mohammedans
| heaven passes its disciples in over the bridge
| Al-Sirat, which Is finer than Il hair and
sharper than n sword, and then they are let
loose into a riot of everlasting sansuality.
The American aboriginHs look forward to
a heaven of illimitable hunting ground,
| partridge and deer and wild duck more than
plentiful, and the hounds never OF the scent,
and the guns never missing fire. But the
geographer has followed the earth round
| and found no Humer's elysium. Voya-
| gers have traversed the deep In all diree-
ions and found no Hesiod's islands of
the blessed. The Mohammedan's celes-
tiai debauchery and the Indians eternal
hunting ground for vast multitudes
have no charm. But here rolls In the Bible
heaven. No more sea-that Is. no wide sep
R~ratiOn. No more night-that Is, no inson-
| MIA. No more tears-that is, no more heart
! break. No more pain-that is, dismissal OF
lancet and bitter draft and miasma and ban
ishment of neuralgias and catalepsies and
constructions. All colors in the wall except
gloomy black. All the music in the major
key because ce!ebrative and i%ubilant.
River crystalline, gate crystalline ana
IkieS crystalline because everything IS clear
! and without doubt. White robes. and that
means sinlssness. Viajs full of odors, and
that means pure r~egalement of the senses.
Rainbow, and that means the storm is over.
Marriage supper, and that means gladdest
iestiyity. Twelve manner OF fruits, aud that
means luscious ana amending variety.
Harp, ttrumpet, grand march, anthem,
amen and halieluiuh in the same crches-
ira. Choral meeting solo, and overture
meeting a~ntiphon. and strophe joining dithy-
ramb, as they roll into the ocean OF doXolo-
Ries. And you and | have all that, and have
It forever through Christ five will let Him
with the blood of one wounded hand rub
out our sin, and with the other wounl led
hand swing open the shining portals.
Day and night keep our window open to-
ward that Jerusalem. Sing about it. Pray
about 1t. Think about it. Talk about 1t.
Dream about it. Do not be tnconsolabie
about your friends who have gone into it.
Do not worry if something in your heart in
dicates that you are not far of from Its
ecstasies. Do not think that when a Chris
tian dies he stops, for he goes on.
An ingenious man has taken the heavenly
furlongs as mentioned In Revelation and has
calculated that there will be in heaven 100
rooms sixteen feet square for each ascending
soul, though this world should lose 100, OOO,-
300 yearly. But all the rooms of heaven will
be ours, for they are family rooms, and as
no room in your house is too good for your
children, so all the rooms Of all the palaces
of the heavenly Jerusalem will be free to
Gods children, and even the ~throneroom
will not be denied, and you may run up tho
steps of the throne, and put your hand on
the side of the throne, and sit down beside
the King according to the promise, 10 MIN
that overcometh will l grant to sit with Nc
In My throne"
But YOU cannot go in except as conquer0r5.
Many years ago the Turks and Christians
were in battle, and the Christians were de-
feated, and with their commander stephen
fed toward a fortress where the mother OF
this commander was staying. When she
saw her son and his army in disgraceful
retreat. she had the gates OF the fortress
rolled shut, and then from the top OF tho
battlement cried out TO her son, "Hou can
not enter here except as conqueror.'
Then Stephen rallied his forces and re-
lumed the battle and gained the day,
10000 driving back 200 900. For those who
are defeated In battle with sin and death
and hell nothing but shame and contempt,
but for those who gain ge victory through
eur Lord Jesus Christ the gates Of tho Now
Jerusalem will hoist, and there shall be an
abundant entrance into the everlasting
kingdom OF our Lord, toward which you d.
we'll to keep your windows open.
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