The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-04-20

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the sixth, the Reformed church passei
through. Gate the seventh, the Copgre
gationalists pass through. Gate the
eighth, the German Reformed church
passes through. Gate the ninth
the Methodists pass through
Gate the tenth, the Sabbatarian.
pass through. Gate the eleventh
the Church of the Disciples pass
through. Gate the twelfth the Presby.
] terians pass through. But there are q
great part of other denominations who
must come in, and great multitudes
who connected themselves with no Wis
IDLE church but felt the power of godli.
ness in their heart and followed it in
their life. Where is their gate? Will
you shut all the remaining hosts out OF
the city? No. They may come in at
our gate Hosts of God, if you can not
get admission through any other en-
trance come in at the twelfth gate.
Now they mingle before the throne.
Looking up ut 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 Heavenl why, Luther, how did
you get imp II came through the
third gate" "Cranmer, how did you
get in?" II came through the eighth
gate" "Adoniram Judson, how did
you get through" ~ came through
the seventh gate" Hugh McKail,
the martyr, how did you get through"
II came through the twelfth gate"
Glory to God, twelve gates but ono
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 three sides, but on
four sides This is no fancy of mine,
but distinct announcement. On the
north three gates, on 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 10
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 placked 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. It is not Windsor castle built
only for royal families. 1t is not
small town with small population, but
John saw it, and he noticed that an
angel was measuring it, and he meas
ured it this way, and then he measured
it that way, and whichever way he
measured it it was 1900 miles, SO that
Babylon and Tyre and Nineveh and
St Petersburg and Canton and Pelkin
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 CEN
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
that is an American" But
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 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 12 manner of fruit.
While speak an everlasting throng
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?"
tell you the fact is that majority of
the people in those chimes die 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. One hum
dred and sixty generations have been
born since the world was created, and
so estimate there must be 5000 0oO,-
600 children in glory. If at a concert
1000 children sing, your soul is rap
tured within you. Oh, the transport
when $4,000, 600, 900 little ones stand up
in white before the throne of God,
their chanting drowning out all the
stupendous harmonies of Dusseldorf
and Leipsic. Pour in through the
twelve gates.