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renown." David, what do
1 think of Him? And the

you think of Hima + And the
| answer is: MY shepherd" st.
John, what do you think of Him?
Aud the answer is: Bright and morn
ing star" ST.. Paul, what do you think
| of Him? And the answer comes,
| Christ is all in all" Do you think as
| we'll Of Him, o man, o woman of the
blood-bought immortal spirit? Yes,
Paul was right when he styled it 1.-THE
glorious Gospel" And then as
druggist, while you are waiting for
Him to make up the doctors prescip-
tion. put into a bottle so many grains
OF this, and so many grains of that,
and SO many drops of this, and SO
many drops of that, and the intermix-
ture taken, though sour or bitter, re-
stores to health, so Christ, the Divine
physician, prepares this trouble of our
lifetime, and that disappointment, and
this persecution, and that hardship,
and that tear, and we must take the
intermixture, yet though it is a bitter
draught, under the Divine prescrip-
tion it administers to our restoration
and spiritual health, 'all things work
ing together for good" Glorious Cos
pei! @dI Ug ,s{
And then the Royal Castle into
which we step out of this life, with
ont SO much as soiling our foot with
the upturned earth of the grave.
They shall reign forever and ever"
Does not that mean that you are all
saved to be kings and queens, and do
not kings and queens have castles?
But the one that you are offered was
for thirty-three years an abandoned
castle, though now gloriously inhab-
tied. Though an abandoned castle
while Christ was here achieving
your redemption is again occupied by
the "chief among ten thousand" and
some of your own kindred who have
gone up, and are waiting for you are
leaning from the balcony. The
windows of that castle look of on the
Kings gardens, where immortals walk
linked in eternal friendship; and the
banqueting hall of that castle has
princes, and ,princesses at the table;
and the wine is "the new wine of the
kingdom" and the supper is, the mar
riage supper Of the Lamb; and there
are fountains into which no tear
ever fell, and there is music that
trembles with mo- grief, and the light
that falls upon that scene is never be-
clouded. and there is the kiss of those
reunited after long separation. More
nerve will we have there than now, or
we would swoon away under the rap
lures. Stronger vision will we have
there than now, or our eyesight would
be blinded by the brilliance.g Stronger
ear will we have than now, or under
the roll of that minstrelsy, and
the clapping of that acclama-
ton, and the boom of that hal
lelujah we would be deafened. Glori-
GUS Gospel! You thought religion was
| strait-jacket, that it put you on the
limits, that thereafter you must go
cowed down. No, no, no. It is to be
castellated. BY the cleansing power
of the shed blood Of Golgatha set your
faces toward the shining pinnacles.
oh, it does not matter much what be-
comes of us here-for at the longest our
stay is short-if we can only land there.
You see there are SO many do want
to meet there. Joshua, my favorite
prophet; and John among the evan
gelists; and Paul among the apostles;
/ and Wycliffe among the martyrs; and
Bourdaloue among the preachers; and
Dante among the poets; and Havelock
among the heroes; and our beloved
i ones whom we have so much missed
since they left US, SO many dar-
lings of the heart, their abb
sence sometimes almost unendura-
BILE; and, mentioned in this sentence
last of all because I want the thought
!. climatic, 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 resur-
. rection. Blessed be His glorious name
foreverl Surging in His ear be all the
anthems! Facing Him be all the
thrones!
u Oh, want to sec it, and will see
J 1.-THE day Of this coronation. On q
J throne already; methinks the day will
come when in some great hall OF eter
nifty all the nations of earth whom He
mas conquered py hiS grace VIII
! assemble again to crown Him
: Wide and high and immense
. and upholstered as with the sun
; rise and sunset of a Thousand
{ years, great audience room of Heaven
Like the leaves of an Adirondack fores
5 the ransomed multitudes, and Chris
: standing on a high place surrounded
by worshipers and subjects. The,
/ shall come out of the farthest past LEI
5 on by the prophets; they shall com'
out of the early Gospel days led out b.
2 the apostles; they shall come out o
! the centuries still ahead of us, led OF
by champions of the truth, heroes ant
Z heroines yet to be born. And then from
: that yastest audience ever assemble,
1 iL all the universe there will go up tn
a shout: "Crown Him! Crown Him! Crow
$ HIM" and the Father who long ag
< promised this His only forgotten Son
!. II give thee the heathan for thin
:, inheritance and the uttermost part
e of the earth for thy possession" shal
set the crown upon the forsh sad We
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