The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-09-13
gate? Can human hand pilot Is
through the narrows of death into
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through the narrows Of death into
heavens harbor? Can any earthly
friendship shield us from the arrows
of death, and in the hour when Satan
shall practice upon us his internal arch
cry? No, no, no, no! Alas! poor soul,
if that is all. Better die in the wilder
ness, far from tree shadow and from
fountain, alone, vultures circling
through the air waiting for our body,
unknown to men, and to have no bur-
ial, If only Christ could say through
the solitudes, II will never leave thee,
l will never forsake thee" From that
pillow of stone a ladder would soar
-heavenward, angels coming and going;
and across the solitude and the barren
ness would come the sweet notes Of
heavenly minstrelsy.
Gordon Hall, far from home, dying
in door of a heather temple, said: "Glo-
ry to thee, o God" What did dying
Wilberforce say to his wife? "Come
and sit beside me, and let is talk Of
heaven. I never knew what happiness
was until I found Christ" What did
dying Hannah More say? "To go to
heaven, think what that is! To go to
Christ, who died that I might live!
Oh, the love of Christ, the love Of
Christi" What did Toplady, the great
hymn-maker, say in his last hour?
WHO can measure the depths Of the
third heaven? Oh, the sunshine that
fills my soul! I shall soon be gone, for
surely no one can live in this world
after such glories as God has manifest
ed to my SOUL"
So, also, Christ is chief in heaven.
The Bible distinctly says that Christ
is the chief theme Of the celestial
ascription, all the thrones facing His
throne, all the palms waved before His
face, all the crowns down at His feet.
Cherubim to cherubim, seraphim to
seraphim, redeemed spirit to redeemed
spirit, shall recite the Savior's earthly
sacrifice.
Stand on some high hill of heaven.
and in all the radiant sweep the most
glorious object will be Jesus. Myriads
gazing on the scars of His suffering, in
silence first, afterward breaking forth
into reclamation. The martyrs, all the
purer for the flames through which
they passed, will say, "This is the Je-
sus for whom we died." The apostles,
all the happier for the shipwreck and
the scourging through which they
went, will say, This is the Jesus whom
ua nrooobod Of Corinfh ood Of Coppo-
docia, and at Antioch, and at Jerusa-
lem" Little children clad in white will
say, "This Is the Jesus who took us in
His arms and blessed us, and, when
the storms of the world were too cold
and loud, brought us into this beauti-
full place." The multitude of the bereft
will say, This is the Jesus who COM
forted us when our heart broke" Many
who wandered clear off from God and
plunged into vagabondism, but were
saved by grace, will say, "This is the
Jesus who pardoned us. We were lost
on the mountains. and He brought
us home. We were guilty, and He
made us white as snow" Mercy bound
less, grace unparalleled. And then, aft
er each one has recited his peculiar
deliverances and peculiar mercies, re-
cited them as by solo, all the voices
will come together in a great chorus,
which will make the arches echo and
re-echo with the eternal reverberation
of triumph.
Edward I. was so anxious to go to the
Holy Land that when he was about to
expire he bequeathed $3.50, 600 to have
his heart, after his decease, taken to
the Holy Land, in Asia Minor, and his
request was complied with. But there
are hundreds to-day whose hearts are
already in the Holy Land Of heaven.
Where your treasures are, there are
your hearts also. Quaint John Bunyan
caught a glimpse of that place, and in
his quaint way said: "And I heard in
my dream, and 10! the bells of the city
rang again for joy; and as they opened
the gates to let in the men I looked in
after them, and 10! the city shone like
the sun, and there were streets of gold,
and the men walked on them, harps
in their hands, to ring praises withal;
and after that they shut up the gates.
which when 1 had seen I wished N.Y.
self among them!"