Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-04-08

the first, the Moraylans come up; they
believed in the Lord Jesus; they pass
through. Gate the second, the Quakers
come up; they have received the inward
light: they have trusted in the Lord;
thev pass through. Gate the third, the
Lutherans come up; they had the same
grace that made Luther what he was,
and they pass through. Gate the fourth,
the Baptists pass through. Gate the
fifth, the Free Will Baptists pass
through. Gate the sixth, the Reformed
church passes through. Gate the sew
enth, the Congregationalists pass
through. Gate the 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 Presbyterians pass through.
But there are a great part Of other de-
nominations who must come in, and
great multitudes who connected them
selves with no visible church, but felt
the power Of goodness in their heart and
showed it in their life. Where is their
gate? Will you shut all the remaining
host out of the city, No They may
come in at our gate. Hosts of God, if
you cannot get admission through any
other entrance, come IN at the twelfth
gate. Now they mingle before the throne.
Looking up at the one hundred and
forty and four thousand, you cannot tell
which gate they came in. One Lord,
one faith, one baptism, one CLASSY sea,
one doxology, one triumph, one heaven!
"Why, Luther, how did you get imp
t'I came through the third gate. ;"
''Crammer, how did you get in?'' Il
came through the eighth gate. " ''Adon-
IRAN Judson, how did you get through"
81 came through the seventh gate. -
"Hugh McKail, the martyr, how did
you get through?'' 81 came through
the twelfth gate. - Glory to God, IL
gates, but one heaven!
Points Of the Compass.
In the third place, notice the points
of the compass toward which these
gates look. They are not Oh one side, OF
on two sides, or on three sides, but CD
four sides. This is no fancy Of mine,
but a distinct announcement. On the
north three gates, Oh the south three
gates, on the east three gates, on the
west three gates. What does that mean;
Why, it means that all nationalities are
included, and it does not make any diff
ference from what quarter of the earth
man comes up; if bis 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 Hindostan and
Algiers and Ethiopia. On the east three
gates. That means salvation for China
and Japan and Borneo. On the west
three gates. That means redemption
for America. 1t does not make any diff
ference how dark skinned or how pale
faced men may be, they will find gate
right before them. Those plucked ban
anas under tropical sun. These shot
across Russian SHOWS behind reindeer.
From Mexican plateau, from Roman
campania, from Chinese teaffeld, from
Holland dixie, from Scotch highlands
they come, they come. Heaven is not q
monopoly for a few precious sOnls. It Is
not n Windsor castle, built only for
royal families. It is not small town
with small population, but John saw
it, and he noticed that an angel was
measuring it, and he measured it this
way, and then he measured it that way,
and whichever way he measured it i
was /, 500 miles, SO that Babylon anc
Tyre and Nineveh and St. Petersburg
and Canton and Picking and Paris anc
London and New York and all the deaC
cities of the past and all the living cities
of the present added together would not
equal the census of that great metrop-
oils.
Walking along a street, you can, by
the contour of tho dress or of the face,
guess where man comes from. IOE
say: THAT is Frenchman that is g
Norwegian that is an American. =" But
the gates that gather in the righteous
will bring them in irrespective of ma
tionality Foreigners sometimes get
homesick. 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 luxuriant harvest field he LETT now
that he hears the hum and the rustic of
the harvests of everlasting light. The
royal ones from earth will not long to
go back again to the earthly 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.
Pouring Through In Throngs.
While I speak all everlasting throng
is pouring through the gates. They arc
going up from Senegambia, from Pata
gonia, from Madras, from Hongkong. |
"What, you say, edo you introduce
all the heather into glory?" I tell you