The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1895-04-10

Free VIII Baptlsts pass through. Cato
the sixth. the Reformed church passes
through. Gate the seventh, the Congre-
gationalists pass through. Gate tho
eighth. the German Reformed church
passes through. Gate the ninth,
the Methodists pass through.
Gate the tenth, the Sabbatarians
pass through. Gate the eleventh,
the Church of the Disciples pass
through Gate the twelfth the Presby-
terians pass through. But there are
great part of other denomination VINO
must come in. and great multitudes
who connected themselves with no Wis
ible church but iclt the power Of godli-
ness in their hear, anG followed it in
their life. Where is their gate? VIII
you shut all the remaining hosts out of
the city? No. II cy may come in at
our gate. Hosts o,' God. i. you can not
get admission through any ether cn-
trance come in ut the twelfth gate.
Now they mingle t,1ore the throne.
Looking up at the one hundred and
forty and four thousand. You can tell
which gate they come in One Lord.
One faith. One baptism. One CLASSY
sea. One doXology. One triumph.
One Heaven! Why, Luther, how did
you get in?" ~ came through the
third gate" "Cranmer, how did YOU
get in?' II came through the eighth
gate" 'Adoniram Judson, how did
you get through?' 81 came through
the seventh gate" Hugh McKail,
the martyr, how did you get through?"
Il came through the twelfth gate"
Glory to God, twelve gates but one
Heaven.
In the third place, notice the points
of the compass toward which these
gates look. They are not on one side,
or on two sides, or tnree sides but on
four sides 1h!s is 10 fancy OF mine,
but distinct announcement. On the
north three gates. or the south three
gates on the east three gates, on the
west three gates. What does that
mean? Why, it means that all national
tiles are included, and it does not make
any difference from what quarter of the
earth man comes up. If his heart is
right, there is gate open before him.
On the north three gates. That means
mercy for Lapland and Siberia and
Norway and Sweden. On the south
three gates. That means pardon for
Hindustan and Algiers and Ethiopia.
On the east three gates. That means
salvation for China Japan and Borneo.
On the west three gates. That means
redemption for America. 1t does not
make any difference how dark skinned
or how pale faced men may
be. They find gate right before
them. Those plucked bananas under a
tropical sun. These shot across Rus
sian SHOWS behind reindeer. From
Mexican plateau, from Roman cam
pania, from Chinese tea field. from
Holland dixie, from Scotch highlands,
they come, they come. Heaven is
not monopoly for few precious
souls. 1t is not Windsor castle built
only for royal families. 1t is noc 4
small town with small population. but
John saw it, and he noticed that an
angel tsas measuring it, and he IncAa-
ured it this way, and then he measured
it that way. and whichever way ne
measured it it was 1,500 miles, so that
Babylon and Tyre and Nineveh and
st. Petersburg and Canton and Pekin
and Paris and London and New York
and all the dead cities of the past and
all the living cities of the present add
ed together would not equal the GEN.
sus of that great metropolis.
Walking along street, you can, by
the contour of the dress, or the face,
guess where man comes from. You
say, THAT is Frenchman; that is a
Norwegian; that is an American But
the gates that gather in the righteous
will bring them in irrespective of ma
tionality Foreigners sometimes get
homesicli. Some of the tenderest and
most pathetic stories have been told OF
those who left their native cline. and
longed for it until they died. But the
Swiss, coming to the high residence. of
Heaven, will not long any more for the
Alps, standing. amid the eternal hills.
The Russian will not long any more
for the luXurant harvest field he left
now that he hears the hum and the
rustic of the harvest of everlasting
light. The royal ones from earth will
not long to go back again to the earth
ly court now that they stand in the
palaces of the sun. Those who once
lived among the groves of spice and
oranges will not long to return now
that they stand under the trees of life
that bear 10 manner of fruit.
While l speak an everlasting thr;>ns
is pouring through the gates. They
are going up from Senegambia from
Patagonia. from Madras, from Hong
Kong What" you say, do you in
troduce all the heather into glory"'
l tell you the fact is that II lnajorityot
the people in those climes aie in in
fancy, and the infants all go straight
into eternal life. and so the vast
majority of those who die in China and
India, the vast majority of those who
die in Africa go straight into the
skies-they die in infancy. OEe hnn-
dred and sixty generations have been
born since the world was created, and
so !. estimate there must be $1,000 0nO.-
900 children in glory. If at u concert
1000 children sing, your soul is rd9-
tured within you. Oh the transport
when Is, 900, 100000 little ones stand up
in white before tho throne of Goa,
their chanting drowning out all lhc
stupendous harmonies of Dusseldorf
and Leipsic Pour in through the
twelve gates.
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