Milford chronicle., 1895-04-12
A Glorious Prospect.

A Glorious Prospect.
Hersohel looked into the heavens. AS
! a Swiss guide puts his Alpine stock be-
tween the glaciers and crosses over from
orag to orag, so Herschel planted his
| telescope between the worlds and glided
from star to star until he could announce
to us that we live in part of the uni
verse but sparsely strewn with worlds,
and he peers out into immensity until he
finds a region no larger than our solar
system in which there are so, 600 worlds
moving. And Professor Lang says that
by a philosophic reasoning there must be
somewhere a world where there is no
darkness, but everlasting sunshine, so
that l do not know but that it is simply
because we have no telescope powerful
enough that we cannot see into the land
where there is no darkness at all and oatoh
a glimpse Of the FURNISHED pinnacles. As
oonquering army marching on to take
city comes at nightfall to the crest OF a
mountain from which, in the midst OF the
landscape, they see the castles they are
to capture, and rein in their war chargers,
and halt to take a good look before they
pitch their tents for the night, so now,
coming as we do on this mountain top OF
prospect, command this regiment of God
to rein in their thoughts and halt, and be-
fore they pitch their tents for the night
take one good, long look at the gates Of
the great city. "On the east three gates;
on the north three gates; on the south
three gates, and on the west three gates.
In the first place I want you to exam
inc the architecture of those gates. Pro
prietors of large estates are very apt to
have an ornamented gateway. Sometimes
Of
of the gate hanked with lions in statuary;
the bronze gate a representation of inter
twininR foliage, bird haunted, until the
hand Of architectural genius drops ex-
hausted, all its life frozen into the stone.
Gates Of wood and iron and stone guarded
nearly all the old cities Moslems have
inscribed upon their gateways inscrip-
tions from the Koran of the Mohammedan
There have been great many fine gate
ways, but Christ sets his hand to the
work, and for the upper city swung a
gate such as no eye ever gazed on, un-
touched of Inspiration With the nail Of
his own cross he cut into its wonderful
traceries stories of past suffering and OF
gladness to come There is no wood or
stone or bronze in that gate, but from top
to base and from side to side it is all Of
pearl Not one piece picked up from Cey-
lon banks, and another piece from the
Persian gulf and another from the island
of Marguerite, but one solid pearl picked
up from the beach of everlasting light by
heavenly hands and hoisted and swung
amid the shouting of angels The glorles
of alabaster vase and porphyry pillar fade
out before this gateway 1t puts out the
spark of feldspar and diamond. You know
how one little precious stone on your fin
ger will dash under the gaslight. But,
oh, the brightness when the great gate Of
heaven swings, struck through and drip
ping with the light of eternal noondayl
Some Fine Pearls.
Julius Caesar paid 1876, 900 crowns for
one pearl The government of Portugal
boasted of having a pearl larger than
pear Cleopatra and Philip II dazzled
the worlds vision with precious stones
But gather ali these together, and lift
them, and add to them all the wealth Of
the pearl fisheries, and set them in the
panel of one door, and it does not equal
this magnificent gateway An almighty
hand hewed this, swung this, polished
this Against this gateway, on the one
side dash all the splendors of earthly beau
ty Against this gate, on the other side,
beat the surges Of eternal glory. Oh, the
gate, the gatei 1t strikes an infinite
charm through every one that passes it.
One step this side of the gate, and we are
paupers. One step the other side Of the
gate. and we are kings. The pilgrim of
earth going through secs in the one huge
pearl all his earthly tears in crystal. o
gate of light, CUTE of pearl, gate of heaven,
for our weary souls at last swing openl
al. 1.s.f1k rFa
And pearly gates behold;
Thy bulwalks with salvation strong
And streets Of shining goldg
Oh, heaven is not dull placel Heaven is
not contracted place. Heaven is not
stupid place u saw the ~ gates, and
they were ~ pearls,