Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-03-01

And he writes, "Amazing grace, how
sweet nTS " the soundT' Cowper, what
~ Won think Of Him? And the answer comes,
;sTbere il a fountain filled with blood.
Charles Wesley, what do you think OF him.
And he answers, "Jesus, lover OF my soul.
Horatius Bonar, what do you think OF HIM,
And he responds, IT lay my sins on Jesus
Raw Palmer what do you think al HIM. o., ana :,
he writes. |'My faith looks up TO inee.
Fannie Crosby, what do you thlnk u I'LL ..
And she writes "Blessed assurance, jesus 10
mine" But take higher testimony: 9V ~
mon. what do you think OF Hmm anu AO,,i ;He
answer is, oily OF the valIey; E ona-rar
what do you think OF Him? Ana tne sn' Mo,,
think of Him? And the answer is, MY snepoo
herd" St. John, what do you think OF Hi"'
And the answer is. bright and morning
star" ST. Paul. what do you think OF hi ~, !,
And the answer comes, "Christ is all ID al.
Do YOU think as we'll Of Him, man, v wQo
man of the blood bought immortal sPi it,'o
Yes. Paul was right when he styled IL 0no
glorious gospel" ,,,, o-e
And then as druggist, while you aIe
waiting for him to make up the DOCTOR
prescription, puts into a bottle so many
grains of this, and so many grams Oh Cnts.,
and so many drops Of this, and 30 many
though sour or bitter restores to nealth'
So Christ, the Divine Physician, prepares
this trouble of our lifetime, and that dlsap,
pointment, and this persecution, ana tnaI
hardship, and that tear, and we must take
the intermixture yet though it be Dltte'
draft. Under the divine prescription IL az
ministers to our restoration and spiritual
health, "all things working together 1oI
God" Glorious gospel.
And then the royal castle into which W
step out of this life without so much as sols
ing our foot with the upturned earth OF TBS
grave. "They shall reign forever" Dc,
not that mean that you are, II saved, to os
kings and queens, and do not kings az,
queens have astles2 But the one that yoS
are offered was for thirty-three years an
abandoned castle, though now gloriously in
habited. There is an abandoned royal castle
at Amber, India. One hundred and SEVENTY
years ago a king moved out of 1t never to
return. But the castle still stands in indie
scribable grandeur, and you go through
brazen doorway after brazen doorway:
and carved room after carved room.
and under embellished ceiling az
ter embellished ceiling, and through
halls precious stoned into wider halls prec-
ious stoned, and on that hill are paYilions
deeply dyed and tasseled and arched, the fire
of colored gardens cooled by the snow OF
white architecture; birds in the arabesque So
natural to life that while you cannot hear
their voices you imagine you SEQ the flutteI
of their wings while you are passing walls
pictured with triumphal professions rooms
that were called "Alcove OF Light" and
"Hal of victory;" marble, white and black,
like mixture of morn and night; alabaster,
and mother Of pearl and lacquer work.
Standing before it the eye climbs from step
to latticed balcony, and from lattlced bal
cony to oriel and from oriel to arch, and
from arch to roof and thsn descends on lad
der Of all colors, and by stairs of perfect
lines to tropical gardens OF pomegranate ana
pineapple. Seven stories of resplendent
architecture But the royal castle provided
for you, if you will only take it on the pre-
scribed terms, is grander than all that; and,
though an abandoned castle while Christ was
here, achieving your redemption, is again oc-.
cupied by the "ehief among ten thousand, "
and some Of your own kindred who have
gone up and waiting for you are leaning
from the balcony The windows Of that
castle look off on the Kings gardens where
immortals walk linked in eternal friend
ship, and the banquetng hall OF that castle
has princes and princesses at the table, ana
the wine is ''the new wine Of the kingdom,
and the supper is the marriage supper OF the
Lamb. and there are fountains into which no
tear ever fell. and there is music that trem-
bles with no grief and tho light that falls
upon that scene is never beclouded, and there
is the kiss of these reunited after long sepa-
ration. More nerve will we have there than
now, or we would swoon away under the
raptures. Stronger vision will we have there
than now, or our eyesight would be blinded
by the brilliance. Stronger ear will we have
there than now, or under the roll of that
fho nj aoola-
nation, and the boom OF that halleluiah we
ould be defeated.
Glorious gospel You thought religion
was straitjacket: that it put you on the
limits; that thereafter you must go cowed
down. No. no. no! 1t is to be castellated.
By the cleansing power Of the shed blood OF
Golgotha set your faces toward the shining
pinnacles. Oh. it does not matter much
what becomes of us here-for at the longest
our stay is short-if we can only land there.
You see there are so many l do want to
meet there. Joshua, my favorite prophet,
and John among the evangelists, and Paul
among the apostles, and Wyclif among the
martyrs. and Bourdaloue among the preach
ers, and Dante among the poets, and
! Hayelock among the heroes, aud
our loved ones whom we have so much
missed since they left us so many darlings Of
the heart. their absence sometimes almost
| unbearable, and, mentioned IN JnlS sentence
last of all because want the thought climac-
teric, our blessed Lord, without whom we
could never reach the old castle at all. He
took our place. He purchased our ransom.
He wept our woes. He suffered our stripes
He died our death. He assured our resurrec-
ton. Blessed be His glorious name forever
Surging to His ear be all the anthems! Facing
Him be all the thrones.
Oh, want to see 1t, and I will see 1.-THE
| day of His coronation. On throne already
Methinks the day will come whom in some
great hall Of eternity all the Nations OF earth
whom He had conquered by His grace will
Assem- bic again to crown Him. wide and
high and immense and upholstered as with
the sunrise and sunsets Of 1000 years, great
audience room of heaven. Like the leaves
of An Adirondack forest the ransomed multi
tudes and Christ standing on high place
surrounded by worshipers and subjects; They
| shall come out of the farthest past led on by
the prophets; they shall come out OF the
early gospel days led on by the apostles; they
| shall come out of the centuries still ahead Of
us led on by champions of the truth, heroes
and heroines yet to be born.
And then from that vastest audience evel
assembled in all the universe there will go uT
the shout: ''Crown Him! Crown Him. Grown
| HIM" and the Father who long ago prom
ised this His only begotten Son, II will give
| Thee the heather for Thine inheritance and
the uttermost parts of the earth for Thy pos
session." shall set the crown upon the fore
| head vet SCARED with crucifxion bramble
and all the hosts of heaven, down Oh The
levels and I'D In the galleries. will drop or